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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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6:30 pm
Fri Mar 13
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Sat Mar 14
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Mon Mar 16
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Sentimental Value

Dir. Joachim Trier
135 min

A once-revered director crashes back into his family’s lives, eager to recruit his daughter for a film role. When she declines, he finds a new muse in an eager but unpolished Hollywood star, sending his botched reconciliation spiraling into chaos.

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7:30 pm
Fri Mar 13
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Nino

Dir. Pauline Locquès
97 min

Québécois actor Théodore Pellerin gives a quietly devastating performance as a young man shocked to learn he has throat cancer.

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8:40 pm
Fri Mar 13
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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The American Friend

Dir. Wim Wenders
126 min

Wim Wenders' take on Patricia Highsmith's Ripley's Game is the real deal, an authentic mittel-European neo-noir, with Dennis Hopper as the original American psycho, Tom Ripley. This Film Studies screening is introduced by Patricia Gruben.

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10:30 am
Sat Mar 14
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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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.

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11:00 am
Sat Mar 14
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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3:20 pm
Sat Mar 14
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Mon Mar 16
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Tough Old Broads

Dir. Stacey Tenenbaum
90 min

Tough Old Broads is a feature documentary that follows three trailblazing women as they continue to make waves well into their 70s. Because you can't keep a good woman down.

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1:00 pm
Sat Mar 14
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Tue Mar 17
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Wed Apr 01
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2026 Oscar® Shorts (Live Action)

Dir. Various
119 min

This year's contenders in the Live Action category include comedies, drama, an experimental musical, and a dystopian fantasy; films from the UK and the US, France and Israel.

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1:30 pm
Sat Mar 14
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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2026 Oscar® Shorts (Animated)

Dir. Various
83 min

The nominees for Best Animated Short Film include The Girl Who Cried Pearls, a fable from Canadian filmmakers Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski, narrated by Colm Feore.

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4:00 pm
Sat Mar 14
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Sinners

Dir. Ryan Coogler
137 min

2025's unexpected box office sleeper is that rare beast, a genre movie full of bold invention and surprise. We are in Mississippi in the early 1930s, and the opening of a new blues joint on the edge of town is the signal for all hell to break out.

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5:50 pm
Sat Mar 14
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Montreal, ma belle

Dir. Xiaodan He
118 min

In this Valentine to discovering love later in life, the ever-elegant Joan Chen plays Feng Xia, a 53-year-old Chinese immigrant and mother in Montreal whose world is turned upside down when she meets and falls in love with a young Quebecoise.

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7:45 pm
Sat Mar 14
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Mon Mar 16
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Wed Mar 18
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The Secret Agent

Dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho
158 min

Having run afoul of an influential bureaucrat in Brazil’s military dictatorship circa 1977, Marcelo decamps to Recife to live under an assumed name — but he’ll soon come to understand precisely how rampant the country’s corruption has become.

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8:40 pm
Sat Mar 14
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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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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11:00 am
Sun Mar 15
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Tue Mar 17
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