Vancouver International Youth Film Festival

Vancouver International Youth Film Festival The Vancouver International Youth Film Festival brings young talented filmmakers to the big screen.

We started in 2018 and collaborate closely with the Vancouver Chinese Film Festival.

Join us on June 27 at 5365 Lane Street for a curated screening featuring the Shorts category! Link in bio to purchase ti...
06/19/2026

Join us on June 27 at 5365 Lane Street for a curated screening featuring the Shorts category! Link in bio to purchase tickets.

🎥 Film Lineup
- Love from the Machine? (Maxence Harbour)
- Slowly, With You (Kenneth Joe-Ezigbo)
- The Red Jacket (Agustín Silva Ocampo)
- Don’t Come In (Taylor Stezinar)
- Wingman (Tyler Rubis)
- The Rendezvous (André Marinez)
- Oh, God! (Lilou Maillot)

Total Runtime: Approximately 90 minutes
Date & Time: Saturday June 27, 1:00PM - 2:30PM
Location: Columbia Music School, 5365 Lane Street, V5H 0H1
Age Restriction: 12+

Join us on June 27 at 5365 Lane Street for a curated screening featuring documentaries! Link in bio to purchase tickets....
06/19/2026

Join us on June 27 at 5365 Lane Street for a curated screening featuring documentaries! Link in bio to purchase tickets.

🎥 Film Lineup
- Chronically (Taite Isabel O’Neill Koehler)
- Project Walk (Aviv Bokovza Mariash and Albert Kotora)
- Paper Trail (Vivian Cheung)
- The Doms: Kings of the Pyre (Sudhi Singh)
- L’endotique (Cheikh Mbacké Diop)
- Mei Mei (Karolyn Luo)
- Us and Them (India Anne Mitchell)
- a small city called Taishan (Jordan Wu)

Total Runtime: Approximately 210 minutes
Date & Time: Saturday June 27, 3:00PM - 6:30PM
Location: Columbia Music School, 5365 Lane Street, V5H 0H1
Age Restriction: 12+

Join us on June 26 at InFocus Film School for a curated screening featuring the Horror/Thriller category! Link in bio to...
06/19/2026

Join us on June 26 at InFocus Film School for a curated screening featuring the Horror/Thriller category! Link in bio to purchase tickets.

🎥 Film Lineup
- Pimp My Su***de (Elliot Nicholas)
- Therion (Cohen Hulcoop)
- S*x Bomb (Victoria Loyo)
- Tailor Made (Omkar Prasanna Mohare)
- The Molding (Cole Winny)
- Killer Vacancy (Julian Cipriano)
- The Performer Says Nothing (Ellis Seaborn Allard and Gabriel Dominic Knight)
- Auto Erotic (Ellis Seaborn Allard and Gabriel Dominic Knight)
- The Homecoming (Koki Hasegawa)
- The School is Cursed (Jamie Eang)
- Fractured Acts (Yeimy Daza)
- Gentleman’s Laughter Club (Rachel LeJeune)

Total Runtime: Approximately 120 minutes
Date & Time: Friday June 26, 6:00PM - 8:00PM
Location: InFocus Film School, 554 Seymour St, V6B 1J5
Age Restriction: SENSITIVE CONTENT WARNING. May include violent or sexual themes. 16+

Join us on June 27 at InFocus Film School for a curated screening featuring the category Multilingual Shorts! Link in bi...
06/19/2026

Join us on June 27 at InFocus Film School for a curated screening featuring the category Multilingual Shorts! Link in bio to purchase tickets.

🎥 Film Lineup
- The Beautiful Burial (Aria Amirmoini)
- DANDELION (Ayden Rhee)
- A MOTHER’S VOICE (Alena Parfenovich Traykovskaya)
- Geethai (Akhil J Narayanan)
- Mandalay (Askold Oksanich)
- Winter Tamarind (Anna Sreekullkorn)
- Gentle Laundry (CHIEN-HUNG LAI)

Total Runtime: Approximately 40 minutes
Date & Time: Saturday June 27, 1:00PM - 1:40PM
Location: InFocus Film School, 554 Seymour St, V6B 1J5
Age Restriction: 12+

Join us on June 27 at InFocus Film School for a curated screening featuring the category Animation! Link in bio to purch...
06/19/2026

Join us on June 27 at InFocus Film School for a curated screening featuring the category Animation! Link in bio to purchase tickets.

🎥 Film Lineup
- Stop Watering Dead Plants (Marien Ruenes Amarante)
- SPEED (Aaditya Rao Taleppady)
- Fortress Besieged (Lang Han)
- Shapes of Us (Aranza Bergés Navarrete and Emilio Terrazas Rocha)
- The Quiet Glow (Milan Kaur and Nova Sinon)
- Echoes of the tree (Ana Valeria C.Tamez, Lizbeth Alessandra Gonzalez, Maria Christina Saavedra)
- Reach for the Stars (Mikhael Telias)

Total Runtime: Approximately 150 minutes
Date & Time: Saturday June 27, 2:00PM - 4:30PM
Location: InFocus Film School, 554 Seymour St, V6B 1J5
Age Restriction: 12+

Join us on June 26 at InFocus Film School for a curated screening featuring the Animation category! Link in bio to purch...
06/19/2026

Join us on June 26 at InFocus Film School for a curated screening featuring the Animation category! Link in bio to purchase tickets.

🎥 Film Lineup
- DOR (A***n Ramos)
- Grandma: Vampire Slayer (Mariana Betancourt)
- Rufus (Eden Bryson)
- Reap of the Tiller (Circé Marithé Roy van Mierlo)
- Sunset (Fernanda Rodriguez)
- ROBOCAT (Robyn Mallory)
- The Deadline (Kayla Anne Bergeron)
- The Clown Film (Silvan Ghahri)
- Journey To Something Somewhere... (Isabelle Yu)
- Way of the Albatross (Maggie Wang)
- Mirror Sister (Lucy Heegan)
- Kindred (Ege Kucukgirgin, Guillermo Viramontes Alanis, Ana Camila Torchia, Fernanda Oyarzun Jamett)

Total Runtime: Approximately 90 minutes
Date & Time: Friday June 26, 4:30PM - 6:00PM
Location: InFocus Film School, 554 Seymour St, V6B 1J5
Age Restriction: 12+

Join us on June 26 at InFocus Film School for a curated screening featuring the Experimental category! Link in bio to pu...
06/19/2026

Join us on June 26 at InFocus Film School for a curated screening featuring the Experimental category! Link in bio to purchase tickets.

🎥 Film Lineup
- The Man Who Came Back From The Future (Yuri Kakuya)
- ACTOR PLAYED ACTOR (Yuri Kakuya)
- Bandit of the Badlands (Sully Eastwood Metzger)
- DAM! 2 (Sully Eastwood Metzger)
- NEST (Dana Elizondo Pulido)
- The Hunt (Dana Elizondo Pulido and Soléne Pango Salas)
- The Dance of the Flowers (Alena Parfenovich Traykovskaya)

Total Runtime: Approximately 90 minutes
Date & Time: Friday June 26, 2:45PM - 4:15PM
Location: InFocus Film School, 554 Seymour St, V6B 1J5
Age Restriction: 12+

Join us on June 26 at InFocus Film School for a curated screening featuring the Short category! Link in bio to purchase ...
06/19/2026

Join us on June 26 at InFocus Film School for a curated screening featuring the Short category! Link in bio to purchase tickets.

🎥 Film Lineup
- I Will See You, Starling (Ellis Seaborn Allard)
- The Assassin in My House (Steven Michael Hogan Galea)
- The Fallon Files (Evelyn Geen and Phaedra Williams)
- Dreaming (Teagen David Moore Chacon)
- Miss Stratford (Sydney Shelton)
- Watched (Alex Druken-Greene)
- «control» (Piña Cisneros)
- Best Anchor (Cristina Yao)
- Midnight Snack (David Lucas Chang)

Total Runtime: Approximately 90 minutes
Date & Time: Friday June 26, 1PM - 2:30PM
Location: InFocus Film School, 554 Seymour St, V6B 1J5
Age Restriction: 12+

Join us on June 25 at InFocus Film School for a featured screening of The Christopher Nolan Experience! Link in bio to p...
06/19/2026

Join us on June 25 at InFocus Film School for a featured screening of The Christopher Nolan Experience! Link in bio to purchase tickets.

🎥 Film Lineup
- The Christopher Nolan Experience (Matthew Putnam and Diego Pereira)

Total Runtime: Approximately 75 minutes
Date & Time: Thursday June 25, 7:45PM - 9:15PM
Location: InFocus Film School, 554 Seymour St, V6B 1J5
Age Restriction: 12+

Join us on June 25 at InFocus Film School for the first screening of VIYFF 2026, featuring Local Shorts! Tickets availab...
06/19/2026

Join us on June 25 at InFocus Film School for the first screening of VIYFF 2026, featuring Local Shorts! Tickets available now. Link in bio.

🎥 Film Lineup
- Grandma’s Praying (奶奶在禮拜) (Matthew Jin)
- Anatomy of a scam (Ismail El fallahi)
- Deaf Date (David Levy and Paul Persic)
- Cuz (Lianne Guo and Erin Mae Lopez Docherty)
- Gambit (Isabella Fernández López)
- Remnant (Derrek Visentin)
- The Mourning Hour (Dylan Wray)

Total Runtime: Approximately 105 minutes
Date & Time: Thursday June 25, 11:00AM - 1:00PM
Location: InFocus Film School, 554 Seymour St, V6B 1J5
Age Restriction: 12+

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Gain all access to VIYFF 2026 by purchasing our Festival Pass, which includes:

- Entrance to over 10 curated short film screenings
- 72 Hour Filmmaking Workshop
- Screenplay Masterclass taught by Sheldon Larry
- Sound Design workshop hosted by Carlos Ruiz
- Access to gear, location, and onsite support from InFocus Film School
- Live Panel Talk
- Closing Gala & Screening

Check out our website for more information.

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