Victoria Film Festival 2020 | Schedule February 7-16, 2020 | Canada
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- DirectorNicolas BedosStarsDaniel AuteuilGuillaume CanetDoria TillierVictor, a disillusioned 60-something whose marriage is on the rocks, opts to relive the week of his life when, 40 years earlier, he met his true love through a company that allows customers to return to the time period of their choosing.February 7, 2020
- DirectorPetter SommerJo Vemund SvendsenStarsKnut AkselsenNils AndersenLars Tefre Baade25 Norwegian men in a men's choir are rehearsing for their biggest gig ever: Warming up for Black Sabbath. But at the same time their conductor is dying from cancer.February 7, 2020
- DirectorMyriam VerreaultStarsAriel Fontaine St-OngeKatinen Grégoire-FontaineJoe FontaineTwo girls grow up as best friends in an Innu community who promised each other to stick together no matter what. But their friendship is shaken when Mikuan falls for a white boy.February 7, 2020
- DirectorSemi ChellasStarsHong ChauSarah GadonJohn Gallagher Jr.Inspired by the headline-dominating kidnapping of heiress Patty Hearst in 1974, this atmospheric drama is a fictionalized re-imagining of her time in hiding, from the perspective of Jenny, a political activist assigned to take care of her.February 7, 2020
- DirectorMatthew RankinStarsDan BeirneSarianne CormierCatherine St-LaurentDetermined to become the leader of the Dominion of Canada, a young W.L. Mackenzie King rises to power.February 7, 2020
- DirectorJan-Ole GersterStarsCorinna HarfouchJohann von BülowAlexander KhuonIt's Lara's 60th birthday, and this very evening, her son will be giving his debut piano concert. Lara mapped out his musical career. But Lara is not welcome at his debut performance. Even if Lara engages, everything gets out of control.February 7, 2020
- DirectorMichael Angelo CovinoStarsKyle MarvinMichael Angelo CovinoGayle RankinA look at the friendship between two guys that spans over many years.February 7, 2020
- DirectorD.W. YoungStarsParker PoseyFran LebowitzGay TaleseA behind-the-scenes look at the New York rare book world.February 8, 2020
- DirectorKelly BlatzStarsTravis Van WinkleMarlyn MasonTom BowerAn 84-year old charming but delusional WWII veteran forms relationships with two elderly women and goes on a crusade to save them from the isolation of their retirement homes in East Hollywood.February 8, 2020
- DirectorDavid HambridgeStarsJames MwendaKIFARU is a feature documentary that journeys beyond the global headlines that have accumulated around 'Sudan,' the last male northern white rhino in existence, and explores the painful emptiness of extinction through the eyes of Sudan's three primary caregivers. Teetering on borrowed time and with his health in decline, Sudan's looming death and the uncertainty of employment that it will bring hangs over the heads of our three dynamic characters. Their only hope to save the species that they love - and perhaps their livelihood - rests fully in the success of a last resort IVF experiment.February 8, 2020
- DirectorWilliam NicholsonStarsAnnette BeningBill NighyJosh O'ConnorA couple's visit with their son takes a dramatic turn when the father tells him he plans on leaving his mother.February 8, 2020
- DirectorMehdi BarsaouiStarsSami BouajilaNajla Ben AbdallahYoussef Khemiri11 year old Aziz needs a liver transplant after being seriously injured during a terrorist ambush while on holiday in 2011. At the hospital a family secret will be revealed.February 8, 2020
- DirectorKazik RadwanskiStarsLisa AitkenPat BiancoTiffany BlomA volatile young woman challenged by everyday social and professional encounters.February 8, 2020
- DirectorSuhaib GasmelbariStarsManar Al HiloSuleiman IbrahimAltayeb MahdiFour older Sudanese filmmakers with passion for film battle to bring cinema-going back to Sudan, not without resistance. Their 'Sudanese Film Club' have decided to revive an old cinema, and again draw attention to Sudanese film history.February 8, 2020
- DirectorJosephine MackerrasStarsEmilie PiponnierMartin SwabeyChloé BorehamAlice, a happy and perfect wife and mother, has her life turned upside down when she discovers her husband is living a secret life.February 8, 2020
- DirectorMark JenkinStarsEdward RoweGiles KingChloe EndeanMartin is a fisherman without a boat, his brother Steven having re-purposed it as a tourist tripper. With their childhood home now a get-away for London money, Martin is displaced to the estate above the harbour.February 8, 2020
- DirectorElia SuleimanStarsElia SuleimanTarik KoptyKareem GhneimFilmmaker Elia Suleiman travels to different cities and finds unexpected parallels to his homeland of Palestine.February 8, 2020
- DirectorLouise ArchambaultStarsAndrée LachapelleGilbert SicotteRémy GirardThree elderly hermits live in the woods. While wildfires threaten the region, their quiet life is about to be shaken by the arrival of two women - A story of intertwined destinies, where love can happen at any age.February 8, 2020
- DirectorLily ZepedaStarsJack SimJack Sim, aka "Mr. Toilet," is a crusader for global sanitation. Born in the Singapore slums, Sim knows firsthand the agonies of not having a proper loo. Now he's dedicating his life to a crisis no one dares talk about.February 8, 2020
- DirectorJan KomasaStarsBartosz BieleniaAleksandra KoniecznaEliza RycembelDaniel experiences a spiritual transformation in a detention center. Although his criminal record prevents him from applying to the seminary, he has no intention of giving up his dream and decides to minister a small-town parish.February 8, 2020
- DirectorJeremy TeicherStarsNick KrollAlexi PappasGus KenworthyIn the Olympic Athlete Village, a young cross-country skier bonds with a volunteer doctor after her competition ends.February 8, 2020
- DirectorYonah LewisCalvin ThomasStarsKacey RohlAmber AndersonMartin DonovanA popular undergrad faking cancer struggles to maintain her secret.February 8, 2020
- DirectorKen LoachStarsKris HitchenDebbie HoneywoodRhys McgowanHoping that self-employment through gig economy can solve their financial woes, a hard-up UK delivery driver and his wife struggling to raise a family end up trapped in the vicious circle of this modern-day form of labour exploitation.February 8, 2020
- DirectorBarbara KoppleStarsJames Q. RobertsJohn LimbertGerald RafshoonUsing new archival sources and unprecedented access, master documentarian Barbara Kopple reveals the story behind one of the most daring rescues in modern US history: a secret mission to free hostages of the 1979 Iranian revolution.February 9, 2020
- DirectorFernand DansereauStarsDenys ArcandPierre-Charles AudetLuce Des Aulniers-When old age imposes physical and sometimes mental decay, is there a way to maintain a hopeful attitude towards life and its mysteries? This is the question that the documentary 'Le vieil âge et l'espérance' project aims to confront not only specialists such as geriatricians, gerontologists, psychologists and philosophers, but first and foremost the lived experience of the elderly. themselves.February 9, 2020
- DirectorXavier DolanStarsGabriel D'Almeida FreitasXavier DolanPier-Luc FunkHidden feelings come to light and threaten the bond of a group of friends in their late 20s.February 9, 2020
- DirectorIsabella WillingerStarsDavid ChalmersChuckMark CoeckelberghHow will we live together with artificial intelligence? What will we win, what will we lose? The documentary shows us tomorrow's world today.February 9, 2020
- DirectorSofia BohdanowiczDeragh CampbellStarsDeragh CampbellAaron DanbyElizabeth RuckerA young woman discovers letters in a Harvard archive that her great-grandmother wrote to a fellow Polish poet.February 9, 2020
- DirectorAlejandro AmenábarStarsKarra ElejaldeEduard FernándezSanti PregoWriter Miguel de Unamuno faces himself and his ideals after the 1936's military coup d'etat.February 9, 2020
- DirectorYung ChangStarsRobert FiskAmira HassNirmeen HazinehThe groundbreaking and often game-changing reporting of legendary foreign correspondent and author Robert Fisk is profiled in the latest from acclaimed documentarian Yung Chang (Up the Yangtze).February 9, 2020
- DirectorSebastián BorenszteinStarsRicardo DarínLuis BrandoniVerónica LlinásIn times of the infamous Argentinian Corralito, the neighbors of a little town trace a plan to recover the money they lost after learning that their bank manager and a corrupt lawyer have stolen it.February 9, 2020
- DirectorJoey KleinStarsNeve CampbellImogen PootsAlex WolffAfter the untimely death of his mother, a teenager befriends his charismatic but troubled next-door neighbor and becomes embroiled in a world of addiction and violence just as the opioid epidemic takes hold of their small town.February 9, 2020
- DirectorShelley NiroStarsMorningstar AngelineAndrew MartinAjuawak KapashesitMitzi Bearclaw is an indigenous woman who reluctantly returns to her isolated reserve to help her father care for her bitter mother.February 9, 2020
- DirectorPaul HarrillStarsMarin IrelandJim GaffiganJosh WigginsA single mom and part-time paranormal investigator is asked to look into a possible "haunting" at a widower's farmhouse in East Tennessee.February 9, 2020
- DirectorBen LawrenceStarsHugo WeavingAndrew LuriHayley McElhinneyDaniel is preparing an exhibition of his work from the world's war zones. When Sebastian learns that this exhibition may display photographs of a massacre in his village, he finds Daniel and appeals to him to exclude those photographs.February 10, 2020
- DirectorBryan SkinnerStarsJohn Emmet TracyTyler Lionel ParrJohannah NewmarchIf you can't get with the Programme... Sabotage it!February 10, 2020
- DirectorBeniamino BarreseStarsBenedetta BarziniBeniamino BarreseLauren HuttonA once-iconic fashion model strives to escape the world of images and disappear for good, but her son's determination to make a final film about her sparks an unexpected collaboration and confrontation with the camera's gaze.February 10, 2020
- DirectorHlynur PálmasonStarsIngvar SigurdssonÍda Mekkín HlynsdóttirHilmir Snær GuðnasonAn off duty police begins to suspect a local man for having had an affair with his recently dead wife. Gradually his obsession for finding out the truth accumulates and inevitably begins to endanger himself and his loved ones.February 10, 2020
- DirectorZaida BergrothStarsPihla ViitalaSatu Tuuli KarhuSaga SarkolaThe orphan Salome is the servant and devout follower of Maria Åkerblom, a charismatic sect leader. But as Salome befriends a rebellious outsider and starts to have doubts, Maria turns dangerous.February 10, 2020
- DirectorDenis CôtéStarsGuillaume TremblayWilcox exists outside the norm. Deserter, delinquent, or survivalist, he quietly roams, looking to put down roots or for what could simply be called freedom.February 10, 2020
- DirectorLijo Jose PellisseryStarsAntony VargheseChemban Vinod JoseSabumon AbdusamadA portrait of a remote village where a buffalo escapes and causes a frenzy of ecstatic violence.February 10, 2020
- DirectorGreg CromptonStarsEddy HaymourFadwa HaymourMechele HaymourAn entrepreneur's obsessive dream of developing an Okanagan Lake island into a Middle Eastern-themed amusement park leads to a spiraling path of legal turmoil and financial ruin, with a hostage-taking and bomb plots along the way.February 11, 2020
- DirectorFilippo MeneghettiStarsBarbara SukowaMartine ChevallierLéa DruckerPensioners Nina and Madeleine have hidden their deep and passionate love for many decades, but their bond is put to the test when they are suddenly unable to move freely between each other's apartments.February 11, 2020
- DirectorSara DosaStarsRagnhildur JonsdottirTHE SEER AND THE UNSEEN is a magic realist documentary about invisible elves, financial collapse and the surprising power of belief, told through the story of an Icelandic woman - a real life Lorax who speaks on behalf of nature under threat. Through her story, SEER explores the surprising power of belief and, the invisible forces - be they elves or the market - that shape our visible worlds and transform our natural landscapes.February 11, 2020
- DirectorKiyoshi KurosawaStarsAtsuko MaedaShôta SometaniTokio EmotoA young Japanese woman finds her cautious and insular nature tested when she travels to Uzbekistan to shoot the latest episode of her travel variety show.February 11, 2020
- DirectorHamish BennettStarsMarshall NapierAnnie WhittleKahukura RetimanaIn the wake of the loss of his beloved wife, a rural community rallies around a farmer to help him deal with his grief.February 11, 2020
- DirectorMartin de ValkStarsWade DavisPut yourself in Jeff Wheeler's hiking boots... What happens when you realize you are the great grandson of one of the most courageous, intriguing Canadians few Canadians have heard of? And what if world famous Canadian explorer and author, Wade Davis, could open a door into a world Canadian history has overlooked? What would you do? Join mountaineer Jeff Wheeler and Wade Davis as they travel from London's storied Royal Geographical Society to the French Battlefields of WWI, from the green mountains of Darjeeling, India to the wilds of Tibet's legendary Rongbuk Valley in search of Oliver Wheeler and his forgotten legacy.February 11, 2020
- DirectorNatascha BellerStarsMichèle RohrbachAnne HaugSarah Hostettlera zany, contemporary comedy about the misfortunes of three thirtysomething girlfriends dealing with the social pressure that focuses on children, careers and relationships.February 11, 2020
- DirectorPailin WedelStarsMax MoreMatrix NaovaratpongNareerat NaovaratpongAfter her untimely death, a scientist from Bangkok cryo-preserves his daughter's brain. Scandal swirls around the family as they struggle to grieve a child that, in their view, is suspended between death and reawakening.February 11, 2020
- DirectorShola AmooStarsNicholas PinnockDenise BlackSamuel AdewunmiAfter a happy childhood in the countryside, a teenager moves to London, where he must navigate an unfamiliar environment on his road to adulthood.February 11, 2020
- DirectorLiz MarshallStarsDick BothMary BothJim BuddFilmmaker Liz Marshall unearths a transformative piece of family and Canadian history.February 11, 2020
- DirectorZed NelsonStarsAdrianAinaAlanSome of the businesses on Hoxton Street have been around for over a hundred years. Recent times have witnessed an explosion of property development. The locals feel the exclusion of being priced out, and wonder who's to blame.February 12, 2020
- DirectorKerstin PolteStarsCorinna HarfouchMeret BeckerSabine TimoteoThis tragicomedy is the story of a marriage of many years that is actually nothing but routine. It is the story of a mother-daughter relationship and it is the story of a new beginning.February 12, 2020
- DirectorAdrian ShergoldStarsRafe SpallSimone LykkeJoel FryA down-on-his-luck Welshman travels across Europe with one crazy goal: to get himself arrested and sent to a Danish prison where the beds are warm and the water is hot.February 12, 2020
- DirectorMelanie OatesStarsKelly Van der BurgJoel Thomas HynesLawrence BarryWithdrawn from her life, the one thing that comforts Tess is listening to the music of Danny Sharpe. When she wakes one day to find him in her kitchen, it ignites a spark of life in her that grows out of control.February 12, 2020
- DirectorYi'nan DiaoStarsGe HuGwei Lun-MeiFan LiaoA gangster on the run sacrifices everything for his family and a woman he meets while on the lam.February 12, 2020
- DirectorJulia IvanovaTwelve years ago, three gay fathers, two lesbian mothers and five children let the camera into their lives and shared their stories of adoption, co-parenting and surrogacy. These three very personal stories were filmed just several years after same-sex marriage was legalized in Canada. The camera returns to three families in 2018, in an attempt to find unbiased answers to questions that continue to be relevant: To what extent the upbringing in non-traditional families impacts a child? Have societal outlooks on non-traditional family structures changed in Canada since 2003?February 12, 2020
- DirectorChristoph SchaubStarsRaphael ClamerCristina IglésiasJojo MayerBeyond the seeing and explaining of buildings, this architecture documentary deals with a very specific aspect of the effects of space: transcendence.February 12, 2020
- DirectorJuliano DornellesKleber Mendonça FilhoStarsBárbara ColenThomas AquinoSilvero PereiraAfter the death of her grandmother, Teresa comes home to her matriarchal village in a near-future Brazil to find a succession of sinister events that mobilizes all of its residents.February 12, 2020
- DirectorHepi MitaStarsAwatea MitaEruera 'Bob' MitaHepi MitaDocumentary portrait of pioneering filmmaker and mother Merata Mita, detailing how her filmmaking intersected with the lives of her children and indigenous filmmakers globally, and featuring rare archival footage dating back to 1977.February 12, 2020
- DirectorCéline SciammaStarsNoémie MerlantAdèle HaenelLuàna BajramiOn an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.February 12, 2020
- DirectorMay el-ToukhyStarsTrine DyrholmGustav LindhMagnus KrepperA successful lawyer jeopardizes her career and threatens to tear her family apart after engaging in an affair with her teenage stepson.February 12, 2020
- DirectorPedro RuizStarsDiosbelJean FugèreJoséThe chronic shortage of housing in Central Havana has pushed the city upwards, where life spills out onto the rooftops. Resilient and remarkable, these rooftop dwellers have a privileged point of view on a society in the process of major transformation.February 13, 2020
- DirectorLevan AkinStarsLevan GelbakhianiBachi ValishviliAna JavakishviliA passionate coming-of-age tale set amidst the conservative confines of modern Tbilisi, the film follows Merab, a competitive dancer who is thrown off balance by the arrival of Irakli, a fellow male dancer with a rebellious streak.February 13, 2020
- DirectorHeather YoungStarsAndria EdwardsShan MacDonaldWhen an elderly dog is scheduled to be euthanized, Donna decides to take the dog home to fill the emptiness she feels, Donna begins to take home more and more animals and she is soon in over her head.February 13, 2020
- DirectorMakoto NagahisaStarsKeita NinomiyaMondo OkumuraSatoshi MizunoFour orphans meet at a funeral home and none of them are sad about the recent deaths of their parents. They decide to become friends and live on their own.February 13, 2020
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsWerner HerzogBruce ChatwinKarin EberhardA journey where the viewer can see Werner Herzog's creative and personal vision which was shared with iconic travel writer Bruce Chatwin, the prolific author of 'In Patagonia' and a champion of the nomadic life.February 13, 2020
- DirectorMarco BellocchioStarsPierfrancesco FavinoMaria Fernanda CândidoFabrizio FerracaneThe real life of Tommaso Buscetta, the so-called "boss of the two worlds," the first mafia informant in Sicily in the 1980s.February 13, 2020
- DirectorMarie ClementsStarsTantoo CardinalMichelle ThrushSamuel MartyAfter a Gwich'in-Canadian soldier is captured by the Taliban, he finds himself reflecting on the death of his cousin.February 13, 2020
- DirectorElizabeth SankeyStarsJessica BardenCameron CookAnne T. DonahueMusician and writer Elizabeth Sankey investigates the past, present and future of romantic comedies, assisted by a chorus of critics, actors and filmmakers.February 14, 2020
- DirectorMaximilian HultStarsBjörn ThorsJóel SæmundssonSara Dögg ÁsgeirsdóttirLonging for love but inept at close relationships; a problem brothers Óskar and Maggi have in common but deal with in different ways.February 14, 2020
- DirectorBarbara MillerStarsDeborah FeldmanLeyla HusseinRokudenashiko#FEMALE PLEASURE embarks on a journey to discover the remaining obstacles that stand in the way of female sexuality in the 21st century.February 14, 2020
- DirectorMiki DezakiStarsKent GilbertKase HideakiKoichi NakanoA Japanese-American director digs deep into the controversial 'comfort women' issue to settle the debate on whether the women were paid prostitutes or sex slaves, and reveals the motivations and intentions of the main actors pushing to revise history in Japan.February 15, 2020
- DirectorSagi BornsteinUdi NirShani RozanesStarsUri AvneriYossi BeilinMeron MedziniThe eventful story of Golda Meir's term as Prime Minister of Israel - from her surprising rise to power and iconic international stature as "queen of the Jewish people", to her tragic and lonely demise.February 15, 2020
- DirectorZacharias KunukStarsApayata KotierkKim BodniaBenjamin KunukNoah Piugattuk's nomadic Inuit band live and hunt by dog team, just as his ancestors did. When the white man known as Boss arrives in camp, what appears as a chance meeting soon opens up the prospect of momentous change.February 15, 2020
- DirectorKitarô KôsakaStarsSeiran KobayashiNana MizukiSatsumi MatsudaAfter losing her parents in a car accident, Okko starts living in the countryside with her grandmother who runs a traditional Japanese inn. While she prepares to be the next owner of the inn, Okko can somehow see friendly ghosts.February 16, 2020
- DirectorCharles WilkinsonStarsRobert DavidsonBen DavidsonReg DavidsonDirector Charles Wilkinson's evocative documentary beautifully explores how the artist Robert Davidson brought Haida culture back to its people.February 16, 2020