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Programs By Title with Synopsis
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LET IT RAIN
[Feature] - Vancity Theatre Screenings
(France, 2008, 95 min)
Directed By: Agnes Jaoui
The third film from the husband-and-wife, actor-writer-director team
Agnes Jaoui and Jean Pierre Bacri, this gentle, rather sad ensemble
comedy negotiates similar terrain to The Taste of Others (Le gout des autres) and especially their previous VIFF favourite, Look At Me (Comme une image).
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TOKYO SONATA
[Feature] - Vancity Theatre Screenings
(Japan, 2008, 119 min)
Directed By: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
In Tokyo Sonata, filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa - no relation to
Akira - composes an extraordinary work in three movements about the
Sasakis, a seemingly ordinary family. In this unpredictable work, the
clan implodes, explodes, and glues itself back together.
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CINEMA SALON: MAX REIMER PRESENTS DOCTOR ZHIVAGO
[Feature] - Cinema Salon
(USA, 1965, 197 min)
Directed By: David Lean
Based on the controversial novel by Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
follows its characters from the decadence of fin de siècle Russia,
through the revolution of 1905, World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution
of 1917 until the purges of Stalin’s government.
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VERONICA
[Feature] - Brazilian Film Festival Vancouver
(Brazil, 2008, 90 min)
Directed By: Maurício Farias
Veronica is a public school teacher and is going through difficult times. After more than 10 years working under deprived conditions in a school, in an underprivileged neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, she doesn’t want to keep on teaching. More info & Tickets »
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ENCHANTED WORD
[Feature] - Brazilian Film Festival Vancouver
(Brazil, 2008, 86 min)
Directed By: Helena Solberg
Enchanted Word is a documentary that travels within Brazil's music history, analyzing the relationship between poetry and music. From country music to rap, from Bossa Nova to Tropicalia. More info & Tickets »
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