Species (Sanguine): VIFF 2026
Species (Sanguine): VIFF 2026
The Vancouver International Film Festival returns for their 45th year this October 1-11 for another curated season celebrating the best in independent, Canadian, documentary, and international shorts and features.
Canadian Premiere
Margot is a young doctor beginning her career as an intern at a notoriously demanding French emergency room. The head of her department, Hélène, is a revered hard-ass who pushes her staff to their limits and expects the best in return. After a bumpy first day and a series of mysterious cases involving young people with bizarre symptoms, Margot wakes one morning to find her body and bedsheets covered in blood. Her symptoms appear to worsen with stress, and as the pressures of the job mount, strange lesions begin spreading across her torso.
Joining a new wave of French female filmmakers embracing body horror, Marion Le Corroller turns the anxieties of the modern workplace into something viscerally physical. With its gloriously gruesome skin-tearing effects, Species takes aim at a work culture that pushes young people to the breaking point in pursuit of success. Burnout becomes mutation and, in the grand tradition of Cronenberg’s New Flesh, the body rebels against what the mind has learned to endure.
Thursday, October 1
Doors: 8:45 pm | Film: 9:15 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.
Tickets HERE
VIFF thanks the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations for their continued stewardship of the unceded and occupied land on which our work takes place. As an organization founded and predominantly directed by settlers and immigrants, we understand our responsibility to seek out and build authentic relationships with Indigenous communities, and to allow this ongoing dialogue to influence our practices. As part of this process, we remain committed to collaborating with and supporting Indigenous artists, filmmakers, curators, and audiences.
