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At The Cinematheque’s Film Noir 2026, Niagara’s Marilyn Monroe conjures a full-colour femme fatale

Set on the edge of Horseshoe Falls, the stunningly shot crime thriller with the dangerous femme fatale deserves a new look on the big screen

SCREENJanet SmithJuly 28, 2026The Cinematheque

Vancouver Latin American Film Festival unveils program of more than 70 films for event September 10 to 20

Highlights include Argentinian-Uruguayan opener A Loose End, and guest filmmakers Oscar Ruiz Navia and Mayra Hermosillo

SCREENJanet SmithJuly 24, 2026VLAFF, Vancouver Latin American Film Festival

VIFF Live announces 2026 program of film screenings, immersive concerts, and “reworlding”

The series includes appearances by Canadian and international artists, including throat-singing duo Silla, composer Kelly Moran, and experimental rock act Xiu Xiu

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SCREENStir VancouverJuly 20, 2026Partner Content, VIFF Centre, ViFF Centre, VIFF, Summer 2026

Local theatre artists’ project King Arthur’s Night culminates in a buoyant new film that blurs documentary and fantasy

Now streaming on Knowledge.ca, John Bolton–helmed movie stars Niall McNeil, Marcus Youssef, Veda Hille, Nathan Kay, and more, in a mix of artists with and without Down syndrome

SCREEN, THEATREJanet SmithJuly 8, 2026Neworld Theatre, Marcus Youssef, Niall McNeil

Canada Day Animation Jamboree celebrates National Film Board classics, at the Rio Theatre July 1

Oscar-winning Vancouver animator David Fine curates some of his favourite shorts, plus his own Animal Behaviour and Bob’s Birthday

SCREENJanet SmithJune 29, 2026National Film Board, The Rio Theatre, Canada Day, Summer 2026

Screenings at The Cinematheque and VIFF Centre bring past and future into focus on National Indigenous Peoples Day, June 21

Ranging from 1970s-era experiments in animation to an urgently current documentary, the offerings delve into the meaning of community and the power of place names

CULTURE, SCREENJanet SmithJune 17, 2026National Indigenous People's Day, Summer 2026

Women outwit Iran’s ban on watching World Cup in Offside, at Deckchair Cinema, June 25

Screened outdoors at Cates Deck, outside The Polygon Gallery, Jafar Panahi’s guerrilla-style 2006 comedy captures the mood of World Cup fever

SCREENJanet SmithJune 15, 2026Polygon Gallery, POLYGON GALLERY, Deckchair Cinema

Deckchair Cinema returns to The Polygon Gallery's waterfront Cates Deck this summer, starting June 25

This year’s series features al fresco screenings of top-tier sports films, from Shaolin Soccer to A League of Their Own

B.C. filmmakers create grassroots vision of liberation and risk with phantasmagoric feature Lucid

Amid small miracles, and also tragedies, Deanna Milligan and Ramsey Fendall conjured analogue, ’90s-era strangeness by adopting the spirit of a community art project

SCREENJanet SmithMay 26, 2026Vancouver International Film Festival, VIFF, Homepage feature

Hear the Orpheum’s original Wurlitzer accompanying The Lodger on May 25

The theatre’s organ was installed in 1927—the same year Alfred Hitchcock released his first thriller, about a Jack the Ripper–esque killer

SCREEN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithMay 20, 2026Vancouver Civic Theatres, Orpheum Theatre

The Cinematheque hosts Love, Sex, Religion, Death: The Complete Films of Terence Davies, May 21 to June 28

Retrospective unites the late British filmmaker’s feature-length works, including A Quiet Passion and Distant Voices, Still Lives

SCREENStir VancouverMay 19, 2026Partner Content, The CInematheque, The Cinematheque, Summer 2026

HAUI’s “Aunt Harriet” draws together fragments of history at rEvolver Festival, May 24

Short film poetically remembers a Black woman from an old photograph

FESTS, SCREEN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithMay 14, 2026rEvolver Festival, Upintheair Theatre

Kunsang Kyirong’s 100 Sunset peers into hidden daily lives of Tibetan-Canadian community

With influences including Hideaki Anno and Alfred Hitchcock, debut feature by Surrey-raised director builds uncanny atmosphere as a quiet young woman points her camera into neighbours’ windows

SCREENJanet SmithMay 11, 2026The CInematheque, Tibetan Canadian, Homepage feature

Saigon Story, Namesake təm kʷaθ nan among winners at DOXA 2026 awards

Illustrated Legacies: Graveyard of the Pacific wins Nigel Moore Award; And the Fish Fly Above Our Heads و الأسماك تطير فوق رؤوسنا named best feature

FESTS, NEWS, SCREENJanet SmithMay 10, 2026NFB, DOXA, DOXA Documentary Film Festival, National Film Board

The Last One for the Road follows two barflies through the back side of Veneto, at VIFF Centre, to May 14

Down-and-out buddies follow the randomness of life in evocatively shot Italian film by Francesco Sossai

SCREENJanet SmithMay 9, 2026VIFF, VIFF. Centre

Acclaimed director Sophy Romvari creates emotion-charged family portrait in Blue Heron

At the VIFF Centre, debut feature by fast-rising filmmaker splices past and present in a powerful story that is part time-travel fiction, part nostalgic vision of ’90s Vancouver Island

SCREENJanet SmithMay 7, 2026VIFF Centre, Homepage feature