Vancouver International Film Festival

Vancouver International Film Festival Celebrating the creativity and craft of storytelling on screen. 📽✨ In cinema at the VIFF Centre. We screen films from 70 countries on 9 screens.

Both in terms of admissions and number of films screened VIFF is among the five largest film festivals in North America. The international line-up includes the pick of the world’s top film fests and many undiscovered gems. Three main programming platforms make our festival unique: we screen the largest selection of East Asian films outside of that region, we are one of the biggest showcases of Can

adian film in the world and we have a large and important nonfiction program. Attracting a large, attentive and enthusiastic audience of film lovers, the festival remains accessible, friendly and culturally diverse. As the critics say, VIFF is very much a festival “designed for the benefit of people who love films and people who make them.”

For the gastronomers, this film is for you.Transcending the food movie genre whilst celebrating everything to love about...
06/07/2026

For the gastronomers, this film is for you.

Transcending the food movie genre whilst celebrating everything to love about Peru – MISTURA is on screen at the VIFF Centre next week.

Wealthy socialite Norma is devastated when her husband abandons her for a much younger woman. Encouraged by her driver, she elects to open a French restaurant in honour of her gastronome father, but it becomes clear that the restaurant is going to need to find something new, something more authentic, if it’s going to get people excited, thus sparking her adventure in Peruvian fusion food.

Screening June 12 - 28, get your tickets at viff.org.

This is Opening Night, Baby! Our Summer series, 90s, Baby!, kicks off on Friday June 19 the only way we know how: surf g...
06/07/2026

This is Opening Night, Baby! Our Summer series, 90s, Baby!, kicks off on Friday June 19 the only way we know how: surf guitar and iconic cinema.

The ReViberators, an instrumental surf rock trio from Vancouver, kick off the night at 6:30PM answering the call to keep this wild raucous music alive by taking a deep dive into surf music’s first wave. The band plays the early 1960s surf guitar hits alongside their own originals with an intensity and authenticity rarely heard today.

After the music comes the movie at 7:45PM, of course screened in 35mm. PULP FICTION scrambles the chronology of three interlocking narratives, as if in homage to Godard’s observation that a story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, “but not necessarily in that order”.

Get your tickets to this vibe of a night at https://viff.org/live/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=african_cinema_now

06/06/2026

Studio Ghibli meets the gruesomeness of Game of Thrones in ANOTHER WORLD (at least, according to 'The Guardian').

This Hong Kong anime hit boasts breathtaking visuals, a sophisticated ethical and philosophical drama, and an oddly structured, time-hopping narrative involving a headstrong young princess battling demons on either side of the afterlife in the company of spirit guide Gudo, who resembles a pint-sized automaton.

The film’s action scenes and intensity make it unsuitable for young children, but older anime fans should check it out for the impressive world-building, bold, ambitious storytelling and unpredictable, quirky vibe.

Come see ANOTHER WORLD at the VIFF Centre from June 12 - 18.

Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker Sara Dosa (FIRE AND LOVE) turns her attentions from volcanoes to glaciers ...
06/06/2026

Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker Sara Dosa (FIRE AND LOVE) turns her attentions from volcanoes to glaciers in TIME AND WATER.

In this singular, personal collaboration with the Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason, who writes two obituaries in the film, once for his father and once for Iceland's Okjökull (Ok) glacier, after the glacier was pronounced dead.

TIME AND WATER explores how we measure lives and time through our interactions with our aging parents and children. And, as glaciers ebb and flow through the season, that they too are living things — but climate change diminishes them, and already some have been extinguished. The sense of loss for those who have grown up alongside them runs deep.

Screening at the VIFF Centre from June 12 - 18. Tickets at viff.org.

06/05/2026

Hailed as one of the most important national portraits of the decade by Best Filipino Films of 2024

ALIPATO AT MUOG (Flying Embers and a Fortress), follows the journey of director JL Burgos in his family's 20-year search for his brother Jonas. Jonas was an organizer of peasant farmers, and was abducted by state forces at a shopping mall in broad daylight in 2007.

Screening at the VIFF Centre June 13-18. Get your tickets now:
https://viff.org/whats-on/alipato-at-muog/

It’s hard not to think of Succession when watching THE RICHEST WOMAN IN THE WORLD, as CEO Marianne’s heirs become increa...
06/04/2026

It’s hard not to think of Succession when watching THE RICHEST WOMAN IN THE WORLD, as CEO Marianne’s heirs become increasingly alarmed by flamboyant flatterer, agent of chaos, and potential usurper, Pierre-Alain.

Screening June 5 - 10 in our VIFF Cinema.

The success of Igor Bezinović's third feature, FIUME OR MORTE! is something to marvel at. Despite being quite a regional...
06/04/2026

The success of Igor Bezinović's third feature, FIUME OR MORTE! is something to marvel at. Despite being quite a regionally specific film about the Croatian city of Rijeka, following its occupation by Italy, FIUME O MORTE! resonates universally in a time where an authoritarian regime is present, or has been present, on every single continent, insisting that war is necessary.

But Bezinović rejects that. In this episode of the VIFF Podcast, Programmer and Program Lead Sonja Baksa sits down with Bezinović, discussing creativity that resists hegemony and Bezinović's most memorable moments in cinema.

This psychodrama is bold, deeply unsettling, and full of fears, daring us to face them. When Only Fans camboy Aaron Eagl...
06/03/2026

This psychodrama is bold, deeply unsettling, and full of fears, daring us to face them.

When Only Fans camboy Aaron Eagle shows up to meet an admirer in person for a promised $50,000, the guy sits Aaron down in front of a camcorder. He doesn’t want s*x (at least, not yet); he wants Aaron to tell him about his past. But he already seems to know more than he should: that Aaron is not his real name, for example.

Elliot Tuttle’s two-hander is a disturbing film which wades into very murky waters. It’s not graphic or explicit, but it does ask us to suspend our moral judgment towards a character we would doubtless condemn outside the frame of this story.

Screening June 5-10 at the VIFF Centre's Lochmaddy Studio Theatre. Tickets at viff.org.

06/03/2026

$10,000 for a bag of snakes? Going once, going twice, sold in THE PYTHON HUNT, winner of the Special Jury Award, Documentary Feature Competition at SXSW 2025.

In this slippery, larger-than-life documentary, we're taken to the Florida Everglades, overrun with unwanted visitors – Burmese pythons, decimating the local critters.

The state’s solution is an annual contest open to all: $10,000 to whoever bags the most snakes. Cue midnight mayhem as local misfits and out-of-towners converge on the glades, armed, dangerous, and ready to party.

Screening at the VIFF Centre June 5-10.

The FINAL deadline for submissions to is June 5. Get your submissions in by this Saturday at filmfreeway.com/viff.
06/02/2026

The FINAL deadline for submissions to is June 5. Get your submissions in by this Saturday at filmfreeway.com/viff.

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