What's On
Raise the Red Lantern
Among the greatest of Chinese films, Raise the Red Lantern is an unforgettable critique of sexual subjugation. Gong Li is the young, beautiful fourth concubine to a powerful landowner, living in fiercely luxuriant competition with her three predecessors.
The Musical
In this wickedly mean spirited black comedy, middle school drama teacher Doug decides to write and direct a musical designed to get himself fired, and maybe the school closed down...
Kubo and the Two Strings
VIFF Kids Club is our family series with films, crafts and more! Doors at 11:00 am for activities, film at 12:00 pm. Kubo and the Two Strings follows Kubo on an epic quest filled with magic, a visually stunning stop-motion adventure.
A Generation
Wajda's first film is set in Warsaw, 1942 and concerns a young man much like himself, living in squalor and doing his best to disrupt the German Occupation, eventually falling in with a Communist-leaning Resistance cell.
Strangers on a Train
Sociopath Charles Bruno (Robert Walker) strikes up a conversation with star tennis player Guy Haynes (Farley Granger) and makes him a gentleman's proposition: Bruno will kill Guy's unloved wife, on the understanding that he will return the favour.
Loving Vincent
Winner of the VIFF Audience Award, Best International Feature in 2017, Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman's remarkable animated work — billed as "the world's first fully painted feature" — brings to life the paintings of Vincent van Gogh (and vice versa).
Innocent Sorcerers
The closest Wajda got to a new wave film (and in fact it was shot before Godard's Breathless) this is an edgy romance about a womanizing jazz musician who hooks up with a liberated young woman over the course of an evening. Scripted by Jerzy Skolimowski.
Minotaur
Russia, 2022. While contending with the fallout of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a corporate executive tries to insulate his home life from the consequences of the war. But when he discovers that his wife has been unfaithful, things start to implode.
Hen
You'll be cheering on the daring adventures of the unnamed chicken in this one-of-a-kind live action escape movie from director György Pálfi (Hukkle), one of the oddest but most compelling films of the year.
