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First-time film actor Keira Jang takes a leading role in Vancouver director Ann Marie Fleming’s dark “satire” about a bucolic post-collapse future that comes with a catch
Read MoreStunning cinematography and a compelling story make documentary about freediver Jessea Lu a breathless watch
Read MoreHousewife of the Year unpacks a long-running Irish TV show, while There’s Still Tomorrow follows a working-class Italian woman in the 1940s
Read MoreDirector Sepideh Yadegar’s debut feature follows Iranian international student Sahar as she stands up for women’s rights in Vancouver
Read MoreA Real Pain’s Jesse Eisenberg and Anora’s Sean Baker among international award-winners to send in acceptance videos for event at VIFF Centre
Read MoreKorean-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 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 MoreNew documentary from Belgian filmmaker Johan Grimonprez, a look at the 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba, screens directly afterward
Read MoreThe documentary took home the Arbutus Award for best B.C. film at the 2024 Vancouver International Film Festival
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 MoreSubtitled Beauty Between the Lines, the film by Danny Berish and Ryan Mah digs deeper than the architect’s portfolio
Read MoreBoldly pushing the documentary form, Vancouver director tracks a story that involved guns, drugs, money laundering, child abuse, and even murder
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
Read MoreScreenings taking place from September 26 to October 6 include Luther: Never Too Much, Disco’s Revenge, So Surreal: Behind the Masks, and nine others
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