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2021 Vancouver International Film Festival
The 2021 Vancouver International Film Festival, the 40th event in the history of the Vancouver International Film Festival, was held from October 1 to October 11, 2021.Dana Gee"VIFF back in theatres for 40th anniversary festival" ''The Province'', September 8, 2021. Unlike the 2020 Vancouver International Film Festival, which was staged entirely online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 festival featured in-person screenings at the VIFF Centre and other venues, although most titles were also available on the online VIFF Connects platform. The festival opened with the film ''The Electrical Life of Louis Wain'', and closed with the film ''Petite Maman''. 190 films from 51 countries where screened in the festival constituting 113 features, 77 shorts, 80 narrative features and 33 documentary features. In addition, the festival screened some titles outside Vancouver, including in Terrace and Powell River.Craig Takeuchi"Vancouver International Film Festival returns to cinemas for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Electrical Life Of Louis Wain
''The Electrical Life of Louis Wain'' is a 2021 biographical comedy-drama film directed by Will Sharpe, from a story by Simon Stephenson, and screenplay by Stephenson and Sharpe. The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch (as the eccentric artist Louis Wain), Claire Foy, Andrea Riseborough and Toby Jones. ''The Electrical Life of Louis Wain'' had its world premiere at the 48th Telluride Film Festival on 2 September 2021, had a limited release on 22 October 2021, and was released in the United States on Prime Video on 5 November 2021. It was released in the United Kingdom on 1 January 2022, by StudioCanal. Plot In 1881, 18 months after his father's death, Louis Wain, the only male and eldest of the Wain family, becomes the primary breadwinner. He supports five sisters and his mother working part-time as an illustrator for ''The Illustrated London News'' under editor Sir William Ingram. Ingram offers him a full-time job, but Wain declines in order to try his hand at composing music and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The In-Laws (2021 Film)
''The In-Laws'' ( pl, Teściowie) is a 2021 Polish comedy film directed by Jakub Michalczuk in his feature film directorial debut. In 2023, it was followed by a sequel, '' The In-Laws 2''. Premise Łukasz and Weronika's wedding is called off at the last minute. Their parents decide to proceed with the wedding reception anyway. Cast * Marcin Dorociński as Andrzej Wilk, Łukasz's father * Maja Ostaszewska as Małgorzata Wilk, Łukasz's mother * Izabela Kuna as Wanda Chrapek, Weronika's mother * Adam Woronowicz as Tadeusz Chrapek, Weronika's father * Ewa Dałkowska as Małgorzata's mother * Monika Pikuła as Alusia Wilk * Ignacy Martusewicz as Łukasz Wilk, the groom * Katarzyna Chojnacka as Weronika Chrapek, the bride Production Filming took place at the Polonia Palace Hotel in Warsaw. References External links * The In-Laws' on IMDb IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home vid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bootlegger (2021 Film)
''Bootlegger'' is a Canadian drama film, directed by Caroline Monnet and released in September 2021. The film centres on Mani (Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs), an indigenous graduate student in university who returns to her reserve in Quebec to advocate for a community referendum banning the sale of alcohol, placing her at odds with Laura (Pascale Bussières), a bootlegger who profits from the sale of alcohol in the community.Lauren Malyk"Caroline Monnet, Microclimat Films roll on Bootlegger" '' Playback'', November 21, 2019. The cast also includes Brigitte Poupart, Jacob Whiteduck-Lavoie, Joshua Odjick, Jacques Newashish, Dominique Pétin and Samian. The film was shot in fall 2019 in Kitigan Zibi, Quebec. Prior to its production, the film's screenplay won the Cinéfondation bursary for Best Screenplay at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. The film premiered at the 2021 Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival, and screened as the opening film of the 2021 Festival du nouveau ciné ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Shin
Albert Shin is a Canadian filmmaker, best known for his critically acclaimed Canadian Screen Award-nominated films ''In Her Place'' (2014) and ''Disappearance at Clifton Hill'' (2019). He works frequently with collaborator Igor Drljaca. Early life Shin was born in Canada and raised in Newmarket, Ontario. His parents are of South Korean descent. Shin later studied film production at York University, where he created several short films. Career Before making the leap into features, Shin directed the short film ''Kai's Place'', and the short-run television series ''In Counseling''. His feature directorial debut, ''Point Traverse'', was released in 2009. The microbudget film screened at several film festivals, including the Wisconsin Film Festival. ''In Her Place'' His second feature film was released in 2014; it was acclaimed by critics and screened at festivals around the world. For his work on ''In Her Place'', Shin won several awards, and garnered several Canadian Screen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Together (2021 Short Film)
''Together'' is a Canadian-South Korean short drama film, directed by Albert Shin and released in 2021.Elisabetta Bianchini"TIFF 2021: Korean-Canadian filmmaker explores internet suicide pacts" ''Yahoo! News'', September 18, 2021. The film stars Kim Jae-rok and Ahn So-yo as a man and a woman in South Korea who are meeting in person for the first time after having known each other only as online acquaintances, in order to finalize and carry out a mutual suicide pact. The film premiered at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival. It was subsequently screened at the 2021 Vancouver International Film Festival, where it won the award for Best Canadian Short Film. The film was named to TIFF's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2021.Norman Wilner"TIFF announces Canada’s Top Ten films of 2021" ''Now Now most commonly refers to the present time. Now, NOW, or The Now may also refer to: Organizations * Natal Organisation of Women, a South African women's organization * N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Returning Home (2021 Film)
''Returning Home'' is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Sean Stiller and released in 2021.Monica Lamb-Yorski"Webstad documentary Returning Home premieres at UBC" ''Williams Lake Tribune'', September 30, 2021. The film is a portrait of Phyllis Webstad, an Indian residential school survivor who founded Orange Shirt Day, and depicts both her national speaking tour about the residential schools and the activism of her home Secwepemc community around the decline of the Pacific salmon.Justin Bell"EIFF Review: Returning Home" '' Edmonton Journal'', October 1, 2021. It was the first full-length feature film ever produced by ''Canadian Geographic'' magazine."Can Geo Films documentary Returning Home to premiere at Cana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaveh Nabatian
Kaveh Nabatian is an Iranian-Canadian musician and film director, known as a trumpeter and keyboardist with the Juno Award winning orchestral post-rock band Bell Orchestre. Career As a filmmaker Nabatian is noted for his 2010 short film ''Vapor'', about an older Mexican man who comes to terms with homosexuality. The film was a Genie Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 31st Genie Awards, and a Prix Jutra nominee for Best Short Film at the 13th Jutra Awards, as well as one of TIFF’s Canada's Top Ten films for the year. In 2017, Nabatian directed ''Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything'', a documentary on Leonard Cohen which was broadcast by both CBC Television in English and Ici Radio-Canada Télé in French. In 2019, he was the lead director, alongside Sophie Goyette, Juan Andrés Arango, Sophie Deraspe, Karl Lemieux, Ariane Lorrain and Caroline Monnet, of the experimental anthology film, ''The Seven Last Words (Les sept dernières paroles)'', set to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Without Havana
''Sin La Habana'' is a Canadian drama film, directed by Kaveh Nabatian and released in 2020."Four films streaming till Oct. 31 as part of Festival du Nouveau Cinéma" '''', October 22, 2020. The film stars Yonah Acosta as Leonardo, a ballet dancer in who feels stifled and in need of emigration to another country to advance his career. He and his girlfriend Sara (Evelyn O’Farrill) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Luc Herbulot
Jean Luc Herbulot (born in 1983 in Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo) is a Congolese film director and screenwriter. Biography Herbulot started drawing and writing stories at an early age. His activities included writing, drawing, composing music, working on video games, and graphic design. In 2004, while studying editing as part of his multimedia studies in Paris, he directed his first short movie, titled ''Vierge(s)'', for which he also did the scriptwriting, storyboard, lighting, editing, and DVD release. Despite the amateur quality and the fact that the film was his first step in moviemaking, this project was quite successful at festivals and on the internet. Herbulot graduated as a multimedia project manager and started to work for TF1 as a graphic designer. Meanwhile, he created his own production company, which made music videos exclusively for independent artists, in order to maintain high creative standards for low-budget productions. In 2009, he co-produced and dir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saloum (film)
''Saloum'' is a 2021 Senegalese crime horror- thriller film directed by Congolese director Jean Luc Herbulot and produced by Pamela Diop. The film stars Yann Gael, Mentor Ba and Roger Sallah in the lead roles with Evelyne Ily Juhen, Bruno Henry, and Marielle Salmier in supporting roles. The film revolves around Bangui's Hyenas, an elite trio of mercenaries that extract a drug dealer and his bricks of gold amidst Guinea-Bissau's coup d'état of 2003. The film had its international premiere in the Midnight Madness section at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival on 30 September 2021. The film received critical acclaim and was screened worldwide and began streaming internationally on Shudder in September 2022. The film was met with positive reviews. Herbulot won the Award for the best director in the Next Wave section at the Fantastic Fest, and the film won the Audience Award for most popular film in the Altered States program at the 2021 Vancouver International Film Fest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte (2021 Film)
''Charlotte'' is a 2021 animated biographical drama film about German painter Charlotte Salomon, directed by Éric Warin and Tahir Rana, from a screen story by Erik Rutherford and a screenplay by Rutherford and David Bezmozgis, inspired by Salomon's autobiographical painting series, ''Life? or Theatre?''. It stars the voices of Keira Knightley, Brenda Blethyn, Jim Broadbent, Sam Claflin, Henry Czerny, Eddie Marsan, Helen McCrory (in her final appearance), Sophie Okonedo and Mark Strong. Knightley, Marion Cotillard, and Xavier Dolan serve as executive producers. Cotillard also voiced Salomon in the French version of the film. ''Charlotte'' is an international co-production between Canada, Belgium and France. The film made its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on 13 September 2021. It was released in Canada on 22 April 2022 and in France on 9 November 2022. Plot A young artist, Charlotte Salomon, and her family attend an opera in 1935 Berlin. Members of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Six (film)
''The Six'' () is a 2021 documentary film directed by Arthur Jones and produced by Luo Tong. The film chronicles the previously untold story of the six Chinese survivors of RMS ''Titanic'', as well as exploring the legacy of Chinese exclusion laws in Canada, the United States, and UK. The film is executive produced by ''Titanic'' director James Cameron. Background There were eight Chinese male passengers traveling in third-class aboard ''Titanic'', all of whom were professional mariners heading to New York to work on a fruit steamer. Six of the men survived the sinking. Four escaped on the same lifeboat as ''Titanic'''s owner J. Bruce Ismay, whilst another was the last person rescued alive from the water. Upon arrival in New York, the six Chinese men were held at the border, and deported within 24 hours. Various media at the time reported stories that they had behaved dishonourably (six of the eight survived whereas only 16% of other third class men survived), and employed ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |