VTIFF celebrates the holidays with this annual tradition: a festive screening of Wong Kar-wai's sumptuous yuletide masterpiece, a delicately mannered and visually extravagant evocation of romantic longing that has glided into the conversation of the best films ever made.

Blending remarkable performances from its stacked ensemble cast with director Jim Jarmusch’s wry and idiosyncratic observations, Father Mother Sister Brother—which won the Golden Lion this year in Venice—is an intimate exploration of the universal intricacies of family dynamics.

In his latest diabolical comedy-thriller, Park Chan-wook (Decision to Leave, The Handmaiden) crafts a precision-tooled fable about the cutthroat nature of contemporary work culture, a brilliant bitter pill full of twists you will never see coming, that only Park could pull off with this level of delirious showmanship.

Julia Loktev's kinetic documentary, a brilliant vérité paranoid thriller, follows several Russian dissident journalists, mostly young women, during the fall and winter of 2021-2022, in the lead up to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Julia Loktev's kinetic documentary, a brilliant vérité paranoid thriller, follows several Russian dissident journalists, mostly young women, during the fall and winter of 2021-2022, in the lead up to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.