"This is a festival built on passion, and it shows."VIFF 2025—(August 27, 2025) Fall movie season is just around corner. This means the city's eleven-day arthouse cinematic showcase, the 44th annual Vancouver International Film Festival, is almost upon us when it returns in a new timeslot at the beginning of next month. Make a plan for VIFF's yearly buffet of multimedia entertainment programming, featuring hundreds of local, national, and international films from across the globe, screened in celebration of contemporary filmmaking.
VIFF 2025 by the numbers:
- 11 days, 10 venues, 13 screens, 435 screenings
- 269 films: 172 features and 97 shorts
- 70 countries and 69 languages represented
- 38 Canadian features (12 BC productions)
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (dir. Mary Bronstein)
Displaced in a purgatorial motel, Rose Byrne's Linda turns to drugs, alcohol, and holotropic breathing to cope with the deamns of dealing with her daughter's mysterious illness. Audiences are immersed in her unraveling mental state as a mother at the end of her rope. (Panorama, USA)
Jay Kelly (dir. Noah Baumbach)
George Clooney plays the eponymous world-famous but dissatisfied movie star known for only ever playing versions of himself. While touring Europe with his manager (Adam Sandler), Jay reflects on the choices he's made. (Special Presentations, USA)
John Candy: I Like Me (dir. Colin Hanks)
Relive the Canadian screen icon who defined a generation of comedy despite his tragic early death. Celebrate his life and career in a hilariously heartwarming reflection of Candy's generous spirit and singular talent. (Portraits, USA)
Modern Whore (dir. Nicole Bazuin)
Memoirist Andrea Werhun recounts the highs and lows of her sexual encounters as an escort and stripper in Toronto. She debunks misconceptions about sex work while exposing the silencing effects of shame, stigma, trauma fetishization, and the vulnerabilities due to a lack of basic labour protections. (Northern Lights, Canada)
Mile End Kicks (dir. Chandler Levack)
A young Toronto music critic (Barbie Ferreira) moves to Montreal's vibrant Mile End neighbourhood to try to write about Alanis Morissette before she becomes enamoured with an underground indie rock band and falls for both the lead singer and guitarist. (Special Presentations, Canada)
VIFF Centre
Based on the Canadian web series and subsequent show, two best friends travel back in time to 2008, inadvertently wreak havoc on the timeline, rewrite their futures, and commit numerous pop cultural copyright violations. (Special Presentations, Canada)
No Other Choice (Eojjeolsugaeopda, dir. Park Chan-wook)
A recently fired man (Lee Byung Hun) schemes to ensure his future by inventing a fictitious paper company and dispatching his rivals, one by one. (Korea Spotlight, South Korea)
Nouvelle Vague (dir. Richard Linklater)
Witness cinematic history in the dramatization of the making of Jean-Luc Godard's masterpiece, Breathless, during the beginnings of the French New Wave movement in 1959. (Opening Gala, France)
Sentimental Value (Affeksjonsverdi, dir. Joachim Trier)
Don't miss The World Person in the World team's highly anticipated follow-up about a stage actress reconciling with her long absentee director father on the dawn of his new semi-autobiographical feature based on their fraught relationship. (Special Presentations, Norway/France/Denmark/Germany/Sweden/UK)
Wake Up Dead Man (dir. Rian Johnson)
Gather together to solve the third entry in the wildly entertaining A Knives Out Mystery franchise of twisty anthology whodunnits starring different all-star ensemble casts. (Special Presentations, USA)
Beyond film, VIFF also always offers a diverse lineup of live mixed-media programming carefully curated by a talented team of local artists and notable creators. This year's slate includes their VIFF Live (performances), Talks (filmmakers), Signals (digital), Industry (panels), Amp (music), and Labs (creators) programs back for the festival.
Check out these hot ticket events:
- Breaking the Rules: Janicza Bravo on Unconventional Narratives at the VIFF Centre on Oct. 4
- An Evening with Marc Maron: Are We Good? at the Rio Theatre on Oct. 5
- Visual Architect: Frederick Elmes on Cinematic Collaboration at SFU Woodwards on Oct. 8.
- From Intimate to Infinite with Writer Jenny Lumet at the Rio Theatre on Oct. 9
- Making It Happen with Producer Jeremy Dawson at the Annex on Oct. 10
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