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Inay (Mama)

Dir. Thea Loo
74 min

Bold and deeply personal, Inay investigates the emotional and psychological repercussions of Canada's Live-In Caregiver Program, which attracted Filipino women migrant workers who left their children to care for strangers out of economic necessity.

VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre

The Manchurian Candidate

Dir. Jonathan Demme
130 min

Jonathan Demme's superbly orchestrated take on Richard Condon's 1959 paranoia novel feels weirdly prescient in its anxieties around global corporate brainwashing, war profiteering, assassination and election fixing.

VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre

Adrianne & the Castle

Dir. Shannon Walsh
86 min

Artist and mascot-maker Alan St-George devoted his life and work to his wife, Adrianne. Shannon Walsh's film becomes an extension of Alan's art, a tribute to a grand romance, a love that transcends all...

VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre

Winter Kills

Dir. William Richert
97 min

An inspired black comic adaptation of the ultimate conspiracy theory, based on a novel by Richard (Manchurian Candidate) Condon. It's a lunatic riff on the Kennedy assassination(s), with Jeff Bridges finding who really killed his brother, the President. Screening in 35mm print.

VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre

Monkey on a Stick

Dir. Jason Lapeyre
106 min

Monkey on a Stick is a feature-length documentary exposé of the criminal activity that took place in the Hare Krishna movement in America in the 1970s and ‘80s, adapted from the New York Times bestselling book.

VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre

Sugarcane

Dir. Julian Brave Noisecat & Emily Kassie
107 min

"Deeply impactful", Sugarcane is an important contribution to the ongoing process of Truth & Reconciliation in this country, a compassionate, sensitive account of the investigation into residential school abuse at Williams Lake, BC.

VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre

Film Studies: Hollywood Through the Looking Glass

Monday Mornings Nov 11 – Dec 9

The movie screen is a magic mirror in which we all like to see reflections of our better selves. Filmmakers are not immune to the attraction, and Hollywood has been mythologizing itself since before movies could talk.

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, without the introduction.

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Tickets: $18

Series Pass $80

Senior/Student Pass $75

VIFF+ Pass $70*

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What Price Hollywood?

Dir. George Cukor. Presented by Donald Brackett
120 min

In our latest Film Studies series film critic and historian Donald Brackett gives us a whistle stop studio tour of movies about movies, taking us from the Golden Age to the C21st, beginning with George Cukor's seminal 1932 film, What Price Hollywood.

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Sullivan's Travels

Dir. Preston Sturges. Presented by Donald Brackett
120 min

Continuing his exploration of Hollywood's fascination with itself, Donald Brackett introduces one of the great satires of the Golden Age, Sullivan's Travels. Earnest filmmaker Joel McCrea disguises himself as a hobo to get to know the real America...

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The Bad and the Beautiful

Dir. Vincente Minnelli. Presented by Donald Brackett
150 min

Film scholar Donald Brackett introduces Vincente Minnelli's 1952 Hollywood melodrama--a portrait of a driven producer, Jonathan Shields (Kirk Douglas) that went on to win five Academy Awards.

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The Day of the Locust

Dir. John Schlesinger. Presented by Donald Brackett
170 min

Midnight Cowboy director John Schlesinger turned his gaze on Hollywood in this rich adaptation of Nathanael West's famous satirical novel, in the latest screening in our Film Studies series, Hollywood Through the Looking Glass.

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Babylon

Dir. Damien Chazelle. Presented by Donald Brackett
220 min

Damien Chazelle's second Hollywood on Hollywood movie (after La La Land) follows Margot Robbie as a starlet on the make at the tail end of the silent film era in the late 1920s, and a couple of friends she makes along the way.

VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre

Pantheon: The Greatest Films of All Time

Pantheon, presented by MUBI, 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.

Presented by

Individual tickets $18

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VIFF Live in November

A Page of Madness: Live Score by Anju Singh / The Nausea

Dir. Teinosuke Kinugasa
73 min

Experimental artist Anju Singh uses her project The Nausea to explore Teinsuke Kinugasa's expressionist horror masterpiece. An asylum janitor wants to help his beloved wife escape, but she doesn't want to leave...

VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre

Feven Kidane Quartet: Music Inspired by the Film Soundtrack to a Coup D'Etat

Dir. Johan Grimonprez
161 min

Trumpeter Feven Kidane, with Quincy Mayes on keys, Bernie Arai on drums, and Milo Johnson on bass, present a special set of original music inspired by Johan Grimonprez's brilliant essay film on the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, Jazz, and the Cold War.

VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre

Vince Mai Plays Chet Baker + Bruce Weber's Let's Get Lost

Dir. Bruce Weber
150 min

A set of smooth, sublime, and smoky jazz from trumpeter Vince Mai backed up by a stellar band with Steve Maddock on vocals. Followed by the first local screening of Bruce Weber's recently restored film about Baker, one of essential films about jazz.

VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre

Festival Favourites Returning to VIFF

Missed it at the festival? Now’s your chance to see it on the big screen!

Inay (Mama)

Dir. Thea Loo
74 min

Bold and deeply personal, Inay investigates the emotional and psychological repercussions of Canada's Live-In Caregiver Program, which attracted Filipino women migrant workers who left their children to care for strangers out of economic necessity.

VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre

The Chef & the Daruma

Dir. Mads K. Baekkevold
90 min

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.

VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre

Bird

Dir. Andrea Arnold
119 min

In Andrea Arnold's latest, 12-year-old Bailey (Nykiya Adams) lives in a squat near the English seaside. Neglected by her chaotic father (Barry Keoghan), she pursues an adventure with a magnetic stranger named Bird (Franz Rogowski).

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All We Imagine as Light

Dir. Payal Kapadia
115 min

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.

VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre

Flow

Dir. Gints Zilbalodis
84 min

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.

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Queens (Reinas)

Dir. Klaudia Reynicke
104 min

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.

VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre

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.

The Manchurian Candidate

Dir. Jonathan Demme
130 min

Jonathan Demme's superbly orchestrated take on Richard Condon's 1959 paranoia novel feels weirdly prescient in its anxieties around global corporate brainwashing, war profiteering, assassination and election fixing.

VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre

Winter Kills

Dir. William Richert
97 min

An inspired black comic adaptation of the ultimate conspiracy theory, based on a novel by Richard (Manchurian Candidate) Condon. It's a lunatic riff on the Kennedy assassination(s), with Jeff Bridges finding who really killed his brother, the President. Screening in 35mm print.

VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre

Come and See

Dir. Elem Klimov
142 min

One of the most powerful war films ever made, Elem Klimov's Come and See is an overwhelming and unforgettable experience.

VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre

The Fall (4K Restoration)

Dir. Tarsem Singh
119 min

Shot over four years across 24 countries, cowritten by a six year old girl, and entirely self-financed by commercials director Tarsem, The Fall is such a mind- (and eye) boggling movie it's hard to believe it actually exists. Yet here it is!

VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre

Fight Club (25th Anniversary)

Dir. David Fincher
139 min

1999 was a very good year for movies, but nothing captured millennial angst quite so vividly as David Fincher's bruising black comedy about what it means to be a man today. This modern classic does everything short of rattling your seat to get a reaction.

VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre

Starship Troopers

Dir. Paul Verhoeven
129 min

It's Earth vs Space Bugs in Paul Verhoeven's sci-fi action splatter fest, which also doubles as a savagely satiric send up of dumb American fascism.

VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre

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.

First Look Fridays

Enjoy $10 tickets at the first Friday matinee screening of these films.

Exhibition on Screen: Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers

Dir. David Bickerstaff
92 min

The latest film in the long-running Exhibition on Screen series as occasioned by the recent blockbuster show at London's National Gallery, the biggest ever assembled in the UK.

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Bird

Dir. Andrea Arnold
119 min

In Andrea Arnold's latest, 12-year-old Bailey (Nykiya Adams) lives in a squat near the English seaside. Neglected by her chaotic father (Barry Keoghan), she pursues an adventure with a magnetic stranger named Bird (Franz Rogowski).

VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre

All We Imagine as Light

Dir. Payal Kapadia
115 min

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.

VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre

Flow

Dir. Gints Zilbalodis
84 min

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.

VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre

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