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Among the titles nominated across 14 categories are Bikas Ranjan Mishra’s Bayaan, Josias Tschanz’s The Fire in Our Hearts, and more

Powerhouse vocalists preview songs from stage show Meet Me at Vie’s alongside a screening of local documentary Union Street

Local duo Beautiful Violence performs original music for silent film about the titular 15th-century teenage warrior

In South Korean filmmaker Hong Sangsoo’s hazily-shot latest, the viewer becomes increasingly aware that parents are casually interrogating their daughter’s poet boyfriend

B.C. filmmaker Nat Boltt brings scenic, gentle comedy to the Park big screen

Program includes offerings from Suriname, Indonesia, Belgium, and the Netherlands

Presented with the Powell Street Festival Society, Annette Mangaard’s documentary captures the life of the titular Japanese Canadian artist

The film version of Corey Payette’s Indigenous-empowered drag musical has roots in the York Theatre stage

Nettie Wild’s projected and VR-headset works include a mesmerizing three-channel ode to herring migration, the salmon-run-themed Uninterrupted, and “moving paintings”

When an alien invasion threatens a remote town in Nunavut, three teenage girls must save the day

In series at The Cinematheque, vintage home-movie glow of Kyuka: Before Summer’s End and hallucinatory shades of Harvest reveal tension and crisis beneath domestic and communal surfaces

Diane Kurys’s gossipy, subtly performed biopic portrays the last years of a legendary relationship rife with destructive compulsions

Drawing major buzz for the way it plays with genre, the story of a misguided superfan boasts maximalist visual touches, hits of dark humour, and a considerable amount of heart

Vancouver-based Tristin Greyeyes finds inspiration in her grandmother’s story in documentary at GEMFest

Views and feats to inspire, from a Women Mountaineers program at The Cinematheque to the Everest tales of adventure filmmaker Elia Saikaly

At the Rendez-Vous French Film Festival, filmmaker Alexandre Trudeau and star Malia Baker confront anxiety and mortality in the deep freeze of the Prairies

Keeper, Tuner, and Forward join Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie in prizes for Canada’s top movies of the year

Gourou, Dalloway, and a flick inspired by Liliane Bettencourt of the L'Oréal dynasty help launch 32nd annual fest

Offerings span basketball documentary Saints and Warriors, identity-focused short “One Day This Kid”, and beyond

At VIFF Centre, new Velcrow Ripper and Nova Ami documentary finds women leading residents out of wildfire and flood catastrophes, in Lytton, Yarrow, and beyond

Offerings include features Sirât and Mr. Nobody Against Putin, plus programs for Live Action, Animated, and Documentary shorts

Matt Johnson is back with a chaotic, unabashedly Canadian followup to the cult web series

Visions Ouest and Alliance Française present poignant documentary about a woman retracing her roots to a vibrant but deeply troubled country

Classic film scholar Michael van den Bos hosts evening that mixes vintage film clips with the jazz sounds of the Laura Crema Sextet

Artists like Dee Daniels, Brandon Thornhill, and Krystle Dos Santos are performing around the city this February

In a short documentary, the Vietnamese Canadian queen reflects on becoming the country’s first drag artist-in-residence

Oscar-shortlisted film takes a sweeping, humanistic look at the toll of decades of violence

Retrospective closes with the Japanese director’s melancholic final picture, Scattered Clouds

Visions Ouest screens raucous tale of women ousted from their Quebec rink and ready for revenge, at Alliance Française

Event hosted by Michael van den Bos features Hollywood film projections and live music by the Laura Crema Sextet