Vancouver International Film Festival

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 VIFF Cinema (formerly known as the Vancity Theatre) and Lochmaddy Studio Theatre at the VIFF Centre.

Both in terms of admissions and number of films screened (133,000 and 324 respectively in 2016), 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 originally had three main programming platforms: East Asian film, Canadian film, and nonfiction films. Currently, the program includes feature films, shorts, and documentaries from around the world, along with talks, workshops, and other live events related to cinema.

The organization offers artist development initiatives, including programs associated with the Institute for the Moving Image, which focus on professional development for filmmakers and creators.