What's On
Lucid
Art student Mia is struggling with a make-or-break assignment, a self-portrait. It's only when grandma lets slip that her mom used to hypnotize her as a child to blank out the bad bits that she realizes the severity of the challenge...
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
Each month we are happy to share a film selected by one of our VIFF+ Premium members. May's Premium Pick is Baz Luhrmann's sensational Elvis documentary, EPiC, as chosen by Matt Ogglesby.
Space Cadet
VIFF Kids Club is our monthly family series with films, crafts and more! Doors at 11 am for activities, film at 12. Space Cadet is the enchanting Canadian animated tale of astronaut Celeste and her robot guardian, and their connection felt across the galaxy.
The Kidannes Ethio-Jazz Ensemble + Broken Flowers Film Screening
The Kidannes Ethio-Jazz Ensemble will be performing a unique blend of traditional Ethiopian & Eritrean music, combined with a healthy dollop of Western Jazz, in advance of the Jim Jarmusch movie which popularized Ethiopian Jazz in the West.
Greaser's Palace
Co-editor of Truth & Soul: A Robert Downey Sr Reader, Kier-La Janisse, introduces this satirical and irreligious acid western, halfway between El Topo and Blazing Saddles from Iron Man's dad.
The End of the Internet + Installation & Talk
Forget the cloud. "The net" is a far more accurate metaphor for the www. Filmmaker Dylan Reibling meets the hacktavists around the world fighting for the independent flow of information free from censorship and exploitation.
The Richest Woman in the World
Isabelle Huppert plays cosmetics CEO Marianne in this teasingly ambivalent satire inspired by the Bettancourt Affair, when L'Oreal heir Francoise Bettancourt scandalized France by frittering away her fortune on a notorious celebrity photographer.
Blue Film
This transgressive two hander puts an Only Fans camboy in a room with a secret admirer. Turns out they have history... Not an easy watch, but a film that will fuel discussion for those who are open to it.
The Python Hunt
Strange but true: the Florida Everglades are overrun with unwanted visitors. Not tourists, but invasive Burmese pythons decimating the local critters. The state's solution: an annual contest: $10 000 to whomever bags the most snakes in ten days.
Mārama
Set in North Yorkshire, 1859, this creepy gothic horror plays like The Piano in reverse: a young Maori woman takes up a position as a governess to a wealthy whaler's child, but finds colonial skeletons in his closets.
Van Django + Lacombe Lucien Film Screening
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.
The Leopard
Lampedusa's elegiac account of a 19th century Sicilian aristocrat, Prince Salina, fading into history is one of the pinnacles of Italian cinema, an epic which influenced the tempo and gravitas of The Godfather, Age of Innocence and The Deer Hunter.