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2019 Vancouver International Film Festival

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

Awards

The festival award winners were announced on October 15.

Films

Galas

Special Presentations

Contemporary World Cinema

Spotlight on France

Focus on Italy

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 — 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

Canadian Shorts

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
  • 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

  • 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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