
The 21st annual Gender Equity in Media Festival (GEMFest) returns to Vancouver at the VIFF Centre from March 5–8, 2026, with a lineup of 5 films from 13 countries.
Brazilian director Gabriel Mascaro’s poignant and visually striking drama The Blue Trail blends dystopian speculation with deeply human storytelling.

Paul Thomas Anderson has won the top award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film for One Battle After Another at the 78th Directors Guild of America DGA Awards.
Late Shift, the new drama from Swiss filmmaker Petra Volpe, stars Leonie Benesch as Floria, a dedicated nurse working in an understaffed surgical ward where every moment counts and every choice can change a life.
Directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett return with Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, the darkly hilarious blood-soaked sequel returns with Samara Weaving as Grace MacCaullay, now hunted not just by one in-law family but by four rival houses vying for ultimate power.
Sony Pictures Classics has finally announced a release date for A Magnificent Life (Marcel et Monsieur Pagnol), the animated English-language feature biopic film on the life of 60-year-old playwright, novelist, and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol.
Independent Film Company is teasing horror fans with the release of the teaser trailer for Faces of Death, offering a glimpse at the film “inspired by one of the most infamous cult movies ever made.”
HBO dropped the official trailer for Murder in Glitterball City, a two-part documentary that chronicles a 2010 murder case in Louisville, Kentucky.
Kate McKinnon, Rashida Jones, and Daveed Diggs star in In the Blink of an Eye, director Andrew Stanton’s live-action science fiction drama.

The 33rd South by Southwest (SXSW) Film & TV Festival has added new films to the lineup, including the world premiere of Vicky Jewson’s Pretty Lethal.
Inspired by a true story, filmmaker Stephanie Laing’s latest drama Tow stars Rose Byrne as Amanda Ogle, a determined Seattle woman whose life is turned upside down when her aging car, her only shelter and means of survival, is stolen and then impounded, triggering a punishing fight with a predatory towing company.