‘Cinema Québécois’ leading the wave

Robert Besson. Photo by Film Reference Library, Toronto.

at Pacific Cinematheque through the month of April is a Robert Bresson retro- spective. [Read more...]

Local festival celebrates women filmmakers

The Vancouver Women in Film Festival

The 7th Annual Women in Film Festival kicks off on International Women’s Day at Vancity Theatre. More than 50 films will be screened from March 8–11 and all of them are made by women. [Read more...]

Rio theatre welcomes premiere of local film Neutral Territory

Screenwriter Joel Harris (left) and director Josias Tschanz (right).

Screenwriter Joel Mark Harris’ fate was sealed from the get-go when he embraced his good friend Josias Tschanz’s native Swiss culture. Harris was prepared to have his butt handed to him during schwingen – a Swiss-style throw-down where two men, wearing leather hosing, duke it out in sawdust….and all that tussling around led to their first movie. [Read more]