The 2016 Vancouver International Film Festival, the 35th event in the history of the Vancouver International Film Festival, was held from September 29 to October 14, 2016.
| Opening film | Maudie by Aisling Walsh |
|---|---|
| Closing film | Voyage of Time by Terrence Mallick |
| Location | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Festival date | September 29–October 14, 2016 |
The festival's opening gala film was Aisling Walsh's Maudie, and its closing gala was Terrence Mallick's Voyage of Time.[1]
Awards
editAward winners were announced on October 14.[2]
| Award | Film | Filmmaker |
|---|---|---|
| People's Choice | Maudie | Aisling Walsh |
| Most Popular Canadian Documentary | Spirit Unforgettable | Pete McCormack |
| Most Popular International Feature | I, Daniel Blake | Ken Loach |
| Most Popular International Documentary | Human | Yann Arthus-Bertrand |
| Best Canadian Film | Window Horses | Ann Marie Fleming |
| Best Canadian Documentary | Living With Giants (Chez les géants) | Sebastien Rist, Aude Leroux-Lévesque |
| Best Canadian Short Film | Those Who Remain (Ceux qui restent) | Mathieu Vachon |
| Emerging Canadian Director | Never Eat Alone | Sofia Bohdanowicz |
| Best BC Film | Window Horses | Ann Marie Fleming |
| Best BC Short Film | Here Nor There | Julia Hutchings |
| Ignite Award | Cabbie | Jessica Parsons, Jennifer Chiu |
| BC Emerging Filmmaker | Hello Destroyer | Kevan Funk |
| Most Promising Director of a Canadian Short Film | Parent, Teacher | Roman Tchjen |
| VIFF Impact Award | Power to Change: The Energy Rebellion | Carl-A. Fechner |
Films
editSpecial Presentations
edit- American Honey — Andrea Arnold
- The Birth of a Nation — Nate Parker
- Elle — Paul Verhoeven
- The Girl with All the Gifts — Colm McCarthy
- Graduation (Bacalaureat) — Cristian Mungiu
- The Handmaiden — Park Chan-wook
- Human — Yann Arthus-Bertrand
- I, Daniel Blake — Ken Loach
- Julieta — Pedro Almodóvar
- Manchester by the Sea — Kenneth Lonergan
- Milton's Secret — Barnet Bain
- Moonlight — Barry Jenkins
- Toni Erdmann — Maren Ade
Contemporary World Cinema
edit- Album — Mehmet Can Mertoğlu
- All of a Sudden (Auf Einmal) — Aslı Özge
- Aquarius — Kleber Mendonça Filho
- As I Open My Eyes (À peine j'ouvre les yeux) — Leyla Bouzid
- Barakah Meets Barakah — Mahmoud Sabbagh
- Beyond the Mountains and Hills (Me'Ever Laharim Velagvaot) — Eran Kolirin
- The Complexity of Happiness (La felicità è un sistema complesso) — Gianni Zanasi
- The Confessions (Le confessioni) — Roberto Andò
- The Death of Louis XIV (La Mort de Louis XIV) — Albert Serra
- Dolores — Michael Rösel
- Donald Cried — Kristopher Avedisian
- The Dreamed Path (Der traumhafte Weg) — Angela Schanelec
- Endless Poetry (Poesía sin fin) — Alejandro Jodorowsky
- The Giant (Jätten) — Johannes Nyholm
- Glory (Slava) — Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov
- Golstone — Ivan Sen
- A Good Wife (Dobra žena) — Mirjana Karanović
- Green / Is / Gold — Ryon Baxter
- The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki (Hymyilevä mies) — Juho Kuosmanen
- Hedi — Mohamed Ben Attia
- Hermia and Helena — Matías Piñeiro
- History's Future — Fiona Tan
- The Human Surge (El auge del humano) — Eduardo Williams
- Inversion (Varoonegi) — Behnam Behzadi
- Junction 48 — Udi Aloni
- Kate Plays Christine — Robert Greene
- Kékszakállú — Gastón Solnicki
- Lantouri — Reza Dormishian
- The Last Family (Ostatnia rodzina) — Jan P. Matuszyński
- Like Crazy (La pazza gioia) — Paolo Virzì
- Lily Lane (Liliom ösvény) — Benedek Fliegauf
- Lost in Munich (Ztraceni v Mnichově) — Petr Zelenka
- A Man Called Ove (En man som heter Ove) — Hannes Holm
- Mother (Ema) — Kadri Kõusaare
- Nakom — Kelly Daniela Norris, T. W. Pittman
- Neruda — Pablo Larraín
- Original Bliss (Gleißendes Glück) — Sven Taddicken
- The Ornithologist (O Ornitólogo) — João Pedro Rodrigues
- Panamerican Machinery (Maquinaria Panamericana) — Joaquin del Paso
- Paterson — Jim Jarmusch
- Pihu — Vinod Kapri
- A Quiet Passion — Terence Davies
- Quit Staring at My Plate (Ne gledaj mi u pijat) — Hana Jušić
- Radio Dreams — Babak Jalali
- The Red Turtle (La Tortue Rouge) — Michaël Dudok de Wit
- The Rehearsal — Alison Maclean
- The River of Fables (Kothanodi) — Bhaskar Hazarika
- The Salesman — Asghar Farhadi
- Scarred Hearts (Inimi cicatrizate) — Radu Jude
- Shepherds and Butchers — Oliver Schmitz
- Short Stay — Ted Fendt
- Sieranevada — Cristi Puiu
- Sin Alas — Ben Chace
- Sins of the Flesh (Haram El Gasad) — Khaled El Hagar
- The Student — Kirill Serebrennikov
- Suntan — Argyris Papadimitropoulos
- Sweet Dreams (Fai bei sogni) — Marco Bellocchio
- Tanna — Martin Butler, Bentley Dean
- The Teacher (Učiteľka) — Jan Hřebejk
- To Keep the Light — Erica Fae
- The Trap (Ottaal) — Jayaraj Rajasekharan Nair
- Twilight Over Burma (Dämmerung über Burma) — Sabine Derflinger
- The Unknown Girl (La fille inconnue) — Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
- The Yard (Yarden) — Måns Månsson
Spotlight on France
edit- After Love (L'Économie du couple) — Joachim Lafosse
- Being 17 (Quand on a 17 ans) — André Téchiné
- Chocolat — Roschdy Zem
- Frantz — François Ozon
- French Tour (Tour de France) — Rachid Djaïdani
- Personal Shopper — Olivier Assayas
- Saint-Amour — Benoît Delépine, Gustave de Kervern
- The Son of Joseph (Le Fils de Joseph) — Eugène Green
- Staying Vertical (Rester vertical) — Alain Guiraudie
- Thanks, Boss! (Merci patron!) — François Ruffin
- Things to Come (L'Avenir) — Mia Hansen-Løve
Documentaries
edit- All This Panic — Jenny Gage
- Between Fences (Bein gderot) — Avi Mograbi
- Depth Two (Dubina dva) — Ognjen Glavonić
- Ghostland — Simon Stadler
- Growing Up Coy — Eric Juhola
- The Infinite Flight of Days (El Infinito Vuelo de los Días) — Catalina Mesa
- Kedi — Ceyda Torun
- Keep Quiet — Joseph Martin, Sam Blair
- The Killing$ of Tony Blair — Sanne van den Bergh, Greg Ward
- Magnus — Benjamin Ree
- Portrait of a Garden (Portret van een tuin) — Rosie Stapel
- Prison Dogs — Perri Peltz, Geeta Gandbhir
- Seasons (Les Saisons) — Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud
- Shadow World — Johan Grimonprez
- Snow Monkey — George Gittoes
- Strangers on the Earth — Tristan Cook
- Tempestad — Tatiana Huezo
- Tickling Giants — Sara Taksler
- Tower — Keith Maitland
- When Two Worlds Collide — Heidi Brandenburg Sierralta, Mathew Orzel
True North
edit- 1:54 — Yan England
- Darwin — Benjamin Duffield
- The Intestine — Lev Lewis
- King Dave — Daniel Grou
- Lights Above Water (Lumières sur l'eau) — Nicolas Lachapelle, Ariel St-Louis Lamoureux
- Living With Giants (Chez les géants) — Aude Leroux-Lévesque, Sébastien Rist
- The Lockpicker — Randall Okita
- Mean Dreams — Nathan Morlando
- Nelly — Anne Émond
- Never Eat Alone — Sofia Bohdanowicz
- Of Ink and Blood (D'encre et de sang) — Alexis Fortier Gauthier, Maxim Rheault, Francis Fortin
- Old Stone — Johnny Ma
- The Other Half — Joey Klein
- Quebec My Country Mon Pays — John Walker
- Searchers (Maliglutit) — Zacharias Kunuk
- Shambles (Maudite poutine) — Karl Lemieux
- Split (Écartée) — Lawrence Côté-Collins
- Tales of Two Who Dreamt — Andrea Bussmann, Nicolás Pereda
- We Can't Make the Same Mistake Twice — Alanis Obomsawin
- Weirdos — Bruce McDonald
- Werewolf — Ashley McKenzie
- Where the Universe Sings: The Spiritual Journey of Lawren Harris — Nancy Lang, Peter Raymont
Gateway
edit- After the Storm — Hirokazu Kore-eda
- Alone — Park Hongmin
- The Bacchus Lady — E J-yong
- Beautiful 2016 — Jia Zhangke, Stanley Kwan, Hideo Nakata, Alec Su
- By the Time It Gets Dark — Anocha Suwichakornpong
- A Copy of My Mind — Joko Anwar
- Crosscurrent — Yang Chao
- Godspeed — Chung Mong-hong
- Harmonium — Kōji Fukada
- Hema Hema: Sing Me a Song While I Wait — Khyentse Norbu
- Knife in the Clear Water — Wang Xuebo
- Life After Life — Zhang Hanyi
- Lifeline — Akihiko Shiota
- The Long Excuse — Miwa Nishikawa
- Mother (Emma) — Riri Riza
- Mrs. — Adolfo Alix Jr.
- Our Love Story — Lee Hyun-ju
- Out of the Frying Pan... — Takashi Komatsu
- Phantom Detective — Jo Sung-hee
- The Road to Mandalay — Midi Z
- A Simple Goodbye — Degena Yun
- Ta'ang — Wang Bing
- Ten Years — Kwok Zune, Wong Fei-pang, Jevons Au, Chow Kwun-Wai, Ng Ka-leung
- While the Women Are Sleeping — Wayne Wang
- Yellowing — Chan Tze Woon
- Yourself and Yours — Hong Sang-soo
BC Spotlight
edit- Cadence — Alexander Lasheras
- Hello Destroyer — Kevan Funk
- Keepers of the Magic — Vic Sarin
- Koneline: Our Land Beautiful — Nettie Wild
- Marrying the Family — Peter Benson
- Mixed Match — Jeff Chiba Stearns
- A New Moon Over Tohoku — Linda Ohana
- Spirit Unforgettable — Pete McCormack
- The Unseen — Geoff Redknap
- Window Horses — Ann Marie Fleming
Impact
edit- Bugs — Andreas Johnsen
- Command and Control — Robert Kenner
- Fire at Sea (Fuocoammare) — Gianfranco Rosi
- Freightened: The Real Price of Shipping — Denis Delestrac
- Power to Change: The Energy Rebellion — Carl-A. Fechner
- Rat Film — Theo Anthony
- RiverBlue — David McIlvride, Roger Williams
- Sonita — Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami
- Two Trains Runnin' — Sam Pollard
M/A/D
edit- The Architect — Jonathan Parker
- BANG! The Bert Berns Story — Bob Sarles, Brett Berns
- Burden — Tim Marrianan, Richard Dewey
- The Chinese Lives of Uli Sigg — Michael Schindhelm
- Don't Blink – Robert Frank — Laura Israel
- Franca: Chaos and Creation — Francesco Carrozzini
- Gimme Danger — Jim Jarmusch
- Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story — Daniel Raim
- Harry Benson: Shoot First — Matthew Miele, Justin Bare
- I Called Him Morgan — Kasper Collin
- The Model — Mads Matthiesen
- Playing Lecuona — Juan Manuel Villar Betancort, Pavel Giroud
- Reset (Relève) — Thierry Demaizière and Alban Teurlai
- Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach — Louise Osmond
- Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt — Ada Ushpiz
- We Are X — Stephen Kijak
- Yarn — Una Lorenzen
- Yohji Yamamoto: Dressmaker — Ngo The Chau
Altered States
edit- Another Evil — Carson Mell
- The Eyes of My Mother — Nicolas Pesce
- In a Valley of Violence — Ti West
- Lavender — Ed Gass-Donnelly
- Little Sister — Zach Clark
- The Love Witch — Anna Biller
- Operation Avalanche — Matt Johnson
- She's Allergic to Cats — Michael Reich
- Under the Shadow — Babak Anvari
- We Are the Flesh (Temenos la carne) — Emiliano Rocha Minter
Canadian Short Films
edit- 24.24.24 — Daniel Dietzel
- Another Prayer — Sofia Bohdanowicz
- As Dinosaurs — Émilie Rosas
- Beyond Blue Waves — Joëlle Desjardins Paquette
- Black Cop — Cory Bowles
- Blind Vaysha — Theodore Ushev
- A Brief History of the Apocalypse — Erica Généreux Smith
- By the Pool — Karine Bélanger
- Cabbie — Jessica Parsons, Jennifer Chiu
- The Cameraman — Connor Gaston
- Carver — Jeremy Wamiss
- Cave of Sighs — Nathan Douglas
- Clouds — Diego Maclean
- Colour — Taryn Birket, Alannah Johnson
- A Dance For... — Emily Feng
- DataMine — Tim Tracey
- Dora Blondin — Iris, Naomi, Paige, Tayla
- Einst — Jessica Johnson
- Emma — Martin Edralin
- An Evening — Sofia Bohdanowicz
- Fantassut/Rain on the Borders — Federica Foglia
- Fish — Heather Young
- Four Faces of the Moon — Amanda Strong
- Ganjy — Benjamin Ratner
- Here Nor There — Julia Hutchings
- Homesick — Sophie Jarvis
- I Am Here — Eoin Duffy
- If You See Something — Daria Azizian
- Imitations — Markus Henkel, Milos Mitrovic, Ian Bawa, Fabian Velasco
- It's No Real Pleasure in Life — Nikolay Michaylov
- Last Night — Joel Salaysay
- Late Night Drama — Patrice Laliberté
- The Lift — Manny Mahal
- Mamie — Janice Nadeau
- The Movieland Movie — Zachary Kerrholden
- My Body — Annie Kruger, Danica Denommé, Florence Dubé, Ryan Titus
- The New Canada — Alexander Carson
- Nine Behind — Sophy Romvari
- Nutag: Homeland — Alisi Telengut
- Oh What a Wonderful Feeling — François Jaros
- Old Man — Alicia Eisen
- Parent, Teacher — Roman Tchjen
- Popsong — Matthew Taylor Blais
- A Prayer — Sofia Bohdanowicz
- Ranger — Sandra Ignagni
- Seven Stars — Sofia Banzhaf
- Sigismond Imageless — Albéric Aurtenèche
- Srorrim — Wayne Wapeemukwa
- Stone Makers (Carrière) — Jean-Marc E. Roy
- The Taste of Vietnam — Pier-Luc Latulippe
- This Home Is Not Empty — Carol Nguyen
- Those Who Remain (Ceux qui restent) — Mathieu Vachon
- Two — Christopher Spencer-Lowe
- Vlad the Unemployed — Ashley Kobayashi
- Wild Skin (La Peau sauvage) — Ariane Louis-Seize
- Your Mother and I — Anna Maguire
International Short Films
edit- Aeris — Lukas Huffman
- Affordance — Nove Hatayo
- Albedo Absolute — Vlad Marsavin
- Après Suzanne — Félix Moati
- As One — Alan Powell
- Best Efforts — Hadley Hillel
- Between Them — Alexia Maltner
- Black Pudding — Nicole Nabi
- Catch — Dominic Rees-Roberts, Paul Cooke
- Champion — Andrés Passoni
- Conslitruction — Nakanishi Yoshihisa
- Datum Point — Orikawa Ryo
- Dear Drew — Dylan Shapiro
- Don't Leave Me — Laura Jou
- Éclair — Hugo Keijzer
- Eden Hostel — Gonzaga Manso
- Encounter — Fabrizio Rinaldi
- Fabrizio's Initiation — Mariano Biasin
- Finder — Satoh Yoshinao
- Friday Night — Alexis Michalik
- Grown Up — Hong-Ruei Lin
- Heaven — Hirabayashi Isamu
- Her Paradise — Shobi Sen
- How to Get People to Like You — Alexandra Yakovleva
- I Have the Future — Ouchi Rieko
- I Love Anna — Joonas Rutanen
- Indefinite Pitch — James N. Kienitz Wilkins
- The Laughing Spider — Tanaami Keiichi
- The Law of Moments — Emma Samms
- Litterbugs — Peter Stanley-Ward
- Lock In — Neville Pierce
- Minor Setback — Augustine Frizzell
- On the Roof — Damia Serra Cauchetiez
- Out of the Village — Jonathan Stein
- Painterbrain — Glenn Diehl
- Paris, 1971 — David Khachatorian
- Promise — Akihiko Shiota
- Rotten Love — Matt Lacorte
- Sanun — Kyle Nieva, Miggy Hilario
- Soju and Ice Cream — Lee Kwang-kuk
- The Sparrow's Flight — Tom Schroeder
- Stars — Krista Vernoff
- This Modern Man Is Beat — Alex Merkin
- Three Minute Warning — Iqbal Mohammed
- Tide — Alexander von Hofmann
- Today They Took My Son — Pierre Dawalibi
- Vanya — Christine Rabotenko
- Walden Pink — Peter Bolte
- When Day Is Done — Brandon Roots
- Winds of Furnace — Yamil Quintana
- Without You — Nariman Aliev
References
edit- ^ Rafferty Baker, "VIFF reveals feature films for opening and closing galas". CBC News British Columbia, September 8, 2016.
- ^ Adrian Mack, "VIFF 2016: And the winner is... Maudie". The Georgia Straight, October 14, 2016.