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| Location | 1181 Seymour Street Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 3M7 |
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| Founded | 1958 |
| Founded by | Leonard Schein |
| Most recent | 2023 |
| Hosted by | Greater Vancouver International Film Festival Society |
| Festival date | September 26 – October 6, 2024 |
| Language | International |
| Website | www |
The Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) is an annual film festival held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, for two weeks in late September and early October.
The festival is operated by the Greater Vancouver International Film Festival Society, a provincially-registered non-profit and federally-registered charitable organization, which also runs the year-round programming of the Vancity Theatre and Lochmaddy Studio Theatre at the VIFF Centre.[1]
Both in terms of admissions and number of films screened (133,000 and 324 respectively in 2016),[2] VIFF is among the five largest film festivals in North America. The festival screens films annually from approximately 73 countries on 10 screens.
The festival has three main programming platforms: East Asian film,[3] Canadian film, and nonfiction films. Besides films from around the world, VIFF also includes talks, workshops, performances, and other special events related to cinema.
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- ^ "VIFF". Globe &MAil. Globe & Mail. Archived from the original on 2017-05-21. Retrieved 2 April 2015.