Additional 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
Read MoreColourful cast of renters organizes against a foreign-owned developer to save cultural landmark
Read MoreEvent features Carson’s self-directed documentary at the VIFF Centre, followed by a live piano concert at Pyatt Hall
Read MoreNew film captures frustrations and triumphs inherent to a punishing sport—and allows the rest of us to experience it by proxy
Read MoreIn its first return here since DOXA. documentary raises troubling questions about entrapment, national security, and democracy
Read MoreFull-length feature details the arrival of French settlers in present-day Montreal in English, French, and Kanien’kéha (Mohawk)
Read MoreWild Goat Surf carves out a new kind of coming-of-age tale; Seagrass summons ghosts of history; plus The Old Oak, Rapture, and much more
Read MoreDirector Dylan Maranda talks chaotic cinematography, family history, and meeting chef Joël Watanabe for his food-critic-centred narrative
Read MoreDocumentary shows young Siksika woman’s journey competing in the dangerous male-dominated sport with the love and support of her family
Read MoreFilmmaker Jakub Piątek’s compelling new documentary follows a handful of charismatic young keyboard stars through the world’s most prestigious classical-music contest
Read MoreKat Jayme and Asia Youngman’s new documentary humanizes figures who met with social-media-fed vigilantism and snitching
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