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]
| Opening film | Guest of Honour by Atom Egoyan |
|---|---|
| Closing film | La Belle Époque by Nicolas Bedos |
| Location | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Festival date | September 26 - October 11, 2019 |
Awards edit
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 edit
Galas edit
- Guest of Honour — Atom Egoyan (Opening)
- La Belle Époque — Nicolas Bedos (Closing)
Special Presentations edit
- Ford v Ferrari — James Mangold
- Harriet — Kasi Lemmons
- A Hidden Life — Terrence Malick
- Jojo Rabbit — Taika Waititi
- Just Mercy — Destin Daniel Cretton
- The Laundromat — Steven Soderbergh
- The Lighthouse — Robert Eggers
- Marriage Story — Noah Baumbach
- Motherless Brooklyn — Edward Norton
- Mr. Jones — Agnieszka Holland
- No.7 Cherry Lane — Yonfan
- Pain and Glory — Pedro Almodóvar
- The Painted Bird — Václav Marhoul
- Parasite — Bong Joon-ho
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire — Céline Sciamma
- The Song of Names — François Girard
- Sorry We Missed You — Ken Loach
- The Two Popes — Fernando Meirelles
- Young Ahmed — Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Contemporary World Cinema edit
- Adam — Maryam Touzani
- And Then We Danced — Levan Akin
- Babysplitters — Sam Friedlander
- Bacurau — Kleber Mendonça Filho
- Beanpole — Kantemir Balagov
- Burning Cane — Phillip Youmans
- Castle of Dreams — Reza Mirkarimi
- Chained — Yaron Shani
- Checkered Ninja — Anders Matthesen
- Cherry Blossoms & Demons — Doris Dörrie
- The Day After I'm Gone — Nimrod Eldar
- Divine Love — Gabriel Mascaro
- A Dog and His Man — Siddharth Tripathy
- Dogs Don't Wear Pants — J-P Valkeapää
- Fourteen — Dan Sallitt
- Frankie — Ira Sachs
- I Was at Home, But — Angela Schanelec
- The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão — Karim Aïnouz
- It Must Be Heaven — Elia Suleiman
- Joel — Carlos Sorín
- Koko-di Koko-da — Johannes Nyholm
- Lara — Jan-Ole Gerster
- The Last to See Them — Sara Summa
- Little Joe — Jessica Hausner
- Noah Land — Cenk Ertürk
- Once in Trubchevsk — Larisa Sadilova
- Out of Tune — Frederikke Aspöck
- Port Authority — Danielle Lessovitz
- Queen of Hearts — May el-Toukhy
- The Realm — Rodrigo Sorogoyen
- Retrospekt — Esther Rots
- Scarborough — Barnaby Southcombe
- Sometimes Always Never — Carl Hunter
- Song Without a Name — Melina León
- Spider — Andrés Wood
- Staff Only — Neus Ballús
- Stitches — Miroslav Terzić
- Synonyms — Nadav Lapid
- Tehran: City of Love — Ali Jaberansari
- Temblores — Jayro Bustamante
- Those Who Remained — Barnabás Tóth
- Vai — Nicole Whippy, Becs Arahanga, Amberley Jo Aumua, Matasila Freshwater, Dianna Fuemana, Mīria George, 'Ofa-ki Guttenbeil-Likiliki, Marina Alofagia McCartney
- A Voluntary Year — Ulrich Köhler, Henner Winkler
- The Whistlers — Corneliu Porumboiu
- A White, White Day (Hvítur, Hvítur Dagur) — Hlynur Pálmason
- Yuli — Icíar Bollaín
Spotlight on France edit
- Amanda — Mikhaël Hers
- By the Grace of God — François Ozon
- Deerskin — Quentin Dupieux
- I Lost My Body — Jérémy Clapin
- Joan of Arc — Bruno Dumont
- Les Misérables — Ladj Ly
- Oh Mercy! — Arnaud Desplechin
- The Specials — Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache
- Who You Think I Am — Safy Nebbou
Focus on Italy edit
- 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 edit
- 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 edit
- Ash — Andrew Huculiak
- The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open — Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Kathleen Hepburn
- Daughter — Anthony Shim
- Haida Modern — Charles Wilkinson
- My Dads, My Moms and Me — Julia Ivanova
- Raf — Harry Cepka
- Red Snow — Marie Clements
- Water Over Glass — Kellen Jackson, Zoe Kirk-Gushawaty, Amanda Thomson, Jimi Pantalon
- The World Is Bright — Ying Wang
True North edit
- The Acrobat (L'Acrobate) — Rodrigue Jean
- American Woman — Semi Chellas
- And the Birds Rained Down (Il pleuvait des oiseaux) — Louise Archambault
- Assholes: A Theory — John Walker
- A Brother's Love (La femme de mon frère) — Monia Chokri
- Castle in the Ground — Joey Klein
- Clifton Hill — Albert Shin
- Conviction — Ariella Pahlke, Teresa MacInnes, Nance Ackerman
- Cranks — Ryan McKenna
- Easy Land — Sanja Zivkovic
- Jordan River Anderson, the Messenger — Alanis Obomsawin
- Kuessipan — Myriam Verreault
- L.A. Tea Time — Sophie Bédard Marcotte
- One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk — Zacharias Kunuk
- Rustic Oracle — Sonia Boileau
- Symphony in Aquamarine — Dan Popa
- Three Feathers — Carla Ulrich
- To Live to Sing — Johnny Ma
- When We Walk — Jason DaSilva
- White Lie — Yonah Lewis, Calvin Thomas
Future//Present edit
- Anne at 13,000 Ft. — Kazik Radwanski
- Danny — Aaron Zeghers, Lewis Bennett
- Killer Queen — Ramin Fahrenheit
- MS Slavic 7 — Sofia Bohdanowicz
- Murmur — Heather Young
- Tapeworm — Fabián Velasco, Miloš Mitrovič
- Tito — Grace Glowicki
- The Twentieth Century — Matthew Rankin
Impact edit
- 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 edit
- Another Child — Kim Yoon-seok
- Balloon — Pema Tseden
- Birthday — Lee Jong-un
- Boluomi — Lau Kek-Huat, Vera Chen
- The Cave — Tom Waller
- Children of the Sea — Ayumu Watanabe
- Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains — Gu Xiaogang
- Every Day a Good Day — Tatsushi Ōmori
- Hard-Core — Nobuhiro Yamashita
- Krabi, 2562 — Ben Rivers, Anocha Suwichakornpong
- Lost Course — Jill Li
- Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom — Pawo Choyning Dorji
- Melancholic — Seiji Tanaka
- No Longer Human — Mika Ninagawa
- Present. Perfect. — Shengze Zhu
- Samsara — Moon Jeong-yun
- The Shadow Play — Lou Ye
- Spring Tide — Yang Lina
- Still Human — Oliver Siu Kuen Chan
- Vanishing Days — Zhu Xin
- Wet Season — Anthony Chen
- White Snake — Amp Wong, Zhao Ji
- The Wild Goose Lake — Diao Yinan
- Wild Sparrow — Shih Li
M/A/D edit
- 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 — Linda 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 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 edit
- Blood Quantum — Jeff Barnaby
- Boyz in the Wood — Ninian Doff
- Come to Daddy — Ant Timpson
- The Death of Dick Long — Daniel Scheinert
- Extra Ordinary — Mike Ahern, Enda Loughman
- Greener Grass — Jocelyn DeBoer, Dawn Luebbe
- In the Tall Grass — Vincenzo Natali
- Judy and Punch — Mirrah Foulkes
- Knives and Skin — Jennifer Reeder
- The Lodge — Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala
- Paradise Hills — Alice Waddington
Canadian Shorts edit
- 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 (La Coupure) — 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 — Émilie 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 edit
- 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 edit
- 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 edit
- Acadiana — Guillaume Fournier, Samuel Matteau and Yannick Nolin
- Elvis: Strung Out — Mark Oliver
- Forest on Fire — Reed Harkness
- Happytime Social Club — David Rodden Shortt
- Here and There (Aquí y allá) — Lina Rodriguez
- 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 edit
- 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 edit
- ^ Dorothy Woodend, "VIFF in a Jiff, the 2019 Edition". The Tyee, September 24, 2019.
- ^ "VIFF announces opening and closing films, plus special events". Daily Hive, September 5, 2019.
- ^ Craig Takeuchi, "Indigenous films, Parasite, and more take top honours at 2019 Vancouver International Film Festival". The Georgia Straight, October 15, 2019.
External links edit
- Official website (from Internet Archive Wayback Machine, archived during the 2019 festival)
- VIFF 2019 Factsheet (from official site)
- Closing release including official list of award winners Archived 2019-10-17 at the Wayback Machine