Vancouver International Film Festival and VIFF Centre

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

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

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

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

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

Lively, detective-like documentary reveals how Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw and Yup’ik ceremonial masks found their way into the hands of Surrealist masters—and new attempts to repatriate them

Quick takes on Brief History of a Family, Anora, Viva Niki, and Who by Fire, plus documentaries about everything from design mavericks to Haida logging protests to the children of overseas nannies

At VIFF, she dramatizes ex-boyfriend Chester Brown’s graphic novel about his explorations in hiring sex workers—while still living with the then-VJ

The Chef & the Daruma gets to the heart of the acclaimed culinary artist’s inspirations

Slumdog Millionaire composer joins the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra at Vancouver International Film Festival keynote event

Vancouver Island’s Ari Kinarthy wrote the score and stars in a screening event that memorializes his life

*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

Screenings taking place from September 26 to October 6 include Luther: Never Too Much, Disco’s Revenge, So Surreal: Behind the Masks, and nine others

Canadian highlights include Oscar contender Universal Language, The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal, and Mexican closer Emilia Pérez

Agnieszka Holland’s new film focuses on the zone between Belarus and Poland, where refugees are stuck in a deadly political battle

Nothing is that simple in Wei Shujun’s film, the latest from one of the rising stars of international cinema

Premiering at VIFF Centre and the Squamish Lil'wat Cultural Centre, remarkable film about the dark legacy of Williams Lake institution wields quiet power

Films focused on colour, sound, and spectacle span Amélie, Speed Racer, The Matrix, and dozens more

At 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

Urban Ink artistic director to present his 2023 film Les Filles du Roi along with Wildhood, Bones of Crows, and Hey Viktor!

New documentary profiles Marilyn Farquhar’s struggle to memorialize her brother, B.C. homeless activist Barry Shantz

Homage to Arthur Erickson will feature rare screenings of documentaries and Hollywood features, plus dialogues with architects and filmmakers

“Introduction” brings lo-fi camp, “Everlasting” documents Vancouver’s Wing Sang history, “Tiger by the Tail” delivers disco-happy raunch, and “In the Heat” is a deadpan-dark Santa cartoon

With sweeping scope, documentary at VIFF Centre blends styles to track respected Indigenous astronomer’s journey

Vocalist Shruti Ramani sings for the band that draws upon the raga

Additional screenings of Food, Inc. 2, A Difficult Year, and Silvicola will be shown throughout late April at the VIFF Centre

Running May 2 to 12, fest also features nanekawâsis, Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story, Tea Creek, and Caravan Farm Theatre doc The Originals

Nina and the Hedgehog’s Secret headlines a schedule of eight features, 35 shorts, and much more at R2R