Judy's Garden

A bodybuilder returns home to care for his ailing father in Ian Bawa's debut feature. A moving exploration of masculinity, filial duty, and the emotional distance between first-generation immigrant parents and their children.

Winner of this year’s prestigious Un Certain Regard award at Cannes, Sandra Wollner’s exquisite debut is a tender drama in which a mother is drawn closer to her youngest daughter and her late daughter’s boyfriend as they make sense of a shared tragedy.

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Olive Nwosu’s dazzling feature debut follows a young taxi driver who reluctantly takes on a side job chauffeuring a group of sex workers to their nocturnal visits across Lagos.

VIFF is honoured to present the Canadian debut of experimental music duo Los Thuthanaka, whose spiraling Aymara rhythms, ceremonial textures, and psychedelic sounds combine into a transcendent live AV experience.

In Denis Côté’s atmospheric dystopian drama, a taciturn woman facilitating euthanasia requests begins to question her purpose after crossing paths with an enigmatic man.

This graceful, serene drama brings former sisters-in-law together in an exploration of art, sexuality, and psychology. There’s a complex backstory here, but not a hint of melodrama: writer-director Koji Fukada is a master of subtle revelation.

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