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Sundar Prize Film Festival announces 2025 edition, April 10 to 13

Second-annual event opens with Mahesh Pailoor’s Paper Flowers and closes with Enrique Vázquez’s Firma Aquí (Sign Here)

SCREEN, FESTSStir VancouverFebruary 19, 2025Partner Content, Sundar Prize Film Festival

Can I Get a Witness? and Sugarcane join B.C. winners at Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards

A Real Pain’s Jesse Eisenberg and Anora’s Sean Baker among international award-winners to send in acceptance videos for event at VIFF Centre

SCREENJanet SmithFebruary 19, 2025VIFF Centre, VFCC

Snowboarder-BASE jumper Alenka Mali helps Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival leap into action

At The Spirit of Adventure opening event, the film “The Beginning” captures the Squamish resident’s record-breaking feat at Goat Ridge

SCREENJanet SmithFebruary 14, 2025VIMFF, Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival, Homepage feature

Jerome Yoo's Mongrels explores immigrant experience through surreal imagery

Korean-born, B.C.-raised filmmaker’s Maple Ridge-shot first feature centres around a Korean family struggling with grief

SCREENJanet SmithFebruary 13, 2025VIFF, VIFF Centre

Visions Ouest hosts 31st-annual Rendez-Vous French Film Festival, February 26 to March 7

Program opens with Charles Aznavour biopic Monsieur Aznavour and closes with Antoine de Saint-Exupéry tribute Saint-Exupéry

SCREEN, FESTSStir VancouverFebruary 10, 2025Partner Content, Visions Ouest Productions, Visions Ouest, VISIONS OUEST

National Geographic Live's Wild Wolves of Yellowstone offers intimate insight into pack existence

At the Orpheum, biologist Doug Smith shares stories from reintroducing the animals back into the national park and observing their complex behaviours

SCREEN, STAGEJanet SmithFebruary 8, 2025National Geographic, Vancouver Civic Theatres, Homepage feature

Film review: Dark and light combine as Ababouiné looks back on 1950s struggle for secular Quebec

Opening La Tournée Québec Cinéma, nostalgic comedy mixes with church abuse of power in a Montreal neighbourhood

Vancouver-based artist Monice Peter and multidisciplinary artist HAUI named 2025 artists-in-residence at The Watermill Center

The two join nearly 60 artists from around the globe at the New York laboratory for the arts

SCREENJanet SmithFebruary 3, 2025Monice Peter, HAUI, The Watermill Center

VIFF Centre welcomes guest-curated film series and live music events for Black History Month

Titles span music documentary Play It Loud featuring Jamaican-born Canadian singer Jay Douglas, 1974 Afrofuturist film Space is the Place, and beyond

SCREENStir VancouverFebruary 1, 2025Partner Content, VIFF, VIFF Centre, Black History Month

Visions Ouest presents La Tournée Québec Cinéma in Vancouver, February 12 to 14

Touring French film festival brings three titles to Alliance Française Vancouver with special guests Éric Bruneau and Yan Lanouette Turgeon

Film review: Illusion and self-delusion as The Last Showgirl looks at a changing Las Vegas

Stunning performances in dreamily shot ode to women cast aside as Sin City leaves the rhinestone era

SCREENJanet SmithJanuary 16, 2025Pamela Anderson

Film review: Monsieur Aznavour takes a sweeping trip through the early days of chanson

Romantic locales, witty repartee, and entrancing music in biopic about “France’s Frank Sinatra”

SCREENJanet SmithJanuary 14, 2025Visions Ouest, Visions Ouest Productions, VISIONS OUEST, Alliance Francaise

Sons documentary looks at masculinity and what it means to raise a male child in today’s world

New NFB release by Newfoundland and Labrador filmmaker Justin Simms raises many questions about parenting in the era of Donald Trump and Andrew Tate

SCREENJanet SmithJanuary 10, 2025NFB, National Film Board, documentary

Film review: The Brutalist takes an epic look at art, trauma, and the American Dream

Transfixing acting and big ideas as film tracks an architect-refugee trying to rebuild in the U.S.

SCREEN, ART & DESIGNJanet SmithJanuary 10, 2025Cineplex

Vancouver's Tracey Friesen remembered for long-standing commitment to social and environmental justice

The former executive producer at the National Film Board of Canada believed in the power of documentary filmmaking to drive social change

SCREENJanet SmithJanuary 9, 2025NFB, National Film Board, Whistler Film Festival

Sumptuous colours and discussions of death, as Almodóvar's The Room Next Door opens January 10

Subplot tangents and heightened acting as Spanish auteur takes stylized work in a more sombre direction

SCREEN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithJanuary 8, 2025Tilda Swinton

Sundar Prize Film Festival announces first-ever Filmmaker Mentorship Program cohort

Emerging filmmakers Kuntal Patel, Amit Dhuga, and Amarnath Sankar will receive mentorship from Vinay Giridhar, Sean Farnel, and King Louie Palomo

SCREEN, FESTSStir VancouverJanuary 6, 2025Partner Content, Sundar Prize Film Festival

Living Together paints a layered portrait of Gen Z and the housing crisis, January 3 to 9

Minimalistic Montreal documentary follows renters interviewing fellow roommates, with revealing results

SCREEN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithJanuary 2, 2025NFB, National Film Board, housing

Film review: All We Imagine as Light takes a deeply moving look at women toiling in Mumbai

The fiercely feminist film is shot with dreamlike beauty, often at night, in story of love and longing

SCREENJanet SmithDecember 30, 2024VIFF Centre, VIFF

So Surreal: Behind the Masks searches for ceremonial pieces, at VIFF Centre to January 8

Part detective story, part art-history rethink, documentary travels from B.C.and Alaska to Paris to find stunning Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw and Yup’ik works that influenced Surrealists

SCREEN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithDecember 26, 2024VIFF Centre, VIFF, Indigenous artists, Indigenous

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