Darkness and light, as seen by VIFF’s favourite Buddhist erotist. Part of the TOKYO LOOP animation anthology produced by ImageForum Japan.

The allegorical story of two humanized birds - father and son, who usually walk the earth and fly only in case of danger. The two birds are out for a...

Grandma and Grandpa, a couple of old people are trying to hold up the retirement home's cafeteria for a fistful of Toffees.

Ingmar Bergman's "Cries and Whispers" retold in a single minute.

Silhouette film. Based on Bizet’s opera “Carmen”.

Winnie the Pooh and friends decide to throw a birthday celebration for gloomy, old Eeyore.

In the depths of an Indian forest, an English colonist decides to hunt a supposedly sacred monkey. The rumor says that this monkey is eternal but is...

A group of people are celebrating, sitting around the table. The celebration cake is served but unevenly divided among them...

A mouse invites his girlfriend to a bullfight and ends up in the ring when the matador is defeated.

A lonely man lives with his pet on a small island and longed to get to 'other people.'

A filmmaker talks about his work and love life with an unseen friend behind the camera. We also watch four of his short films.

Poignant stories of homelessness on the West Coast of the US frame this cinematic portrait of a surging humanitarian crisis.

A worn-out, aging shearer who once rained king of the high country, gets on the gear to keep up his numbers. But when the drugs take over he must...

Jennifer Dulos, the wealthy, Connecticut mother-of-five who mysteriously vanished.

Finley Tremaine, a small-town farm girl, longs to spread her wings and soar as an aspiring performer. When a Hollywood film crew arrives in her...

When something horrible happens to the only survivor of a bloody massacre, an insecure rookie cop must overcome his fears to stop further carnage.

Thomas is a meek man on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Despite his situation he decides to fake a work trip to go to Vallarta to confront Jero, a...

Veteran comedy writer Charlie Berns, who is slowly but surely losing his grip on reality, befriends a talented young New York street singer Emma...

When a young Master Ip stops a kidnapping, he ignites a turf war with a ruthless human-trafficking ring. In retaliation, the gang kidnaps one of Ip...

A close examination of the Whakaari / White Island volcanic eruption of 2019 in which 22 lives were lost, the film viscerally recounts a day when...