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Ever Deadly
In Tanya Tagaq, we are lucky to have a radical innovator in the art of throat singing, and this collaboration with Chelsea McMullan brings rare insights into her background and family life while doubling as a record of an extraordinary live performance.
Carole King: Home Again - Live in Central Park 1973
This brand new feature-length concert film presents the legendary Carole King's triumphant May 26, 1973 homecoming concert on The Great Lawn of New York City's Central Park before an estimated audience of 100,000.
Black History Month at VIFF Centre
February 1 – 28
We hope you’ll agree, February is as good a time as any to celebrate Black film, Black film artists, Black thinkers and activists, and to highlight the legacy of slavery, white supremacy, colonization and capitalism that underpins our unjust society.
Our BHM programming this year includes two series: Icons and Dispatches, along with week-long engagements for some of last year’s most acclaimed movies.
Icons
Icons spotlights the accomplishments of American movie stars like Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Samuel L Jackson, Angela Bassett, Chadwick Boseman and others, emulating and transcending the path beaten by Sidney Poitier 60 years ago.
Dispatches
Dispatches turns from fantasy to reality, with a focus on documentaries, ideas, and social justice, including work by and about James Baldwin, Camille Billops, and two exceptional recent Canadian films, Dear Jackie and Our Dance of Revolution.
The Oscars at VIFF Centre
Don’t miss your chance to watch these Oscar-nominated hits.
Aftersun
On holiday in Turkey, a young father and his adolescent daughter are often mistaken for siblings as they carouse like impish kids. However, his personal demons are about to come calling. An affecting and frequently astonishing debut from Charlotte Wells.
Tollywood or Bust:
The Movie Maximalism of S.S. Rajamouli
January 1 – February 12
If you’re not familiar with S.S. Rajamouli’s work, then you are in for a treat. His high voltage mash-ups spark with comedy, spectacle, conflict, passion and music. Here is a pop Cinema prodigy who doesn’t play by the rules, a movie magician who will surprise and delight.
Tollywood or Bust plays Sunday afternoons through January and February.
PANTHEON: The Greatest Films of All Time
PANTHEON is a monthly series running throughout 2023. This selection of the “greatest movies of all time” is 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.
Screenings will take place on the third Sunday of each month at 11am.
Individual tickets $18, or get a series pack for $120.
Vertigo
February 19
Runner up in the 2022 Sight & Sound poll of the Greatest Films of All Time (and #1 in 2012) this is Hitchcock’s most personal and revealing film, a movie about male neurosis, fetishism and power, with James Stewart and Kim Novak.
KDocsFF 2023
February 22 – 26
As Metro Vancouver’s premier social justice film festival, KDocsFF celebrates the power of documentary film and documentary activism.
The annual KDocsFF film festival showcases award-winning documentary films, keynote speakers, filmmakers, panelists, Q&As, exhibitors, performances, and community partners.
First Look Fridays
Enjoy $10 tickets + complimentary tea & coffee at the first Friday matinee screening of these films.
One Fine Morning
A single mother working to support her young daughter and her ailing father, navigates the labyrinthine system of care homes, with their financial and logistical burdens. Then, an encounter with an old friend blossoms into a passionate affair.
James Baldwin Abroad: Istanbul - Paris - London
These three short docs, from 1968 – 1973, offer sharp, piercing glimpses of Baldwin in private and public, sometimes in repose and relaxed but more often holding forth, embroiled in the thorny discourse of racial politics, identity and self expression.
Matinee Screenings
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