Lenses - Vancouver IFF

In the shadow of coastal cedars and the glint of glass towers, where the Pacific’s breath mingles with alpine air, *Lenses - Vancouver Indie IFF* emerges as a prism for the unseen. Like the Salish Sea’s tidal currents—carrying whispers of ancient forests and the clamor of gold rush dreams—this festival becomes a conduit for narratives that refract through time, space, and soul.

Each film is a droplet on the festival’s panoramic window—a transient distortion that clarifies as it rolls. Imagine the indie spirit as Gastown’s steam clock: unassuming, persistent, marking moments mainstream chronometers ignore.
Even the city’s infamous rain becomes a metaphor: here films don’t just ‘show’—they ‘rinse’, revealing worlds where celluloid and cedar share the same grain.

Lenses will be presenting 7 best of best films at Beta Collective Burnaby on 27th of July including Q&A with authors, workshop, filmmakers networking and spirit of creation.

Lenses - is not another film festival. It’s a lighthouse on the edge of the known, casting beams that turn ripples into tsunamis. Because in a city built on trade routes and tectonic whispers, every frame is a bridge. Every story, a compass. Let your story be the one that lays down the route