Testosterone: A Celebration of Being Trans and Being Alive
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While Testosterone is a celebration of masculinity, it is also a critique of when masculinity becomes toxic. It is powerful, and it feels personal.
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VIFF 2018: The Favourite
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Watching the manoeuvring of two smart and cunning women as they attempt to sway a petulant, volatile ruler is akin to watching someone walk a tightrope: thrilling and always on the cusp of disaster.
Read MoreTaking a Bite of Cain and Abel
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‘Cain and Abel’ is a brave expedition into the thick forest of biblical metaphor, lesson, history, and critique. It certainly leaves you thinking, but also slightly confused by what the creators are trying to say.
Read MoreDiwali in BC: Bringing Everyone Together
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“If two different communities come together over a cup of chai and have a good conversation, that is Diwali.”
Read MoreVIFF Immersed: Biidaaban: First Light
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“A journey through decolonization, and into Indigenous Futurism, where the land’s future is a cyclic return to its past […] The experience was eight minutes long, and yet its imagining of a different future and the poignancy of the message had an effect that many could not have if they took hours.”
Read MoreI'm With Her: Female-powered Folk Trio Wows YVR
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“Their notes fade in and out of the collective voice like waves…as the three perform, it is evident that they are unique parts of an allied whole: all front women and equally backing band.”
Read MoreVIFF 2018: ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch
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The horrors of ANTHROPOCENE are very real, but so are the glimmers of hope. We are, as the filmmakers insist, all implicated, but we are also capable of enacting positive change.
Read MoreVIFF 2018: The Museum of Forgotten Triumphs
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The Museum of Forgotten Triumphs is both sharply specific to the Bosnian experience and universal in its themes, making it impressively versatile and a necessary film to watch. Something in the film will speak to you.
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