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VIFF Centre - Vancouver International Film Centre

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Beyond film exhibitions.

VIFF strives to engage and empower communities, encourage dialogue, educate, and champion local artists.

Through decades of experience and inspired program development, VIFF has evolved into an acclaimed annual festival and a premiere arthouse cinema. With a complex and impactful festival and year-round program that boasts over 1500 annual screenings and events, VIFF has become the most prolific and engaging cinematic entity in the region.

Enjoy great movies at the luxurious VIFF Centre, voted one of the best cinemas in Vancouver and home to the prestigious Vancouver International Film Festival. Be sure to subscribe to VIFF NEWS to find out what’s on now and the latest scoop on the annual festival.

At VIFF, we believe in the power of film to bring people together, spark meaningful conversations, and celebrate local voices. Over the years, we’ve grown into one of Western Canada’s most vibrant cultural hubs — home to an acclaimed annual festival and a beloved year-round arthouse cinema. With more than 1,500 screenings and events each year, VIFF is where communities connect through film, where emerging talent finds its stage, and where film culture thrives all year long.

Our year-round home is the premiere arthouse of the Pacific Northwest. The deluxe VIFF Cinema, Lochmaddy Studio Theatre, Media Lab, VIFF Connect streaming platform and Education Suite host hundreds of screenings, talks, and community partnerships each year.

 

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VIFF – Vancouver International Film Festival

VIFF Centre - Vancouver International Film Centre
Vancouver
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October 2, 2025
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October 12, 2025
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The annual Vancouver International Film Festival showcases exceptional cinema in one of the world’s most beautiful cities. Our spectacular roster includes some of the best cinema from around the globe, one-of-a-kind live performances, talks, industry sessions, and other unique events celebrating film and film culture. With over 600 screenings and events each year, VIFF brings together curious audiences and passionate Read more...
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Wellness Travel BC Events

Wellness Travel BC
Vancouver
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April 11, 2025
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April 11, 2026
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Find more info on upcoming events at wellnesstravelbc.com.   Be sure to subscribe to the Wellness Travel BC newsletter to keep up-to-date with wellness-focused events in British Columbia and elsewhere! Read more...
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NDN Giver

Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art
Vancouver
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September 27, 2025
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February 22, 2026
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Bill Reid Gallery presents: NDN Giver NDN Giver explores the layered meanings within both everyday and extraordinary gifts that circulate through the potlatch. Blankets, coppers, canoes, prints, mugs, trade beads and devil’s club strung into necklaces all become carriers of law, memory, and relation to one another. The title NDN Giver reclaims a phrase rooted in colonialism that mocked Indigenous generosity. In reality, Read more...
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Enemy Alien: Tamio Wakayama | Vancouver Art Gallery

Vancouver Art Gallery
Vancouver
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October 3, 2025
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February 22, 2026
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“In looking back, I think the best work I did was of the people.” —Tamio Wakayama Enemy Alien is the first major solo exhibition and retrospective of works by documentary photographer Tamio Wakayama. His career, spanning over fifty years, began with his photographs of the Civil Rights Movement in the southern United States. Wakayama documented many of the social justice movements Read more...
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Jim Lambie: Zobop (Colour-Chrome)

Vancouver Art Gallery
Vancouver
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October 22, 2025
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October 12, 2026
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Jim Lambie transforms everyday architectural spaces into immersive, energetic experiences through his vibrant vinyl tape installations. These site-specific works are an extension of his acclaimed Zobop series, which uses brightly coloured strips of industrial vinyl tape to contour the architectural space, wrapping its form in optical rhythm and vivid saturation. Lambie is a Glasgow–based artist, DJ and musician. His practice Read more...
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Museum of Vancouver Events

Museum of Vancouver
Vancouver
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October 31, 2025
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February 5, 2026
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From artist talks and curatorial tours to workshops and performances, the Museum of Vancouver offers special events and programs for children and adults. Programming includes everything from Indigenous artisans, cultural celebrations, 2SLGBTQ+ content, civic engagement, food and gardening, crafting, film screenings, poetry readings, and more! Visit museumofvancouver.ca/events-programs to see what’s coming up at the MOV! Read more...
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Kihl ‘Yahda Christian White: Master Haida Artist I Bill Reid Gallery

Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art
Vancouver
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October 31, 2025
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February 5, 2026
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Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art presents: Kihl ‘Yahda Christian White: Master Haida Artist This landmark exhibition celebrates 50 years of work by renowned Haida artist Kihl ‘Yahda, Christian White. Curated by Sdahl Ḵ’awaas, Lucy Bell, it features highlights from Christian’s career alongside pieces by his apprentices. Known for his masterful argillite carvings, jewelry, and monumental works, Christian began Read more...
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Emily Carr: Navigating an Impenetrable Landscape

Vancouver Art Gallery
Vancouver
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October 31, 2025
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January 25, 2026
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When Emily Carr (1871–1945) wrote about landscape paintings—her own and those of others—she would sometimes describe how an eye might move through the imagined space in the work. It is striking, then, that so many of her own paintings create an experience of dense, impenetrable forest that confounds such forward movement. In many cases, the viewer is tantalized with the Read more...
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We who have known tides

Vancouver Art Gallery
Vancouver
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November 7, 2025
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We who have known tides begins from a poetic inquiry that seeks to understand what it means to exist at the edges of the Pacific Ocean. We who have known tides is an examination that unveils the ways in which the ocean and living in proximity to it has shaped the work of Indigenous artists, as well as their relation to territories across Read more...
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