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Let's Get Lost
One of the essential jazz films, this is an achingly tender record of jazz icon Chet Baker shortly before he died, still playing beautiful music and looking back on a life of might-have-beens. A love letter to a lost soul.
The Chef & the Daruma
The inventor of the California Roll, chef Hidekazu Tojo helped bring sushi to mainstream popularity through his renowned Vancouver restaurant, Tojo's. The Chef & the Daruma is a mouthwatering film touching on immigration, identity, and reinvention.
Physician, Heal Thyself
One of the world's foremost experts on addiction and trauma, Dr Gabor Maté shares not only his theories, but also his own story: his difficult childhood in Hungary and his long years of therapeutic practice in and around Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
All We Imagine as Light
What Wong Kar-wai did for Hong Kong, Payal Kapadia does for Mumbai: the Cannes Grand Prix winner is a romantic heartbreaker about three nurses at different stages of life. It's a future classic.
Porcelain War Panel Discussion
How has the war in Ukraine impacted Ukrainian filmmakers? What role do filmmakers play in the war effort?
The Dec 4 screening of Porcelain War will be followed by a panel discussion about creating work at the intersection of art and war.
Hundreds of Beavers | Food Bank Benefit Screening
Dec 8
The funniest, and certainly the furriest movie you will see this year, Hundreds of Beavers channels the zany slapstick shtick of Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin and Bugs Bunny through a videogame quest narrative to retell the eternal saga of Man v Nature.
All proceeds from this screening go to the Vancouver Food Bank.
VIFF Live
Brandon Wint: Moving For Love
An Evening of Film, Poetry & Music
Dec 1
Poet and filmmaker Brandon Wint presents two new short films, Moving for Love and Backbone, alongside a live jazz performance with collaborators Feven Kidane, Yoro Noukoussi, and Quincey Mayes, and a poetry reading.
A Tribute to Artie Shaw
James Danderfer Sextet + Time Is All You’ve Got Screening
Dec 8
James Danderfer leads an all-star band in a tribute show to “the King of the Clarinet”, Artie Shaw. Followed by a screening of the Academy Award-winning documentary, Artie Shaw: Time Is All You’ve Got, a candid profile of this multi-talented artist.
Film Studies: Hollywood Through the Looking Glass
Monday Mornings Nov 11 – Dec 9
In our latest Film Studies series, film critic and historian Donald Brackett gives us a whistle stop studio tour that’ll take us from the Golden Age of Hollywood to the twenty-first century.
All films will screen again the following Tuesday, without the introduction.
The Day of the Locust
Dec 2
Midnight Cowboy director John Schlesinger turned his gaze on Hollywood in this rich adaptation of Nathanael West’s famous satirical novel.
Total Cinema
Designed to showcase our new immersive sound system, laser projection and brand new screen, Total Cinema celebrates the elevated experience that comes with watching the best films on the big screen.
Alien: Director's Cut (4K Restoration)
The crew of the Nostromo is awakened when the ship's computer, Mother, picks up a distress signal from an uninhabited planet... What they find they won't soon forget. By far the scariest in the long-running Alien franchise, this was the anti-Star Wars.
Relaxed Screenings & Captioned Screenings
Our monthly Relaxed Screenings are open to anyone who would benefit from a sensory-friendly experience.
Our Wednesday matinee Captioned Screenings welcome Deaf and hard of hearing audiences, along with anyone who benefits from captions.
All We Imagine as Light
Captioned Screening
Nov 27, 3:15 pm
What Wong Kar-wai did for Hong Kong, Payal Kapadia does for Mumbai: the Cannes Grand Prix winner is a romantic heartbreaker about three nurses at different stages of life. It’s a future classic.
Queens (Reinas)
Captioned Screening
Dec 4, 3:00 pm
Early 1990s Lima, Perú. Charming absentee father Carlos “El Loco” Molina tries to earn his way back into his daughters’ lives before their mother moves them to Minnesota. A tender family drama, Reinas won the Generation Kplus Grand Prix at Berlinale 2024.
Flow
Relaxed Screening
Dec 8, 12:30 pm & Dec 22, 4:00 pm
In this wordless and gorgeously atmospheric animated feature, a solitary black cat survives a tsunami and must confront his fear of water whilst sailing through a flooded world with a group of misfit animals. An enchanting adventure film for all ages.
First Look Fridays
Enjoy $10 tickets at the first Friday matinee screening of these films.
Flow
Nov 29
In this wordless and gorgeously atmospheric animated feature, a solitary black cat survives a tsunami and must confront his fear of water whilst sailing through a flooded world with a group of misfit animals. An enchanting adventure film for all ages. Rated: G.
La Cocina
Dec 6
First day at the Grill for undocumented Mexican Estella. The work is unremitting, the melting pot is boiling, and Julia (Rooney Mara) is due to have an abortion — to the fury of her lover, one of the chefs…
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