VIFF 2026 Dispatch #2

Club Kid, Tangles, The Debut, Tenor: My Name is Pati

Oct 13 • Marta Djordjevic

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VIFF 2026 Dispatch #1

La Gradiva, The Diary of a Chambermaid, Strong Son

Oct 6 • Marta Djordjevic

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September 2026

Physical Media Treasures: All That Money, All That Trouble

A triple bill of Italian cinema from Radiance, each offering wildly different portraits of privilege coming undone.

Sep 22 • Marta Djordjevic

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August 2026

Physical Media Treasures: The Yakuza Code and the Yakuza Costume

Tai Kato and Sadao Nakajima turn yakuza identity into two very different kinds of prison.

Aug 26 • Marta Djordjevic

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Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel by Grigori Kromanov (1979) | Episode 05

Guess who’s back!

Aug 14 • Marta Djordjevic

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What’s Your Limit? Confessions of a Police Captain and the Exhaustion of Authority

Martin Balsam and Franco Nero confront a system built to protect power in Damiano Damiani’s 1971 thriller.

Aug 3 • Marta Djordjevic

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July 2026

The Air Between Us

On Johnnie To’s Romancing in Thin Air

Jul 15 • Marta Djordjevic

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Physical Media Treasures: When '70s Genre Cinema Turns Inside Out

Tracking the moment comedy, capers, and detective stories stop playing by their own rules across Solo, Hi, Mom!, and Illustrious Corpses.

Jul 3 • Marta Djordjevic

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May 2026

The Cost of Reinvention in Grzegorz Królikiewicz's The Dancing Hawk

The Polish filmmaker transforms social mobility into a portrait of identity fracture and spiritual erosion.

May 22 • Marta Djordjevic

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The Fragile Bonds of Takashi Miike’s Agitator

In Miike’s sprawling yakuza epic, violence sustains the machinery while human attachment becomes the one thing the system cannot absorb.

May 7 • Marta Djordjevic

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April 2026

Physical Media Treasures: Shaped Under Pressure

Three films exploring how identity shifts under pressure, shaped by expectation, perception, and performance.

Apr 4 • Marta Djordjevic

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March 2026

Rituals of the Absurd: Kin-dza-dza!

How Georgiy Daneliya’s sci-fi satire turns absurdity into habit, and habit into survival

Mar 20 • Marta Djordjevic

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