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VIFF: "Roma"
Alfonso Cuaron's new film, set in Mexico City in 1970/71, is a rich and complex drama in which the slow unravelling of domestic life takes precedence over larger events. more
VIFF 2018: Dreaming Under Capitalism
In this conceptual film, Belgians relate dreams about work. more
VIFF 2018: "14 Apples" and "Grass"
At any film festival there will be hits and misses: films that you'll rate 5 out of 5, and other films which "didn't work for you," which you'll rate 1. Here are brief reviews of two of my 1s from this year's VIFF. more
VIFF 2018: "3 Faces"
Another film from Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who somehow manages to produce fine work, despite being under a 20-year ban prohibiting him from directing movies or writing screenplays. more
VIFF 2018: United Skates
Roller skating is still going strong in America, but the predominantly African-American roller-rink culture is threatened by racist policy. more
VIFF 2018: "Becoming Astrid"
A somewhat routine but enjoyable biopic on the early years of Astrid Lindgren, creator of Pippi Longstocking. more
VIFF 2018: Shirkers
Sandi Tan tells the story of the strange and ambitious film she made in Singapore in the 1990s, and how it was lost and found. more
VIFF 2018: "The Proposal"
A documentary by New York artist Jill Magid, depicting her attempts to gain access to the professional archives of Luis Barragán, Mexico’s most famous architect. more
VIFF 2018: "Hendi and Hormoz"
Hendi and Hormoz is one of those films that VIFF is best at: a human story set in an unfamiliar culture and geography, which draws you in because the dilemmas faced by the characters are, to some extent, universal. more
VIFF 2018: Amateurs
Hilarity and social activism in a Swedish town when the local teenagers are invited to make a promotional film. more
VIFF 2018: This Mountain Life
A mother and daughter undertake a months-long, dangerous trek from Vancouver to Alaska across the Coast Mountains. more
VIFF 2018: "The Happy Prince"
An interesting, but flawed, film about the last years of Oscar Wilde, who lived (and died) in a kind of self-exile in Paris following his release from prison. more
VIFF 2018: "A Paris Education"
This black-and-white film, about a young student filmmaker learning his craft in Paris, is an affectionate tribute to the French "New Wave" cinema of the late 1950s and 1960s. more
VIFF 2018: "Seder-Masochism"
One of the most dazzling animated features that you're ever likely to see, this one-woman tour-de-force is a very personal, very musical, take on the Exodus story, blended with tales from the Passover Seder tradition. more
VIFF 2018: Djon África
A member of the diaspora returns to Cape Verde for a low-key and impressionist homecoming. more
VIFF 2018: Science Fair
Funny, charismatic and unbelievably smart high school students aspire to win at the International Science and Engineering Fair. more
VIFF 2018: Canadian Short Films
Every kind of film under the sun: dozens of shorts explore personal history, landscape, memory and pathos. more
VIFF 2018: Le Grand Bal
Wild and riotous French people dance all night long to fiddles and hurdy-gurdies and pipes. more
VIFF 2018: The New Romantic
Sexual politics in the age of Tinder are portrayed with skill and insight in this Canadian comedy about a young woman who contemplates becoming a sugar baby. more
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