VIFF champions local artists for Canadian Film Week with 18 features, April 11 to 17
Program includes Vancouver premieres, returning classics, and a tribute to Tracey Friesen and free screenings on National Canadian Film Day
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Sweet Summer Pow Wow.
This April, VIFF celebrates exceptional Canadian and Indigenous cinema with a special Canadian Film Week, running from April 11 to April 17 at the VIFF Centre.
Canadian Film Week features 18 compelling feature films, including six Vancouver premieres and four brand-new films from B.C. filmmakers, many of whom will be present for audience Q&As.
The week kicks off with Darrell Dennis’s Sweet Summer Pow Wow, a charming love story about two young people who meet on B.C.’s Pow Wow circuit. Veteran nonfiction filmmakers Nova Ami and Velcrow Ripper present Incandescence, about the power of wildfires. Carl Bessai shows his plaintive midlife crisis film Field Sketches, and Ben Immanuel returns with his self-aware pandemic comedy Are We Done Now?.
Incandescence.
The program also features a diverse selection of new titles. Ingrid Veninger draws on home movies and her family in Crocodile Eyes. Sarah Galea-Davis’s semi-autobiographical debut feature The Players follows a teenager who joins an experimental theatre troupe. And Karen Chapman’s debut feature Village Keeper traces a mother’s efforts to break the cycle of intergenerational trauma.
On April 16, VIFF presents two free screenings as part of National Canadian Film Day. Velcrow Ripper and Cari Green attend the 20th-anniversary screening of ScaredSacred, a tribute to producer Tracey Friesen. And director Sandy Wilson introduces her coming-of-age classic My American Cousin for its 40th anniversary.
Other classics, old and new, complete the program, including Denys Arcand’s The Decline of the American Empire and The Barbarian Invasions, Atom Egoyan’s Seven Veils, and more.
Tickets are available through VIFF.
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