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20TH CENTURY WOMEN
Mike Mills
Three generations of bohemian women leave an indelible mark on a teenage boy in this coming of age story set in the late 70s in Southern California. Annette Bening is rumoured to have a lock on an Oscar nomination this year, but Greta Gerwig and Billy Crudup may also have shots at Best Supporting nominations.
Saturday Dec. 3 2016 7:00 PM Rainbow TheatreSunday Dec. 4 2016 1:00 PM Rainbow Theatre -
THE THREE LITTLE PIGS 2
Jean-François Pouliot
Middle age has not dampened the misogynistic horniness of the three brothers from the very popular first film. One has his marriage destroyed due to his extramarital bisexual activities, while his brother quickly moves in on his ex-wife. Hilariously funny classic French farce. Highest grossing Canadian film of the year. Subtitles.
Saturday Dec. 3 2016 8:00 PM Village 8 Cinemas - Theatre 8Sunday Dec. 4 2016 4:45 PM Village 8 Cinema - Theatre 7 -
AN AMERICAN DREAM: THE EDUCATION OF WILLIAM BOWMAN
Ken Finkleman
A wicked satirical comedy aimed at the post-Donald Trump era of American politics. This is Gemini-award winning Ken Finkleman at his most wickedly pointed, taking on American political corruption, the gun lobby, big business influence at the White House and more.
Thursday Dec. 1 2016 9:30 PM Village 8 Cinemas - Theatre 8Sunday Dec. 4 2016 6:00 PM Village 8 Cinemas - Theatre 8 -
ANATOMY OF VIOLENCE
Deepa Mehta
Deepa Mehta takes an innovative docudrama approach to analyzing the rape culture that exists in India. She specifically workshopped six character backgrounds to depict the infamous rapists of a young woman on a decommissioned bus. Grinding poverty, deep-rooted misogyny and a sense of male entitlement are explored to great effect.
Saturday Dec. 3 2016 4:30 PM Rainbow Theatre -
AS YOU ARE
Miles Joris Peyrafitte
A police investigation uncovers a strange friendship between three teenagers in the early 90s who share a love of music, drugs and Kurt Cobain. Premiered at Sundance, the film features great performances and a real feel for its protagonists' realities. An indie gem from a first-time filmmaker of great promise.
Friday Dec. 2 2016 8:00 PM Village 8 Cinemas - Theatre 8 -
BEFORE THE STREETS
Chloé Leriche
The moving story of Shawnouk, a young First Nations man who banishes himself into exile after committing a horrible crime during a routine break-in at one of the local summer homes. The first feature film ever shot in the Atikamekw language is an accomplished first film by filmmaker Chloé Leriche.
Saturday Dec. 3 2016 8:30 PM Village 8 Cinema - Theatre 7Sunday Dec. 4 2016 12:30 PM Squamish Lil'Wat Cultural Centre -
BEAR WITH US
William J. Stribling
A funny romantic comedy about a lovestruck man who decides to bring his dream girl up to a mountain cabin in order to propose to her after he helps her overcome her almost pathological fear of bears. A real bear shows up and turns his plans upside down.
Thursday Dec. 1 2016 6:30 PM Village 8 Cinema - Theatre 7Friday Dec. 2 2016 12:30 PM Village 8 Cinemas - Theatre 8 -
BELOW HER MOUTH
April Mullen
A woman who is engaged to be married succumbs to the lesbian advances of an attractive roofer, and her life is turned upside down with newfound desire. A very adult film with the rare distinction of having been made by an all-female crew. April Mullen directs.
Saturday Dec. 3 2016 10:00 PM Rainbow TheatreSunday Dec. 4 2016 10:15 PM Village 8 Cinema - Theatre 6 -
BROKEN
Lynne Spencer
Ballet BC's prima ballerina Simone Orlando overcomes a career threatening injury in this intimate portrait of what happens to an artist (or athlete) who has devoted their life to a single pursuit when personal injury threatens that very way of life. Orlando is now CEO of Ballet Kelowna.
Saturday Dec. 3 2016 1:00 PM Village 8 Cinemas - Theatre 8 -
CELTIC SOUL
Michael McNamara
Or, How Jay Baruchel Spent His Summer Vacation could be the title of this film. Veteran documentarian Michael McNamara chronicles Jay Baruchel's trip to Scotland and Ireland to uncover his family roots and express his love for the Celtic Football Club by arranging for a pilgrimage to the local stadium where they play.
Friday Dec. 2 2016 3:00 PM Village 8 Cinemas - Theatre 8 -
THE SQUEALING GAME
Steve Kerr
A Quebec man's online dating service for married cheaters is threatened when he is attracted to a sociopathic dominatrix who has her own issues against the site. Not only his business, but his own marriage are at stake. Subtitled.
Friday Dec. 2 2016 10:00 PM Village 8 Cinema - Theatre 6Sunday Dec. 4 2016 1:00 PM Village 8 Cinemas - Theatre 8 -
CHOKESLAM
Robert Cuffley
A very unusual romantic comedy/wrestling movie, featuring Amanda Crew as the lifelong object of desire for a nerdy deli clerk that she is about to become reacquainted with on the occasion of their tenth high school reunion. She is dubbed the “Lindsay Lohan of the wrestling world” and she has a temper.
Thursday Dec. 1 2016 8:30 PM Village 8 Cinema - Theatre 6Friday Dec. 2 2016 1:00 PM Village 8 Cinema - Theatre 7 -
THE CYCLOTRON
Olivier Asselin
A unique Canadian film that tries to evoke the WWII romantic dramas of the Casablanca era, while dealing with conceptually trippy sci-fi concepts of time travel and nuclear fission. A train rushing to Switzerland has on board a German scientist that may have the formula for a nuclear bomb well before the Americans. Western Premiere
Saturday Dec. 3 2016 6:00 PM Village 8 Cinema - Theatre 7Sunday Dec. 4 2016 5:15 PM Village 8 Cinema - Theatre 6 -
THE DEATH (AND LIFE) OF CARL NAARDLINGER
Katherine Schlemmer
A very original comedy about a double Doppelganger. Police come to the door looking for a man with the same oddball name as our hero, only to discover that the man has a brother who is his identical twin.
Thursday Dec. 1 2016 7:00 PM Village 8 Cinemas - Theatre 8 -
FREE FIRE
Ben Wheatley
Winner of the People's Choice Award for this year's Midnight Madness selections at TIFF, this darkly funny and very violent movie directed by Ben Wheatley (HIGH-RISE) is about an IRA gun deal that goes tremendously wrong, starring Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy and Armie Hammer.
Thursday Dec. 1 2016 9:30 PM Rainbow TheatreFriday Dec. 2 2016 1:00 PM Rainbow TheatreSunday Dec. 4 2016 10:30 PM Village 8 Cinemas - Theatre 8 -
GOING FURTHUR
Colby Rex O'Neill, Matt Pidutti, Lindsay Kent
The psychedelic counterculture movement is alive and well today. Fifty years after Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters' first acid-laced bus trip, his son Zane has taken his Dad's bus on a 15,000 mile, 75 day tour of music festivals, tribal gatherings, and happenings, man. Enjoy the trip!
Friday Dec. 2 2016 9:45 PM Maury Young Arts CentreSunday Dec. 4 2016 9:00 PM Maury Young Arts Centre -
GRAND UNIFIED THEORY
David Ray
A brilliant astrophysicist lectures at a local university about chaos theory, even as his own family comically unravels in ways that defy scientific logic. There is a hilarious interview scene on drugs that is laugh-out-loud. A truly original BC based comedy for people with brains, or what's left of them.
Friday Dec. 2 2016 3:30 PM Maury Young Arts CentreSunday Dec. 4 2016 7:45 PM Village 8 Cinema - Theatre 6 -
GUILT TRIP
Anthony Bonello, Mike Douglas
The only thing greater than this group of skier's desire to claim a first ski descent on Greenland's second highest peak, Mont Forel, is the size of their carbon footprint to get there. Loaded with guilt, they decide to bring renowned glaciologist, Alun Hubbard, who's hypothesis, if proven, could rewrite popular projections of global sea-level rise.
Thursday Dec. 1 2016 6:00 PM Maury Young Arts CentreSaturday Dec. 3 2016 5:30 PM Village 8 Cinema - Theatre 6 -
THE HIGHWAY
Mike Douglas, Anthony Bonello
Since Stan Rey first drove the highway between Vancouver and Whistler 20 years ago he's dreamed of skiing the Tantalus Mountain Range. It took a family tragedy to finally make that dream a reality.
Thursday Dec. 1 2016 6:00 PM Maury Young Arts CentreSaturday Dec. 3 2016 5:30 PM Village 8 Cinema - Theatre 6 -
HOCKEY NIGHT
Paul Shapiro
The first fully restored theatrical print of the classic 1984 family film about a young girl who fights to become the first female goalie on her local hockey team. A beloved classic with Megan Follows and Rick Moranis, suitable for viewing with the whole family. World Premiere of restored theatrical print.
Saturday Dec. 3 2016 3:15 PM Village 8 Cinemas - Theatre 8Sunday Dec. 4 2016 3:30 PM Rainbow Theatre -
A HUNDRED STREETS
Jim O'Hanlon
The story of three people's lives, who live within a three block radius of each other in downtown London. One is a street drug dealer, one a woman separated from her rugby playing superstar husband and the other a taxi driver about to have his life turned around. Idris Elba and Gemma Arterton star.
Saturday Dec. 3 2016 10:00 PM Village 8 Cinema - Theatre 6Sunday Dec. 4 2016 11:00 AM Rainbow Theatre -
HUNTING PIGNUT
Martine Blue
A young teenager (winningly played by BC based Taylor Hickson) runs away from home to join the street bums that her late Dad used to hang around. Drugs and sexual assault are unfortunately sure to follow. An original coming of age story from first-time Newfoundland filmmaker Martine Blue.
Saturday Dec. 3 2016 7:30 PM Village 8 Cinema - Theatre 6Sunday Dec. 4 2016 8:15 PM Village 8 Cinemas - Theatre 8 -
IT'S NOT MY FAULT AND I DON'T CARE ANYWAY
Chris Craddock
Alan Thicke surprises as a self-help guru who refuses to pay ransom when his promiscuous daughter is kidnapped by a drug gang. Her saviour comes in the unlikely form of a 300 pound African-Canadian heroin addict, winningly played by Quinton Aaron. An offbeat comedy.
Friday Dec. 2 2016 5:30 PM Village 8 Cinemas - Theatre 8Sunday Dec. 4 2016 2:45 PM Village 8 Cinema - Theatre 6 -
KISS AND CRY
Sean Cisterna
The true story of 18 year-old Olympic figure skating aspirant and pop singer, Carley Allison, and her inspiring battle against a rare form of melanoma. Her singing of the national anthem at a Maple Leafs hockey game became a YouTube sensation. Played by real-life best friend and Degrassi regular, Sarah Fisher.
Friday Dec. 2 2016 3:30 PM Village 8 Cinema - Theatre 7Saturday Dec. 3 2016 12:30 PM Village 8 Cinema - Theatre 7 -
LA LA LAND
Damien Chazelle
This year's rumoured favourite for the Best Picture Oscar and winner of the People's Choice award at TIFF is an old-style romantic musical featuring heart-swooning performances by Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling. Plus, there's an opening song and dance number on an LA freeway that you won't soon forget.
Wednesday Nov. 30 2016 6:30 PM Rainbow TheatreWednesday Nov. 30 2016 9:30 PM Rainbow Theatre -
LAST DAYS OF SUMMER
Aaron Harvey
A comfortably numb late middle-aged guy in a passionless marriage falls for a beautiful new neighbour, but he suspects she is being physically abused by her husband. Character actor William Fichtner, whom you will recognize immediately from hundreds of tv and movie appearances, shines in one of his first lead roles.
Friday Dec. 2 2016 2:30 PM Village 8 Cinema - Theatre 6 -
LION
Garth Davis
A moving true story of a young boy who was separated from his family at the age of five and adopted by a Tasmanian couple. Twenty-five years later, he is haunted by the need to rediscover his lost family roots. Runner up for the People's Choice Award at TIFF and a sure-fire Oscar contender. Stars Nicole Kidman, Dev Patel and Rooney Mara.
Friday Dec. 2 2016 6:30 PM Rainbow TheatreSaturday Dec. 3 2016 1:30 PM Rainbow Theatre -
LOST SOLACE
Chris Scheuerman
A lifelong psychopath has his life turned inside out when he ingests a designer drug at a nightclub and suddenly develops empathy and a moral conscience. A slick new thriller in the style of LIMITLESS from director Chris Scheuerman, shot in Vancouver.
Friday Dec. 2 2016 8:30 PM Village 8 Cinema - Theatre 7Sunday Dec. 4 2016 6:00 PM Maury Young Arts Centre -
LOVESICK
Tyson Caron
The year's funniest Canadian romantic comedy. Jacob Tierney plays Dash, a 33 year old slacker who is still in love with his ex-girlfriend (Jessica Paré), and who is now engaged to a sleazeball (Jay Baruchel). His attempt to disrupt their wedding is a comic classic of deep public humiliation.
Friday Dec. 2 2016 7:30 PM Village 8 Cinema - Theatre 6Sunday Dec. 4 2016 7:30 PM Village 8 Cinema - Theatre 7 -
FROM THE LAND OF THE MOON
Nicole Garcia
Marion Cotillard is mesmerizing in her role as a small-town girl who refuses to accept a loveless marriage and is treated as having a mental illness because she dares to hold out hope for true love, which she finds in the form of a young injured veteran. Subtitled.
Thursday Dec. 1 2016 3:00 PM Rainbow TheatreFriday Dec. 2 2016 10:30 AM Rainbow Theatre -
MELODY MAKERS, SHOULD'VE BEEN THERE
Leslie Ann Coles
A behind the scenes peek at all the rock ‘n roll legends of the 70s, as director Leslie Ann Coles guides us through the ribald history of the influential British rock magazine Melody Makers, featuring unseen photographs of all the greats by Barrie Wentzell.
Saturday Dec. 3 2016 2:30 PM Village 8 Cinema - Theatre 6Sunday Dec. 4 2016 3:00 PM Squamish Lil'Wat Cultural Centre -
MENORCA
John Barnard
The story of a truly bad Mom, who leaves her child for a life of drugs and sex, hitching her way to a job at a strip-club. Is it acceptable to question one's life choices in such a dramatic way when the outcome so affects your estranged son?
Saturday Dec. 3 2016 5:30 PM Village 8 Cinemas - Theatre 8Sunday Dec. 4 2016 3:30 PM Village 8 Cinemas - Theatre 8 -
MIDDLE MAN
Ned Crowley
A hilariously dark satire about a talentless would-be stand-up comic who becomes an overnight sensation when he starts talking about the serial killings he thinks he may have committed. How do you sustain a career if you need a constant flow of new cadavers to maintain your inspiration?
Friday Dec. 2 2016 10:30 PM Village 8 Cinemas - Theatre 8Sunday Dec. 4 2016 12:00 PM Village 8 Cinema - Theatre 7 -
MISS SLOANE
John Madden
Rumour is that Jessica Chastain may be Oscar-bound for her role as a brilliant and ruthless lobbyist who refuses to concede any battle. Director John Madden is best known for Oscar winner SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE and the BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL movies.
Thursday Dec. 1 2016 6:30 PM Rainbow TheatreFriday Dec. 2 2016 3:30 PM Rainbow TheatreSunday Dec. 4 2016 10:00 PM Village 8 Cinema - Theatre 7 -
MOSTLY SUNNY
Dilip Mehta
A biographical profile of the young woman from Sarnia, Ontario, who went from being Penthouse Pet of the Year, to becoming a major hardcore porn star, to a career in mainstream Bollywood movies, an industry known for its onscreen conservatism. Touching moments occur as Sunny has to deal with the death of a parent.
Thursday Dec. 1 2016 9:00 PM Village 8 Cinema - Theatre 7 -
MR ZARITSKY ON TV
Jennifer Di Cresce, Michael Savoie
A behind-the-scenes portrait of Oscar-winning documentarian John Zaritsky filming his third story on thalidomide victims. As he tours Europe with his crew, we gain insight into the uncompromising search for truth that has characterized this filmmaker's entire career. He does not suffer TV executives or fools gladly.
Thursday Dec. 1 2016 7:45 PM Maury Young Arts CentreFriday Dec. 2 2016 12:30 PM Squamish Lil'Wat Cultural Centre -
POPULATION ZERO
Adam Levins
A fascinating mock documentary that has legitimately uncovered a loophole in US constitutional law that would allow a person to legally get away with premeditated murder. An investigation into apparent homicides in Yellowstone National Park uncovers the ruse, much to the chagrin and danger of the documentarians.
Friday Dec. 2 2016 11:00 PM Village 8 Cinema - Theatre 7 -
RAW*
David I. Strasser
The first film to be shot on BC's Salt Spring Island tells the inspirational story of a delinquent seventeen year-old, well on his way to a possible life of drug addiction, who gets sentenced by the courts to work on an organic farm run by his uncle.
Thursday Dec. 1 2016 6:00 PM Village 8 Cinema - Theatre 6Saturday Dec. 3 2016 12:30 PM Squamish Lil'Wat Cultural Centre -
RED MILE
Justin McConnell
A viscerally exciting thriller about a druggie who panics and takes off when he wakes up to find that the woman he had partied with the previous night has OD'd. Presented in real time, so that the film appears to have been shot in one continuous take.
Friday Dec. 2 2016 6:00 PM Village 8 Cinema - Theatre 7Saturday Dec. 3 2016 11:00 PM Village 8 Cinemas - Theatre 8 -
THE SECOND TIME AROUND
Leon Marr
In this heart-warming story full of hope, dreams and second chances two seniors meet and discover that it's never too late to fall in love again. Linda Thorson (The Avengers) and Stuart Margolin (The Rockford Files) give touching performances in this love story for the ageless.
Saturday Dec. 3 2016 3:00 PM Village 8 Cinema - Theatre 7Sunday Dec. 4 2016 12:30 PM Village 8 Cinema - Theatre 6 -
SHADES OF WINTER: BETWEEN
Sandra Lahnsteiner
Austrian filmmaker and extreme sports enthusiast Sandra Lahnsteiner takes us on a global celebration of female athleticism as we travel from New Zealand to Austria, through Canada searching for the biggest waves and the best ski runs for her merry band of all-female adventure-seekers to conquer. Beautifully shot and duly inspiring for thrill seekers.
Sunday Dec. 4 2016 6:30 PM Rainbow TheatreSunday Dec. 4 2016 9:30 PM Rainbow Theatre -
SLED DOGS
Fern Levitt
A provoking expose of the cruelty to dogs that permeates the commercial dog sled operations that supply sled dogs for such famous races as the Iditarod in Alaska. The film addresses the sled dog cull that occurred in Whistler and the attempts by locals to run an ethical puppy farm in its stead.
Saturday Dec. 3 2016 9:45 PM Maury Young Arts CentreSunday Dec. 4 2016 2:15 PM Village 8 Cinema - Theatre 7 -
THE SPACE BETWEEN
Amy Jo Johnson
Can a father continue to love his baby child after he discovers that it may not be his? How do you deal with the fact that your wife may have slept with a nerdy college student without telling you, as a way of compensating for your own infertility? An unexpected offbeat comedy/drama considering the subject matter.
Saturday Dec. 3 2016 12:00 PM Village 8 Cinema - Theatre 6Sunday Dec. 4 2016 10:30 AM Squamish Lil'Wat Cultural Centre -
THE SUN AT MIDNIGHT
Kirsten Carthew
Troubled teen Lia escapes from her Grandma in Fort McPherson in the subarctic. Her cross-country trek is not going well until she hooks up with a wise old caribou hunter. Together, they have to fend off a vicious bear attack. A rare film shot in the Northwest Territories.
Friday Dec. 2 2016 5:00 PM Village 8 Cinema - Theatre 6Saturday Dec. 3 2016 3:00 PM Squamish Lil'Wat Cultural Centre -
TRESPASS AGAINST US
Adam Smith
Chad Cutler (Michael Fassbender) is a member of a notorious band of outlaws led by his brutish Dad (Brendan Gleeson). He hopes his children will escape the family lifestyle and reputation, but breaking away from family is not easy, as Gramps is a sociopath who revels in giving his grandchildren criminal life lessons.
Friday Dec. 2 2016 9:30 PM Rainbow TheatreSaturday Dec. 3 2016 10:30 AM Rainbow Theatre -
LAND OF MINE
Martin Zandvliet
Following World War II, the Danish army used young German prisoners of war to hand defuse thousands of landmines buried along coastal beaches. The POWs are barely out of their teens and the suspense is intense as they attempt to defuse the volatile explosives. This is the Danish entry for this year's Oscars. Subtitled.
Friday Dec. 2 2016 12:00 PM Village 8 Cinema - Theatre 6 -
VICTOR WALK
Michael David Lynch
With the recent prison release of the coach who assaulted NHL player Theo Fleury and many others while teaching junior hockey, this chronicle of the landmark Theo Fleury walk from Toronto to Ottawa to draw attention to the victims of sexual assault in Canada becomes extraordinarily timely.
Thursday Dec. 1 2016 10:00 PM Maury Young Arts CentreFriday Dec. 2 2016 3:00 PM Squamish Lil'Wat Cultural Centre -
THE VOID
Steven Kostanski, Jeremy Gillespie
The best gory visual effects of any Canadian movie this year, this horror action is set in a remote rural hospital that is under attack from… inhuman creatures. Recalls the intensity of the original NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, and features the filmmakers behind the no-budget cult favourite MANBORG. Come if you dare!
Saturday Dec. 3 2016 10:30 PM Village 8 Cinema - Theatre 7 -
THE WILL TO FLY
Leo Baker, Katie Bender
An extraordinary sports biography of Australian Olympic ski jumper Lydia Lassila as she trains to become the first woman to ever successfully complete a quadruple, twisting triple somersault jump, a move that combines skiing prowess and gymnastic ability. The irony is when you see the woefully inadequate Australian training facilities.
Saturday Dec. 3 2016 5:00 PM Maury Young Arts CentreSunday Dec. 4 2016 3:30 PM Maury Young Arts Centre -
WILSON CITY
Tomas Masin
A delightful Czech comedy in the style of Milos Forman's MY SWEET LITTLE VILLAGE. After WWI, a small town located in no man's land between Poland and Czechoslovakia, hopes to have itself annexed to Woodrow Wilson's America, and prepares for a visit from the American President.
Thursday Dec. 1 2016 12:30 PM Rainbow Theatre
