The Vancouver International Film Festival returns for their 45th year this October 1-11 for another curated season celebrating the best in independent, Canadian, documentary, and international shorts and features.

Fujina is a manga whiz. Precocious and popular, she’s happy hanging with friends and drawing weekly strips for her grade school publication. One day she meets her match in Kyomoto, a homeschooled student with a dazzling technique. Soon, the two are close collaborators, creating mangas together and enjoying great success. Everything is wonderful — until one day, just before graduation, Kyomoto breaks the partnership…

Taking us from triumph through tragedy and out the other side, Koreeda Hirokazu’s film has all the grace and tenderness VIFF audiences know him for. With Look Back, the master once again immerses himself in the dreamy world of youth, this time taking on the very nature of storytelling. From the small scratches of pencil on paper to the distant, muted rumble of trains, Koreeda gives us a work as sensually delectable as it is moving. As always, his direction of actors is superb: Fujina and Kyomoto are each played by two different actresses to track their aging, and the performances of all four are seamlessly matched.

Thursday, October 8
Doors 5:45 pm | Film 6:15 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

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