Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Stories

Feb 19th – March 2nd 2021

DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND WE HAVE EXTENDED TO MARCH 9th

“The Most Cutting-Edge Storytelling Festival in the World.”
~ Huffington Post

PURCHASE TICKETS TO FIVARS in FEB

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS 2021

THE VILLAINESS

Militia Vox’s THE VILLAINESS is a visual feast of heavy psychedelia. The immersive experience features award-winning anthemic rock music, surreal…

Frozen Tears (VR-Therapy)

Frozen Tears is a fiction-documentray-hybrid VR-film that portrays a group therapy session with 6 actors and a real psychotherapist. Except…

DeepLight One

From Virtuality & DeepLight Labs, take a trip inside the heart of CARL—the flagship prototype of the incredible limited-edition DeepLight…

Spiral of Strength

A poetic inner journey created with the music of Steve Roach and the visuals of Audri Phillips

Don’t Forget Me

In early summer 1944, at the height of the frenzied deportation of Hungarian Jewry, fourteen-year-old George Brent, his parents, and…

Human/Art/Object

Human/Art/Object uses immersive media to start a conversation about objectification, the definition of art, and what it means to be…

Welcome to the Other Side – Zero Gravity

Jean-Michel Jarre performed live from a studio near the cathedral in Paris, while his avatar played inside a virtual Notre-Dame….

JK’s Tunnel

Take a trip to a drainage tunnel off the L.A. River, where someone named “JK” carved his artwork — odd…

Amends

A journey through the reflections of an upbringing with a now estranged mother.

All Her Bodies

All Her Bodies merges poetic storytelling and volumetric filmmaking inside of a VR world. Individual stories of interiority are recounted…

Rukh

Rukh is a piece about isolation and longing, bringing about the desire to fly off to a magical land. We…

Mirror: The Signal

What is a memory? Delving into the question of memories and meaning, travel through Claris’ memories as she becomes the…

NEWS

FIVARS 2021 Spotlight: The Land of Milk & Honey

The Land of Milk and Honey grapples with fertility, loss and the physical, poetic and psychological complexities of the human…

FIVARS 2021 Spotlight: I Prevail feat. Joyner Lucas – DOA (Official 360° VR Music Video)

Virtuality presents a “VR Remix” of the original music video, featuring intimate hi-res band performance mixed with innovative picture-in-picture techniques….

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PRESS

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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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