MONTREAL -- Spanish director Pedro Almodovar's Volver will open the 25th Vancouver International Film Festival on Sept. 28, organizers said Wednesday. Almodovar's latest movie will make it to the west coast after receiving its North American premiere in Toronto on Friday night. Vancouver also said it has booked a North American premiere for French director Jacques Rivette's Out 1: Noli Me Tangere, a 12-hour film set to screen in eight sections Sept. 23-24, and a world premiere for Klatsassin, a film by Stan Douglas set in British Columbia's rural interior. Festival director Alan Franey said the festival's lineup of about 300 films from 50 countries offers a host of movies looking at the world with a mixture of curiosity and alarm. "We've discovered that a lot of the films this year are looking forward," Franey said, pointing to Rob McGann's "American Zeitgeist: Crisis and Conscience in an Age of Terror" and German director Tom Meffort's The Judge and the Fanatic as documentaries exploring where current events are headed and how reasoned alternatives to war and terror can be found.
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