Features
VIFF 2019: L.A. Tea Time
French-Canadian filmmaker Sophie Bédard Marcotte's documentary takes us on a road trip to Los Angeles in search of artistic direction. Read more
VIFF 2019: Nomad - In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
Werner Herzog memorializes Bruce Chatwin, in a fantastic film. “I will follow a similar erratic quest for wild characters, strange dreamers and big ideas about the nature of human existence.” Read more
VIFF 2019: Varda by Agnès
In her final film, French filmmaker Agnès Varda explains her approach to art and creativity with attention to detail and joy. Read more
VIFF 2019: Water Over Glass
Jason Zumpano, a Vancouver musician and composer, creates dreamy vintage-inspired music as inspiration for four filmmakers in this collaborative work. Read more
Jon Snyder
VIFF 2019: Pop-Up Magazine
The 'live magazine' show brought stories of a cow on the loose in Alaska, energy healers in Arizona, an uncle who was a disco star in the Philippines, and the secret joy of the televised car chase. Read more
Photo by James Lyndsay
PuSh 2017: Backstage in Biscuit Land
Comedy, puppetry, song and Tourettes. Read more
VIFF 2017: Good Luck
A long haunting (and amazing) documentary film shot at two very different mines - one in Serbia and one in Suriname. Read more
VIFF 2017: Forest Movie
A Vancouver film about experience, atmosphere and letting your mind wander. Read more
VIFF 2017: Maison du Bonheur
What defines a person? A beautiful apartment, a smile, a collection of shoes, memories? A Canadian filmmaker in Paris spends a month unraveling and illuminating one woman's life. Read more
Photo by Vicky Shin
PuSh Festival 2018: Foxconn Frequency (no. 3)
Cacophony and spectacle in a truly genre-defying work of lights, noise, numbers and keyboards. Read more
Paul Blakemore
PuSh Festival 2018: History History History
Deborah Pearson screens a Hungarian political satire about soccer interspersed with commentary and a family quest. Read more
VIFF 2016: Harold and Lillian, A Hollywood Love Story
Colourful look behind the scenes in this tale of an artist and a researcher. Read more
VIFF 2016: Yarn
Colourful threads weave (puns!) a story from sheep to the great artistic beyond. Read more
VIFF 2016: The Infinite Flight of Days
Jericó, a small town in the Colombian Andes, is illuminated through the lives of its female elders. Charming, gorgeous, heart-breaking. Read more
VIFF 2016: Portrait of a Garden
A year of pruning, planting, watering and harvesting in a Dutch estate kitchen garden. Read more
VQFF 2016: Lovesong
The VQFF program called Lovesong a story about two women “on the edge of something exciting,” but the most enjoyable parts of the film were the little things. Read more