Name: Lunar New Year’s Love Festival
Start: 2026-02-14T12:00:00-08:00
End: 2026-02-14T17:00:00-08:00
Location: Vancouver Public Library

$Lunar New Year\u2019s Love Festival$

The Vancouver Public Library, Janus Films and Kanopy are happy to announce a unique collaboration for Lunar New Year and Valentine's Day. Spend Valentine's Day and get an early start to the Lunar New Year in the company of other film lovers.
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Program:
12pm - A very special screening of Wong Kar Wai's film In the Mood for Love, with huge thanks to film distribution company Janus Films.
Synopsis: Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) and Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung Man-yuk) move into neighbouring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are formal and polite—until a discovery about their spouses creates an intimate bond between them. At once delicately mannered and visually extravagant, Wong Kar Wai’s In the Mood for Love is a masterful evocation of romantic longing and fleeting moments. With its aching musical soundtrack and exquisitely abstract cinematography by Christopher Doyle and Mark Lee Ping-bin, this film has been a major stylistic influence on the past 25 years of cinema.
Rating: PG / Runtime: 98 mins
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2pm - A speed friending session for film lovers, share your favourite film with potential new friends in a series of rapid conversations of 6 minutes each.
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3pm - And for food lovers, we will do a special screening of Kanopy's film The Donut King!
Synopsis: The rise and fall of a Cambodian refugee who escaped genocide and overcame poverty to build a life for himself — and hundreds of other immigrant families — by baking America’s favourite pastry and building an unlikely empire of donut shops.
Rating: PG / Runtime: 99 min
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Please register. Registration is required to attend as seating is limited, and it helps us anticipate attendance and send a reminder the day before the event, or any updates about this program.
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VPL is committed to making our programs accessible for all. If you have an access need that we have not addressed here, please email us at [email protected].
*Elevator access to the Montalbano Family Theatre on level 8 is available with the main elevators on level 2.
*The theatre has three wheelchair accessible spaces in the front row on the right hand side.