2019 Vancouver International Film Festival

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]

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

Awards

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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 Ying Wang
BC Emerging Filmmaker The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
VIFF Impact Award Resistance Fighters Michael Wech
Rob Stewart Eco Warrior Award The Pollinators Peter Nelson

Films

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Galas

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Special Presentations

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Contemporary World Cinema

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Spotlight on France

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Focus on Italy

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Vanguard

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Sea to Sky

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True North

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Future//Present

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Impact

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Gateway

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M/A/D

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  • Architecture of InfinityChristoph Schaub
  • Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint — Halyna Dyrschka
  • Cunningham — Alla Kovgan
  • Devil's Pie: D'Angelo — Carine Bulsma
  • Edo Avant-GardeLinda Hoaglund
  • 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 PrattKenneth J. Harvey
  • Leonardo: The WorksPhil Grabsky
  • Martha: A Picture Story — Selina Miles
  • Neutra: Survival Through Design — Pi Letofsky
  • Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce ChatwinWerner 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 OwnDaniel Traub
  • Varda by AgnèsAgnès Varda
  • What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael — Rob Garver
  • Years of ConstructionHeinz Emigholz

Canadian Shorts

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International Shorts

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  • 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 PetitionMahdi 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

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  • 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

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Modes

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  • 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

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