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Haunting Reedland draws on age-old Netherlands trade, at Dutch Film Festival April 25

A reed cutter tries to solve a murder in Academy Award submission for Best Foreign Language Film; plus documentaries and soccer as fest enters second installment

CULTURE, FESTS, SCREENJanet SmithApril 20, 2026Dutch Film Festival, SFU Woodward's

Bella Sutra kicks off this year's DOXA Documentary Film Festival at an Opening Gala, April 30

Director OK Pedersen narrates the cine-concert featuring violinist Eden Glasman and pianist Jakub Tokarczyk

SCREENStir VancouverApril 17, 2026Partner Content, DOXA Documentary Film Festival, DOXA

At Sundar Prize Film Festival, A Cree Approach pays tribute to a language matriarch

Vancouver filmmaker Tristin Greyeyes takes a personal approach to documentary that explores her grandmother’s role in nêhiyawêwin revitalization

FESTS, SCREENJanet SmithApril 15, 2026Sundar Prize Film Festival, Cree, Indigenous, Freda Ahenakew

B.C.-filmed Hunting Matthew Nichols toys with true-crime documentaries, opening April 10

Creepy trip into the West Coast woods has been earning praise for its fresh spin on the horror genre

SCREEN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithApril 10, 2026Park Theatre

Local lens-based artists share their influences in The Cinematheque x Capture Film Series, to April 25

As part of Capture Photography Festival, Dana Claxton, Althea Thauberger, and Stephen Waddell screen the films that shaped them

WHAT'S STIRRING, SCREEN, FESTSJanet SmithApril 7, 2026Capture Photography Festival, The CInematheque

Listening as Activism explores the power of sound, vision, and a decolonized conception of time

Vancouver New Music event brings together artists and activists for a roundtable discussion and performances

DOXA Documentary Film Festival unveils program of 40 features, including live, opening-night cinematic performance Bella Sutra

Running April 30 to May 10, 25th annual event features a South Korean spotlight, Fire of Love director Sara Dosa’s Iceland-set Time and Water, and world premieres Under the Red Roof, Illustrated Legacies: Graveyard of the Pacific, and more

SCREEN, FESTSJanet SmithApril 2, 2026DOXA Documentary Film Festival, DOXA

Sundar Prize Film Festival unveils this year's award nominees

Among the titles nominated across 14 categories are Bikas Ranjan Mishra’s Bayaan, Josias Tschanz’s The Fire in Our Hearts, and more

SCREENStir VancouverApril 1, 2026Partner Content, Sundar Prize Film Festival

The Passion of Joan of Arc screens at the Shadbolt Centre with a live score, May 2

Local duo Beautiful Violence performs original music for silent film about the titular 15th-century teenage warrior

Family visit subtly reveals the strain in What Does That Nature Say to You, at The Cinematheque to April 6

In South Korean filmmaker Hong Sangsoo’s hazily-shot latest, the viewer becomes increasingly aware that parents are casually interrogating their daughter’s poet boyfriend

SCREENJanet SmithMarch 30, 2026The Cinematheque, South Korea

Nuns hit the road in New Zealand in Holy Days, to March 30

B.C. filmmaker Nat Boltt brings scenic, gentle comedy to the Park big screen

SCREENJanet SmithMarch 25, 2026Park Theatre, Nat Boltt

Dutch Film Festival returns to Vancouver for sophomore edition, March 27 to 29 and April 23 to 26

Program includes offerings from Suriname, Indonesia, Belgium, and the Netherlands

SCREENStir VancouverMarch 20, 2026Partner Content, Dutch Cultural Association of BC

Western Front hosts a screening of I Am the Art NOBUO KUBOTA at The Cinematheque, April 9

Presented with the Powell Street Festival Society, Annette Mangaard’s documentary captures the life of the titular Japanese Canadian artist

The Cultch screens Starwalker ahead of its wide theatrical release, March 18 to 22

The film version of Corey Payette’s Indigenous-empowered drag musical has roots in the York Theatre stage

SCREENJanet SmithMarch 17, 2026The Cultch, THE CULTCH, Corey Payette, Urban Ink Theatre

The Collaborators brings retrospective of cinematic art to Paul Kyle Gallery, to March 28

Nettie Wild’s projected and VR-headset works include a mesmerizing three-channel ode to herring migration, the salmon-run-themed Uninterrupted, and “moving paintings”

ART & DESIGN, SCREEN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithMarch 13, 2026Paul Kyle Gallery, Nettie Wild

Indigenous science-fiction film Slash/Back screens at the Shadbolt Centre, March 27

When an alien invasion threatens a remote town in Nunavut, three teenage girls must save the day

$At Vancouver Greek Film Festival, visual innovation throws light on social fracture$

At Vancouver Greek Film Festival, visual innovation throws light on social fracture

In series at The Cinematheque, vintage home-movie glow of Kyuka: Before Summer’s End and hallucinatory shades of Harvest reveal tension and crisis beneath domestic and communal surfaces

Film review: Moi qui t’aimais explores troubled passion between star couple Signoret and Montand

Diane Kurys’s gossipy, subtly performed biopic portrays the last years of a legendary relationship rife with destructive compulsions

Vancouver filmmaker Emma Higgins and actor Kate Hallett upend teen horror in Sweetness

Drawing major buzz for the way it plays with genre, the story of a misguided superfan boasts maximalist visual touches, hits of dark humour, and a considerable amount of heart

SCREENJanet SmithMarch 5, 2026Emma Higgins