Nov 4: Program 6 – International Shorts: How To Make Lemonade

November 4 / 95 mins

(Comedy, Romance, Drama, Crime, Documentary Shorts) A small-time hustler and a serenading street knife-sharpener. A dyslexic student and a suspicious gum-toting taxi driver.

Precedes: Ballad of the Knife Sharpener, in blossom, Monday, Silent Dusk, A Taxi of Coldness

VAFF Industry Insight (VAFF I²) Panel Series – 1

November 4

PANEL 1: Canada 150: Diversity and Representation in Canadian Film and Television

Nov 4: Program 7 – Centrepiece Presentation: Gook + Dance Party

November 4

(Drama Feature) Screening 25 years after the L.A. Riots, Gook, the CENTREPIECE PRESENTATION for VAFF 21, follows Eli (Justin Chon) and Daniel (David So), two Korean American brothers who own a struggling shoe store and have an unlikely friendship with Kamilla (Simone Baker), a streetwise 11-year-old African American girl.

Precedes: Gook

Nov 4: Program 8 – International Spotlight Presentation: A Tiger and the Sunset

November 4 / 101 mins

(Drama Feature, Short) The award-winning films in our INTERNATIONAL SPOTLIGHT highlight the complex intergenerational, intercultural dynamic—and conflict—of diaspora families.

Preceded by: Home is Where the Sunsets

Precedes: The Soul of the Tiger (L’âme du tigre)