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The singer, songwriter, activist, and educator sings, speaks, and screens Rumble here, at Talking Stick, the Jazz Fest, and VIFF Centre
Read MoreEvening at VIFF Centre features a screening of Back to the Future, live music, trivia, and more
Read MoreBen Kingsley hands in a compelling performance in a film that emphasizes the party over the person
Read MoreFilm by Sarah Vos follows Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam’s battle for artistic diversity
Read MoreLa Singla searches for a lost flamenco star; A Way to B profiles the members of a daring disability-arts troupe; and Cheenee traces the history of Indian diaspora in Trinidad and Tobago
Read MoreVancouver International Film Festival has put its $500,000 toward rehiring workers and other post-pandemic rebuilding
Read MoreDirector Nisha Platzer employs hand-processed film and impressionistic imagery in quest to get to know the brother she lost to suicide
Read MoreAtmospheric story of a peach grader who finds an invasive insect grows into something slightly surreal and enigmatic
Read MoreDeadpan, dreamlike magic from one of Canada’s most exciting new voices in film
Read MoreIce Merchants, Sedna: Empress of the Sea, workshops for kids, and more, from March 28 to April 6
Read MoreDocumentary details the struggle for justice in a village where a child was viciously assaulted
Read MoreBoth films, part of Black History Month screenings at VIFF Centre, untangle true events
Read MoreFilm screenings, concerts, a photo exhibition, a dance performance, and more explore Blackness throughout February
Read MoreThose who succumb to the “call of the wild” may be further endangering animals already feeling the squeeze of urban development
Read MoreWriter-director-producer Elaine Briere examines the role Canada played in the 2004 coup in the world’s first free Black republic, and much more
Read MoreStar’s directorial debut sets dark issues of drugs and missing women inside a neo-noir fairy tale
Read MoreFestival runs February 22 to 26 at VIFF Centre for its biggest festival yet
Read MoreFar more than an artistic portrait, documentary on Nushu connects oppression of women in China’s past with its present
Read MoreTribute to Wes Anderson’s witty oeuvre kicks off with a party December 21
Read MoreBlending 1950s talk show, re-enactments, and real personal reflections, Chase Joynt illuminates once-lost research transcripts
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