http://sfuwoodwards.ca SFU Woodward's Cultural and Community Programs is a presenting partner and programming entity at SFU Vancouver. Hastings Street.
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Our non-academic, public programming includes the dance, film, theatre, and interdisciplinary performances; community programming through SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement. SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement supports creative engagement, knowledge mobilization and public programming in the theme areas of arts and culture, social and environmental justice, and urban issues thro
ugh public talks, dialogues, workshops, screenings, performances and community partnerships. SFU Woodward's is located at Goldcorp Centre for the Arts at 149 W.
Tickets to the 2024 PuSh Festival are out now!
Explore the stunning lineup of works and get your tickets today:
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One of Vancouver’s signature events, presenting groundbreaking work in the live performing arts.
We are devastated at the news that PuSh co-founder and longest-serving Artistic and Executive Director Norman Armour has passed away and offer our condolences to Lorna, the Armour family and his many friends. Read PuSh International Performing Arts Festival full statement here: https://pushfestival.ca/remembering-norman-armour/
We are thrilled to announce that Margo Kane has been honored with the prestigious NAC Award for her Distinguished Contribution to Touring! This significant accolade was awarded to her at the opening of CAPACOA's annual conference at the National Arts Centre. Margo's dedication and passion have truly set a benchmark in the industry. Join us in celebrating her remarkable achievement!
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Learn more: https://nac-cna.ca/en/media/newsrelease/35442
Full Circle: First Nations Performance
VANCOUVER TURKISH FILM FESTIVAL
This year, the festival will take place on SFU Goldcorp Centre November 24th and 26th, 2023.
Screenings will be in Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema at SFU’s Goldcorp Centre for the Arts on November 24th – 26th, 2023.
As a “melting pot” of many cultures for thousands of years, the land of modern Turkey has so much to offer from a cultural sense, and the 10th Annual Vancouver Turkish Film Festival is one of the ways to share Turkey’s multicultural heritage with the residents of Metro Vancouver.
The success of Turkish cinema has been quite notable in the last few decades. The VTFF has also been a community partner to some of the Turkish films that premiered at the Vancouver international Film Festival in Vancouver.
More Information: https://events.sfu.ca/wcp/event/37765-10th-vancouver-turkish-film-festival
Tickets: https://vtff.ca/
The wait is over! 📣 The full F-O-R-M 2023 festival program is out 😮💚
Visit f-o-r-m.ca to explore all things F-O-R-M 2023:
🗓️Festival Schedule
🎬Film Line-up
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Visual Design by Jingyi Liu
Festival Co-Presenter
Save the dates! From November 4—18, get ready to experience our 8th annual festival! Embark on a journey that combines the best of both worlds in our second hybrid festival, co-presented by SFU Woodward's Cultural Programs.
F-O-R-M 2023 is coming in November with their biggest year of programming yet and they need YOUR help! Their small but mighty team is looking for some extra hands to support us this season as we share spaces, move together and celebrate youth and emerging artists!
Come help us out with:
🌟Pre-Festival Poster Distribution
🌟Box Office Assistance
🌟Artist Workshop Support
🌟Raffle Rally Support
🌟Gallery Attendant
🌟Audience Traffic Support
🌟Event Parties Set-Up/Take Down
🌟Photographer/Videographer
In exchange for your time and energy each volunteer will receive a
💥free Festival Pass to access all F-O-R-M 2023 events💥
To learn more and get involved:
✅Visit their website to learn more about each role (f-o-r-m.ca/volunteer-2023)
✅Fill in the 2023 Volunteer Application F-O-R-M (👀you can find the form on our volunteer page!)
Visual Design by Jingyi Liu
Festival Co-Presenter SFU Woodward's
The F-O-R-M 2023 program is now live! 😮💚💫 - https://mailchi.mp/f-o-r-m/21-launch-6261865
For November we CreativeMornings/Vancouver is excited to feature the young, female designer shaking up the local creative industry with her talent & energy: Ella Taylor!
Register now: In-person: https://creativemornings.com/talks/ella-taylor-in-person
PLEASE NOTE: This event is NOT at SFU Goldcorp Center for the Arts and will be Hosted at VFS Studio
88 East Pender Street
Vancouver, British Columbia Canada V6A 3X3
📢 Get ready! The South African Film Festival in Canada is back!
100% of proceeds go to
helping more children in South Africa and Canada get the education they need.
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Join us in to watch Measures of Men, a drama that tells the story of the Herero and Namaqua genocide which was perpetrated in German South West Africa (now Namibia) between 1904 and 1908. Tickets are only $20! https://bit.ly/saffnov3vancouver
Date: Friday, November 3rd
Time: 3:30pm open doors, 4:00pm PDT film screening
Location: Simon Fraser University - Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 W Hastings Street, Vancouver
Hey ! Don’t miss our reception and film screening on Nov. 2
Rise: The Siya Kolisi Story tells the story of the Springbok’s 1st ever black captain, who leads a team and in turn a country into a new found sense of purpose and hope.
🎟 Tickets: Reception + film screening (https://bit.ly/saffnov2), film screening only (https://bit.ly/saffnov2film)
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Date: Nov. 2 at 5:30 pm Gala reception / 7:30pm: Film screening
Location: SFU's Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 W Hastings Street, Vancouver
Tickets: $60 gala includes wine, South African appetizers and music by Maju Maju Jabu and film screening or $25 for the film only
Join us in to watch Category: Woman. You won’t want to miss this film. When the credits roll, both screenings will be followed by an interview with former Olympian and the Director of Category: Woman, Phyllis Ellis.
🎟 VANCOUVER, Nov 3, 7:30 pm PT, $25: https://bit.ly/saffnov3
When 18-year-old South African runner Caster Semenya burst onto the world stage in 2009, her championship was not celebrated, but marred by doubt, her personal medical records leaked to the international media, exposing an industry which policed women's bodies under the guise of fair play.
19B Vancouver International Film Festival
Sun Oct 08 6:30 pm
In Cairo, a lonesome, impoverished elderly property guard whose name no one seems to remember (played by the distinguished Sayed Ragab) spends his days enjoying old-fashioned Egyptian hits on the radio, caring for stray cats and dogs, and watching over the same run-down villa he has been tending to for the past forty years, even though its affluent owners have vacated long ago. His peaceful, orderly little world is turned upside down when an opportunistic parking attendant newly released from prison, Nasr (Ahmed Khaled Saleh, in turns brutal and vulnerable) bullies his way into occupying the property– drawing our nameless protagonist’s fears and sorrows to the surface. With no recourse to seek help from the police, the old guard and his feisty daughter Yara (Nahed El Sebaï) take matters into their own hands. Anchored to the villa’s decaying splendor with a compellingly classical play-like story structure, this sixth feature from acclaimed writer-director Ahmad Abdalla (Décor) provides a keen reflection on class issues, fear, and isolation in modern Egypt.
Best Arab Film, Cinematography, International Critics’ Prize, Cairo Film Festival 2022
In Cairo, a lonesome property guard tends to a run-down villa long-since vacated by its affluent owners. His peaceful little world is overturned when an ex-convict occupies the property, forcing the old man to confront his sorrows.
Numb Vancouver International Film Festival
Sun Oct 08 4:15 pm
Under Iranian law, from elementary school, boys and girls attend school separately. But in kindergarten and preschool there is no gender division. Numb follows a handful of boys and girls in their last year of pre-school as they learn to navigate gender whilst imitating the world of adults through make-believe and childhood games. Roham, the protagonist, is a six-year-old boy whose innocent love for classmate Rana and his curiosity about her shy and reluctant personality unravel dark and horrifying secrets of her life. Amir Toodehroosta beautifully depicts the innocence that exists in childhood, even in a society where religion and pain cast a constant shadow. The filmmaker does not force these issues but allows them to surface through the gaze of this six-year-old boy who tries to make sense of the world and his place in it. The film’s stunning cinematography transports us directly into the world of childhood, as we see things through their lens not only conceptually but technically.
After kindergarten boys and girls in Iran study separately, but at ages five and six they're only beginning to learn to navigate gender, and this is the theme of this beguiling film from Amir Toodehroosta.
About Dry Grasses
Kuru Otlar Üstüne Vancouver International Film Festival
Sun Oct 08 12:15 pm
In a remote village in eastern Turkey, an art teacher named Samet (Deniz Celiloglu) enters his fourth and final year at an undesirable state-mandated teaching post. Before he leaves, however, he will have to navigate two tricky relationships: the first with Sevim (Ece Bagci), a young student who accuses him of inappropriate behaviour and kickstarts a formal investigation; the second with Nuray (Merve Dizdar), a fellow educator and potential love interest, whose political engagement challenges his well-worn apathy. Both will push him into existential crisis, forcing him to reconsider his place in the world. With About Dry Grasses, Palme d’Or-winning filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan delivers his richest, most expansive film yet. Against the harsh climes and forbidding landscapes of the Eastern Anatolian steppes, the Turkish director unfolds a philosophically profound tale of idealism and inaction, anchored by commanding performances from Dizdar (who won the Best Actress prize at Cannes) and Celiloglu. Novelistic in scale and yet startlingly intimate, this is a cinematic experience like no other.
Best Actress, Cannes 2023
In a remote village in eastern Turkey, an art teacher enters his fourth and final year at a state-mandated teaching post, but finds himself having to navigate two tricky relationships which force him into existential crisis.
I Am Sirat Vancouver International Film Festival
Sat Oct 07 9:00 pm
I Am Sirat is a personal, vulnerable autobiographic documentary by Sirat Taneja about her experience as a transwoman in India, where she lives a dual life. Collaborating with acclaimed filmmaker Deepa Mehta, Sirat shot the film with her smartphone (taking advantage of her own experience building a platform on Instagram), capturing the real portrait of herself literally and metaphorically. While supported by a q***r network of friends in Delhi and on Instagram, Sirat reverts to the closet at home. Living with and caring for her widowed mother, Sirat is forced to maintain the familial and cultural duties and responsibilities a son would traditionally provide, since her mother doesn’t understand or accept Sirat’s true self. As Sirat seeks to reshape her life and be true to herself while fulfilling her mother’s obligations, the film explores the larger social implications of q***r identity and acceptance in India. An empowering portrait of a transwoman wrestling with cultural limitations while sharing her story with the world.
Enjoy great movies at the luxurious VIFF Centre, voted one of the best cinemas in Vancouver and home to the prestigious Vancouver International Film Festival.
Il Boemo Vancouver International Film Festival
Sat Oct 07 6:00 pm
In the baroque courts of 18th century Venice, the fragile egos and appetites of patrons and artists clash in the rise and fall of one of history’s greatest unsung composers, Josef Mysliveček. Steeped in the rich, decadent costumes and music of the period, and combining the searing emotional power of Amadeus and the lavish aesthetics of Barry Lyndon, Il Boemo (The Bohemian) is the platonic ideal of a period drama.
Josef, an ambitious but struggling musician trying to climb his way into the extravagant heights of operatic stardom, becomes embroiled in social intrigue and aristocratic debauchery. Obsessed with the allure of his ambitions, Josef struggles to stay true to his vocation as he falls deeper into a libertine labyrinth of hedonistic pleasures that consume his body and mind. Winding between the baroque beauty of sumptuous aria performances to the vigorous, carnal sensuality of masquerades and or**es, and the tragic weight of glory upon Josef’s shoulders, director Petr Václav has carved a tale out of history worthy of an opera itself.
Best Film, Best Director, Czech Lions 2023
In the baroque courts of 18th Century Venice, the egos of patrons and artists clash in the rise and fall of one of history's greatest unsung composers, Josef Mysliveček.
The Monk and the Gun Vancouver International Film Festival
Sat Oct 07 3:15 pm
On the eve of the Kingdom of Bhutan’s momentous transition to democracy in 2006, a monk sets off on a mysterious quest for his master, while an American collector arrives in a small town searching for a rare, valuable artefact. Director Pawo Choyning Dorji’s debut film, the first Oscar-nominated Bhutanese film, Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom, was a heartwarming, tranquil vision of rural life in the Himalayas. The Monk and the Gun is equally attuned to seeking simple, profound truths; an entertaining tale about the conflict between tradition and progress and a gentle ensemble drama interwoven with an entertaining comedy of manners and socio-political commentary. The Monk and the Gun shows the intricate dynamics of Bhutan’s cultural bonds, and not only tells a great story with its cast of colourful characters, but speaks to the warmth at the heart of the country itself.
On the eve of the Kingdom of Bhutan's momentous transition to democracy in 2006, a monk sets off on a mysterious quest for his master, while an American collector arrives in a small town searching for a rare, valuable artefact.
CreativeMornings Vancouver Kristy O’Leary (in person) CreativeMornings/Vancouver
Oct 6, 2023 • 8:15 AM – 10:00 AM PDT • SFU Woodward's — Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
October’s global theme is ‘endurance’ and we are excited to welcome local creative consultant,� multidisciplinary systems �thinker, and B Corp Ambassador Kristy O'Leary.
Free with Registration: https://creativemornings.com/talks/kristy-o-leary-in-person
Learn more: https://events.sfu.ca/wcp/event/37198-creativemornings-vancouver-kristy-oleary-in-person
Four Daughters Les Filles d’Olfa Vancouver International Film Festival
Sun Oct 08 8:45 pm
In April 2016 Olfa Hamrouni raised the alarm. Her two oldest daughters, Rahma and Ghofrane, both still teenagers, had made their way out of Tunisia to fight for the Islamic State — ISIS — in Libya. Olfa was upset that her children had been allowed to flee the country, and terrified about their fate. This rupture remains the defining tragedy of her life and it’s the subject of this invigorating and inventive hybrid docu-drama from Academy Award-nominee Kaouther Ben Hania (The Man Who Sold His Skin; Beauty and the Dogs).
Not content with interviewing Olfa, Ben Hania casts actresses to play her absent daughters, and leading local star Hend Sabrey also appears as Olfa (and alongside her), while the two younger daughters play themselves in reenactments. All the male parts are performed by the same actor. If this stylized, Brechtian approach sounds ambitious, it is — but this audacious, radical and stimulating movie is like a Catherine Wheel, sending out sparks in all directions.
Golden Eye Documentary Award, Cannes 2023
Gripping… sometimes provocative, sometimes moving, and sometimes, unexpectedly, very funny.
Jessica Kiang, Variety
A stimulating and cathartic docu-drama from Academy-Award nominee, Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania, about a mother who lost two teenage daughters when they fled to Libya to fight for ISIS.
Measures of Men Der vermessene Mensch Vancouver International Film Festival
Sat Oct 07 12:30 pm
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.
Germany's historical bigotry against Africans, and its servitude toward legitimizing mass slaughter is documented in this historical drama. Set in turn-of the century Berlin, demonstrating what has been called the 20th century's first genocide.
Someone Lives Here Vancouver International Film Festival
Fri Oct 06 6:15 pm
In the summer of 2021, Khaleel Seivwright, a carpenter, decided to build tiny homes for Toronto’s homeless population. Soon afterwards, the city told him that he wasn’t allowed to build them, citing safety issues, despite a lack of available shelter beds. Someone Lives Here, which won the Audience Award for Best Canadian Documentary at Hot Docs 2023, is deftly told by first-time documentarian Zack Russell, who captures this Kafkaesque story in a humane and empathetic way. We see how people living in the tiny homes were harassed by some members of the public who were worried they would bring down the area’s property values. Police-enforced evictions reach a dramatic climax as organizers in favour of the tiny homes lock arms in the face of violence and arrests. An important story for our time, as housing insecurity across Canada reaches new heights and people look to find solutions in the face of bureaucratic road blocks.
In the summer of 2021, Khaleel Seivwright, a carpenter, decided to build tiny homes for Toronto's homeless population. Soon afterwards, the city closed him down. An important story for our times of housing insecurity.
Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World
Nu aștepta prea mult de la sfârșitul lumii Vancouver International Film Festival
Fri Oct 06 8:45 pm
Radu Jude takes two days in the life of an overworked Romanian production assistant, Angela (the incredible Ilinca Manolache), and gives us an urgent, pi**ed off, sourly funny polemic on the state of late capitalism that anyone can relate to. Tasked with filming half a dozen audition tapes with accident victims for a corporate work safety video, Angela also makes time to post scabrous TikTok videos as her cult alter-ego, Bobita, using a filter to transform herself into a misogynist Andrew Tate clone. On top of which Jude also throws in parallel clips from a (genuine) 1981 Romanian movie, Angela Moves On, about a Bucharest taxi driver played by Dorina Lazar. The Godard of our times, Jude is an essential filmmaker for anyone serious about political cinema. Exploitation, discrimination and hypocrisy are his targets; dialectics are his dynamite. Adventurous, audacious, infuriating and inspiring, the film won the Special Jury Prize at Locarno last month to set beside the Golden Bear he won at Berlin for Bad Luck Banging, or Looney P**n two years ago.
Radu Jude takes two days in the life of a stressed Romanian p.a. and gives us an urgent, pi**ed off, sourly funny polemic on the state of late capitalism. Exploitation, discrimination and hypocrisy are his targets; dialectics are his dynamite.
Goodbye Julia Vancouver International Film Festival
Fri Oct 06 3:15 pm
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.
Leading up to South Sudan's secession, a retired singer is wracked with guilt from her connection to a murder. To make amends, she hires the new widow as her maid. This artfully composed drama weaves friendship, deceit, and awakening to inequities.
Union Street Vancouver International Film Festival
Mon Oct 02 8:45 pm
Interspersing interviews with archival footage, Union Street documents the history of Vancouver’s Hogan’s Alley, the formerly Black neighbourhood which was destroyed by the construction of the Georgia viaduct in the 1970s. This local history speaks to systemic racial injustice towards Vancouver’s Black community that has continued to this day. Revelatory conversations are had in the film surrounding the erasure of Black history in Canada, and the proliferation of hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan which had chapters in Vancouver. Histories of now-closed Black-owned businesses in Hogan’s Alley such as Vie’s Chicken and Steakhouse have inspired a new generation of Black business owners in the neighbourhood, and the Black Lives Matter movement has reinvigorated discussion surrounding the destruction, as well as the history and memory of Hogan’s Alley. Beautifully filmed, this visual portrait speaks to the legacies of the past, as well as the present moment.
Interspersing interviews with archival footage, Union Street documents the history of Vancouver's Hogan's Alley, the formerly Black neighbourhood which was destroyed by the construction of the Georgia viaduct in the 1970s.
Four Little Adults Nelja Pienta Aikuista Vancouver International Film Festival
Sat Sep 30 6:00 pm
Member of parliament Juulia’s (Alma Pöysti) comfortable life takes an unexpected turn when she learns that her parish vicar husband Matias (Eero Milonoff) has been concealing an affair for the past year with a woman named Enni (Oona Airola). Heartbroken, and yet sympathetic to their love, Juulia proposes an open marriage free of secrets, and presents a polyamory guidebook as a new bible for their relationship. A tentative harmony inspires Juulia to run for Chair of the Equality Party— cementing her reputation as a champion of family leave reform— and to pursue a new romance with nonbinary drag performer Miska (Pietu Wikström). No guidebook can quite prepare these four imperfect adults for life’s chaotic little twists and tensions. Academy-Award nominated writer/director Selma Vilhunen (Stupid Young Heart, 2018 – winner of the Crystal Bear at Berlinale ’19) deploys a deeply empathetic mode of storytelling in this tender tale of love, compromise, and unity. Four Little Adults subverts traditional and institutional attitudes about how a family and community may be structured.
Upon learning of her husband's year long affair, Juulia proposes an open marriage free of secrets. As a polyamory guide becomes their bible, Juulia falls in love with someone new, filling their journey in polyamory with love, compassion, and compromise.
IMPORTANT NOTICE !!!
We regret to inform you that Friday evening's performance of Compañía Rocío Molina has been cancelled due to labour action at SFU's Goldcorp Centre for the Arts.
DanceHouse Vancouver International Flamenco Festival
If you can snag tickets, go see this show.
Hypnotic serenity, adrenaline highs, pummelling feet, and piercing stares
Molina gave us an evening filled with theatrical charm: with her four musicians (Óscar Lago, Kiko Peña, José Manuel Ramos “Oruco” and Pablo Martín Jones) she entertained superbly, challenged the audience
Les Filles du Roi Vancouver International Film Festival
Thu Oct 05 8:45 pm
1665. Louis XIV has seen fit to send a gift to the New World: surplus women to bring succor and support to French settlers in what is now Quebec. Among them is Marie-Jeanne (Julie McIsaac), who immediately falls foul of the matronly Madame Savoie (Claire Johnstone) by making nice with a native Mohawk trader, Jean-Baptiste (Raes Calvert), and his naive young sister Kateri (Kaitlyn Yott).
A full-blown micro-budget musical, adapted from their own stage production by Urban Ink’s Corey Payette with co-writer McIsaac, Les Filles du Roi shuttles expeditiously between French, English and Mohawk; between song and speech; and between a handful of real world locations and theatrical artifice. It probably shouldn’t work but what carries it is Payette’s knack for crafting rousing and melancholy melodies, sterling singing across the entire cast, and a utopian vision of cross-cultural reciprocity to counterbalance history’s harsher narrative.
Corey Payette's rousing microbudget musical (adapted from the Urban Ink stage production he cowrote with Julie McIsaac) chronicles the friendship between a seventeenth century French woman and a Mohawk trader and his sister.
Mareya Shot, Keetha Goal: Make the Shot Vancouver International Film Festival
Mon Oct 02 6:30 pm
From local co-directors Baljit Sangra (Because We Are Girls) and Nilesh Patel, this spirited documentary follows four junior hockey players of South Asian descent throughout the 2021-2022 season as they strive to be drafted into the NHL. Arjun Bawa and Kayden Sadhra-Kang skate in the footsteps of their father Robin Bawa, who made history in 1989 as the first South Asian to play in the NHL. Meanwhile, seasoned defenseman Arvin Atwal seeks to shed the fighter reputation he acquired in the American Hockey League by transferring to Slovakia. And, in an uplifting turn of events, the film traces the journey of Surrey’s own Arshdeep Bains to signing with the Vancouver Canucks. The passion for Canada’s national sport is contagious as Coach Harbs Bains— owner of the Lake Cowichan Kraken and past president of the Surrey Minor Hockey Association— and Hockey Night in Canada: Punjabi Edition commentator Harnarayan Singh unpack the revolutionary, life-changing power of diverse representation on screen and on ice: “Mareya shot, keetah goal!”
This spirited sports doc follows four junior hockey players of South Asian descent through the 2021-2022 season as they strive to make it to the NHL. Among them, Surrey's own Arsh Bains, who signs with the Vancouver Canucks.
Physician, Heal Thyself Vancouver International Film Festival
Thu Oct 05 6:00 pm
Dr Gabor Maté has become one of the world’s most influential thinkers about addiction, trauma and childhood development on the back of books like In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, The Myth of Normal and When the Body Says No. He’s pioneered the idea of Compassionate Inquiry as a therapeutic approach, and worked for over a decade on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
In Asher Penn’s Physician, Heal Thyself Dr Maté shares not only his theories, but also his personal story: his difficult early childhood in Hungary, immigrating to Canada, his experience as a journalist for the Ubyssey, and his early reputation as a contrarian. Maté candidly discusses his struggles with pain, complicated behaviours, and fractured relationships. Physician, Heal Thyself offers hope and comfort, encouraging us to own our failings, share our struggles, and accept our imperfections.
One of the world's foremost experts on addiction and trauma, Dr Gabor Maté shares not only his theories, but also his own story: his difficult childhood in Hungary and his long years of therapeutic practice in and around Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
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