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Fairy Creek and Resident Orca follow impassioned fights, while NiiMisSak: Sisters In Film celebrates Indigenous impacts onscreen
Read MoreProducer-screenwriter Sean Harris Oliver toys with reality as “documentary” crew follows story of two missing teens into the deep, dark woods of Vancouver Island
Read MoreHighlights include Matthew Leutwyler’s Fight Like a Girl on opening night, Being Black In Canada short-film series, VIBFF Black Market, and more
Read MorePowerful four-episode program follows the intimate, dramatic stories behind organ-transplant patients and professionals in Canada
Read MoreNew documentary from Belgian filmmaker Johan Grimonprez, a look at the 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba, screens directly afterward
Read MoreThe Cinematheque’s annual screen trip to Europe spans silly, Estonia-set The Invisible Fight, Finland’s unsettling 1980s teen drama Light Light Light, and more
Read MoreThe documentary took home the Arbutus Award for best B.C. film at the 2024 Vancouver International Film Festival
Read MoreRunning December 4 to 8, fest to feature Ben Affleck-helmed Unstoppable, Queer with Daniel Craig and Jason Schwartzman, and September 5 with Peter Sarsgaard
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 MoreWhite rabbits and Magritte clouds, as Visions Ouest presents film of Orchestre symphonique de Montréal’s epic and affecting multimedia performance
Read MoreFeaturing film offerings from all 27 European Union members, festival opens with Hungary’s Some Birds and closes with Ukraine’s The Hardest Hour
Read MoreThey’ll be competing in juried Borsos Competition for Best Canadian Feature at event December 4 to 8
Read MoreBoldly pushing the documentary form, Vancouver director tracks a story that involved guns, drugs, money laundering, child abuse, and even murder
Read MoreCanada-wide opportunity connects aspiring filmmakers with established industry professionals
Read MoreIn this classic of German expressionism screening at the Shadbolt, “Every frame is like an album cover,” says the postrock band’s Simon Dobbs
Read MoreThe Cinematheque curator Sonja Baksa delivers a week of programming centred on celluloid witches, just in time for Halloween
Read MorePhotographer Kiliii Yuyan will be live on stage for the film’s visually stunning exploration of the Arctic
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
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