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Films | High School Program
The Vancouver International Film Festival is excited to extend the High School Outreach Program year-round at the Vancity Theatre. The program offers a unique opportunity for Vancouver-area students to experience the best that international cinema has to offer. Given that an overwhelming number of films distributed in Canada are made in Hollywood, we like to present a program to counter that fact, a program that reflects the Festival's "Same Planet, Different Worlds" theme.
The Vancouver International Film Festival offers participating students (for groups of ten or more) a rate of $5.00 per person, per screening. In addition one Teacher per class will receive a complimentary ticket to the screening. Pre-registration is required.
Booking Information
For information and pre-registration contact Outreach Coordinator Annie Forrest - annie@viff.org or 604.685.0260.
Past Screenings
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Thiago is a sensitive and imaginative boy living on a small, hardscrabble farm in a remote region of Brazil. His life is filled not only with curiosity and youthful discovery, but also the reality of his parent's unhappy marriage and his father's abuse — all of which are one day changed by a chance encounter and unexpected gift. Director Sandra Kogut, in her poetic adaptation of the Brazilian short story Campo Geral, focuses on minute details of rural life to tell a bittersweet story of one boy's coming-of-age amidst events both great and small.
Portuguese, with subtitles in English
The Global Film Initiative has prepared a student study guide to accompany the film. Please contact Annie for details.
This film is part of Global Lens 2009, A Vancity Theatre, Global Film Initiative Co-Presentation BUY TICKETS |
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In this soulful and humane comedy, Zhao, a middle–aged construction worker, struggles to fulfill a dying co–worker's last wish to be buried in China's Three Gorges region. Setting out with his colleague's body in tow, Zhao travels hundreds of miles across extraordinary countryside, encountering a number of colorful adventures and characters — and even discovering love in some unlikely quarters. Director Zhang Yang's humorous and moving tale of friendship offers a powerful, and sometimes slapstick, commentary on the value of community and human connectivity in modern China.
Mandarin, with subtitles in English
The Global Film Initiative has prepared a student study guide to accompany the film. Please contact Annie for details.
This film is part of Global Lens 2009, A Vancity Theatre, Global Film Initiative Co-Presentatio n BUY TICKETS |
Payment can be made in one of the following ways:
* By Credit Card (preferred method): Please fill out the High School Outreach form and fax to 604.688.8221 ATTN: Annie Forrest
* By Mail: Send a cheque payable to the Vancouver International Film Festival (with a copy of this form) to 1181 Seymour Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 3M7
* In Person: Pay with cheque or cash at our downtown office, at the corner of Seymour and Davie (see address above).
* By Phone: Please call Annie Forrest at 604.685.0260. All tickets will be held at Will Call at the theatre prior to the screening (please arrive a minimum of 30 minutes early).
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Trailer | Website
WINNER: VIFF ENVIRONMENTAL FILM AUDIENCE AWARD 2009
"A bizarre and breathtaking high-seas adventure set in the remote, spectacular Ross Sea off Antarctica, At the Edge of the World is the season's most surprising and thought-provoking documentary." (Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com). In late November 2006, a documentary crew accompanied 46 international volunteers from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as they embarked on their third Antarctic campaign to stop Japanese whaling. What emerged was At the Edge of the World, an intrepid record of modern-day piracy and the high-stakes battle between commerce and ecological survival.
Tracking the whaling fleet (which slips through a loophole in the conservation laws to kill and process close to a thousand whales each season) over the glorious vastness of the Ross Sea, the crews of the two Sea Shepherd vessels face crippling seasickness and deadly ice packs.
"This real-life drama and its vast setting demand to be experienced on the big, instead of the little screen-men go overboard, skiffs go missing, and the long arm of the law threatens in this lean, sharply directed film. From Edge's opening wide shot of the Shepherds leaping off an iceberg into encircling rings of crystalline turquoise waters, the sea's vast expanse becomes a looming character in its own right-by turns stupendously beautiful and grimly terrifying, and best appreciated in a movie theater." - Elena Oumano, Village Voice
"Is there a sign for 'man overboard'? wonders one anxious volunteer, clearly anticipating the risks of an enterprise committed to fouling Japanese propellers and perfecting a maneuver cheekily named "the can-opener." Directed by Dan Stone to highlight moral as well as legal conflicts, this strikingly humane film may function as a prequel to Animal Planet's Whale Wars but is light years ahead in visual clarity and narrative ambition." - Jeannette Catsoulis, The New York Times |
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