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El 47

Dir. Marcel Barrena
110 min

Winner of five Goya Awards including for Best Film, this is the true story of a frustrated bus driver who hijacks his own bus to draw attention to the neglected shantytown on the outskirts of Barcelona where he made his home in the 1950s.

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3:15 pm
Sat Jan 10
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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8:45 pm
Tue Jan 13
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Afternoons of Solitude

Dir. Albert Serra
125 min

Pacification director Albert Serra turns his unflinching gaze on the subject of bullfighting, and in particular the famous young matador Andrés Roca Rey. The film challenges us to look its subject square in the eye and draw our own conclusions.

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5:45 pm
Sat Jan 10
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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3:00 pm
Wed Jan 14
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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The Plague

Dir. Charlie Polinger
95 min

At a water polo camp, Ben is plunged into the deep end of toxic peer pressure. Terrified of incurring his campmates’ wrath, he joins them in tormenting a kid whose skin rash has been branded “the plague”. But then he experiences a breakout of his own...

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6:50 pm
Sat Jan 10
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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7:00 pm
Sun Jan 11
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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4:00 pm
Mon Jan 12
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Maspalomas

Dir. Aitor Arregi & Jose Mari Goenaga
115 min

Vincente came out of the closet late in life. But elects to go back in it when he's sent to a nursing home. Under the influence of his gregarious roommate, he starts to regain some of his old spark...

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8:30 pm
Sat Jan 10
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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3:30 pm
Mon Jan 12
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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The Executioner

Dir. Luis García Berlanga
92 min

Regularly cited as the greatest Spanish film ever made, Berlanga's masterpiece is a pitch black comedy about an undertaker lined up by the state executioner to marry his beautiful daughter -- but he'll also have to inherit the old man's job.

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2:00 pm
Sun Jan 11
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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5:50 pm
Wed Jan 14
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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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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