2023 Canadian film festival
2023 Vancouver International Film Festival| Location | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
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| Founded | 1958 |
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| Festival date | September 28 - October 8, 2023 |
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| Website | VIFF |
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The 2023 Vancouver International Film Festival, the 42nd event in the history of the Vancouver International Film Festival, was held from September 28 to October 8, 2023.[1]
Winners of the juried Canadian film awards were announced on October 5.[2] The Vanguard award winner was announced on October 8, and Audience Award winners were announced on October 12.
| Award
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Film
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Filmmaker
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| Audience Award, Galas & Special Presentations
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Monster
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Hirokazu Kore-eda
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| Audience Award, Showcase
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The Monk and the Gun
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Pawo Choyning Dorji
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| Audience Award, Panorama
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Irena's Vow
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Louise Archambault
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| Audience Award, Vanguard
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Let Me Go (Laissez-moi)
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Maxime Rappaz
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| Audience Award, Northern Lights
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Aitamaako'tamisskapi Natosi: Before the Sun
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Banchi Hanuse
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| Audience Award, Insights
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Physician, Heal Thyself
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Asher Penn
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| Audience Award, Spectrum
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Asog
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Seán Devlin
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| Audience Award, Portraits
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Call Me Dancer
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Leslie Shampaine, Pip Gilmour
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| Audience Award, Altered States
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Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant)
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Ariane Louis-Seize
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| Best Canadian Film
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Fitting In
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Molly McGlynn
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| Best Canadian Film, Honorable Mention
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Gamodi
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Felix Kalmenson
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| Best Canadian Documentary
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Someone Lives Here
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Zack Russell
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| Best Canadian Documentary, Honorable Mention
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Asog
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Seán Devlin
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| Best Canadian Short Film
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Katshinau
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Julien G. Marcotte, Jani Bellefleur-Kaltush
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| Best Canadian Short Film, Honorable Mention
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Our Grandmother the Inlet
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Jaime Leigh Gianopoulos, Kayah George
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| Emerging Canadian Director
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Valley of Exile
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Anna Fahr
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| Emerging Canadian Director, Honorable Mention
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Richelieu
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Pier-Philippe Chevigny
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| Best BC Film
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WaaPaKe
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Jules Arita Koostachin
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| Best BC Film, Honorable Mention
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Asog
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Seán Devlin
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| Vanguard Award
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Animal
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Sofia Exarchou
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| Vanguard Award, Honorable Mention
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Octopus Skin (La Piel Pulpo)
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Ana Cristina Barragán
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The full schedule was announced on September 6.[3]
Galas and special presentations
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| English title
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Original title
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Director(s)
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Production country
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| Anatomy of a Fall |
Anatomie d'une chute |
Justine Triet |
France
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| The Boy and the Heron |
君たちはどう生きるか |
Hayao Miyazaki |
Japan
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| La Chimera |
Alice Rohrwacher |
Italy, France, Switzerland
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| Fallen Leaves |
Kuolleet lehdet |
Aki Kaurismäki |
Finland, Germany
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| I'm Just Here for the Riot |
Kathleen Jayme, Asia Youngman |
Canada
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| Last Summer |
L'Été dernier |
Catherine Breillat
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| Monster |
怪物 |
Hirokazu Kore-eda |
Japan
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| Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe |
Robert McCallum |
Canada
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| A Normal Family |
보통의 가족 |
Hur Jin-ho |
South Korea
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| The Old Oak |
Ken Loach |
United Kingdom, France, Belgium
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| The Pot-au-Feu |
La Passion de Dodin Bouffant |
Tran Anh Hung |
France
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| Priscilla |
Sofia Coppola |
United States
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| The Promised Land |
Bastarden |
Nikolaj Arcel |
Denmark, Germany, Sweden
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| Seven Veils |
Atom Egoyan |
Canada
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| Swan Song |
Chelsea McMullan |
Canada
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| The Zone of Interest |
Jonathan Glazer |
United Kingdom, Poland, United States
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| English title
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Original title
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Director(s)
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Production country
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| About Dry Grasses |
Kuru Otlar Üstüne |
Nuri Bilge Ceylan |
Turkey, France, Germany, Sweden
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| Close to You |
Dominic Savage |
Canada, United Kingdom
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| Creature |
Asif Kapadia |
United Kingdom
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| The Delinquents |
Los delincuentes |
Rodrigo Moreno |
Argentina, Brazil, Luxembourg, Chile
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| Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World |
Nu astepta prea mult de la sfârsitul lumii |
Radu Jude |
Romania
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| Evil Does Not Exist |
悪は存在しない |
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi |
Japan
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| Four Daughters |
بنات ألفة |
Kaouther Ben Hania |
France, Tunisia, Germany, Saudi Arabia
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| Four Little Adults |
Nelja Pienta Aikuista |
Selma Vilhunen |
Finland, Sweden
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| Green Border |
Zielona granica |
Agnieszka Holland |
Poland, Czech Republic, France, Belgium
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| How to Have Sex |
Molly Manning Walker |
United Kingdom
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| I Am Sirat |
Deepa Mehta, Sirat Taneja |
Canada
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| Il Boemo |
Petr Václav |
Czech Republic, Italy, Slovakia
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| Just the Two of Us |
L'Amour et les forêts |
Valérie Donzelli |
France
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| Kidnapped |
Rapito |
Marco Bellocchio |
Italy, France, Germany
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| The Monk and the Gun |
Pawo Choyning Dorji |
Bhutan, France, United States, Taiwan
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| The Royal Hotel |
Kitty Green |
Australia, United Kingdom
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| The Teachers' Lounge |
Das Lehrerzimmer |
Ilker Çatak |
Germany
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| They Shot the Piano Player |
Dispararon al pianista |
Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal |
Spain, France
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| Tótem |
Lila Avilés |
Mexico, Denmark, France
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| English title
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Original title
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Director(s)
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Production country
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| 19B |
Ahmad Abdalla |
Egypt
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| All Ears |
Liu Jiayin |
China
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| Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry |
Elena Naveriani |
Georgia, Switzerland
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| The Braid |
Laetitia Colombani |
France, Canada, Italy
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| Days of Happiness |
Les Jours heureux |
Chloé Robichaud |
Canada
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| The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed |
Joanna Arnow |
United States
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| Gamodi |
Felix Kalmenson |
Canada, Georgia
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| Goodbye Julia |
وداعا جوليا |
Mohamed Kordofani |
Sudan
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| Here |
Bas Devos |
Belgium
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| Housekeeping for Beginners |
Domakinstvo za Pocetnici |
Goran Stolevski |
Macedonia, Poland, Croatia, Serbia, Kosovo
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| If Only I Could Hibernate |
Баавгай болохсон, Baavgai Bolohson |
Zoljargal Purevdash |
Mongolia
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| In Broad Daylight |
白日之下 |
Lawrence Kan |
Hong Kong
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| Irena's Vow |
Louise Archambault |
Canada, Poland
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| Let the River Flow |
Ellos Eatnu |
Ole Giæver |
Norway, Sweden, Finland
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| Measures of Men |
Der vermessene Mensch |
Lars Kraume |
Germany
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| Oceans Are the Real Continents |
Los océanos son los verdaderos continentes |
Tommaso Santambrogio |
Cuba, Italy
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| One Day All This Will Be Yours |
En dag kommer allt det här bli ditt |
Andreas Öhman |
Sweden
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| Only the River Flows |
河边的错误 |
Wei Shujun |
China
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| Puan |
Maria Alché, Benjamín Naishtat |
Argentina, Italy, France, Germany, Brazil
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| Raging Grace |
Paris Zarcilla |
United Kingdom
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| The Rapture |
Le Ravissement |
Iris Kaltenbäck |
France
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| Red Rooms |
Les Chambres rouges |
Pascal Plante |
Canada
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| Robot Dreams |
Pablo Berger |
Spain, France
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| The Settlers |
Los Colonos |
Felipe Gálvez Haberle |
Chile
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| Snow in Midsummer |
五月雪 |
Chong Keat Aun |
Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
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| Suddenly |
Melisa Önel |
Turkey
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| There's No Place Like Home |
Den, der lever stille |
Puk Grasten |
Denmark
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| Toll |
Pedágio |
Carolina Markowicz |
Brazil, Portugal
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| A Tour Guide |
Eun-mi Kwak |
South Korea
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| Tsugaru Lacquer Girl |
バカ塗りの娘 |
Keiko Tsuruoka |
Japan
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| Undercurrent |
アンダーカレント |
Rikiya Imaizumi |
Japan
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| Wild Swans |
Gorai Phakhri |
Rajni Basumatary |
India
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| English title
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Original title
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Director(s)
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Production country
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| Animal |
Sofia Exarchou |
Greece, Austria, Romania, Cyprus, Bulgaria
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| Bitten |
La Morsure |
Romain de Saint-Blanquat |
France
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| The Face of the Jellyfish |
El Rostro de la Medusa |
Melisa Liebenthal |
Argentina
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| Let Me Go |
Laissez-moi |
Maxime Rappaz |
Switzerland, France, Belgium
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| Octopus Skin |
La Piel Pulpo |
Ana Cristina Barragán |
Ecuador
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| On the Go |
María Gisèle Royo, Julia de Castro |
Spain
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| The Sea and Its Waves |
La Mer et ses vagues |
Liana Kassir, Renaud Pachot |
Lebanon, France
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| Tomorrow Is a Long Time |
Míng tian bi zuo tian chang jiu |
Jow Zhi Wei |
Singapore, Taiwan, France, Portugal
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| English title
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Original title
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Director(s)
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Production country
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| Asog |
Seán Devlin |
Canada, Philippines
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| Between Revolutions |
Între revoluții |
Vlad Petri |
Romania, Croatia, Iran
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| Hello Dankness |
Soda Jerk |
Australia
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| Kim's Video |
David Redmon, Ashley Sabin |
United States, United Kingdom, France
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| Lonely Oaks |
Vergiss Meyn Nicht |
Fabiana Fragale, Kilian Kuhlendahl, Jens Mühlhoff |
Germany
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| Mighty Afrin: In the Time of Floods |
Angelos Rallis |
Greece, France, Germany
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| The Mother of All Lies |
Kadib Abyad |
Asmae El Moudir |
Morocco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar
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| Orlando, My Political Biography |
Orlando, ma biographie politique |
Paul B. Preciado |
France
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| Smoke Sauna Sisterhood |
Savvusanna sõsarad |
Anna Hints |
Estonia, France, Iceland
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| The Tuba Thieves |
Alison O'Daniel |
United States
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| English title
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Original title
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Director(s)
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Production country
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| The Animal Kingdom |
Le Règne animal |
Thomas Cailley |
France
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| Animalia |
Parmi nous |
Sofia Alaoui |
Morocco, France, Qatar
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| Chronicles of a Wandering Saint |
Crónicas de una Santa Errante |
Tomas Gomez Bustillo |
Argentina, United States
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| Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person |
Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant |
Ariane Louis-Seize |
Canada
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| My Animal |
Jacqueline Castel |
Canada
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| Restore Point |
Bod obnovy |
Robert Hloz |
Czech Republic, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia
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| The Sacrifice Game |
Jenn Wexler |
United States
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| Tiger Stripes |
Amanda Nell Eu |
Malaysia, Taiwan, France, Germany
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| The Wait |
La espera |
F. Javier Gutierrez |
Spain
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| White Plastic Sky |
Műanyag égbolt |
Tibor Bánóczki, Sarolta Szabó |
Hungary, Slovakia
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A special program curated by guest programmer Anthony Shim, featuring a selection of films that had influenced his own journey as a filmmaker.
Focus: Women, Life and Freedom
[edit]A special program curated by guest programmer Fay Nass, screening films about misogyny and the subjugation of women.
| English title
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Original title
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Director(s)
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Production country
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| Joonam |
Sierra Urich |
United States
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| Numb |
Amir Toodehroosta |
Iran
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| Seven Winters in Tehran |
Sieben Winter in Teheran |
Steffi Niederzoll |
Germany, France
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| Terrestrial Verses |
Ayeh Haye Zamini |
Ali Asgari, Alireza Khatami |
Iran
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| Valley of Exile |
Anna Fahr |
Canada, Lebanon
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All films in this short film program are Canadian.
| English title
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Original title
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Director(s)
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Province
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| All the Days of May |
Tous les jours de mai |
Miryam Charles |
Quebec
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| Ancestral Threads |
Sean Stiller |
British Columbia
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| Between You and Me |
Cameron Kletke |
British Columbia
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| Black Box Investigations |
Paige Smith |
British Columbia
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| Cassandra |
Bea Santos |
Ontario
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| Cloud Striker |
Allan W. Hopkins |
British Columbia
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| Conviction |
Bruce Thomas Miller |
Alberta
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| The Company We Keep |
Wojtek Jakubiec |
Quebec
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| Cristo Negro |
Paul Stavropoulos, Brendan Mills |
Ontario
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| Death Mask |
John Greyson |
Ontario
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| Defining Human |
Daniel Code |
British Columbia
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| Dickinsonia |
Charline Dally |
Quebec
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| Donna |
Keenan MacWilliam |
Ontario
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| Dream Tricks: Over a Six Stair |
Adam Seward |
Ontario
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| Element |
Will Niava |
Quebec
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| Four Mile Creek |
Ryan McKenna |
Quebec
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| Gentle Hum of Spring |
Simon Garez |
Saskatchewan
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| The Great Kind Mystery |
Ella Morton |
Newfoundland and Labrador
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| Hair or No Hair |
Janessa St. Pierre |
British Columbia
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| Her Name Is Like a Sigh |
Solara Thanh-Binh Dang |
British Columbia
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| In the Wake of the Cedar Tree |
Towustasin |
British Columbia
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| Katshinau |
Julien G. Marcotte, Jani Bellefleur-Kaltush |
Quebec
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| Lake Baikal |
Baigal Nuur |
Alisi Telengut |
Quebec
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| Les Lavandières |
Laura Kamugisha |
Quebec
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| Making Babies |
Faire un enfant |
Éric K. Boulianne |
Quebec
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| Master of the House |
Dylan Maranda |
British Columbia
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| Modern Goose |
Karsten Wall |
Manitoba
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| Mothers and Monsters |
Édith Jorisch |
Quebec
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| My Tomato Heart |
Mon cœur de tomate |
Benoît Le Rouzès Ménard |
Quebec
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| Nigiqtuq (The South Wind) |
Lindsay McIntyre |
Alberta
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| Our Grandmother the Inlet |
Jaime Leigh Gianopoulos, Kayah George |
British Columbia
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| Outside Center |
Eli Jean Tahchi |
Quebec
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| Portrait of the Con Artist as a Young Man |
Ryan Leedu |
Alberta
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| Redlights |
Eva Thomas |
Ontario
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| Return to Hairy Hill |
Retour à Hairy Hill |
Daniel Gies |
Quebec
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| Return to Ombabika |
Ma-Nee Chacaby, Zoe Gordon, Shayne Ehman |
Ontario
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| Silkworm |
Amir Honarmand |
British Columbia
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| Sisters |
Marisa Hoicka |
Ontario
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| Soleil de Nuit |
Fernando Lopez Escriva, Maria Camila Arias |
Quebec
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| Something Else |
Autre Chose |
Étienne Lacelle |
Quebec
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| Swallow Flying to the South |
Mochi Lin |
British Columbia
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| Sub Terra |
Jeffrey Zablotny |
Ontario
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| Sun, Moon and Four Peaks |
Kevin Jin Kwan Kim |
British Columbia
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| Take Care |
Tony Massil |
British Columbia
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| Two Apples |
Bahram Javahery |
British Columbia, Yukon
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| Two One Two |
Shira Avni |
Quebec
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| Unspeakable Heap |
Kara Ditte Hansen |
British Columbia
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| Where Rabbits Come From |
D'où viennent les lapins |
Colin Ludvic Racicot |
Quebec
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| You Feel Soft |
Cameron Kletke |
British Columbia
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| Yun |
Yuezhang Qin |
British Columbia
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International Shorts
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| English title
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Original title
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Director(s)
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Production country
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| Almost Fall |
Presque l'automne |
Margot Pouppeville |
France
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| Basri & Salma in a Never-Ending Comedy |
Basri & Salma Dalam Komedi Yang Terus Berputar |
Khozy Rizal |
Indonesia, United States
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| Beyond the Sea |
Hippolyte Leibovici |
Belgium, France
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| Big Bang |
Carlos Segundo |
Brazil
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| Big Day |
Chung Chieh Chiang |
Taiwan
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| Confessions |
Stephanie Kaznocha |
United States
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| Cuarto de Hora |
Nemo Arancibia |
Chile, France
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| Cut |
Samuel Lucas Allen |
Australia
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| Fairplay |
Zoel Aeschbacher |
Switzerland, France
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| The Family Circus |
Andrew Fitzgerald |
United States
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| Far from the Tree |
Daleko od stromu |
Emma Marková |
Czech Republic
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| Headdress |
Taietsarón:sere ‘Tai’ Leclaire |
United States
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| Hedgehog |
D. Mitry |
United States
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| Hide Your Crazy |
Austin Kase |
United States
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| In Too Deep |
Chris Overton |
United Kingdom
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| Jeong-Dong |
Choi Woo Gene |
South Korea
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| Just a Rehearsal |
Solo un Ensayo |
Hugo Sanz |
Spain
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| Just the Two of Us |
Toutes les deux |
Clara Lemaire Anspach |
France
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| A Lien |
Sam Cutler-Kreutz, David Cutler-Kreutz |
United States
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| Lovebugs |
Teddy Alvarez-Nissen |
United States
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| Mira |
Eva Louise Hall |
United States
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| Night Shift |
Turno nocturno Santiago Lago |
Argentina
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| Nowhere |
Garin Hovannisian |
Armenia, United States
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| An Ordinary Day |
Ju-yeon Gim |
South Korea
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| Pisko the Crab Child Is in Love |
Makoto Nagahisa |
Japan
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| Snif & Snüf |
Michael J. Ruocco |
United States
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| Southern Afternoon |
Nan fang wu hou |
Tian Lan |
China
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| Spasm |
اسپاسم |
Sahra Asadollahi |
Iran
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| Sushi |
Iván Morales |
Spain
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| Where the Time Goes |
Justin Tyler Close |
United States, Canada
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| Youssou & Malek |
Youssou et Malek |
Simon Frenay |
France
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| English title
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Original title
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Director(s)
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Production country
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| Aqueronte |
Manuel Muñoz Rivas |
Spain
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| A Bird Called Memory |
Leonardo Martinelli |
Brazil, United Kingdom
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| Let's Talk |
Simon Liu |
Hong Kong
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| Loving in Between |
Jyoti Mistry |
South Africa, Austria
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| Mast-del |
Maryam Tafakory |
Iran, United Kingdom
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| Mother Land |
Kantarama Gahigiri |
Rwanda, Switzerland
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| NYC RGB |
Viktoria Schmid |
Austria, United States
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| Shadow Does |
Laure Prouvost |
Belgium, France, Austria
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| Slow Shift |
Shambhavi Kaul |
India, United States
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| Square the Circle |
Hanna Hovitie |
Finland
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| This Is Not Here |
Charlotte Mungomery |
Australia, Peru, Spain
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