Korean-born, B.C.-raised filmmaker’s Maple Ridge-shot first feature centres around a Korean family struggling with grief
Read MoreTitles span music documentary Play It Loud featuring Jamaican-born Canadian singer Jay Douglas, 1974 Afrofuturist film Space is the Place, and beyond
Read MoreFrom VIFF screenings to live music and Vancouver Art Gallery happenings, there are many ways to celebrate throughout February
Read MoreFrom dragon dances to live music, there are several ways to ring in the Year of the Snake
Read MoreThe fiercely feminist film is shot with dreamlike beauty, often at night, in story of love and longing
Read MorePart 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
Read MoreChallengers and The Monk and the Gun kick off holiday big-screen series
Read MoreEverything is heightened in Joshua Oppenheimer’s chilling parody of privilege and willful ignorance
Read MoreEnergetically shot new film explores profound—and timely—issues around undocumented immigrants and class divisions in America
Read MoreLondon’s National Gallery hosts the U.K.’s biggest-ever exhibition honouring Vincent van Gogh, one of history’s most beloved artists
Read MoreBoldly pushing the documentary form, Vancouver director tracks a story that involved guns, drugs, money laundering, child abuse, and even murder
Read MoreInay (Mama) wins the Arbutus Award for best B.C. film; Summit award for best Canadian film goes to Universal Language
Read MoreAnother highlight of the series on the same date features Shōgun VFX supervisor Michael Cliett
Read MoreLively, detective-like documentary reveals how Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw and Yup’ik ceremonial masks found their way into the hands of Surrealist masters—and new attempts to repatriate them
Read MoreQuick takes on Brief History of a Family, Anora, Viva Niki, and Who by Fire, plus documentaries about everything from design mavericks to Haida logging protests to the children of overseas nannies
Read MoreAt VIFF, she dramatizes ex-boyfriend Chester Brown’s graphic novel about his explorations in hiring sex workers—while still living with the then-VJ
Read MoreThe Chef & the Daruma gets to the heart of the acclaimed culinary artist’s inspirations
Read MoreSlumdog Millionaire composer joins the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra at Vancouver International Film Festival keynote event
Read MoreVancouver Island’s Ari Kinarthy wrote the score and stars in a screening event that memorializes his life
Read More*smiles and kisses you*, Grand Theft Hamlet, and Real offer moving and unsettling views of how we attempt to heal ourselves as part of the Spectrum series
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