FIVARS

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Earlybird Submission Deadline is April 14, 2023

OFFICIAL FALL SELECTIONS 2022

Cosmic•Atomic (Fall 2022 Edition)

Cosmic•Atomic synchronizes the short film Powers of Ten with its ancestors/descendants, placing the viewer within a 360 degree kaleidoscopic ring…

Passive

Kingdom of Plants with David Attenborough

Welcome to a strange and dangerous world: The Kingdom of Plants. David Attenborough narrates this three part series that will…

Passive

David Attenborough’s First Life

Join David Attenborough as you journey 3.5 billion years into the past to witness the origins of life on our…

Passive

Tearless

TEARLESS moves through the haunting spaces of "Monkey House," a medical prison used to isolate U.S. military comfort women with…

Passive

Iago: The Green Eyed Monster

A musical augmented reality experience that explores the story of Shakespearean villain Iago, reimagined as a woman.

Passive

Antigone’s of the Pandemic

Antigones of the Pandemic is a three-part opera celebrating the countless volunteers who fought for dignified burials during the COVID19…

Interactive

We Should Meet in Air

Have a conversation on the telephone with poet Sylvia Plath on her thirtieth (and last) birthday.

Interactive

Namuanki

Journey to an ancient aquatic oasis with creator and Academy award-winning VFX artist, Kevin Mack.

Interactive

Diagnosia

This interactive VR experience immerses you in the haunting memories of the director who was imprisoned in a "re-education camp"…

Passive

Alex Honnold : The Soloist VR

Follow Alex as he takes you on a whirl wind tour of his stomping grounds in the US and then…

Interactive

Stories of Home

Stories of Home VR depicts three unique personal narratives of “home” as place, memory, object and experience told by three…

Interactive

OffRail

The worlds' greatest VR comedy improvisors from productions that include "The Under Presents" and "Dr. Crumb's School for Disobedient Pets"…

Passive

Paar

Drawing on the eerie past of the site’s animal anatomical research, two ghostly beings dance across parallel spaces, whilst discovering…

Passive

When Pixels Were Precious

A nostalgic look at the early experimental days of computer graphics made on an Apple II computer as related by…

Interactive

Blood Relations

In collaboration with the National Film Board of Canada, “Blood Relations” is Analee Weinberger’s whimsical interactive VR documentary about an…

See all of the Official Selections Fall 2022

Check out the 2021 FIVARS Awards Ceremony!

Listen to Executive Director Keram Malicki-Sanchez talk about FIVARS curation with Kent Bye on The Voices of VR. Featuring a very special purchasable ecoNFT showcase on Samsung's 4K UHD The Frame - Oct 15th - 17th in West Hollywood. Learn more about the showcase artists - must be seen with your own eyes!

NEWS

FIVARS Fall 2022 Immersive Stories Festival – The Complete Guide

FIVARS International Immersive Stories Festival Returns For Its 10th Show - With Special In-Person Dates In Toronto

Critically-Acclaimed International FIVARS Festival Launches Immersive Showcase in 2 Cities, While Pushing the Limits of Web3D

LOS ANGELES, February 18th, 2022 – The 9th FIVARS Festival of International Virtual & Augmented Reality Stories, is set to…

FIVARS 2021 Award Winners and A Year in Review

FESTIVAL of International Virtual & Augmented Reality Stories The 7th and 8th FIVARS Festival of International Virtual & Augmented Reality…

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PRESS

“I see FIVARS as a shining example of what a festival should be doing to ensure that XR can become more accessible, now, and for generations to come.”

XRMust

My lens into the 360 medium has been indelibly shaped by the curatorial vision of the major film festivals, which has had a very specific threshold for storytelling & form. It’s refreshing to see something distinctly different with Keram Malicki-Sanchez’s curation of FIVARS.
Kent Bye, Voices of VR

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

VRFocus.com

“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

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