Put away your degraded VHS dub and celebrate: the 1977 story of dying, drug-addled Montreal counterculture soon screens at the Cinematheque
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Film gives a front-row view of complex fight to protect old-growth forests, in largest act of disobedience in Canadian history
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At the 15th annual event, here are six titles festival director Duncan Carr calls “a full experience in the briefest amount of time”
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In new film at Vancouver Short Film Festival, the well-known influencer and stylist digs movingly into what it means to raise a teen girl these days
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Lyana Patrick’s NFB documentary, recounting the Stellat’en and Saik’uz Nations’ ongoing fight for justice, returns for local screenings
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Series includes all 13 of the French director’s films, including A Man Escaped, Pickpocket, Au hasard Balthazar, and more
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Julie Rubio’s extensive new documentary, making its local debut at the VIFF Centre, reveals a trailblazing woman who was an outsider on several counts
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HATCH, Clementine, One Day This Kid, and Beyond the Salish are among the 47 Canadian shorts screening this year
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In the retrospective Secret Laws of the Cinematograph, the enigmatic French director’s hugely influential career comes into intense focus
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Saints and Warriors, #skoden, and Sudan, Remember Us are among the titles that secured wins
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Moonlight, Tehran: City of Love, and more explore themes of loneliness, belonging, and desire in program curated by Fay Nass
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Ahead of a special live-scored screening, the renowned photographer and director reflects on “liminal spaces” and gore-filled supernatural encounters
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Mr. Nobody Against Putin takes an urgent look at Russian indoctrination; Spare My Bones, Coyote! finds horrors at the U.S. border; Eight Postcards From Utopia runs weird commercials from free-market Romania; and more
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In Have You Heard Judi Singh?, Vancouver director interweaves archival footage, re-created moments, and mesmerizing music in tribute to late Punjabi-Black artist
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Montreal filmmaker Denis Côté started out making a portrait of a shy BDSM worker and ended up capturing a generation’s encounter with the endless recursions of social media
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In NFB documentary, Lyana Patrick chronicles the environmental harm caused by the Kenney Dam
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A panel discussion with workers and community advocates takes place after the VIFF Centre screening
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Mareya Shot Keetha Goal: Make the Shot won a spot as best B.C. feature, plus much more as Surrey-based event hands out cash and development support
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Moving from architectural marvel to frozen cabin, the film mixes bitter humour with a poetic fugue fuelled by familial trauma
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Vancouver director Ben Immanuel drew from his acting students’ real experiences to craft a funny and poignant collaborative film that was years in the making
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