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Part 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

Challengers and The Monk and the Gun kick off holiday big-screen series

Thelma & Louise and Umbrellas of Cherbourg are part of the theatre’s Essential Big Screen 2024 series

Audiences can watch the beloved Christmas film on the big screen while musicians perform John Debney’s original score live

Everything is heightened in Joshua Oppenheimer’s chilling parody of privilege and willful ignorance

Persistent smiles and anguish; geometric interiors and painstaking compositions in Japanese director’s well- and lesser-known films

Really Happy Someday wins Borsos Award for best Canadian feature film

Energetically shot new film explores profound—and timely—issues around undocumented immigrants and class divisions in America

Fabienne Colas launched her self-titled foundation to mount Black film festivals all across Canada

Fairy Creek and Resident Orca follow impassioned fights, while NiiMisSak: Sisters In Film celebrates Indigenous impacts onscreen

Producer-screenwriter Sean Harris Oliver toys with reality as “documentary” crew follows story of two missing teens into the deep, dark woods of Vancouver Island

Highlights include Matthew Leutwyler’s Fight Like a Girl on opening night, Being Black In Canada short-film series, VIBFF Black Market, and more

Powerful four-episode program follows the intimate, dramatic stories behind organ-transplant patients and professionals in Canada

New documentary from Belgian filmmaker Johan Grimonprez, a look at the 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba, screens directly afterward

The 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

The documentary took home the Arbutus Award for best B.C. film at the 2024 Vancouver International Film Festival

Running December 4 to 8, fest to feature Ben Affleck-helmed Unstoppable, Queer with Daniel Craig and Jason Schwartzman, and September 5 with Peter Sarsgaard

London’s National Gallery hosts the U.K.’s biggest-ever exhibition honouring Vincent van Gogh, one of history’s most beloved artists

Subtitled Beauty Between the Lines, the film by Danny Berish and Ryan Mah digs deeper than the architect’s portfolio

White rabbits and Magritte clouds, as Visions Ouest presents film of Orchestre symphonique de Montréal’s epic and affecting multimedia performance

Featuring film offerings from all 27 European Union members, festival opens with Hungary’s Some Birds and closes with Ukraine’s The Hardest Hour

They’ll be competing in juried Borsos Competition for Best Canadian Feature at event December 4 to 8

Boldly pushing the documentary form, Vancouver director tracks a story that involved guns, drugs, money laundering, child abuse, and even murder

Canada-wide opportunity connects aspiring filmmakers with established industry professionals

In this classic of German expressionism screening at the Shadbolt, “Every frame is like an album cover,” says the postrock band’s Simon Dobbs

The Cinematheque curator Sonja Baksa delivers a week of programming centred on celluloid witches, just in time for Halloween

Photographer Kiliii Yuyan will be live on stage for the film’s visually stunning exploration of the Arctic

Inay (Mama) wins the Arbutus Award for best B.C. film; Summit award for best Canadian film goes to Universal Language

Another highlight of the series on the same date features Shōgun VFX supervisor Michael Cliett

F.W. Murnau’s 1926 classic follows the demon Mephisto, who makes a bet with an archangel that a good man’s soul can be corrupted