VQFF's Opening Gala film celebrates the most simultaneously disgusting and visceral bits of the human experience: bodily functions, sodomy and death.

Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague is a valentine, a love letter, to Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless, the 1960 film which helped launch the French New Wave.

Agatha’s Almanac is a delightful film from Amalie Atkins, about octogenarian Agatha Bock, who is still working her 54-acre farm in Manitoba. Agatha is a gem, and a role model to us all: “There are many things I would do if I could, which I don’t, because I can’t. You just have to accept the fact that it’s part of aging.”