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Saturn Return

Dir. Isaki Lacuesta & Pol Rodríguez
105 min

This fascinating, highly acclaimed movie is a thinly disguised history of 90s indie rockers Los Planetas, a Granada grunge outfit who cited the Velvet Underground as inspiration. It's one of the best rock movies in years.

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6:10 pm
Mon Jan 12
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Salve Maria

Dir. Mar Coll
111 min

Laura Weissmahr won the Goya award for Best New Actress for her portrait of Maria in Mar Coll's third feature film, a tense and compelling drama on taboo emotions.

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8:30 pm
Mon Jan 12
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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The Secret Agent

Dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho
158 min

Having run afoul of an influential bureaucrat in Brazil’s military dictatorship circa 1977, Marcelo decamps to Recife to live under an assumed name — but he’ll soon come to understand precisely how rampant the country’s corruption has become.

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12:45 pm
Tue Jan 13
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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2:00 pm
Tue Jan 20
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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11:45 am
Sat Jan 24
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Auction

Dir. Pascal Bonitzer
91 min

Inspired by a true story, writer-director Pascal Bonitzer has crafted an inquiring, witty drama about the art market. When a long-lost Egon Schiele masterpiece reemerges, art appraiser Alex is initially skeptical. And yet...

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2:00 pm
Tue Jan 13
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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12:10 pm
Sat Jan 24
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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3:50 pm
Tue Jan 27
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Black Butterflies

Dir. David Baute
83 min

This Goya-winning animated feature is based on the filmmaker's previous documentary, Climate Exodus, following the stories of three women forced into exile by climate change.

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4:00 pm
Tue Jan 13
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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The Blue Star

Dir. Javier Macipe
129 min

In crisis, a popular singer quits Spain to backpack in Argentina. There he comes under the spell of a veteran musician, who teaches him the art of chacareras, zambas and vidalas. It's a journey of musical kinship and spiritual reawakening.

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5:50 pm
Tue Jan 13
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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8

Dir. Julio Medem
126 min

The always stylish, idiosyncratic Basque auteur Julio Medem is back with one of his most ambitious films (and our closing night gala), a sweeping historical romance in eight chapters, spanning eight decades in Spanish history from the 1930s to the present day.

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8:00 pm
Wed Jan 14
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Yunan

Dir. Ameer Fakher Eldin
125 min

In this haunting mood piece, Munir is a middle-aged Syrian writer in exile in Germany. In crisis, he takes himself up to one of the Halligan islands in the North Sea, a suitable place to end it all...

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12:00 pm
Fri Jan 16
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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7:30 pm
Mon Jan 19
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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5:30 pm
Tue Jan 20
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Happy Holidays

Dir. Scandar Copti
123 min

Happy Holidays (the title is ironic) is an expansive, acutely observed sociopolitical family saga which thoughtfully considers the myriad intricacies of Israeli Arab life.

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12:30 pm
Fri Jan 16
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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5:00 pm
Mon Jan 19
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8:15 pm
Tue Jan 20
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The Track

Dir. Ryan Sidhoo
91 min

In the middle of a mountain forest above Sarajevo, three boys train for the Olympics in a bullet-ridden luge track abandoned since the 1984 Winter Games. An ambitious, hopeful look at the next generation striving to overcome the sins of their fathers.

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3:10 pm
Fri Jan 16
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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1:00 pm
Sat Jan 17
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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12:00 pm
Sun Jan 18
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It Was Just an Accident

Dir. Jafar Panahi
105 min

Having offered some late-night assistance to a stranger in the wake of an auto accident, a mechanic grows convinced that he recognizes the supposed stranger’s voice as that of his torturer during a grueling prison spell.

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7:45 pm
Fri Jan 16
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Sat Jan 17
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Thu Jan 22
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Breaking the Waves

Dir. Lars von Trier
158 min

Kicking off our 2026 Pantheon series of the greatest films ever made, Lars von Trier's 1996 masterpiece is a devastating melodrama featuring an indelible performance from Emily Watson as the woman whose love for her husband knows no bounds.

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11:00 am
Sun Jan 18
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Tue Jan 20
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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