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LIBBY SIMON
Bake Off at FemFest 2012
Kris Rothstein
VIFF 2016: Barakah Meets Barakah
Yes, Saudi Arabians can make romantic comedies.
Kris Rothstein
PuSh Festival 2018: History History History
Deborah Pearson screens a Hungarian political satire about soccer interspersed with commentary and a family quest.
Kris Rothstein
VIFF 2016: All This Panic
Seven teens in Brooklyn bare all to the camera.
Kris Rothstein
VIFF 2018: Canadian Short Films
Every kind of film under the sun: dozens of shorts explore personal history, landscape, memory and pathos.
Kris Rothstein
VIFF 2017: Sour Apples
A few decades in the lives of Turkish sisters transport the audience from rural mountain life to the modern big city in this funny, emotional film which is both sweet and sour.
LIBBY SIMON
Sonofabitch Stew: the Drunken Life of Calamity Jane at FemFest 2012
Kris Rothstein
BC Distilled and Canadian cocktails
As the festival of BC's craft distilleries approaches, I ponder books on liquor and consider some crazy delicious recipes.
Kris Rothstein
JFL NorthWest 2016: Janeane Garofalo
Even after almost 90 minutes of intimate self-mockery, Garofalo seems so likable.
Choose your own (theatre) adventure
Kris Rothstein
In Search of Indie Films
Why it might be harder to see the next great underground classic film, even in this age of technological plenty.
Kris Rothstein
JFL NorthWest 2016: Instagraham
An amusing journey through the social media platform that sucks the least.
Kris Rothstein
JFL NorthWest 2016: Todd Barry
Comedy from the king of deadpan.
Kris Rothstein
JFL NorthWest 2016: Jokes Please
Eclectic and eccentric stand up where we learned that Ryan Albert Hilbert is not a convincing alias.
Kris Rothstein
Way of Nature, a year on a Swedish farm
Kris Rothstein
VIFF 2015: Above and Below
Young Swiss documentarian Nicolas Steiner has made an intense film about people living in unusual geographies
Kris Rothstein
VIFF 2015: The Sky Trembles and the Earth is Afraid and the Two Eyes are Not Brothers
Ben Rivers does it again with a gorgeous, strange and unsettling film.
Kris Rothstein
VIFF: Mrs Carey's Concert
Australian girls prepare for classical music showcase
Kris Rothstein
VIFF 2015: Rainbow Island
An optimistic film about tradition and change on a small Iranian island
Kris Rothstein
VIFF: Alexandria unplugged
Kris Rothstein
VIFF: Palimpsest
Kris Rothstein
VIFF promo shorts
Kris Rothstein
VIFF 2015: From Scotland with Love
A window into the past with this archival montage.
Kris Rothstein
VIFF 2015: The Anarchists
Stylish French historical drama about a policeman who infiltrates an anarchist cell.
Kris Rothstein
VIFF: Song of Tomorrow
Kris Rothstein
VIFF 2015: Atlantis & The Royal Road
A perfect pairing of films that force the viewer to make the connections between sometimes random shots and images.