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Film review: Here We Are crafts tender, layered story of father-and-son bond

Exploring autism, the parental role, and the need to let go

SCREENJanet SmithMarch 2, 2021Vancouver Jewish Film Festival, VJFF

Jessie Anthony's Brother, I Cry continues to make an impact at Vancouver Women in Film Festival

Breakout Indigenous filmmaker drew from personal experience for film about drug addiction

SCREENJanet SmithMarch 2, 2021VIFF, Vancouver International Women in Film Festival

Breaking Bread documentary digs into food as a bridge between Arabs and Jews

Playing at the Vancouver Jewish Film Festival, the film hears from chefs behind Israel’s A-Sham Arab Food Festival

Film review: Asia's quietly devastating story of a teen and her mother is Vancouver Jewish Film Festival standout

Strong performances drive aching tale of two people who don’t realize they need each other

SCREENStir VancouverMarch 1, 2021VJFF, Vancouver Jewish Film Festival

Film review: You Will Die at Twenty takes a poetically allegorical journey into remote Sudan

Strong performances and dreamlike cinematography bring to life a story about fate

SCREENJanet SmithMarch 1, 2021The Cinematheque

BC cultural leaders put forward suggestions to provincial government for safe re-opening of cinemas, theatres amid pandemic restrictions

Professional Performing Arts Venues and Independent Cinemas hopes for reclassification, cooperative approach to operating safely anew

Film review: Test Pattern takes a taut and riveting look at the fallout from sexual assault

Race, class, and gender play subtly into a film that forces us to readjust our preconceptions

SCREENJanet SmithFebruary 22, 2021The Cinematheque

Film review: Supernova takes a beautifully nuanced look at aging, loyalty, and love

Stanley Tucci and Colin Firth find a quiet honesty around the subject of dementia

SCREENJanet SmithFebruary 19, 2021VIFF, Screen

Us: A Black Peoples Month Festival premieres "Legacy", about the migrant crisis

Vancouver-based multidisciplinary artist Mariam Barry’s work centres on modern African youth

Creators of new animated TV show The Great North to speak at VIFF, February 23 at 6 pm

Wendy Molyneux and Lizzie Molyneux-Logelin were the writing forces behind Bob’s Burgers

SCREEN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithFebruary 19, 2021VIFF, what's stirring

Vancouver Jewish Film Festival announces lineup of virtual screenings, March 4 to 14

Offerings span award-winning features Asia and Thou Shalt Not Hate

SCREENJanet SmithFebruary 18, 2021Vancouver Jewish Film Festival, VJFF

Fellini 100 series fetes the Italian maestro's centenary with new film restorations, at The Cinematheque

Extensive retrospective features masterpieces like La Strada alongside lesser known finds like Toby Dammit and Il Bidone, to March 11

SCREENStir VancouverFebruary 16, 2021Partner Content

Film review: Cured takes unprecedented look at historic fight to take homosexuality off the illness list

Shedding light on the heroes who took on the American psychiatric establishment

SCREENJanet SmithFebruary 12, 2021The Cinematheque

Film review: Josep animates the true story of an artist who fled Franco Spain to French internment

Streaming at Rendez-Vous, story of artist Josep Bartoli maintains a moral clarity amid war

SCREENStir VancouverFebruary 11, 2021Rendez-Vous French Film Festival, VISIONS OUEST

And Then They Came for Us, featuring George Takei, kicks off online KDocsFF running March 12 to 21

Metro Vancouver social-justice documentary fest travels from the Philippines to Chechnya

SCREEN, FESTS, NEWSJanet SmithFebruary 11, 2021KDOCS, Kdocs

Simone Blais throws a light on Black dance community in Dance Like Everybody's Watching

Documentary tackles appropriation and racism, while celebrating movement

SCREENJanet SmithFebruary 10, 2021VIFF, Black History Month, contemporary dance

Film review: Wandering sheds light on Rohingya people living in the world's largest refugee camp

The Rendez-Vous French Film Festival documentary shows what life is like for more than 600,000 persecuted Muslims from Myanmar

SCREENGail JohnsonFebruary 10, 2021screen', movies, Rendez-Vous French Film Festival, Rohingya, film

Vancouver director Paul Emile d’Entremont lifts the veil on homophobia in sports

Documentary Standing on the Line/ Franchir la ligne looks at pressures of athletes coming out, at Rendez-Vous fest

SCREENJanet SmithFebruary 10, 2021Rendez-Vous French Film Festival

Film review: De Gaulle is a lavish history lesson that's more sentimental than stirring

Story of French general has its pleasures, at the Rendez-Vous fest

SCREENJanet SmithFebruary 9, 2021Rendez-Vous French Film Festival

Film review: Two of Us finds poetry and passion in old age

The need for agency and honesty comes through in a French film that’s by turn moving and suspenseful

SCREENJanet SmithFebruary 6, 2021VIFF

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