Arts & Letters
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Cinema can convey the power of the other arts – architecture, dance, painting and music, especially music – in astonishing ways. Big-screen sound and image facilitates a special kind of intimacy and quality of encounter that is unique. This very popular subsection of Nonfiction Features highlights great performances and in-depth visits with some of our greatest artistic talents. Come see. Come hear.
The Vancouver International Film Festival is Canada’s second-largest “documentary festival,” with an estimated 63,000 of VIFF’s total 150,000 admissions attending the nonfiction portion of the fest. And they are extremely popular with our discriminating audience. No wonder we’re described as “the world’s largest documentary festival that isn’t a documentary festival.”
