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Filmmaker Panos Cosmatos finds Mandy in a ZZ Top wallet

The path to a demented masterpiece begins in a Victoria market.

Iconic Hollywood actor Burt Reynolds has died at age 82

Guess who is currently ripping around heaven in a black Trans Am?

Museum of Symmetry offers a wild romp through colourful VR worlds

Screened in countries including Germany and France as well as Canada, the success of the experience is made all the more remarkable because of its length.

Vancouver Latin American Film Festival hits sweet 16

VLAFF is all grown up! We pick five of the best from this year's program.

In a city where racism runs rampant, Crazy Rich Asians isn't inflammatory—it's necessary

Bubbling below the film's sumptuous surface is a story all too familiar to Western-raised people of colour: one of identity and assimilation.

Disney’s first VR movie Cycles is a tear-jerker, says director Jeff Gipson

The three-minute short pays homage to the lives of his grandparents.

Latin film fest sends viewers to Cocaine Prison

An extraordinary work of docu-fiction arrives courtesy of VLAFF's spotlight on Andean cinema.

Vancouver filmmaker Ryan Sidhoo talks Grizzlies, Raptors and capturing a different kind of Canadian culture with basketball documentary True North

Nine-part series focuses on Toronto’s flourishing basketball scene

Haunting doc takes Alexander McQueen at his word

The iconoclastic fashion giant is remembered in this extravagant and affecting portrait.

Vancouver Queer Film Festival: Director Yen Tan takes us back to 1985

... And he's using a white DeLorean to do it.

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