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Kris Rothstein
VIFF: Alexandria unplugged
Kris Rothstein
VIFF 2015: Rainbow Island
An optimistic film about tradition and change on a small Iranian island
Kris Rothstein
VIFF: Mrs Carey's Concert
Australian girls prepare for classical music showcase
Kris Rothstein
VIFF 2015: The Sky Trembles and the Earth is Afraid and the Two Eyes are Not Brothers
Ben Rivers does it again with a gorgeous, strange and unsettling film.
Kris Rothstein
VIFF 2015: Above and Below
Young Swiss documentarian Nicolas Steiner has made an intense film about people living in unusual geographies
Kris Rothstein
Way of Nature, a year on a Swedish farm
Kris Rothstein
JFL NorthWest 2016: Jokes Please
Eclectic and eccentric stand up where we learned that Ryan Albert Hilbert is not a convincing alias.
Kris Rothstein
JFL NorthWest 2016: Todd Barry
Comedy from the king of deadpan.
Kris Rothstein
JFL NorthWest 2016: Instagraham
An amusing journey through the social media platform that sucks the least.
Kris Rothstein
In Search of Indie Films
Why it might be harder to see the next great underground classic film, even in this age of technological plenty.
Kris Rothstein
JFL NorthWest 2016: Janeane Garofalo
Even after almost 90 minutes of intimate self-mockery, Garofalo seems so likable.
Kris Rothstein
BC Distilled and Canadian cocktails
As the festival of BC's craft distilleries approaches, I ponder books on liquor and consider some crazy delicious recipes.
Kris Rothstein
VIFF 2016: All This Panic
Seven teens in Brooklyn bare all to the camera.
Kris Rothstein
VIFF 2016: Barakah Meets Barakah
Yes, Saudi Arabians can make romantic comedies.
Kris Rothstein
VIFF 2016: The Infinite Flight of Days
Jericó, a small town in the Colombian Andes, is illuminated through the lives of its female elders. Charming, gorgeous, heart-breaking.
Choose your own (theatre) adventure
LIBBY SIMON
Sonofabitch Stew: the Drunken Life of Calamity Jane at FemFest 2012
Kris Rothstein
VIFF 2017: Sour Apples
A few decades in the lives of Turkish sisters transport the audience from rural mountain life to the modern big city in this funny, emotional film which is both sweet and sour.
Kris Rothstein
VIFF 2018: Canadian Short Films
Every kind of film under the sun: dozens of shorts explore personal history, landscape, memory and pathos.
Kris Rothstein
PuSh Festival 2018: History History History
Deborah Pearson screens a Hungarian political satire about soccer interspersed with commentary and a family quest.
LIBBY SIMON
Bake Off at FemFest 2012
Kris Rothstein
PuSh Festival 2018: Foxconn Frequency (no. 3)
Cacophony and spectacle in a truly genre-defying work of lights, noise, numbers and keyboards.
Kris Rothstein
VIFF 2019: L.A. Tea Time
French-Canadian filmmaker Sophie Bédard Marcotte's documentary takes us on a road trip to Los Angeles in search of artistic direction.
Kris Rothstein
VIFF 2019: Marghe and Her Mother
Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf has a new film, made in Italy, and it is utterly original and makes a long-lasting impression.
Kris Rothstein
VIFF 2019: Neutra - Survival Through Design
A modernist architect gets his due in this stylish documentary.
Kris Rothstein
VIFF 2019: Cranks
An artsy ode to weirdos and the city of Winnipeg, inspired by a notorious call-in radio show.
Kris Rothstein
VIFF 2017: Dina
A documentary love story from the 'non-typical' end of the neurological spectrum which is honest and intimate without exploiting its subjects.