Three films of big journeys: to the moon, to a seedy motel and to personal empowerment

Also visualizing human damage to the earth, meeting an uncommon pop star and learning about a Canadian’s unusual success story

VIFF picks: Fun with the Italian Mafia, tension with Ben the addict and what’s with this piece by Banksy?

VIFF picks to start a new week, from Italy, Poland and, an unsettling one, from right here

"Transfigured Light" -- spine-tingling

The road to hell: B.C. will struggle to meet its emissions targets

Eoin Finn

Oct 6th, 2018

A Star is Born, a triumph, The Sisters Brothers, Canadian-American, and new VIFF picks like The Happy Prince

Also Marvel’s newest and VIFF’s looking back at the disco and jazz eras, thinking about democracy and watching youth in two countries get into trouble

New MoviesVolkmar RichterOct 5th, 2018

VIFF chinoiserie: Taiwan island fever, mainland navel-gazing

Taiwan's Hsiao Ya-chuan upholds Hou Hsiao-hsien lineage; PRC documentarian world-premieres her narrative film debut; director-producer duo Nai An and Yang Mingming co-star in feminist tragicomedy

FilmLincoln KayeOct 1st, 2018

More VIFF recommendations: a Haida tale, sailing with refugees and a cheeky Bible story

Also an edifying rural tale by a master Iranian filmmaker

New MoviesVolkmar RichterOct 3rd, 2018

Travel

Powell River: mill town re-tools for new millennium

Lincoln Kaye

To Zero Mile and back

Lincoln Kaye

Scouting behind the lines; a theatrical sally to Ashland, Oregon

Lincoln Kaye

To bee or not to bee?

Lincoln Kaye

PRFF lights up the screen in Powell River

VIFF picks: New work from Patricia Rozema, a cinematic ode to our mountains and some very funny Animal Behaviour

Also science whiz kids, a kid tragedy in a Welsh summer, a Palestinian girl with ambitions and refugees on the move

New MoviesVolkmar RichterOct 1st, 2018

Tunefully Born Again!

"Book of Mormon" mass-baptizes QE audience into joys of raunchy musical humour

TheatreLincoln KayeSep 28th, 2018

Yeti meets Smallfoot, and from VIFF, Transit and Colette, both excellent

Plus other VIFF picks: Kingsway, very local, Firecrackers, Parallel’s time shifting, constant dancing at Le Grand Bal and Maria Callas, as she saw herself

New MoviesVolkmar RichterSep 28th, 2018