Festival Screening – October 4, 2015 @ 7:30 PM at The Woodstock Playhouse The Forbidden Room is Guy Maddin’s ultimate epic phantasmagoria. Honoring classic cinema while electrocuting it with energy, this Russian nesting doll of a film begins with the crew of a doomed submarine chewing flapjacks in a desperate attempt to breathe the oxygen […]
First Festival Screening – October 3, 2015 @ 9:30 PM at The Cineplex Eau Claire Last Festival Screening – October 4, 2015 @ 2:15 PM at The Cineplex Eau Claire In the early 1970s, a fear raced through America like wildfire: vague and shadowy “cults” were enthralling the country’s youth. In response, many families looked […]
First Festival Screening – October 2, 2015 @ 1:30 PM at The International Village Last Festival Screening – October 5, 2015 @ 8:45 PM at The Vancouver Playhouse Muybridge, played by Michael Eklund, is an obsessive observer of motion: horses galloping, humans jumping. In the 1880s, he took more than 100,000 photographs as part of […]
Festival Screening – October 1, 2015 @ 6:30 PM at The Woodstock Playhouse Remember tells the story of Zev Guttman (Academy Award Winner Christopher Plummer), a 90-year-old Holocaust survivor struggling with Dementia who is living out his final years in a bucolic retirement home. A week following the death of his beloved wife Ruth, he […]
Festival Screening – October 1, 2015 @ 7:00 PM at Globe Downstairs A group of teenagers are unable to escape the abandoned school they are exploring and must deal with an angry ghost who has possessed the virgin in the group; a couple deals with the consequences of cutting down a Christmas tree in the […]
Festival Screening – October 1, 2015 @ 7:00 PM at The Landmark Cinemas City Centre Mix bhangra beats, AK-47s, bespoke suits, cocaine… and you have Beeba Boys. An explosive clash of culture and crime! Jeet Johar (Randeep Hooda) and his crew of young, charismatic men vie to take over the Vancouver drug and arms scene […]
First Festival Screening – September 27, 2015 @ 8:45 PM at The Rio Theatre Last Festival Screening – October 3, 2015 @ 4:00 PM at The Rio Theatre If you can’t take the nudity and coarse language, stay out of Salam Kahil’s deli. The moment Lewis Bennett’s fascinating documentary takes us inside the shop, the […]
First Festival Screening – September 26, 2015 @ 8:30 PM at The Rio Theatre Last Festival Screening – October 2, 2015 @ 4:00 PM at The SFU Woodwards Here’s an interesting premise: Women develop the ability to reproduce asexually. Furthermore, males are no longer being born and have become, unsurprisingly, an endangered species. They’ve disappeared […]
Both in terms of admissions and number of films screened (144,000 and 349 respectively in 2014) VIFF is among the five largest film festivals in North America. We screen films from more than 70 countries on nine screens, including the pick of the world’s top film fests and many undiscovered gems. Three main programming platforms […]
Festival Screening September 24, 2015 @ 7:00 PM at Theatre Junction Grand The fun, upbeat camaraderie juxtaposed with devastating battle scenes and b-roll that Gross shot while in Afghanistan truly captures the reality of warfare. Although Canadian audiences are not unfamiliar with the modern-day war genre due to the recent popularity of American military films […]
