2019 Vancouver International Film Festival

Vancouver International Film FestivalOpening film| Guest of Honour by Atom Egoyan

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Closing film| La Belle Époque by Nicolas Bedos
Location| Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Festival date| September 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

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

Award  | Film  | Director

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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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* Guest of Honour — Atom Egoyan (Opening)
* La Belle Époque — Nicolas Bedos (Closing)

### Special Presentations

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* 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

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* 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 and Demons [de] — 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

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* 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

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* 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

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* 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

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* 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

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* 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 Živković
* 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

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* 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

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* 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

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* 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

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* 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

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* 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

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* 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

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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 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

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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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* 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

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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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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.

## External links

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* 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

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