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Hand-Picked Blues

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Upcoming show

Problem Child

5:00 pm 6:00 pm


Author: Festival Coverage

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“There are seven million child labourers here in Bangladesh, and I was one of them.” So says Nasir in Hannan Majid and Richard York’s documentary, Mass E Bhat. Nasir lives in Bangladesh’s Korail slum, where he and his colleagues at the Vialisa Foundation work diligently to recruit working children out of manual labour and into […]

A few nights ago at VFF I got to see Celine Sciamma’s new film Girlhood. I had some excitement to see this one as I had enjoyed Sciamma’s first film Water Lilies a few years earlier when I first got Netflix. It is a coming of age film that doesn’t fit the North American model […]

This past Saturday at VFF I got a chance to catch the new film from Denys Arcand, Le règne de la beauté or An Eye For Beauty. It follows Luc, played by Eric Bruneau, a Quebec architect who has everything in his life, a successful career, friends, and wife. The film is centred around the […]

Brazilian photographer Jefferson Mello said it was the mid-90s when he first noticed the similarities between jazz and samba. Nearly a decade later, he has exhibited the two styles side-by-side in his documentary Samba & Jazz. Making jumps between Rio de Janeiro and New Orleans, Mello features established musicians from both locales in elegantly shot […]

Each year at a private farm just outside Meaford, Ontario, devotees of the new and unorthodox in sound production converge for the Electric Eclectics festival. The three-day festival brings experimental musicians and sound artists together with those seeking noise that falls outside the mainstream. In her first feature-length documentary, Toronto-based director Nika Belianina gives those […]

This year, the Victoria Film Festival introduced its first-ever Indigenous Program to feature work created by Indigenous filmmakers. Michelle Latimer — filmmaker, actor, and curator of the festival’s Indigenous Program — sat down with CFUV’s Linda Sjostrom on February 5. In this interview, hear Latimer discuss the films being presented, the ways in which Indigenous film […]