North American Premiere
Blurring the boundaries between the rendered and the real, Display Nature weaves CGI collages, photogrammetry, and live-action footage into a shifting refraction of the landscapes we construct and those that construct us. As cities, screens, and simulations become our primary encounters with the natural world, director Nicolas Gebbe traces the quiet estrangement that emerges when nature is transformed into image, spectacle, and commodity. In these synthetic terrains, perception itself becomes malleable, inviting us to ask whether, in reshaping nature, we have merely revealed our desire to remake ourselves.
Germany
2026
English
Indigenous & Community Access
Indigenous Access Tickets Community Access Tickets Ticket Donation Requests
Credits & Director
Producer
Nicolas Gebbe
Screenwriter
Nicolas Gebbe
Editor
Nicolas Gebbe
Original Music
Nicolas Gebbe
Nicolas Gebbe
Nicolas Gebbe was born in London in 1986. In 2018, he graduated from Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach with a major in film, and he currently lives and works as a 3D artist, filmmaker, and sound designer in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Gebbe’s work focuses on experimental 3D animation and hybrid film formats and includes animated short films that have screened at a variety of international festivals such as Locarno Film Festival, TIFF, and the London International Animation Film Festival. In 2022, his hybrid project The Sunset Special won the Hessian Film Award.
Missing VIFF? Check Out What's Playing at the VIFF Centre
American Doctor
One of the most powerful documentaries of the year, this puts us smack in the open wound that is Gaza, filtered through the eyes of three American surgeons (of Palestinian, Jewish and Zoroastrian backgrounds) compelled to do their utmost to alleviate harm.
The History of Concrete
After attending a workshop on pitching saccharine Hallmark movies, John Wilson tries to apply all the same best practices to his documentary about concrete. Frequently absurd and endlessly entertaining detours, asides, and digressions ensue.
La Bola Negra
A big, old-school historical melodrama gets a thrillingly modern, queer makeover from Spanish duo Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, who artfully juggle three gay protagonists across stories set in 1932, 1937, and 2017. Winner: Best Director, Cannes. Screening on 35mm.
A. Rimbaud
Patrick Wang (The Bread Factory) presents the life of French poet Arthur Rimbaud in this staggeringly adventurous and deeply considered movie, a three-hour, one-man show quite unlike anything we have seen before. "Poetic, audacious and singular."
The 39 Steps
In our new film studies series, FRAMEWORK, film scholar Michael van den Bos explores the work of Alfred Hitchcock, across four monochrome masterworks. This week: The 39 Steps (1935), a witty and fast-moving spy thriller from Hitchcock's English period.