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For top Canadian movies, head to The Vancouver International Film Festival that happens each September in Vancouver (aka. Hollywood North). Below are some of the best at this year’s VIFF.

The Stone Angel

When Hagar’s son and wife take her unwillingly to a nursing home, she refuses and embarks on an emotional journey through her past and present. Ellen Burnstyn does an extraordinary job as fiery Hagar Shipley, while Christine Horne excels as her younger self. Although the actors bring much to their roles, the script is filled with hit and miss moments that don’t carry through.

  • Fri Sept. 28 @ 7:00pm, Sat Sept. 29 @ 1:00pm, Tues Oct. 9 @ 7:15pm

Up the Yangtze

Shot within a cruise ship and along the Yangtze River, director Yung Chang moves through the workers who hold the ship together. The beginning seems unfocused, but as the audience gets to know a poor girl whose family depends on her work and an only son who just wants to get rich, the documentary provides a haunting look at the people who are being driven out because of the Three Gorges Dam project and the tourists who want a last look at the area before it changes forever.