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Vancouver Opera Presents Dangerous Liaisons

Dir. Stephen Frears
119 min

Vancouver Opera General Director Tom Wright and Director of Engagement Ashley Daniel Foot introduce a special screening of Stephen Fears' Academy Award-winning sex and revenge comedy, based on the 1792 novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.

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7:30 pm
Tue Jan 27
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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askîwan ᐊᐢᑮᐊᐧᐣ

60 min

Through live cinema, music and nehiyawewin song, askîwan ᐊᐢᑮᐊᐧᐣ reveals how land remembers — and how, even amid ecological crisis, the earth continues to sing through us.

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8:00 pm
Thu Jan 29
Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre
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8:00 pm
Fri Jan 30
Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre
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The Mother and the Bear

Dir. Johnny Ma
100 min

Johnny Ma’s film stars Kim Ho-jung as a Korean woman who flies to Winnipeg when her immigrant daughter is hospitalized there. This crowd-pleaser plays up cultural differences to hilarious effect and offers a touching take on mother-daughter tension.

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8:15 pm
Thu Jan 29
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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6:30 pm
Sat Jan 31
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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2:20 pm
Mon Feb 02
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Islands

Dir. Jan-Ole Gerster
123 min

In this sly, engrossing mystery, a dissolute English tennis coach in a Canary Islands holiday resort falls under suspicion when the husband of a beautiful guest disappears after a night of heavy drinking...

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1:00 pm
Fri Jan 30
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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9:30 pm
Fri Jan 30
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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7:00 pm
Sat Jan 31
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Holding Liat

Dir. Brandon Kramer
97 min

An intimate, moving film about the parents of one of the Oct 7 Jewish hostages taken by Hamas, and their campaign for a speedy, peaceful resolution to the crisis. Winner: Best Documentary, Berlin Film Festival

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1:30 pm
Fri Jan 30
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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4:15 pm
Sat Jan 31
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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7:15 pm
Mon Feb 02
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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All That's Left of You

Dir. Cherien Dabis
145 min

Jordan's submission for the Academy Awards, All That's Left of You makes the most of its epic format to chronicle seven decades of Palestinian history while tracking the psychological impact of cycles of exile and oppression on three generations.

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6:30 pm
Fri Jan 30
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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1:00 pm
Sat Jan 31
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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9:30 pm
Sat Jan 31
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Laura Crema Sings Lorenz Hart

Dir. Richard Linklater
180 min

For this unique show, leading jazz vocalist Laura Crema has put together a set of some of Lorenz Hart's most memorable songs. Afterwards, enjoy Ethan Hawke's portrait of the legendary lyricist in Richard Linklater's new movie, Blue Moon.

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7:30 pm
Sun Feb 01
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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One Battle After Another

Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
162 min

PT Anderson's breathless satire is the best political action movie of 2025, a defiantly anti-MAGA rallying cry featuring a six pack of crackerjack performances. They'll still be talking about this one 50 years from now.

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1:00 pm
Mon Feb 02
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Dir. Stanley Kubrick
95 min

Our Premium Pick series invites out Premium members to turn their hands to programming. This month's film was suggested by Steven Savitt, who says Dr Strangelove is "as funny as ever, but even more terrifying."

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7:30 pm
Mon Feb 02
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Sinners

Dir. Ryan Coogler
137 min

2025's unexpected box office sleeper is that rare beast, a genre movie full of bold invention and surprise. We are in Mississippi in the early 1930s, and the opening of a new blues joint on the edge of town is the signal for all hell to break out.

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3:00 pm
Tue Feb 03
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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2:20 pm
Thu Feb 05
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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If I Had Legs I'd Kick You

Dir. Mary Bronstein
113 min

A harried mother (Academy Award nominee Rose Byrne) clings to an unhelpful therapist (Conan O’Brien) as she struggles to cope with her daughter's mysterious illness in Mary Bronstein’s darkly comedic psychological drama.

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3:30 pm
Tue Feb 03
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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3:00 pm
Wed Feb 04
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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3:30 pm
Thu Feb 05
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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A Poet

Dir. Simón Mesa Soto
120 min

When embittered poet Oscar Restrepo takes a job at a local high school, he meets Yurlady, a talented student from a poor background. Seeking to help her cultivate her art, he draws her into the poetry world — to disastrous and comedic results.

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2:00 pm
Fri Feb 06
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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2:30 pm
Sat Feb 07
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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12:00 pm
Sun Feb 08
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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