VIFF Guide 2022
Vancouver International Film Festival 2022
September 29 to October 9
Your guide to B.C.’s biggest annual ode to cinema, with incisive reviews, plus interviews with the directors, actors, and other creatives behind films from here and around the globe—many of them appearing at the fest in person.
VIFF ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
What happens is flamboyantly disgusting and extremely funny, with Woody Harrelson in his element
Vancouver Latin American Cultural Centre joins forces with Vancouver International Film Festival, DanceHouse, Vancouver Writers Fest, and Museum of Anthropology at UBC for the month-long fest
Appearing at VIFF with the VSO, the artist will talk about the diverse training that brought him to the films of Jordan Peele—as well as orchestral and operatic stages
Fogaréu is irresistibly disquieting; Sick of Myself recalls a classic of urban cultural psychosis; and Leonor Will Never Die proves surprisingly fun; Music Pictures: New Orleans pays tribute to the NOLA sound
A collaborative project between non-Indigenous filmmakers and Indigenous elders, the film was seven years in the making
New documentary goes inside the choreographer’s process, then plays out the celebrated National Ballet work in its entirety
Animation, interviews, and archival footage bring to life the works that turn urban detritus into subversive, allegorical statements
The pair play two hapless Laurel Canyon neighbours in a crazy-making cosmic-horror flick born out of the pandemic and apocalyptic wildfires
The Mountain is simply lovely, Golden Delicious tender and genuine; The Grizzlie Truth drives into untold history of Vancouver’s NBA team
Dene/Métis writer, director, and producer Marie Clements’s feature tells a Cree woman’s harrowing life story, inspired by true events
An immigrant mother’s moving struggle to raise her son in suburban Vancouver, and the fractured relationship between parent and child in Japan
Holy Spider, Pacifiction, and Other Cannibals are guaranteed to work their way under your skin
Marie Clements’s Bones of Crows opens, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Broker closes, Nosferatu gets a centenary live-score performance, and much more