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Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival scales peaks and paraglides down, February 27 to March 11

Views and feats to inspire, from a Women Mountaineers program at The Cinematheque to the Everest tales of adventure filmmaker Elia Saikaly

Hair of the Bear searches out psychological thrills in a lethal landscape

At the Rendez-Vous French Film Festival, filmmaker Alexandre Trudeau and star Malia Baker confront anxiety and mortality in the deep freeze of the Prairies

B.C.-made Foreigner and Blue Heron among winners at Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards

Keeper, Tuner, and Forward join Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie in prizes for Canada’s top movies of the year

SCREENJanet SmithFebruary 24, 2026vancouver film critics circle, VFCC

Film reviews: Thrillers to sci-fi, Rendez-Vous French Film Festival explores genre

Gourou, Dalloway, and a flick inspired by Liliane Bettencourt of the L'Oréal dynasty help launch 32nd annual fest

FESTS, SCREENJanet SmithFebruary 23, 2026VISIONS OUEST, Visions Ouest, Alliance Francaise

Sundar Prize Film Festival announces 2026 lineup highlighting Canadian-made titles

Offerings span basketball documentary Saints and Warriors, identity-focused short “One Day This Kid”, and beyond

SCREENStir VancouverFebruary 23, 2026Partner Content, Sundar Prize Film Festival

Emergence: Women in the Storm looks at B.C. communities rebuilding from climate disaster, to March 2

At VIFF Centre, new Velcrow Ripper and Nova Ami documentary finds women leading residents out of wildfire and flood catastrophes, in Lytton, Yarrow, and beyond

SCREEN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithFebruary 20, 2026VIFF, VIFF Centre, Vancouver International Film Festival

VIFF Centre continues screening this year's Oscar-nominated films to March 14

Offerings include features Sirât and Mr. Nobody Against Putin, plus programs for Live Action, Animated, and Documentary shorts

SCREENStir VancouverFebruary 19, 2026Partner Content, VIFF Centre, ViFF Centre, VIFF

Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie time travels to absurd new heights, at the Park Theatre February 13 to 26

Matt Johnson is back with a chaotic, unabashedly Canadian followup to the cult web series

WHAT'S STIRRING, SCREENJanet SmithFebruary 12, 2026The Park, Matt Johnson, Park Theatre

Adopted as a child, filmmaker travels back to Haitian birthplace in Through Her Eyes (À travers tes yeux), February 11

Visions Ouest and Alliance Française present poignant documentary about a woman retracing her roots to a vibrant but deeply troubled country

You’re the Top delivers a “de-lovely” Valentine’s date with Cole Porter

Classic film scholar Michael van den Bos hosts evening that mixes vintage film clips with the jazz sounds of the Laura Crema Sextet

SCREEN, MUSICJanet SmithFebruary 9, 2026Anvil Centre, Anvil Theatre, jazz, Cole Porter

Vancouver arts groups mark Black History Month with film screenings, live music, and more

Artists like Dee Daniels, Brandon Thornhill, and Krystle Dos Santos are performing around the city this February

Ahead of the Family Forward Festival, Ruby Chopstix praises their mom’s unconditional support

In a short documentary, the Vietnamese Canadian queen reflects on becoming the country’s first drag artist-in-residence

All That's Left of You tracks a Palestinian family's intergenerational pain, at VIFF Centre to February 12

Oscar-shortlisted film takes a sweeping, humanistic look at the toll of decades of violence

SCREEN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithJanuary 30, 2026VIFF, Vancouver International Film Festival, VIFF Centre

The Cinematheque spotlights the films of Naruse Mikio with Short Is the Life of a Flower, to February 21

Retrospective closes with the Japanese director’s melancholic final picture, Scattered Clouds

SCREENStir VancouverJanuary 28, 2026Partner Content, The CInematheque, The Cinematheque

Les Furies rolls out the fun in story of small-town derby team, January 28

Visions Ouest screens raucous tale of women ousted from their Quebec rink and ready for revenge, at Alliance Française

You're the Top! brings the songs of Cole Porter to the Anvil Theatre, February 14

Event hosted by Michael van den Bos features Hollywood film projections and live music by the Laura Crema Sextet

MUSIC, SCREENStir VancouverJanuary 22, 2026Partner Content, Anvil Theatre

Wrong Husband transports audiences to an ancient Far North, to January 18 at The Cinematheque

Zacharias Kunuk’s latest epic tells a meditative, mystical story of two young lovers separated by fate

SCREEN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithJanuary 10, 2026The Cinematheque

The Choral fills story of First World War England with music, opening January 9

Ralph Fiennes plays a choir director in 1916, tasked with performing Edward Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius

SCREEN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithJanuary 8, 2026Fifth Avenue Cinemas

Stir Cheat Sheet: 3 movies to catch at the New Spanish Cinema festival, January 9 to 14

A historical adventure about Cervantes and documentaries about a flamenco guitarist and a matador are among the must-sees at the expanded event at the VIFF Centre

FESTS, SCREENStir VancouverJanuary 8, 2026VIFF, VIFF Centre, New Spanish Film, New Spanish Cinema

Rowdy film captures Quebec’s hugely popular Les Cowboys Fringants in concert, January 8

Screening at Alliance Française and co-presented by Visions Ouest, the documentary of the folk-rockers’ rip-roaring 2023 show was shot less than a year before lead singer’s death

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