Program A-Z

This loving, vivacious doc chronicles disco’s trajectory, from its origins in the early 70s to its repudiation in the early 80s to its triumphant rebirth as house music. The directors capture not only the facts about the genre but the feel of it as well.

Doaa el-Adl is one of the most prominent of the very few female cartoonists in the Arab world. Blending documentary, cartoons, and animation, this film brings her courageous art to life as she advocates for women’s rights and change in Egyptian society.

Two Interpol agents investigate mysterious deaths caused by poisonous gas-emitting coral in this campy homage to 90s basic cable. It unfolds as a bleary-eyed binge of a six-episode season, complete with ever-changing title sequences.

With death looming for both elders of the Lunies clan, their estranged children are forced to meet once more, while dealing with their own tumultuous personal lives. Age-old enmities resurface in this raw and invigorating family saga.

A small town New England recreational baseball league gathers to play the final game on their local diamond before its impending demolition. Carson Lund’s lovely, unassuming debut is an ode to amateur baseball and a meditation on the passage of time.

JUNO award-winning Inuk artist Elisapie presents the West Coast Premiere of her new multimedia show, Uvattini.

Anx and Cass are forced into lockdown together in Anx’s apartment to avoid a mysterious virus which causes people’s bodies to painfully fuse with whatever they are touching. Else is a grotesque, apocalyptic body horror that's bound to get under your skin.

When a defence attorney (Zoe Saldana) is enlisted to tend to the affairs of a notorious drug lord (Karla Sofía Gascón) completing gender affirmation surgery, there will be blood, ballads, and dance numbers. A maximalist musical from Jacques Audiard.

Join us for the Vancouver Premiere of Eno, the world’s first generative documentary, celebrating the visionary artist and musician Brian Eno. For this special event, the film will be created live in real time, and this version will never be seen again. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Gary Hustwit and special guests.

Irrepressible Touda dreams of being a Sheikha, a respected traditional Moroccan performer empowered by the lyrics of the fierce female poets who came before her. Inspired by their songs of resistance and emancipation, she sets her sights on Casablanca.

The acclaimed 2020 debut feature from brothers Arie and Chuko Esiri, Eyimofe traces the journeys of two distantly connected strangers as they each pursue their dream of quitting Lagos for a new life in Europe.

Sarah Friedland makes an elegant debut with this restrained drama about an elderly woman’s transition to a care home. Kathleen Chalfant commands the screen with absolute poise in her thoughtful portrait of a woman trying to hold on to her dignity.