OFFICIAL SELECTIONS 2020

tx-reverse

In a way never before seen, “tx-reverse” shows a collision of reality & cinema & draws its viewers into a vortex in which the familiar order of space & time

FIVARS 2019 Special Talks and Panels

FIVARS 2019 Special Talks and Panels

FIVARS Talks, Panels and Special Presentations are included with the purchase of any ticket/wristband. They run daily in the Expansion Space at the Toronto Media Arts Centre from 4-5pm. Get

The Holy City

The Holy City is an interactive exploration of faith set in Jerusalem and told in Extended reality. Title: The Holy City VR Experience Director: Nimrod Shanit, Timur Musabay Format: Interactive

Pagan Peak

Pagan peak VR takes the player on a journey to the darkest corners of the human mind. The player finds themselves in a mysterious alpine cabin, captured by the Krampus

Battlescar

1978 New York City. Lupe, a Puerto Rican American 16 year old, meets Debbie on the cell of a juvenile detention center. Debbie will introduce Lupe to the punk rock

EX Anima Experience

Ex Anima Experience is a VR experience of an equestrian choregraphy. Have we become too educated? Too civilized? We do not wish to give a final answer to this question.

The Man and the Elk Dog

Listen to your dreams. Title: The Man and the Elk Dog Director: Mandy Stobo Format: 360, Genre/Niche: 360 Experimental Country: Canada Running Time: 4m Thanks to Storyhive, and The Light Factory, this VR film leans

2nd Step

2nd Step is a soaring VR journey through space from moon to mars and beyond. In the VR film, the viewer gets a very intense feeling of being in the middle of

See all of FIVARS Official Selections for 2020

SUBMIT YOUR WORK

The FIVARS festival promotes the world’s finest Virtual Reality & Augmented & Mixed Reality stories year round. Will your project be one of those featured in this year’s catalog of selections to represent the vanguard?

Submit your VR, AR, XR work to FIVARS 2020

NEWS

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PRESS

“Slowly but surely virtual reality (VR) movies and experiences are becoming just as important as VR videogames”
VRFocus.com

“A new wave of international filmmakers who are pushing the boundaries of cinema and narrative using Virtual Reality”
Embreate
“FIVARS pushes the limits of Virtual Reality”
DorkShelf
“Virtual Reality isn’t the stuff of fantasy any longer. Thanks to FIVARS, Canada’s first virtual reality film festival, this super-charged tech is destined to change how we experience on-screen storytelling.”
Digital Journal
“Stellar works were exhibited, each pushing the form in novel ways.”
VRScout

“Virtual reality has already changed film and gaming. Now it’s coming for theatre”
Toronto Life

“Movies, video games, art — our vocabulary simply doesn’t do justice to the kind of sheer visceral experience offered by this new generation of virtual reality. The only way to really understand it is to experience it first-hand, when FIVARS in Toronto arrives…Here are some experiences that will turn VR skeptics into fanatics”
Culturetrip.com

“One of the…global virtual reality events you shouldn’t miss this September, 2016”
Haptic.al
Watch FIVARS Founder Keram Malicki-Sanchez discuss the VR zeitgeist at with Business News Network (BNN) at FIVARS 2016

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Watch FIVARS Founder Keram Malicki-Sanchez discuss the VR zeitgeist at with Business News Network (BNN) at FIVARS 2016

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