Vancouver International Film Festival

Celebrating the creativity and craft of storytelling on screen. 📽✨ In cinema at the VIFF Centre.

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Your Spring Break just got animated!

Join us for a celebration of Pixar’s early years (1995–2010) with Generation Pixar!

Youth Tickets are just $10 and adults can save with 3 shows for $42: https://t.co/Ir1OowjZSA

Images (c) Disney Pixar

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@TheJUNOAwards are coming up in three short weeks. 🎶 Nominated for Best Adult Alternative Album is @Elisapie, who we were lucky enough to have grace the @ChanCentre stage for #VIFF2024 as part of our #VIFFLive series. We're rooting for you Elisapie!!!

Photos by Jan Gates

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To infinity… and beyond! 🚀

From TOY STORY to WALL-E, Pixar redefined animation. Now, VIFF brings its most iconic films back to the big screen with expert talks, trivia, and live music. Generation Pixar runs March 17-30.

https://t.co/bVw6vDHccs

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Why did THERE'S STILL TOMORROW outshine BARBIE in Italy? Paola Cortellesi’s feminist dramedy, set in postwar Rome, became a national sensation—here's why. (via @nytimes)

Don’t miss this critically acclaimed hit at VIFF Centre, March 7–16!

https://t.co/zRb7gf5SyR

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Sight and Sound praises THERE'S STILL TOMORROW as a bold and darkly comic melodrama that blends neorealism with satire. Directed by Paola Cortellesi, the film was a massive hit in Italy.

Read the full review.

https://t.co/GBT06YcHnb

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"The images may be decades old, but this stand is timeless."

THE STAND is a powerful exploration of Indigenous resistance, focusing on the 1985 Haida standoff over unceded land: a critical moment in history.

THE STAND screens from today to March 10.

https://t.co/xuI2cnnPyy

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"The images may be decades old, but this stand is timeless."

THE STAND is a powerful exploration of Indigenous resistance, focusing on the 1985 Haida standoff over unceded land: a critical moment in history.

THE STAND screens from today to March 10.

https://t.co/XBIH926BNc

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Plug in and revisit one of our favourite episodes of the VIFF Podcast! 🎧

We talked to sound designer Mark Mangini on creating epic sound art for films including DUNE, for which he's up for an Academy Award this year.

Listen now!
https://t.co/rdVCci8DtU

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One-time VIFF Live performer Elisapie was nominated for a JUNO Award last week! Her album "Inuktitut" is a cover album featuring translated versions of Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Blondie, Fleetwood Mac, Metallica, Queen, and Cyndi Lauper songs.

https://t.co/nCeYcrFtxD

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Secure a year's-worth of movie dates and gift a VIFF+ membership to the one you love💌🍿 A VIFF+ membership will score the recipient free popcorn vouchers, free guest tickets, discounts to the VIFF concession + advance access to #VIFF2025.

https://t.co/wZ5i4h5N5t

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Kier Junos spoke with African Cinema Now! curators Kika Memeh and Fegor Obuwoma.
https://t.co/XMTURTayDz

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"[MONGRELS'] VIFF debut was nothing short of triumphant... A haunting and visually stunning exploration of grief, survival, and identity, Mongrels tells the story of a Korean immigrant family in 1990s rural Canada."

MONGRELS screens at VIFF, Feb 14-19. https://t.co/xs72Xb3bqE

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This Valentine's Day, join the VIFF Centre for the Diamond Anniversary Screening of DOCTOR ZHIVAGO with 2-for-1 tickets for you and your favourite movie lover.

February 14, 7:30 pm
🍸 Plus: Pre-order a Nicelife cocktail to your online ticket purchase.

https://t.co/MnckTSXSfa

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Catch a special screening of CONCLAVE, the Oscar "dark horse" that��s shocking audiences, on February 13 at 1:30 pm, followed by a talk with Carlos Diehz in his breakout role as Cardinal Benitez.

🎟️ Tickets here: https://t.co/EbcbJ6B3kU

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LES ENFANTS DU PARADIS is a sumptuous melodrama that defies the Occupation stringencies under which it was made.

On Sunday, February 16, the screening will feature a 20-minute introduction and talkback with VIFF Year Round programmer Tom Charity.

https://t.co/I1f5e4jIZY

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Canadian filmmaker @SookYinLee joins VIFF to discuss @payingforitfilm Feb. 15 + 16.

Starring Emily Lê as Sook-Yin stand-in "Sonny" and Dan Beirne as Brown, PAYING FOR IT is affectionately comedic, matter of fact, and sex positive.

Get Your Tickets Here: https://t.co/63tP7jdTUy

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"Celebrate Black History Month With Live Events, Films, Docs and More at the VIFF Centre."

https://t.co/39pYrcQqc7

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IN TRIBUTE TO DAVID LYNCH
Starring David Bowie, Chris Isaac, and Sheryl Lee, TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME is "the most bizarre, shocking, intense, and heartrending American movie of the past three decades."

Catch it at the VIFF Centre, Feb. 11 | 8:30 pm

https://t.co/m2P3pizAMA

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"PLAY IT LOUD! transports us to the ‘60s, and Mathieson crafts a vivid image of life on the road for Jay Douglas and the Cougars."

Read more from @readxrange

https://t.co/GkrMRvHEbU

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Celebrate BC Family Day with the launch of the VIFF Kids Club—a new year-round destination for family-friendly fun!

We're screening Tim Burton's JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH along with a kids activity and peachy treats starting at 11 AM!

Tickets: https://t.co/BJJppM7ts7