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Antonia's Line

Dir. Marleen Gorris
102 min

This month's Pantheon selection spotlights the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, the Dutch feminist filmmaker Marleen Gorris, and her charming, vibrant tale of an emancipated farmer who refuses to conform.

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Oscars® Party 2026
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Oscars® Party 2026

360 min

Experience the Academy Awards in style at the VIFF Centre! Watch the ceremony live on the big screen with a red carpet, a fully licensed bar and live hosts.

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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

Dir. Steven Spielberg
115 min

One of only a handful of live action children's films to capture the imaginations of generations, E.T. has a luminous warmth; it's a suburban symphony of emotion, and it's fascinating to revisit it in the light of The Fabelmans.

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Turner & Constable

Dir. David Bickerstaff
93 min

Filmed as a supplement to a blockbuster exhibition at Tate Britain happening right now, this doc in the popular Exhibition on Screen series allows us to view these competitive, complementary English landscape artists side by side.

VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Jaws

Dir. Steven Spielberg
124 min

Seaside town Amity is rocked by an unwelcome summer visitor, a great white shark with a taste for human flesh. How many tourists can they afford to lose before shutting down the beaches?

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The President's Cake

Dir. Hasan Hadi
105 min

Nine year old Lamia and her friend Saeed venture into the city to scrounge ingredients for a cake to celebrate Sadaam Hussein's birthday — a quest fraught with real peril in precarious times. Winner, Camera d'Or, Cannes.

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Spielberg for Beginners

Mar 16 – 21

Savour seven of Spielberg’s hits and family favourites on the big screen this spring break.

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

Dir. Steven Spielberg
115 min

One of only a handful of live action children's films to capture the imaginations of generations, E.T. has a luminous warmth; it's a suburban symphony of emotion, and it's fascinating to revisit it in the light of The Fabelmans.

VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema

Jaws

Dir. Steven Spielberg
124 min

Seaside town Amity is rocked by an unwelcome summer visitor, a great white shark with a taste for human flesh. How many tourists can they afford to lose before shutting down the beaches?

VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Dir. Steven Spielberg
138 min

Richard Dreyfuss sees something in the sky which suggests... transcendence? Spectacular but also grounded, of all Spielberg's blockbusters Close Encounters may be the one that holds up best.

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The BFG

Dir. Steven Spielberg
118 min

An orphan little girl befriends a benevolent giant who takes her to Giant Country, where they attempt to stop the man-eating giants that are invading the human world.

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The Adventures of Tintin

Dir. Steven Spielberg
107 min

Could this be Spielberg's most underrated film? It's his only stab at animation, and it moves like Raiders of the Lost Ark on caffeine. The plotting may be antiquarian but the action never lets up. It's delirious stuff, often laugh-out-loud funny.

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The Fabelmans

Dir. Steven Spielberg
151 min

Nominated for 7 Academy Awards, Steven Spielberg's bittersweet movie memoir is a portrait of the artist as the product of his artsy mom (Michelle Williams), his techy dad (Paul Dano), and a broken home.

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Jurassic Park

Dir. Steven Spielberg
127 min

Two paleontologists are invited to preview a new Central American theme park by an avuncular entrepreneur (Richard Attenborough). What they encounter is truly a walk on the wild side. Spielberg's jaw dropping adventure movie still kills on the big screen.

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Film Studies: Adaptations

Saturdays, 10:30 am | Feb 21 – Mar 28 | Presented by Patricia Gruben

This series explores five acclaimed literary texts and the very different challenges they posed to filmmakers when being adapted for the screen.

Pantheon: The Greatest Films of All Time

Pantheon is a monthly series showcasing a selection of the “greatest movies of all time,” inspired by the mother of all film lists, the critics’ poll that has run once a decade in the UK’s Sight & Sound magazine since 1952.

Individual Tickets $23

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Series Pass $170

Oscars® at VIFF Centre

Check out these Academy Award-nominated films on the big screen.

The Voice of Hind Rajab

Dir. Kaouther Ben Hania
89 min

Mixing documentary and reenactment, this film powerfully evokes the desperate attempts of the Red Crescent to rescue a six year old child trapped in a car under Israeli military fire. Oscar nominee: Best International Film

VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
Oscars® Party 2026
Academy Award statue on orange background

Oscars® Party 2026

360 min

Experience the Academy Awards in style at the VIFF Centre! Watch the ceremony live on the big screen with a red carpet, a fully licensed bar and live hosts.

VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema

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