2019 Vancouver International Film Festival

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Vancouver International Film Festival
Opening filmGuest of Honour by Atom Egoyan
Closing filmLa Belle Époque by Nicolas Bedos
LocationVancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Festival dateSeptember 26 - October 11, 2019

The 38th Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) took place from September 26 to October 11, 2019.[1] The opening film was Atom Egoyan's Guest of Honour, and the closing film was Nicolas Bedos's La Belle Époque.[2]

Awards[]

The festival award winners were announced on October 15.[3]

Award Film Director
People's Choice Parasite Bong Joon-ho
Most Popular Canadian Feature Red Snow Marie Clements
Most Popular Canadian Documentary Haida Modern Charles Wilkinson
Most Popular International Documentary Coup 53 Taghi Amirani
Best Canadian Film One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk Zacharias Kunuk
Best Canadian Film, Honorable Mention Blood Quantum Jeff Barnaby
Best Canadian Documentary Jordan River Anderson, the Messenger Alanis Obomsawin
Best Canadian Documentary, Honorable Mention My Dads, My Moms and Me Julia Ivanova
Best Canadian Short Film At the Bottom of the Sea Caroline So Jung Lee
Best Canadian Short Film, Honorable Mention The Physics of Sorrow Theodore Ushev
Emerging Canadian Director Murmur Heather Young
Emerging Canadian Director, Honorable Mention Kuessipan Myriam Verreault
Most Promising Canadian Director of a Short Film Acadiana Guillaume Fournier, Samuel Matteau, Yannick Nolin
Most Promising Canadian Director of a Short Film, Honorable Mention Labour/Leisure Jessica Johnson, Ryan Ermacora
Best BC Film The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Kathleen Hepburn
Sea to Sky Award The World Is Bright
BC Emerging Filmmaker The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
VIFF Impact Award Resistance Fighters
Rob Stewart Eco Warrior Award Peter Nelson

Films[]

Galas[]

Special Presentations[]

Contemporary World Cinema[]

Spotlight on France[]

Focus on Italy[]

  • Amare Amaro — Julien Paolini
  • Dafne — Federico Bondi
  • The Disappearance of My Mother — Beniamino Barrese
  • Dolce Fine Giornata — Jacek Borcuch
  • Marghe and Her Mother — Mohsen Makhmalbaf
  • Santiago, Italia — Nanni Moretti
  • Sole — Carlo Sironi

Vanguard[]

  • Bait — Mark Jenkin
  • Belonging — Burak Çevik
  • I, Wretched Man — Bastian Wilplinger
  • Miel-Emile — Peter van Houten
  • My Window — Rodrigo John
  • Off Season — Henning Beckhoff
  • One Man Dies a Million Times — Jessica Oreck
  • Ridge — John Skoog
  • Subject to Review — Theo Anthony
  • Vitalina Varela — Pedro Costa

Sea to Sky[]

True North[]

Future//Present[]

Impact[]

  • 63 Up — Michael Apted
  • Buddha in Africa — Nicole Schafer
  • Coup 53 — Taghi Amirani
  • The Euphoria of Being — Reka Szabo
  • Gateways to New York — Martin Witz
  • The Great Green Wall — Jared P. Scott
  • Human Nature — Adam Bolt
  • The Men's Room — Petter Sommer, Jo Vemund Svendsen
  • Midnight Family — Luke Lorentzen
  • My Father and Me — Nick Broomfield
  • The Pollinators — Peter Nelson
  • The Rabbi Goes West — Amy Geller, Gerald Peary
  • Reason — Anand Patwardhan
  • Resistance Fighters — Michael Wech
  • Scheme Birds — Ellen Fiske, Ellinor Hallin
  • Sea of Shadows — Richard Ladkani
  • A Seat at the Table — David Nash, Simon Mark-Brown
  • Stieg Larsson: The Man Who Played With Fire — Henrik Georgsson
  • Talking About Trees — Suhaib Gasmelbari
  • Trust Machine: The Story of Blockchain — Alex Winter
  • We Are Not Princesses — Bridgette Auger, Itab Azzam
  • The Whale and the Raven — Miriam Leuze
  • Wildland — Alex Jablonski, Kahlil Hudson

Gateway[]

M/A/D[]

  • Architecture of Infinity — Christoph Schaub
  • Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint — Halyna Dyrschka
  • Cunningham — Alla Kovgan
  • Devil's Pie: D'Angelo — Carine Bulsma
  • Edo Avant-Garde —
  • Eliades Ochoa: From Cuba to the World — Cynthia Biestek
  • Escher: Journey Into Infinity — Robin Lutz
  • It Was All So Wonderful: The Everyday Magic of Mary Pratt — Kenneth J. Harvey
  • Leonardo: The Works — Phil Grabsky
  • Martha: A Picture Story — Selina Miles
  • Neutra: Survival Through Design — Pi Letofsky
  • Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin — Werner Herzog
  • Other Music — Puloma Basu, Rob Hatch-Miller
  • Our Time Machine — Yang Sun, S. Leo Chiang
  • Stuffed — Erin Derham
  • System K — Renaud Barret
  • Ursula Von Rydingsvard: Into Her Own — Daniel Traub
  • Varda by Agnès — Agnès Varda
  • What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael — Rob Garver
  • Years of Construction — Heinz Emigholz

ALT[]

Canadian Shorts[]

  • At the Bottom of the Sea — Caroline So Jung Lee
  • The Beach Raiders — Tyson Breuer
  • Bumblebee — Adam Beck
  • Canaan — Wang Weibin
  • Chubby — Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Dusty Mancinelli
  • The Cut — Chloé Cinq-Mars
  • Days of Rage — Eli Jean Tahchi
  • Deady Freddy — Alicia Eisen
  • Delphine — Chloé Robichaud
  • Finding Uranus — Ivan Li
  • Flood — Joseph Amenta
  • Ghoulish Galactic Grievances — Josh Owen
  • Grandma's House — Sophy Romvari
  • Hand Job — Kara Hornland
  • Heart Bomb (Une bombe au cœur) — Rémi St-Michel
  • Highway to Heaven: A Mosaic in One Mile — Sandra Ignagni
  • I Am in the World as Free and Slender as a Deer on a Plain — Sofia Banzhaf
  • I'll End Up in Jail (Je finirai en prison) — Alexandre Dostie
  • In Which Life Continues Without Time — Sheridan Tamayo-Henderson
  • Jarvik — Emilie Mannering
  • Labour/Leisure — Jessica Johnson, Ryan Ermacora
  • Main Squeeze — Brendan Prost
  • My Heart Is Walking Around Outside of My Body — Matthew Taylor Blais
  • No Crying at the Dinner Table — Carol Nguyen
  • Now Is the Time — Christopher Auchter
  • The Physics of Sorrow — Theodore Ushev
  • Pick — Alicia K. Harris
  • Pinch — Diego Maclean
  • Pools — Seth Fluker
  • The Procession (Le Cortège) — Pascal Blanchet, Rodolphe Saint-Gelais
  • Shadow Trap — Damian Gillis, Michael Bourquin
  • Solastalgia — Millefiore Clarkes
  • The Spirit Keepers of Makuta'ay — Yen-Chao Lin
  • Standard of Care — James Rathbone
  • This Ink Runs Deep — Asia Youngman
  • Unkept — Michael P. Vidler
  • Venusian — Cameron Mackenzie, Suzanne Friesen
  • A Winter Morning — Manny Mahal

International Shorts[]

  • Amparo's Offerings — Leonel Chee
  • Call Connect — Indianna Bell, Josiah Allen
  • A Disappearance — Laura Spini, Laurence Brook
  • Disrepute — Stephane Mounkassa, Stefan Sundin
  • Diversion — Mathieu Mégemont
  • Family Hour — Maria Ponomarova
  • First Disco — Helen O'Reilly
  • Flush — Sheridan O'Donnell
  • Forgiveness — Marcello Cotugno
  • Grandpa — Clifford Miu
  • I Signed the Petition — Mahdi Fleifel
  • In the Shadow of the Guacari — Greg Mendez
  • The Interview — Ivan Sosnin
  • Itohime — Nao Izumi
  • Kill the Boy — Juan Pablo Villavicencio Borges
  • Lee Ann Womack's "Hollywood" — Chris Ullens
  • The Legend — Manon Eyriey
  • Liminaali & Communitas — Laura Rantanen
  • Long-Legged Nuria — Frank Vera Jimenez
  • Masmelos — Duvan Duque
  • Mortis — Xindi Lou
  • My Generation — Ludovic Houplain
  • Nurtured — Ben Pearce
  • O Holy Ghost — Mark Bradshaw
  • Pearl — Yuchao Feng
  • Romantica.com — Shay Fellner
  • The Sea — Cameron Richards
  • Song Sparrow — Farzaneh Omidvarnia
  • Taboo — Olivia Altavilla
  • Tangle — Malihe Ghloamzadeh
  • Tender — Anthony Lucido
  • Tolerance — Shaunoh
  • Vaca — Marta Bayarri
  • Way Back Home — Diego Freitas

Reel Youth[]

  • 2:00 — Maxence Pupillo
  • AMO — Hana Huang
  • Better Off — Jules Brown
  • Body Love — Grace Larey
  • Bottle — Yegor Bondarenko
  • Eyedentity — Yoo Jung Hong
  • Falling Deeper — Ryan Chow
  • Freedom of Breath — Yasin Farrokhi
  • Frozen in Place — Sasha Argirov
  • G.P.S. Girl Positioning System — Devin Johnson
  • Home Sweet Home — Sarah Andrews
  • Human Box — Tsai Chia-Jen
  • Jericho — Sarah Andrews
  • Marlene Heavyshields (Glowing in the Dark Woman) — Jubei Quesnelle, Jayna Creighton-Fox
  • Qirqqut — Kadence Kikoak
  • Sekani Dekelth — Jacoby Macdonald
  • Super Grandma — Isabella Spadone
  • To You — Amanda Blake, Maira Gimenes, Jin Lee, Emma Watson
  • Tracks — Alicia Holownia, Caitlin Mungall, Jessica Lau, Joud Shawwa, Paige Ingram, Sophie McLean
  • u really hurt me — Callahan Bracken
  • Wamin (The Apple) — Katherine Nequado

Shorts screened with features[]

  • Acadiana — Guillaume Fournier, Samuel Matteau and Yannick Nolin
  • Aquí y allá — Lina Rodriguez
  • Elvis: Strung Out — Mark Oliver
  • Forest on Fire — Reed Harkness
  • Happytime Social Club — David Rodden Shortt
  • I'm Not Next — Tristin Greyeyes
  • Lily — Adrienne Gruben
  • Memoirs — Aaron Zeghers
  • Names for Snow — Rebecca Thomassie
  • Preface to a History — Devan Scott, Will Ross
  • Question Period — Ann Marie Fleming
  • Sofia — Nikolay Michaylov
  • Throat Singing in Kangirsuk — Eva Kaukai, Manon Chamberland
  • Turns — Mariano Sosa
  • When the Children Left — Charlene Moore
  • Wildfire — Bretten Hannam

Modes[]

  • Amusement Ride — Tomonari Nishikawa
  • Cavalcade — Johann Lurf
  • L'Étoile de mer (The Starfish) — Maya Schweizer
  • Hard On — Joanna Rytel
  • Interbeing — Martina Hoogland Ivanow
  • Kasiterit — Riar Rizaldi
  • New Acid — Basim Magdy
  • Stay Awake, Be Ready — Pham Thien An
  • The Stroker - Pilvi Takala
  • Swatted — Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis
  • Swinguerra — Barbara Wagner, Benjamin De Burca
  • Umbra — Florian Fischer, Johannes Krell

References[]

  1. ^ Dorothy Woodend, "VIFF in a Jiff, the 2019 Edition". The Tyee, September 24, 2019.
  2. ^ "VIFF announces opening and closing films, plus special events". Daily Hive, September 5, 2019.
  3. ^ Craig Takeuchi, "Indigenous films, Parasite, and more take top honours at 2019 Vancouver International Film Festival". The Georgia Straight, October 15, 2019.

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