The Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) is here! So let’s go to the movies. Cinema is alive and Black filmmakers are creating inspirational and dynamic stories you have to see. In partnership with @Viffest and @afrovanconnect we would like to share some opportunities with you to screen some amazing films.
VIFF is providing $5.00 discount code for two adult tickets @VIFFest Valid for all available showings of these amazing black films:
1. Goodbye Julia
2. I Don’t Know Who You Are!
3. Measures of Men
4. Invisible Beauty
We are also giving away one free ticket to each film screening of these four amazing films. For your chance to win a free ticket or receive access to the discount code fallow these instructions:
1) Fallow @AfroVanconnect and @BLACKSPACEMEDIA360 on instagram
2) Comment the film you want to attend on there most recent post. The winner will be chosen daily until all prizes have been assigned.
Good luck and see you at the Movies.
VIFF 2023: Goodbye Julia | Vancouver International Film Festival
In the lead-up to the secession of South Sudan, Mona (Eiman Yousif), a well-to-do retired singer from the North, becomes complicit in hushing up the murder of a Southerner at the hands of her overtly prejudiced husband (Nazar Gomaa). Guilt-ridden about her role in catalyzing this turn of events, Mona hires the victim’s unknowing widow Julia (Siran Riak) as her live-in maid in a secret bid at making amends. Whilst a complicated friendship blooms between the two women, the threat of discovery looms ever-present.
Winner of the Un Certain Regard Freedom Prize, Mohamed Kordofani’s artfully composed drama made history this year as the first-ever Sudanese feature to play in Cannes. A sensitive and unflinching examination of the fraught relationship between Sudan’s Arab North and non-Arab South, Goodbye Julia weaves a thoroughly engaging tale of deceit and self-revelation, charting its protagonists’ gradual awakening to the social inequities and inherited legacy of racism that would motivate an entire nation to vote almost unanimously for its separation.
* Freedom Prize, Un Certain Regard, Cannes 2023
Wednesday October 04
9:00 pm
International Village 9
Friday October 06
3:15 pm
SFU Woodwards
https://viff.org/whats-on/viff23-goodbye-julia/
VIFF 2023: I Don't Know Who You Are | Vancouver International Film Festival
A gay Toronto musician is sexually assaulted one night and is in a panicked race against time to pay for HIV-preventive PrEP treatment, all the while trying to navigate the legal system and deal with the emotional aftermath of the trauma.
Friday October 06
6:15 pm
SFU Woodwards
Sunday October 08
3:30 pm
International Village 8
https://viff.org/whats-on/viff23-i-dont-know-who-you-are/
VIFF 2023: Measures of Men | Vancouver International Film Festival
Lars Kraume reaches into Germany’s past in this compelling historical drama. Long before Naziism, racist pseudoscience held sway in the nation: Kraume uses the fictional story of Alexander Hoffmann (Leonard Scheicher) to shine a light on German bigotry against Africans, and the way it served to legitimize mass slaughter. The film begins in Berlin, near the turn of the century; Hoffmann is an idealistic young ethnologist who questions the racism of his discipline. When members of the Herero and Nama peoples are brought to his city for study, Hoffmann bonds with Kezia (Girley Charlene Jazama), a proud woman whose intelligence puts the lie to the racist orthodoxies of the time. Soon, Hoffmann will have his courage tested when he travels to Africa and is witness to what has been called the 20th century’s first genocide: the German violence against the Herero and Nama. Throughout the film, Kraume’s focus remains unwavering, and his portrayal of racial oppression is piercing and all too convincing.
* Special Screening, Berlin 2023
Friday October 06
9:15 pm
International Village 8
Saturday October 07
12:30 pm
SFU Woodwards
https://viff.org/whats-on/viff23-measures-of-men/
VIFF 2023: Invisible Beauty | Vancouver International Film Festival
Since her breakout as one of the most high-profile Black models in the 1970s, fashion world titan Bethann Hardison has advocated tirelessly for diversity in the industry, both on and off the runway. In Invisible Beauty, co-directed by Hardison herself, French documentarian Frédéric Tcheng offers a riveting look at the pioneer’s life and legacy, tracing her audacious efforts to challenge the status quo. What gradually emerges is a vibrant portrait of an icon’s ambitious attempts to revolutionize the fashion world—and indeed, our very image of beauty. Mixing fascinating archival footage and interviews with fashion icons from multiple eras (Naomi Campbell, Iman, Zendaya), this inspiring documentary adroitly balances both retrospective and contemporary perspectives on representation, showing how we got to where we are, and how far we still have to go. Constructed with an elegance and verve to match Hardison’s rebellious and radical spirit, the film is an essential reminder that diversity is not just a slogan, but the result of life-long struggle.
Saturday October 07
1:00 pm
International Village 9
https://viff.org/whats-on/viff23-invisible-beauty/
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