Each year, the prestigious, heavily-juried and world class New York Film Festival unspools the films in the festival’s Main Slate , at the same time as occurs each year at our homegrown and raucously dynamic Vancouver International Film Festival.
In 2024, VIFF43 shares 13 films on the NYFF62 Main Slate, which is what we will write about today on VanRamblings. Can’t afford the flight to the Big Apple? No problem. The Vancouver International Film Festival brings New York to you.
Here, then, are the 13 films Vancouver and New York share in 2024.
(Click/tap, on the underlined titles to access the VIFF page for the film, to buy tickets if you wish)
- Payal Kapadia
- 2024
- France/India/Netherlands/Luxembourg
- 118 minutes
- Malayalam and Hindi with English subtitles
The light, the lives, and the textures of contemporary, working-class Mumbai are explored and celebrated with a vivid, humane richness by Payal Kapadia, who won the Grand Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for her revelatory fiction feature début about three working-class women dealing with professional and romantic disruptions.
Showtimes
Saturday, September 28th
9:30 PM
Vancouver Playhouse
Tuesday, October 1st
3:00 PM
Vancouver Playhouse
- Sean Baker
- 2024
- U.S
- 138 minutes
Sean Baker’s screwball comedy about sex, love, and money stars Mikey Madison as an exotic dancer from Brighton Beach thrust into the lap of luxury when she’s whisked away on a whirlwind romance with a wealthy young customer. Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes Film this year.
Showtimes
Friday, September 27
8:45 PM
Vancouver Playhouse
Tuesday, October 1st
9:15 PM
Vancouver Playhouse
- Jia Zhangke
- 2024
- China
- 111 minutes
- Mandarin Chinese with English subtitles
The pre-eminent dramatist of China’s rapid 21st-century growth and social transformation, Jia Zhangke has taken his boldest approach to narrative yet with Caught by the Tides, assembled from footage shot over a span of 23 years. The always captivating Zhao Tao carries this marvelous film about cinema’s ability to capture the passage of time and the persistence of change.
Showtimes
Saturday, September 28th
1:00 PM
International Village, Cinema 10
Sunday, September 29th
8:45 PM
Fifth Avenue, Cinema 3
Thursday, October 3rd
2:30 PM
Vancouver Playhouse
Saturday, September 29th
8:45 PM
SFU Woodwards
Saturday, October 5th
3:45 PM
Vancouver Playhouse
Saturday, October 5th
8:30 PM
International Village 10
Sunday, October 6th
1:00 PM
Fifth Avenue, Cinema 3
Here are the 8 other NYFF62 films that will screen at VIFF43 …
- Grand Tour | Monday, September 30th | 2:45 PM | Vancouver Playhouse
- On Becoming a Guinea Fowl | October 1sts | 9:15 PM | Int. Village, Cin 9 | |
October 6th | 6:30 PM | Vancity Theatre, VIFF Centre
- Happyend | September 28 | 3 PM | Vancouver Playhouse | |
October 3rd | 9 PM | Fifth Avenue, Cinema 3
- Misericordia | September 27th | 8:45 PM | International Village, Cin 9 | |
September 30th | 3:30 PM | SFU Woodwards
- No Other Land | September 28th | 3:30 PM | SFU Woodwards | |
October 1st | 6:30 PM | Fifth Avenue, Cinema 3
- Pepe | September 28th | 4 PM | Vancity Theatre, VIFF Centre | |
October 2nd | 6:15 PM | The Cinematheque
- The Seed of the Secret Fig | October 3rd | 8:45 PM | Vancouver Playhouse | |
October 5th | 6:30 PM | SFU Woodwards | |
October 6th | 12:00 PM | SFU Woodwards
- A Traveler’s Needs | October 5th | 6:15 PM | SFU Woodwards | |
October 6th | 2:30 PM | Vancouver Playhouse