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$\"voyageoftime-a\"$ <\/a><\/p>\n

Tomorrow marks the beginning of the 35th Vancouver International Film Festival<\/a> (September 29 \u2013 October 14). I\u2019ve been attending every year since 1994, when I was an editor at one of the UBC student papers, so this will be my 23rd year at VIFF.<\/p>\n

I probably won\u2019t get to see anything this year until Friday at the earliest, but for now I figured I\u2019d do a quick rundown of some of the films I\u2019m interested in.<\/p>\n

Films with a religious or spiritual angle (dates they\u2019re showing in parentheses):<\/p>\n

The Birth of a Nation<\/a><\/i> (Oct 1) \u2014 Nate Parker\u2019s depiction of the Nat Turner slave rebellion in 1831 focuses on how scripture and religion were used to justify violence, both by the slave owners and by the slaves who turned against them.\n<\/li>
The Confessions<\/i> (Oct 1, 4) \u2014 An Italian-French film about a monk who hears the IMF chief\u2019s confession at a G8 meeting in Germany shortly before the chief commits suicide. In the words of one critic, \u201cthere is much to chuckle over as the plodding, plotting politicos are outmaneuvered by the monk\u2019s sheer goodness.\u201d\n<\/li>
The Student<\/i> (Oct 2, 7) \u2014 A Russian film about \u201ca fanatically Orthodox teen\u201d and his atheist biology teacher. Here\u2019s hoping the film doesn\u2019t just religion-bash.\n<\/li>
Strangers on the Earth<\/i> (Oct 2, 5, 9) \u2014 A documentary about modern pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago, including a man who carries a cello on his back.\n<\/li>
Sieranevada<\/i> (Oct 7, 10) \u2014 Romanian director Cristi Puiu\u2019s latest film is about an Orthodox tradition \u2014 a family meal honouring a recently deceased relative \u2014 that gets delayed by various complicated family dynamics.\n<\/li>
The Son of Joseph<\/i> (Oct 8, 12) \u2014 I\u2019ve mentioned this French film before<\/a>.\n<\/li>
Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience<\/i> (Oct 14) \u2014 The festival\u2019s closing gala is a screening of the 40-minute, Brad Pitt-narrated version of Terrence Malick\u2019s latest cosmic musings. (The festival will not be showing the feature-length, Cate Blanchett-narrated version.) Malick\u2019s films have often had spiritual or religious overtones, so I\u2019d expect this one to be no different.<\/li><\/ul>\n
Films I\u2019m interested in simply because of the director:<\/p>\n
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Graduation<\/i> (Sep 30, Oct 5, 11) \u2014 It\u2019s directed by the Romanian auteur Christian Mungiu, who previously made Beyond the Hills<\/i> and 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days<\/a><\/i>. That\u2019s pretty much all I know. It\u2019s pretty much all I need<\/i> to know.\n<\/li>
The Unknown Girl<\/i> (Sep 30, Oct 3, 14) \u2014 Reportedly not the best film ever made by the Dardenne brothers, but even middling Dardennes is still Dardennes.\n<\/li>
Maliglutit (Searchers)<\/i> (Oct 4, 6) \u2014 From Zacharias Kunk, the Inuit director of Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner<\/i>, recently named Canada\u2019s best film ever.\n<\/li>
Personal Shopper<\/i> (Oct 6, 8, 13) \u2014 I was a huge, huge fan of Olivier Assayas\u2019s Carlos<\/i> and Summer Hours<\/a><\/i>, so of course<\/i> I have to check out this film, which reunites him with Clouds of Sils Maria<\/a><\/i> co-star Kristen Stewart.\n<\/li>
Elle<\/i> (Oct 7, 10, 12) \u2014 Paul Verhoeven\u2019s latest film is a critically-acclaimed (and no doubt subversive) rape-revenge story starring Isabelle Huppert. It is also France\u2019s official submission for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.\n<\/li>
After the Storm<\/i> (Oct 7, 13) \u2014 Japanese director Kore-eda Hirokazu previously made such humanistic gems as After Life<\/a><\/i> and Like Father, Like Son<\/i>.\n<\/li>
The Salesman<\/i> (Oct 10, 12) \u2014 Asghar Farhadi won Iran\u2019s first Oscar ever for A Separation<\/i>, and before that he made the compellingly mysterious About Elly<\/i>.\n<\/li>
The Teacher<\/i> (Oct 12, 14) \u2014 I haven\u2019t liked everything Czech director Jan Hrebejk has done lately, but I was a big fan of Divided We Fall<\/i> back in the day, so.<\/li><\/ul>\n
Films I\u2019m interested in partly for the animation:<\/p>\n
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The Red Turtle<\/i> (Oct 1, 6) \u2014 A French-Belgian-Japanese co-production about a man who tries to leave a deserted island. The trailers look really good.\n<\/li>
Tower<\/i> (Oct 1, 3, 14) \u2014 An animated documentary about the 1966 school shooting at Texas University that killed 14 people and wounded 32 more.<\/li><\/ul>\n
Finally, I have to mention that my friend Nathan Douglas has a short film, Cave of Sighs<\/i>, in the Let\u2019s Compare Mythologies<\/i> (Oct 2, 9) anthology. The one-sentence synopsis, as per the program: \u201cA casual hook-up\u2019s path to the bedroom is obstructed by a collection of Byzantine icons and the conversations they inspire.\u201d<\/p>\n
The lists above are certainly not exhaustive by any stretch \u2014 they don\u2019t even constitute a complete list of the films I plan to see over the next two weeks \u2014 but they\u2019re a pretty good sampling. For more on the festival, check out its official website<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Hope to see you around the festival!<\/p>\n
\u2014 The image at the top of this post is from Terrence Malick\u2019s <\/i>Voyage of Time.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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