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Deaf

Dir. Eva Libertad
100 min

Writer-director Eva Libertad has made a revealing, compassionate film about the fears and anxieties of a deaf woman (played by Libertad's sister, deaf actress Miriam Garlo) who is about to have a baby.

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4:00 pm
Sun Jan 11
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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The Flamenco Guitar of Yerai Cortés + Por Derecho (On Their Own Right) Live

Dir. Antón Álvarez
95 min

Winner of the Goya Award for Best Documentary, this is an exquisite and surprisingly intimate portrait of the brilliant young guitarist Yerai Cortés, preceded by an hour of passionate flamenco music, song and dance performed by Por Derecho.

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7:30 pm
Sun Jan 11
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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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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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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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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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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8:00 pm
Tue Jan 20
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

Dir. Anna Hints
89 min

Within the confines of a smoke sauna deep in an Estonian forest, groups of women gather to cleanse themselves in both body and soul, sharing in traditional sauna-based rituals, while also revealing their hurts and longings, joys and pains.

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11:00 am
Tue Jan 27
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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L'Atalante

Dir. Jean Vigo
89 min

Jean Vigo died from TB in 1934 at the age of 29. Yet he is revered as one of the great innovators of the medium, and his only feature, L'Atalante, is a seminal film, a tender, lyrical love story set on a barge on the Seine.

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11:00 am
Sun Feb 15
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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6:20 pm
Tue Feb 17
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Cold War

Dir. Pawel Pawlikowski
89

This month's Talking Pictures screening (coffee and cookies on the house!) is a Polish love story about a musical director who falls under the spell of a singer while on a Communist-sponsored mission to package native folk songs for the social good.

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11:00 am
Tue Feb 17
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Antonia's Line

Dir. Marleen Gorris
102 min

This month's Pantheon selection spotlights the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, the Dutch feminist filmmaker Marleen Gorris, and her charming, vibrant tale of an emancipated farmer who refuses to conform.

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11:00 am
Sun Mar 15
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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5:50 pm
Tue Mar 17
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Sansho the Bailiff

Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
124 min

The third of the great Japanese masters (with Ozu and Kurosawa), Mizoguchi is a poet of suffering. There's plenty of that here in his exquisite telling of an ancient folktale about the enslavement of a woman and her two children.

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11:30 am
Sun Apr 19
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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5:50 pm
Tue Apr 21
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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