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UBC instructor Igor Drljaca’s The White Fortress is going to the Oscars

VIFF film will represent Bosnia and Herzegovina at the 2022 Academy Awards in foreign-language film category

SCREEN, NEWSJanet SmithOctober 28, 2021VIFF, The WhiteFortress

Herzog's Nosferatu the Vampyre conjures real creepiness on the big screen, October 29 and 30, and November 3

Klaus Kinski’s unforgettable ghoul hits The Cinematheque in time for Halloween

SCREENJanet SmithOctober 25, 2021The Cinematheque

Stir Cheat Sheet: 6 fine films beyond Shoplifters by Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda

The Cinematheque fetes the filmmaker who finds the poetic in family bonds

SCREENStir VancouverOctober 16, 2021The Cinematheque

Maria Chapedelaine brings a Quebec-literature classic to handsome life onscreen, October 20 and 21

Alliance Française and Visions Ouest present the new film at Vancouver and Coquitlam theatres

SCREEN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithOctober 15, 2021VISIONS OUEST

Film reviews: The White Fortress, White Cube, and more worth cramming in VIFF's final days

An aching ode to Sarajevo’s youth, and art as a force of radical change in the Congo

SCREEN, FESTSJanet SmithOctober 10, 2021VIFF, VIFF 2021

Night Raiders director Danis Goulet draws on Cree heritage, painful residential-school legacy for dystopian thriller

Her film opened this weekend with the widest release of any Indigenous Canadian feature

SCREENJanet SmithOctober 9, 2021VIFF, VIFF 2021, Indigenous film

Stir Q&A: British Columbia: An Untold History director Kevin Eastwood untangles province's complex century-and-a-half

At VIFF, Knowledge Network series retells this province’s extraordinary past from diverse racial perspectives

FESTS, SCREENJanet SmithOctober 6, 2021VIFF, VIFF 2021, Knowledge Network

Behind the body horror, Titane director Julia Ducournau says her Cannes Palme d'Or winner is all about love

The French filmmaker upends genres as much as ideas about gender

SCREENJanet SmithOctober 5, 2021Titane

KDocsFF presents free virtual screening of Emergence: Out of the Shadows

Vinay Giridhar’s documentary provides a potent and transformative voice in support of South Asian queer individuals and their families

SCREENStir VancouverOctober 5, 2021Partner Content, KDocsFF

Local Indigenous filmmakers shine a light on colonization, trauma, and healing at VIFF

Returning Home’s Sean Stiller and Trevor Mack, director of Portraits From a Fire, share their culture and truths on screen

SCREEN, FESTSGail JohnsonOctober 4, 2021VIFF, VIFF 2021, Indigenous

In Stories That Transform Us, Corey Payette retraces 20 years of Urban Ink theatre accomplishments

Directing his first film, the artistic director blends interviews with dazzling theatrical sequences at VIFF

SCREEN, THEATREJanet SmithOctober 4, 2021VIFF, VIFF 2021, Urban Ink Theatre

From postwar Sarajevo to a 19th-century photo studio in Victoria, VIFF True North series showcases the best of Canadian film

This year’s premieres include Darkroom, Be Still, Bootlegger, and award-winner Handle With Care

SCREENStir VancouverOctober 4, 2021VIFF, VIFF 2021

Stir Q&A: Things We Feel But Do Not Say writer-director Lauren Grant talks about the silence around miscarriage

“I want more art to talk about the things we keep to ourselves”

FESTS, SCREENJanet SmithOctober 2, 2021VIFF, VIFF 2021

Film reviews: Worthwhile trips, from haunted Senegal to off-the-hook Vancouver streetball courts, at VIFF

Saloum, Azor, Handle With Care and other hidden gems from around the world at the fest till October 11

SCREENJanet SmithOctober 2, 2021VIFF 2021, VIFF, Vancouver International Film Festival

Climate crisis, human rights captured at Vancouver International Film Festival

The Last Tourist, From the Wild Sea, and Secrets from Putumayo focus on pressing global issues

FESTS, SCREENGail JohnsonOctober 1, 2021VIFF 2021, VIFF

Filmmaker Alan Zweig takes a more upbeat look at record nerds, 21 years after Vinyl

At VIFF, the director takes another look at the power of music and the drive to collect

SCREEN, FESTSJanet SmithOctober 1, 2021VIFF, VIFF 2021

Unruly women: a strong and strange contingent of female-helmed films stands out at VIFF

Small Body, Be Still, and Clara Sola focus on unforgettable female characters

SCREEN, FESTSJanet SmithOctober 1, 2021VIFF, VIFF 2021

The Scary of Sixty-First situates its psychedelic horror inside the Jeffrey Epstein scandal

At VIFF, posession and transgression in an apartment whose previous tenant was a certain billionaire financier

SCREEN, FESTSStir VancouverSeptember 29, 2021VIFF, VIFF 2021

Filmmakers share expertise on their craft at VIFF Talks

The Vancouver International Film Festival speaker series provides unparalleled access to creators and innovators

FESTS, SCREENStir VancouverSeptember 29, 2021Partner Content, VIFF, VIFF 2021

Vancouver director Kier-La Janisse dissects folk horror in Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched, at VIFF

Three-hour documentary on the macabre spans The Wicker Man and Hour of the Wolf

SCREEN, FESTSJanet SmithSeptember 28, 2021VIFF, horror, VIFF 2021

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