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A lonely man builds himself a girlfriend by pairing a life-size love doll with an AI chatbot. Bryan Carberry’s documentary is a haunting, romantic sci-fi parable that asks if AI can replace real human connection.

A band of bloodthirsty cannibals threatens a family of farmers living in a post-apocalyptic wasteland in rural Canada. R.T. Thorne’s feature debut is a thrilling, crowd-pleasing genre gem with a standout cast of Black and Indigenous actors.

While attempting a world record freedive in 2018, Jessea Lu lost consciousness and stopped breathing for four minutes. Years later, Jessea returns to the site of her near-death experience, ready to dive again and become reborn.

Set in the late 90s war-afflicted Serbian countryside, this vibrant dramedy follows three sisters coming of age while their father has been sent to the front line. Recording videos for their dad, the girls nevertheless get up to all kinds of mischief.

This haunting, unclassifiable film tells the story of a facially disfigured man who is cured by a new drug therapy and given a new lease on life. Director Aaron Schimberg fuses elements of horror, melodrama, and comedy into a work of true originality.

David Rumsey has dedicated himself to assembling a vast collection of historical maps. Looking back on his life and pondering his legacy, he reflects on how we trace our place in the world, on maps, memory, and mortality.

In May 1949, the modernist Scottish painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham ascended the Grindelwald glacier in Switzerland. The experience was transformative becoming a fount of creative inspiration which she would return to for the rest of her artistic life.

Isabelle Huppert and VIFF mainstay Hong Sangsoo reunite for a whimsical, winning tale of culture-clash. She plays a French tutor at large in a South Korean city; he deploys his usual mixture of suggestive repetition, oddball humour, and humble profundity.

An intimate dialogue between legendary Abenaki filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin and Michif/Métis Artist Amanda Strong, rising star in film and animation, as they discuss their artistic practices, the importance of intergenerational connection and story telling.

The lives of three women nurses are front and centre in Payal Kapadia’s luminous Mumbai-set drama. A moving portrait of resistance and camaraderie, this is a film that finds beauty and solace in the unlikeliest of places.

International superstar, two-time Oscar-winning composer and songwriter A.R. Rahman joins the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra in an evening celebrating music spanning his legendary career composing for some of Hollywood and Bollywood's biggest hits.

When a socialite visits her nanny’s remote reserve, she discovers her Cree ancestry and delves into her new-found spiritual traditions to save herself and her newborn baby from her husband’s psychotic, and purity-obsessed racism.