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August Wilson's rich, riveting, resonant play about exorcizing the ghosts of slavery comes to the screen in a polished, fulsome production with stellar performances from John David Washington, Danielle Deadwyler, and Samuel L Jackson.

A tense mystery and an act of radical protest, this film tells the story of an Iranian lawyer who’s lost his handgun and knows someone in his family took it. With every moment, his wife and daughters grow more afraid of him–yet none of them will confess…

In a spacious home, preparations are afoot for an extravagant party—which quickly becomes a pressure cooker of longstanding familial strife. An entropic symphony of domestic existence, this is a film whose luminous surfaces yield only deeper enigmas.

This rousing doc explores a 1985 dispute over clearcut logging on Haida Gwaii. Taking us from canny retrospective commentary to the thick of the action, director Chris Auchter employs animation and a wealth of archival footage to riveting effect.

Through in-depth interviews, cutting-edge technological demonstrations, and the unrelenting ambition of Demis Hassabis, The Thinking Game follows innovative AI research company, DeepMind, as it works towards AGI (Artificial General Intelligence).

In celebration of The Tragically Hip’s 40th anniversary, the quintessential Canadian band is profiled in a docuseries helmed by Mike Downie, brother of the late Gord Downie. VIFF is honoured to have Mike and The Hip join us for this special evening.

Mark Levinson explores the synergy of art and science, mapping out revolutions in technology through a dazzling array of artwork and experimental films, celebrating the transcendent power of the imagination on a breathtaking journey through the universe.

An elderly Nova Scotian woman struggling with dementia and her lonely, pregnant caretaker leave an indelible impression on each other in Heather Young’s sophomore feature drama, an endearing and bittersweet portrait of two women overlooked by society.

Inspired by old Hollywood’s grand romantic epics and paying homage to costume dramas, speculative fantasies, swashbuckling adventures, and 80s music videos, Timestalker is both a giddy genre confection and a heartfelt tale of hard-won empowerment.

In this outstanding crime drama, two Palestinian cousins are exiled in Athens and in dire need of funds for fake passports to move their family to Germany. A slippery slope of moral compromise awaits as they resort to human smuggling and hostage-taking.

In this genial, satiric comedy from Senegal, Idrissa loses his job in the civil service due to austerity measures dictated by the IMF. Humiliated but too proud for his own good, he eventually goes to a shaman to exact his revenge...

Eager to fit in and impress her new best friend, 13-year-old Marija reluctantly joins a shady modeling school that drives girls to dangerous extremes as they try to fit an unattainable mold and pursue the promise of a glamorous life overseas.