Vitamin Daily

Roll out the red carpet. These are five flicks we can’t wait to see at the Vancouver International Film Festival.

Patang
Go fly a kite. Better yet, go fly millions of them. This richly woven tale of six lives set against the backdrop of India’s largest kite festival will have its Canadian premiere at VIFF.

In Darkness
Based on true events, this Canadian-Polish co-production tells the story of a Polish sewer worker who risks his life to help Jewish families escape from the Nazis by keeping them hidden in a sewer system during the Second World War. Oscar buzz has already begun; this is Poland’s submission for the Best Foreign Language film Oscar.

Las Acacias
Road trip! This quiet Argentinian film follows a truck driver as he travels from Paraguay to Buenos Aires with a woman and her baby. It earned the Caméra d'Or at Cannes.

One Lucky Elephant
Bring your tissues. This moving documentary follows a circus producer as he tries to find a home for a beloved ten-thousand-pound performer who’s retired from the ring.

You’ve been Trumped
Jonsi’s beautiful soundtrack will make up for spending 95 minutes looking at Donald Trump’s hair in this documentary about the Donald’s plan to develop a golf course in one of Scotland’s most beautiful and ecologically sensitive areas. —Kelsey Dundon

VIFF runs September 29 until October 14, www.viff.org