In the 30 years since the inaugural Vancouver International Film Festival, a plethora of film festivals have sprouted up across North America and on every continent in the world, some to a lot more fanfare than is the case with our beloved VIFF. But after three decades, the Vancouver International Film Festival keeps evolving, enabling film lovers on the west coast of Canada an opportunity each year to screen provocative independent, Canadian, Asian, foreign and non-fiction films, as well as adaptive musical performances from eclectic performers, all the while providing a sometimes despairing, but generally hopeful, window on our often troubling world.
In 2011, the VIFF cinematic juggernaut runs for 16 days from Thursday, September 29th through Friday, October 14th, and in that time, at five venues — mostly in the downtown peninsula, including the Empire Granville 7, the VISA Screening Room at the Vogue Theatre, the Vancity Theatre at the Vancouver International Film Centre on Seymour at Davie, Pacific Cinémathèque on Howe Street, and outside of downtown, on Cambie at 18th, at Festival Cinemas’ Park Theatre — viewers can see more than 375 films: 235 features from 75 countries across the globe.

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