Victoria Film Festival Starts Friday!
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Sirât
Sunday, February 8 at 12:15 PM at The Vic Theatre
Wednesday, February 11 at 5:15 PM at The Vic Theatre
Oscar-nominated for Best International Feature Film and Best Sound
Winner of the Cannes Jury Prize the latest film by Oliver Laxe follows a father on a perilous journey through the Sahara alongside a community of ravers and his son to search for his missing daughter. (more...)
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EMERGENCE: Women in the Storm
Wednesday, February 11 at 2:30 PM at the Roxy Theatre
WORLD PREMIERE
Following recent natural disasters in British Columbia and the Northwest Territories, female frontline responders and community leaders demonstrate new ways to live and support one another in a rapidly changing climate. (more...)
Directors Nova Ami and Velcrow Ripper will be in attendance for a Q&A session.
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Mr. Nobody Against Putin
Monday, February 12 at 5:15 PM at the Roxy Theatre
Teacher and co-filmmaker Talankin secretly documents life inside his Russian primary school and risks everything to smuggle the footage to Europe, revealing how the state draws children toward its war. (more...)
Nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary
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Baby Doe
Thursday, February 12 at 5:00 PM at the Roxy Theatre
Filmmaker Jessica Earnshaw achieves extraordinary access to a devoutly Christian grandmother as she goes to trial for murdering her baby, which she claims was stillborn, 30 years before. (more...)
Filmmaker Jessica Earnshaw, raised in Victoria, will be in attendance for a Q&A.
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Blue Heron
Saturday, February 7 at 7:00 PM at Sidney's Star Cinema
Tuesday, February 10 at 7:45 PM at The Vic Theatre
The re-creation of an idyllic childhood summer on Vancouver Island bends cinema conventions as it reveals a growing crisis for a Hungarian-Canadian family in this VIFF award-winning debut from director Sophy Romvari. (more...)
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Miroirs No. 3
Wednesday, February 11 at 5:15 PM at the Roxy Theatre
After piano student Laura (Paula Beer) survives a car crash, a local woman, Betty (Barbara Auer), takes her in and cares for her. It’s a setup that seems like the start of a horror film, but in director Christian Petzold’s hands it unfolds into something far more delicate and achingly human. (more...)
Lisbon Film Festival João Bénard da Costa Special Jury Award
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| The Victoria Film Festival's five Short Bursts programs give you an opportunity to see the works of several different filmmakers all in one screening! |
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CineVic Screening 2026
CineVic is an artist-run society supporting independent filmmakers and media artists on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands with accessible programming, affordable equipment, professional development resources, and cinematic exhibition opportunities since 1991. Don't miss this showcase.
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For the Faint of Heart
Even though these films might make you feel a little emotional, they won’t scare, stress, or make you cry. Well, no guarantees — but we promise no jump scares.
Includes the Oscar-nominated The Girl Who Cried Pearls.
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This Really Happened
Reel stories of real people. From mountaintops to the open sea, you might find it on the news, but this will be an extra-extra, see-all-about-it headline.
Includes Field Notes From An Apocalypse by Victoria's Brett Gaylor.
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This, That, There and Where
From the island to the far edges of the world — stories born here, yet capable of carrying you anywhere. Lose yourself in these journeys, where the place you stand becomes entwined with the person you are.
Includes Weeping Fig by Victoria's Sohee Hong
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Try Not to Freak Out
This collection of genre-bending, out-of-this-world films will have your heart racing at maximum speed and your mind going a mile a minute. Seat belts won’t be provided, so you’ll need to hold on tight.
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You Heard it Here F1RST
Mesmerizing stories by Indigenous artists and tales that need to be told. You heard it here F1rst, and it won’t be the last you hear from these artists.
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