For about a decade or so now, in addition to his responsibilities choosing and booking heart-filled, audience-pleasing films into VIFF’s gorgeously well-wrought Vancity Theatre (about which we’ll have more to say, another day), VIFF programmer Tom Charity has played a critical role in curating the film selections which make their way into the final array of international cinema that inspires and delights audiences who love our awe-inspiring Vancouver International Film Festival, now unspooling as VIFF’s glorious and transforming 39th annual — this year virtual — window on our world.
Yesterday, the affable Tom Charity began his own festival — which is to say, watching films in his modest home theatre setting, as he and his lovely bride (and family) commenced the process of “screening” VIFF films he’d not seen, but had read and heard great things about — joining with myriad VIFF aficionados, equally ready to immerse themselves deep within the gift that is our illustrious and much cherished local international film festival.
At the outset of Tom’s Facebook post, he writes about Summer of 85, Another Round, Undine and Falling, VIFF films VanRamblings had recently previewed for our readers earlier in the month, those previews (replete with trailers for the films) are available to you here and here.
Click on any of links below to be taken to the VIFF web page for that film.
My Donkey, My Lover & I (France). As the VIFF guide says, “An official selection for Cannes 2020, Caroline Vignal’s delightful movie is a breath of fresh air, blending life lessons, romance, insight and scenery.”
Plus the four Indigenous films Tom writes about on Facebook …
Inconvenient Indian
Call Me Human
Beans
Beans was for me a knock out, a heartrending, gut punch of a film, and a must-see.
Monkey Beach
We’ll leave you with the three strong films about policing and racism Tom writes about, presenting the remaining films when Tom posts again …
Women in Blue
Down a Dark Stairwell
No Visible Trauma
And finally for today, from Kashmir, The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs.
