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Experimental & Avant Garde

Arguments in Favor of Love film image; bedsheet ghosts in a forest on fire

8: Love and despair

Dir. Various
113 min
VIFF 2025: Short Forum

Shorts from: China, France, Germany, Portugal, USA.

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8:45 pm
Thu Oct 09
International Village 7
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12:00 pm
Sat Oct 11
International Village 7
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Jeff film image; crying woman with a golden stars headpiece

9: The scary one

Dir. Various
112 min
VIFF 2025: Short Forum

Shorts from: Canada, Korea, Romania, USA.

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8:30 pm
Fri Oct 10
International Village 7
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3:00 pm
Sat Oct 11
International Village 7
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BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions film image; serious woman in red lighting

BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions

Dir. Kahlil Joseph
113 min
VIFF 2025: Spectrum

Kahlil Joseph’s long-awaited, hypnotic debut is a 21-track odyssey through Black memory and imagination. Fiction, archive, and digital fragments collide aboard a transatlantic ship in this radical, time-bending voyage across collective consciousness.

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6:00 pm
Sat Oct 11
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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3:30 pm
Sun Oct 12
International Village 8
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My Comrade film image; man standing next to another man aiming a bow and arrow in a forest

10: The new socialism; ceasefire now!

Dir. Various
114 min
VIFF 2025: Short Forum

Shorts from: Belgium, Canada, China, India, Myanmar, UK.

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9:00 pm
Sat Oct 11
International Village 7
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3:00 pm
Sun Oct 12
International Village 7
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