2015 VIFF Repeats
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- DirectorMasaharu TakeStarsSakura AndôHirofumi AraiYôzaburô ItôA 32-year-old woman living with her parents meets a boxer and finally starts a life.
- DirectorNelson GeorgeStarsMisty CopelandDeirdre KellySusan Fales-HillA feature documentary on African American ballerina Misty Copeland that examines her prodigious rise, her potentially career ending injury alongside themes of race and body image in the elite ballet world.
- DirectorMarta György-KesslerAdam PennyStarsEsther FallonSusannah HarkerVillads Vestergaard'Hannah' tells the story of Buddhist pioneer Hannah Nydahl and her life bringing Tibetan Buddhism to the West. From her idealistic roots in 1960s Copenhagen to the hippie trail in Nepal, Hannah and her husband Ole became two of the first Western students of His Holiness the 16th Karmapa - the first consciously reincarnated lama of Tibet in 1110. Hannah went on to become an assistant and translator for some of the most powerful Tibetan lamas and a bridge between Buddhism in the East and the West.
- DirectorSlávek HorákStarsAlena MihulováBolek PolívkaTatiana DykováDedicated home care nurse Vlasta lives for her husband Lada, her daughter, and her patients. But then one day things change and Vlasta comes to realize that she might need some care too.
- DirectorKhadija Al-SalamiStarsReham MohammedNaziha AlansiRana MohammedTen year old Jemenite girl asks a judge in Sana'a to grant her a divorce from a horrible marriage, after she was married away to prevent a public scandal after a rape of her sister.
- DirectorNick WaggonerStarsBill BennettGrant CostelloJumbo Wild -a gripping, hour-long documentary film that tells the true story of the decades-long battle over the future of British Columbia's iconic Jumbo Valley.
- DirectorBrad AllgoodGraham TownsleyJuliana Penaranda-LoftusLandfill Harmonic follows the Recycled Orchestra. An unlikely orchestra made out of recycled trash. As this group takes its inspiring spectacle of trash-into-music around the world, we follow the lives of a garbage picker, a music teacher and a group of children from a Paraguayan slum. Landfill Harmonic is a beautiful story about the transformative power of music, which also highlights two vital issues of our times: poverty and waste pollution.
- DirectorSalvador del SolarStarsDamián AlcázarTatiana AstengoJairo CamargoMagallanes, a former army soldier (Damian Alcazar) drives a taxi and eventually a driver of a retired colonel (Federico Luppi), who was in command of his troops in times of struggle against subversion in Ayacucho. But something more involving both. A secret that begin to reveal when, in the midst of his pilgrimage as a taxi driver in the city of Lima, Magallanes believes see in Celina, a humble woman (Magaly Solier), which now runs, barely a hair salon on the outskirts of the capital, one of the protagonists of a dark episode in the past.
- DirectorAlberto RodríguezStarsJavier GutiérrezRaúl ArévaloMaría VarodTwo cops lost in the deep south of Spain. One serial killer to catch. A lot of secrets and lies to disclose.
- DirectorMark SawersStarsPatrick GilmoreBronwen SmithTara PrattIn a world where women have become able to "self-fertilise" and are no longer giving birth to males, a quiet, unassuming housekeeper named Andrew Myers finds himself at the center of a battle to keep men from going extinct.
- DirectorPhyllis EllisStarsColm FeorePaul GrossEric PetersonA Painters Country In Search of the Group of Seven follows authors and wilderness photographers Joanie and Gary McGuffin, and art historian Michael Burtch as they search for the locations visited by Canada's most celebrated landscape painters who captured the spirit of the land, water, and skies of northern Ontario in the 1920's. Many of the Group of Seven's canvases and sketches have become iconic representations of the Canadian soul. Filmed on location in the Algoma region and along the north shore of Lake Superior, the film combines original photography, archival materials, paintings and re-creations. A Painters Country is the next film in a series of award-winning art documentaries produced by White Pine Pictures.
- DirectorCosima SpenderTwice a year the Italian city of Siena goes crazy for the oldest horse race in the world: the Palio. Not your average race: strategy, bribery and corruption play as much a part as the skill of the riders. Horses are allocated by lot four days prior to the race. This is when the madness truly begins. In the eye of the storm stand the jockeys. Loved and loathed by the districts they represent, they forge alliances and make deals promising large cash sums to try and get the best start. Legendary rider Gigi Bruschelli has won 13 Palios in 16 years and is accused by his critics of monopolizing the race. He works the system, paying off younger jockeys and fixing the race with average horses. Two races away from beating the world record, Bruschelli will do anything to win. But one jockey stands in his way, his former trainee, a handsome young Sardinian, Giovanni Atzeni, who is quietly determined to challenge his old mentor. Less interested in bribes and collusion, he rides for the love of the race. PALIO is the thrilling story of a young 'outsider' keen to break in to the dangerous but lucrative race and the corrupt 'insider' who has manipulated the city of Siena for a decade. Their passionate and dramatic battle is an epic and cinematic tale of Italian life in microcosm.
- DirectorLisa Immordino VreelandStarsPeggy GuggenheimJacqueline Bograd WeldFrancine ProseA portrait of a patron of the arts extraordinaire who transformed a modest fortune and impeccable taste into one of the premiere collections of twentieth century art.
- DirectorLouie PsihoyosStarsElon MuskJoel SartoreLouie PsihoyosA documentary that follows undercover activists trying to stave off a man-made mass extinction.
- DirectorKhosrow SinaiStarsMehdi AhmadiAbdolrassoul DaryapeymaTayyebe Dehghan MenshadiThe title refers to the island of Hormuz, which occupies a very strategic position at the entrance to the Persian Gulf. With its extraordinary multicolored soils, ancient Portuguese forts and folk-art traditions, it's a tour operator's dream. But this is Islamic Iran and these are remote custom-bound villagers. How much are they willing to welcome the outside world, and what will they gain or lose in the process? Enter a worldly professor from Tehran who proposes a radical plan to transform the island's best assets into a thriving cultural destination, not just for tourists, but for the sustainability of the islands culture and economy, not to mention its aesthetic beauty.
- DirectorGrímur HákonarsonStarsSigurður SigurjónssonTheodór JúlíussonCharlotte BøvingIn a remote Icelandic farming valley, two brothers who haven't spoken in 40 years have to come together in order to save what's dearest to them - their sheep.
- DirectorPeter D. HutchisonKelly NyksJared P. ScottStarsNoam ChomskyAlan GreenspanMalcolm XRenowned academic and author Noam Chomsky elucidates 10 principles of concentration of wealth and power that have led to unprecedented inequality and the hollowing out of the American middle class.
- DirectorRyan McKennaRyan McKennaStarsMarie BrassardFrancis La HayeYoussef CamaraSabali is a dramatic film with touches of surrealist comedy and science fiction.
- DirectorAndrew CividinoStarsJackson MartinNick SerinoReece MoffettWhile spending the summer in cottage country on the shores of Lake Superior, three teens cope with boredom by testing the limits of their experience.
- DirectorConnor GastonStarsCharlie CarrickAli LiebertOlivia MartinA crisis-of-faith drama about reincarnation and the power of belief.
- DirectorYorgos LanthimosStarsColin FarrellRachel WeiszJessica BardenIn a dystopian near future, according to the laws of The City, single people are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in 45 days or they're transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.
- DirectorWonsuk LeeStarsHan Suk-kyuGo SooPark Shin-hyeStory of a rivalry between two tailors Dol-Seok, who is the best master artisan in charge of royal attire and Kong-Jin - genius like designer, born with dexterity and an excellent sense, plunges the court into scandal and tragedy.
- DirectorPrashant NairStarsAashish BhattUplaksh KochharMegh PantAn ambitious man leaves his small Indian village for America. But when his letters to home stop coming, his brother sets out on his own adventure.