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Live performances that push the boundaries of traditional film programming, intersecting cinema culture with music, comedy, podcasting, and performance in unique, cinema-infused live shows.

Upcoming Events

Van Django + Lacombe, Lucien Film Screening

208 min

Inspired by the jazz guitar maestro Django Reinhardt, Van Django are a much loved staple on the local music scene. After their set, we'll watch Louis Malle's 1974 taboo-breaking film about a French teenager who becomes a collaborator, Lacombe, Lucien.

VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema

Pulp Fiction + The ReViberators

234 min

In the spirit of Quentin Tarantino, we're going to launch our summer series 90s, Baby! smack in the middle, with 1994's Pulp Fiction, the most exciting and influential movie of its era. On 35mm. Preceded by surf guitar sensations The ReViberators live!

VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema

Julio Avila Cuban Band Live + The Mambo Kings Film Screening

234 min

Feel the heat! Shake your booty as we combine a live set of exhilarating Cuban music followed by a rediscovered 90s barnstormer of a movie starring Latin heartthrobs Armand Assante and Antonio Banderas alongside the likes of Tito Puente and Celia Cruz.

VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
Coastal Jazz & VIFF Present: Lina Nyberg Live Score: The Norrtull Gang
The Norrtull Gang film image; group of people collected on the floor

Coastal Jazz & VIFF Present: Lina Nyberg Live Score: The Norrtull Gang

81 min

This collaboration with Coastal Jazz brings together a proto-feminist silent film from the early 1920s with a new live score written and performed by Swedish singer-composer Lina Nyberg with stellar local a string quartet.

VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema

Chungking Express + Chen Baker: Cantopop

162 min

Catch Chen Baker covering canto-pop classics and songs from Chungking Express prior to a screening of Wong Kar-Wai's breakthrough movie, a melancholy masterpiece of romantic longing from the Hong Kong new wave.

VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema

Andrea Superstein Sings Burt Bacharach + Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery Film Screening

155 min

Local hero and Anglophile Mike Myers scored a massive comedy hit with this spot-on spoof of James Bond and his many imitators. Before the yucks, Andrea Superstein treats us to a set of timeless Burt Bacharach tunes.

VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema

Laura Crema + Jazz on a Summer's Day

160 min

Laura Crema celebrates the enduring influence of Anita O'Day with a performance that captures the wit, swing, and rhythmic daring that made O'Day a standout in jazz history — followed by one of the all-time great jazz concert films.

VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema

Past VIFF Live Events

Beverly Glenn Copeland performing

Beverly Glenn-Copeland, online performance, VIFF 2020

Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin Plays Deep Red Live, VIFF 2019

On Cinema at the Cinema Live!, VIFF 2019

This is Spinal Tap: Anniversary Live Score, VIFF 2019

Song Exploder Live with Chuck D, VIFF 2019

Feminist Live Reads Some Like It Hot, VIFF 2019