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Slumdog 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
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
Read MoreCanadian highlights include Oscar contender Universal Language, The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal, and Mexican closer Emilia Pérez
Read MoreFilms focused on colour, sound, and spectacle span Amélie, Speed Racer, The Matrix, and dozens more
Read MoreAt fest September 26 to October 6, Jeremy Dutcher, Eiko Ishibashi, and more on deck for screening-and-performance VIFF Live series, curated by Jarrett Martineau
Read MoreUrban Ink artistic director to present his 2023 film Les Filles du Roi along with Wildhood, Bones of Crows, and Hey Viktor!
Read MoreHomage to Arthur Erickson will feature rare screenings of documentaries and Hollywood features, plus dialogues with architects and filmmakers
Read MoreWith sweeping scope, documentary at VIFF Centre blends styles to track respected Indigenous astronomer’s journey
Read MoreAdditional screenings of Food, Inc. 2, A Difficult Year, and Silvicola will be shown throughout late April at the VIFF Centre
Read MoreRunning May 2 to 12, fest also features nanekawâsis, Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story, Tea Creek, and Caravan Farm Theatre doc The Originals
Read MoreFilm scholar introduces six Screwball Comedy films to audiences with talks about the genre and its most famous artists
Read MoreDocumentary filmmaker Afton Quast Saler turned a camera on herself and her family to explore why she and other women are so often underdiagnosed
Read MoreBlackBerry, Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person, and To Kill a Tiger also receive nods for best in Canadian film
Read MoreA-list interviewees, rapturous film clips, and reflections from an auteur who’s travelled from Peruvian jungles to Antarctic snowscapes
Read MoreUnder the theme of "Journeys in Solidarity”, fest screens 19 films on everything from homeless tent encampments to transgender comedians to the fight for freedom of speech in Russia
Read MoreOpening night of the series, copresented with the Vancouver Latin American Cultural Centre, features tapas, wine, and flamenco
Read MoreYoung Siksika woman Logan Red Crow competes in the risky Indian Relay in the film, which had a sold-out run at VIFF in October
Read MoreLush music and cinematic flourishes capture Leonard Bernstein’s aesthetic energy, while drawing us into his complicated marriage
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