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Film review: Mystifying Memoria casts a strange spell

Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s latest cinematic odyssey heightens sound to create a waking dream

SCREENJanet SmithMay 28, 2022VIFF, VIFF Centre, Homepage feature

Tilda Swinton and award-winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul join forces for dreamlike Memoria

Winner of the Cannes 2021 Jury Prize opens at VIFF Centre’s Vancity Theatre May 27

SCREENJanet SmithMay 24, 2022VIFF, VIFF Centre, SPRING

Film review: Vortex's radical act of cinema adds up to a devastating look at mortality

Using split screens and long takes, auteur Gaspar Noé takes viewers on an uncompromising trip to an elderly couple’s agonizing end

SCREENJanet SmithMay 20, 2022VIFF, VIFF Centre

Film review: Mau takes a brisk, style-savvy, but revelatory look at Canadian design maverick

Fittingly fuelled by block text and imagery, documentary also digs into Bruce Mau’s unlikely beginnings for meaning

ART & DESIGN, SCREENJanet SmithMay 19, 2022Bruce Mau, VIFF

S'all good as VIFF picks the brain of Better Call Saul co-creator Peter Gould, online May 17

The writer for all five seasons of Breaking Bad now works as co-creator, showrunner, and executive producer for Saul Goodman’s final journey

SCREEN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithMay 15, 2022VIFF

Free live and online screenings mark National Canadian Film Day for West Coast cinephiles

Indigenous movies in the spotlight as venues like VIFF Centre, The Cinematheque, and the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art host celebrations

SCREENJanet SmithApril 20, 2022VIFF, VIFF Centre

Film review: Islands' Filipino-Canadian story works a subtle, deeply humanistic magic

The accomplished film follows the paralyzingly shy Joshua, who’s devoted his life to supporting his parents

SCREENJanet SmithApril 14, 2022VIFF, VIFF Centre

Still Max looks at mortality, love, and the art of Canada's Max Dean at VIFF Centre

Filmmaker Katherine Knight to attend screenings April 8 to 10, with the longtime Vancouver artist tuning in on opening night

SCREENJanet SmithApril 4, 2022VIFF, Vancouver International Film Festival, SPRING

With After Yang, Koganada explores loss, love, and identity in a new kind of sci-fi film

Set in a warm and leafy future, android story draws on director’s personal experiences

SCREENJanet SmithMarch 11, 2022VIFF, VIFF Centre, SPRING

Tzoulahem filmmakers revisit a larger-than-life Cowichan legend from multiple angles

Harold Joe helps bring to life a figure who’s fascinated him since his grandmother told him stories about the warrior

SCREENJanet SmithMarch 10, 2022VIFF, Tzoulahem, SPRING

Oscar-nominated shorts take you from clay huts in Kabul to a Danish karaoke bar, at VIFF Centre until March 25

Animated, documentary, and live-action offerings gathered from around the world

SCREENJanet SmithFebruary 28, 2022VIFF, SPRING

Film review: Compartment No. 6's oddball kind-of love story takes you on an engrossing ride to remote Murmansk

Unexpectedly moving tale of two lonely strangers forced to share a sleeper car has a lot to say about human connection

SCREENJanet SmithFebruary 11, 2022VIFF

Film review: Who We Are connects centuries of dots in complex chronicle of racism in America

Weaving law lecture with compelling personal stories, the new documentary kicks off Black History Month at VIFF Centre

SCREENJanet SmithFebruary 4, 2022VIFF, VIFF Centre, Homepage feature

Film review: The Conductor follows maestro Marin Alsop's rise in the face of shocking rejection

For decades, the trailblazer was told it was impossible for a woman to lead an orchestra

SCREENJanet SmithJanuary 28, 2022The Conductor, VIFF, VIFF Centre

VIFF Talks features creators of Showtime's obsessed-over hit Yellowjackets, January 26

Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson talk about the cult series that follows a girls’ soccer team into a horror-laced survival epic

SCREENJanet SmithJanuary 20, 2022VIFF

Acclaimed cinematographer Dariusz Wolski discusses House of Gucci, January 7 via VIFF Connect

The Ridley Scott collaborator, who’ll speak with local lenser Greg Middleton, has a long, stylistically impressive resume

SCREENJanet SmithJanuary 4, 2022VIFF

The Royal Ballet's The Nutcracker glitters onscreen at VIFF Centre on December 23, 24, and 26

The sumptuous spectacle draws Londoners in droves each holiday

DANCE, WHAT'S STIRRING, SCREENJanet SmithDecember 22, 2021VIFF, VIFF Centre, Festive, Festive 1

Film review: The Lost Daughter's brilliant performances paint a complex portrait of motherhood

Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley play an older and younger version of a woman torn between her children and her career

SCREENJanet SmithDecember 16, 2021VIFF, VIFF Centre, Homepage feature

Film review: By turns oblique and mesmerizing, Drive My Car takes a road trip through loss and uncertainty

A Japanese theatre artist deals with loss and pain while sitting in a bright red Saab

SCREENJanet SmithDecember 11, 2021VIFF, VIFF Centre, Homepage feature

Film review: The Humans brings haunting new shades to offbeat family drama

In the play-turned-film, a rundown apartment’s heaving cracks and rumbling pipes take on a life of their own

SCREENJanet SmithNovember 28, 2021VIFF, VIFF Centre, The Rio Theatre

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