Tsai granted filmmaker Vanessa Hope unprecedented access, enabling her to show how the president was able to tap into national aspirations.
One of the short films being screened on the opening night is Vancouver director and writer Rukiya Bernard’s “Meditation 4 Black Women”,
Aram (Sarvin Zabetian) is one of the characters interrogated in this 2023 film co-directed by Ali Asgari and Alireza Khatami.
Filmmaker and novelist Makoto Shinkai’s box-office success Suzume is part of the VIFF Centre’s Beyond Ghibli series.
For decades, waves of refugees have sought asylum in Hong Kong, but stories of those from outside China rarely make it to the big screen.
Now in its fifth year, the MENA fest will feature 42 feature-length and short films this year, with some in theatres and others online.
According to Dodd, people assume that someone who is Deaf cannot hear anything, but he says that’s not true.
Baldwin inspired celebrated filmmakers such as Spike Lee and Barry Jenkins, along with generations of writers and intellectuals.
Dear Jackie is writer-director Henri Pardo’s cinematic letter to baseball great Jackie Robinson and exploration of Montreal’s racist history.
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This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada.
The Society of We Are Canadians Too created Pancouver to foster greater appreciation for underrepresented artistic communities. A rising tide of understanding lifts all of us.
We would like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the traditional and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. With this acknowledgement, we thank the Indigenous peoples who still live on and care for this land.
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