Fri, Sep 22

Fremont

Vancity Theatre

Donya (Anita Wali Zada) worked as a translator for the US military in Afghanistan. Now she’s with a mom-and-pop fortune cookie factory in...

Fri, Sep 22

Nick Cave & The Birthday Party: Mutiny in Heaven

Vancity Theatre

Before The Bad Seeds there was The Birthday Party, four Melbourne school kids burning with the white heat of punk with Nick Cave as...

Fri, Sep 22

Georgian Cinema: Dreaming at the Crossroads

The Cinematheque

Georgia has certainly more than made its mark on world cinema, as seen in this series of ten programs that starts at the end of the...

Fri, Sep 22

Once Upon a Time There Was a Singing Blackbird

The Cinematheque

You can see the roots of Otar Iosseliani's distinctive comedy-drama style—absurdist, wryly poetic, and often quite melancholic—in...

Fri, Sep 22

A Room of My Own

The Cinematheque

This perceptive, uncompromising character study of two very different millennials in contemporary Tbilisi plays as if authentically...

Sat, Sep 23

What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?

The Cinematheque

Tom Charity calls this film “a masterpiece of Georgian movie magic” and cites similarities with Bresson, Eugène Green’s contemporary...