O Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) anunciou a programação de sua 39ª edição, apresentando mais de 100 filmes e eventos, incluindo uma mistura vibrante do trabalho inovador canadense, cinema aventureiro do Leste Asiático, documentários provocantes e inspiradores, favoritos de festivais e muito mais. Misturando um festival online com presencial em 14 dias, o VIFF terá como filme de abertura Monkey Beach, de Loretta Sarah Todd. Os destaques são muitos: Another Round (dir. Thomas Vinterberg), Black Bear (dir. Lawrence Michael Levine), The Father (dir. Florian Zeller), Summer of 85 (dir. François Ozon), There Is No Evil (dir. Mohammad Rasoulof), Saint-Narcisse (dir. Bruce LaBruce), etc. Confira as mostras destaques do festival:
| CINEMA MUNDIAL CONTEMPORÂNEO |
| Another Round (dir. Thomas Vinterberg, Denmark) Bad Tales (dirs. The D’Innocenzo Brothers, Italy/Switzerland) | North American Premiere Black Bear (dir. Lawrence Michael Levine, USA) Falling (dir. Viggo Mortensen, UK/Canada) Father (dir. Srdan Golubović, Serbia/France/Germany/Croatia/Slovenia/Bosnia and Herzegovina) The Father (dir. Florian Zeller, UK/France) Hammamet (dir. Gianni Amelio, Italy) | North American Premiere Here We Are (dir. Nir Bergman, Israel) | North American Premiere In the Name of the Land (dir. Edouard Bergeon, France) Kala azar (dir. Janis Rafa, Netherlands/Greece) | Canadian Premiere Last and First Men (dir. Jóhann Jóhannsson, Iceland) | Canadian Premiere Merkel – Anatomy of a Crisis (dir. Stephan Wagner, Germany) A Metamorphosis of the Birds (dir. Catarina Vasconcelos, Portugal) Mogul Mowgli (dir. Bassam Tariq, UK/USA) My Donkey, My Lover, and I (dir. Caroline Vignal, France) My Mexican Bretzel (dir. Nuria Giménez, Spain) | Canadian Premiere My Wonderful Wanda (dir. Bettina Oberli, Switzerland) | North American Premiere On the Quiet (dir. Zoltán Nagy, Hungary) | Canadian Premiere The Pencil (dir. Natalya Nazarova, Russia) | Canadian Premiere The Restoration (dir. Alonso Llosa, Peru) | Canadian Premiere Sarita (dir. Sergio Basso, Italy/Germany) | North American Premiere Servants (dir. Ivan Ostrochovsky, Slovakia/Romania/Czech Republic/Ireland) | North American Premiere The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs (dir. Pushpendra Singh, India) | North American Premiere Siberia (dir. Abel Ferrara, Italy/Germany/Mexico) Summer of 85 (dir. François Ozon, France) Tales of the Lockdown (dirs. Fernando Colomo, Álvaro Fernández-Armero, David Marqués, Miguel Bardem, Juan Diego Botto, Spain) | North American Premiere There Is No Evil (dir. Mohammad Rasoulof, Iran/Czech Republic/Germany) | Canadian Premiere This Is My Desire (dirs. Arie & Chuko, Nigeria) | North American Premiere Uncle (dir. Frelle Petersen, Denmark) | North American Premiere Undine (dir. Christian Petzold, Germany) | North American Premiere Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness (dir. Massoud Bakhshi, France/Germany/Switzerland/Luxembourg/Lebanon/Iran) | Canadian Premiere Yellow Sunglasses (dir. Iván Mora Manzano, Ecuador/Brazil) | World Premiere |
| O NORTE VERDADEIRO |
| Akilla’s Escape (dir. Charles Officer, Canada) Beans (dir. Tracey Deer, Canada) Brother, I Cry (dir. Jessie Anthony, Canada) | World Premiere Call Me Human (dir. Kim Obomsawin, Canada) Chained (dir. Titus Heckel, Canada) | World Premiere Events Transpiring Before, During and After a High School Basketball Game (dir. Ted Stenson, Canada) | World Premiere First We Eat (dir. Suzanne Crocker, Canada) Flowers of a Field (dir. Andrew Stanley, Canada) | World Premiere Fucking Idiots (dir. David Milchard, Canada) | World Premiere | BC Feature Happy Place (dir. Helen Shaver, Canada) Inconvenient Indian (dir. Michelle Latimer, Canada) John Ware Reclaimed (dir. Cheryl Foggo, Canada) The Magnitude of All Things (dir. Jennifer Abbott, Canada) | World Premiere | BC Feature Monkey Beach (dir. Loretta Sarah Todd), Canada | World Premiere | BC Feature | Opening Film My Salinger Year (dir. Philippe Falardeau, Canada/Ireland) Nadia, Butterfly (dir. Pascal Plante, Canada) The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel (dirs. Joel Bakan, Jennifer Abbott, Canada/USA/Belgium/UK/Switzerland/Kenya/Spain/Australia) | BC Feature No Ordinary Man (dirs. Aisling Chin-Yee, Chase Joynt, Canada) No Visible Trauma (dirs. Robinder Uppal, Marc Serpa Francoeur, Canada) | World Premiere Pink Lake (dirs. Emily Gan, Daniel Schachter, Canada) | World Premiere Prayer for a Lost Mitten (dir. Jean-François Lesage, Canada) Saint-Narcisse (dir. Bruce LaBruce, Canada) | North American Premiere |
| IMPACTO |
| Caught in the Net (dirs. Barbora Chalupová, Vít Klusák, Czech Rep/Slovakia) | Canadian Premiere Citizen Penn (dir. Don Hardy, USA) | International Premiere Cured (dirs. Bennett Singer, Patrick Sammon, USA) | International Premiere The Forum (dir. Marcus Vetter, Germany/Switzerland) The Hidden Life of Trees (dir. Jörg Adolph, Germany) | Canadian Premiere I Am Not a Hero (dirs. Pablo Crutzen, Robin Smit, Stijn Deconinck, Belgium) | World Premiere The Reason I Jump (dir. Jerry Rothwell, UK/USA) Women in Blue (dir. Deirdre Fishel, USA) |
Internacional Premiere: Filmes que não estrearam em lugar algum.
North American Premiere: Filmes que não estrearam na America do Norte.
Canadian Premiere: Filmes que não estrearam no Canadá.
A programação completa, com os curtas e experiencias VR, está disponível no site do VIFF. O festival começa dia 24 de Setembro e vai ate 7 de outubro. O Noite de Oscar tem o prazer de anunciar que irá cobrir o festival nesses 14 dias, trazendo criticas, analises e outras informações exclusivas. Fique ligado!
