Filmmaker Shannon Walsh turns her lens on a labyrinthian fantasy world and an all-consuming love that transcends death
Read MoreDocumentary film shares the story of Jacob Beaton, who is training Indigenous people to grow their own food
Read MoreShannon Walsh’s Adrianne & the Castle (2023) opens the festival’s screenings at the Vancouver Playhouse on May 4
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 MoreKing Coal, We Will Not Fade Away, and Notes on Displacement among the titles honoured
Read MoreNotes from Sean Horlor and Steve J. Adams’s Satan Wants You, plus We Will Not Fade Away, You Were My First Boyfriend, and Kite Zo A
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 MoreDirector Karen Cho’s new documentary looks at Chinatowns in Vancouver, New York City, Montreal, and beyond confronting development and displacement
Read MoreFilmmaker Amy Miller’s dissection of the BC homemade-bomb caper raises questions around democracy
Read MoreFilms chosen by Nya Lewis and Farah Clémentine Dramani-Issifou are accompanied by thought-provoking essays
Read MoreThe 22nd edition includes 39 thought-provoking feature- and mid-length releases and 25 shorts
Read MoreGalb’Echaouf and Children of the Mist also earn juried prizes
Read MoreFilm traces soprano Heather Pawsey’s long journey to decolonize a work about an Okanagan homesteader
Read MoreThis year’s standouts include Fire of Love, Rewind & Play, and Children of the Mist
Read MoreTerra Femme fashions its own pioneering archeology; 1970 looks back at the brutality of Cold War Poland; From the Balcony captures humanity from a unique perspective
Read MoreColin Askey’s documentary takes viewers inside the Overdose Prevention Society
Read MoreIn which filmmaker Teresa Alfeld helps a former doubter find a fevered appreciation for one of Vancouver’s most misunderstood bands
Read MoreOfferings include series devoted to landscapes and resistance, archival materials, and grandmother figures
Read MoreVolcano film Fire of Love to open fest that runs May 5 to 15
Read MoreFrom the otherworldly Lichen to skateboarding portrait Joe Buffalo, a top-flight package of free outdoor films
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