Events By Title with Synopsis


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1900
[Feature] - Vancity Theatre Screenings
(Italy, France, Germany, 1976, 243 min)
Directed By: Bernardo Bertolucci

Bernardo Bertolucci’s massive epic, a history of Italy from 1900 to 1945 as reflected through the friendship of two men across class lines, is one of the most fascinating, if little seen, of his films. More info & Tickets »
Arguing the World
[Feature] - Vancity Theatre Screenings
(USA, 1998, 106 min)
Directed By: Joseph Dorman

Arguing the World creates a vivid picture of intellectual life in the 20th century. More info & Tickets »
Artist In Focus: Jeanne Faust
[Feature] - Next
(Germany, 69 min)
Directed By: Jeanne Faust

Jeanne Faust’s film and photographic works are examinations of authenticity, all playing with our patterns of expectation, playing on our familiarity with stories told by film images. Her small-scale, very meticulously portrayed stories are not really stories at all—they only become so through what we anticipate as viewers.  More info & Tickets »
Bevel Up: Drugs, Users and Outreach Nursing
[Feature] - The Street and the Forgotten Woman
(Canada, 2008, 90 min)
Directed By: Nettie Wild
This Film Plays In:
  Bevel Up

Nettie Wild’s Bevel Up explores a key question facing healthcare providers across this country—how can a nurse or outreach worker deliver effective and compassionate health care to people who use drugs? More info & Tickets »
Cinema Salon - Grand Chief Ed John presents Rabbit Proof Fence
[Feature] - Cinema Salon
(Australia, 2002, 94 min)
Directed By: Phillip Noyce

Rabbit Proof Fence is the rarely publicized story of the escape of three mixed-race (Aboriginal/Caucasian) Australian girls from the Moore River Native Settlement, where they were sent “for their own good” (much like Canada’s residential schools). Presenter:  Grand Chief Ed John  More info & Tickets »