Eight VIFF Films That Deserve a Closer Look

Eight VIFF Films That Deserve a Closer Look hakkında magazin dünyasında yaşanan en son ayrıntılar ve sıcak gelişmeler netleşti. Oct 16, 2026 11:22am PT Eight VIFF Films That Deserve a Closer Look From Matthew Rankin’s psychedelic take on Brian Mulroney to an aging blues musician facing eviction, these films explored politics, displacement and identity from unexpected angles By Katherine Brodsky Plus Icon Katherine Brodsky Latest Markus Schleinzer on Sandra Hüller, Star of His Austrian Oscar Entry ‘Rose’ and a Berlin Best Lead Performance Winner: ‘She’s the Queen’ 2 days ago Vancouver Film Festival Audience Award Winners: ’I Play Rocky,’ ‘Ceremony’ Among Big Wins 3 days ago Peruvian Filmmaker Sami Hawka Explores Polyamory, Indigenous Rights and Resistance in ‘While Everything Falls’: ’Power Can Oppress People in Different Ways’ 4 days ago See All Add us as a Google Preferred Source Comments The 45th Vancouver International Film Festival ( VIFF ) featured some high-profile titles, including Jesse Eisenberg’s “The Debut,” which has been generating awards buzz for star Julianne Moore, and Martin McDonagh’s closing-night black comedy “Wild Horse Nine,” starring John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell. Peter Farrelly’s “I Play Rocky” took home the Audience Award in the Special Presentations category.

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Yet beyond the marquee titles, VIFF’s lineup spanned 76 countries and offered plenty of discoveries from established auteurs and emerging filmmakers alike. From Matthew Rankin’s experimental take on Brian Mulroney to Tizza Covi’s portrait of an aging blues musician facing eviction, these eight narrative and documentary films approached familiar subjects from unexpected angles or offered a glimpse into lives rarely captured on film.

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“Ladies and Gentlemen, Brian Mulroney” (Matthew Rankin, NFB, Canada, Showcase) Probably one of the most psychedelic and unconventional historical documentaries in recent memory. Rankin forgoes talking heads entirely, instead remixing archival footage, animation, and music to trace Mulroney’s rise to power in what feels like an experimental vintage fever dream.

Rather than examine the late Canadian prime minister’s political impact and legacy, the film explores how his image was built and how his party transformed along the way. “The Only Living Pickpocket in New York” (Noah Segan, Sony Pictures Classics, U.S., Special Presentations) John Turturro plays an aging pickpocket whose old-school craft is becoming obsolete in a cashless world.

After targeting the wrong mark, he finds himself entangled in a dangerous situation with a crime family and is forced to race against a clock to save his disabled wife. Segan uses the crime thriller genre to tell a deeper story about the nature of progress and how the world moves on, leaving certain people behind along with the shared values, ways of life and technol

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