2017 Vancouver International Film Festival

The 2017 Vancouver International Film Festival, the 36th event in the history of the Vancouver International Film Festival, was held from September 28 to October 13, 2017.[1]

2017 Vancouver International Film Festival
Opening filmMeditation Park by Mina Shum
Closing filmWonderstruck by Todd Haynes
LocationVancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Festival dateSeptember 28–October 13, 2017

The festival's opening gala film was Mina Shum's Meditation Park, and its closing gala was Todd Haynes's Wonderstruck;[2] during the festival, a special gala was also dedicated to Guy Maddin's film The Green Fog, with its score performed live in the theatre by the Kronos Quartet.[3]

Awards

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Award winners were announced on October 13.[4]

Award Film Filmmaker
People's Choice Indian Horse Stephen Campanelli
Most Popular Canadian Documentary Shut Up and Say Something Melanie Wood
Most Popular International Feature Loving Vincent Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman
Most Popular International Documentary Faces Places Agnès Varda, JR
Best Canadian Film Black Cop Cory Bowles
Best Canadian Documentary Unarmed Verses Charles Officer
Best Canadian Short Film Shadow Nettes Phillip Barker
Emerging Canadian Director Never Steady, Never Still Kathleen Hepburn
Best BC Film Luk'Luk'I Wayne Wapeemukwa
Best BC Short Film Rupture Yassmina Karajah
Sea to Sky Award Never Steady, Never Still Kathleen Hepburn
BC Emerging Filmmaker Never Steady, Never Still Kathleen Hepburn
Most Promising Director of a Canadian Short Film The Crying Conch Vincent Toi
VIFF Impact Award Blue Karina Holden

Films

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Special Presentations

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Contemporary World Cinema

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Spotlight on France

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Documentaries

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True North

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Gateway

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Sea to Sky

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Impact

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  • ACORN and the Firestorm — Reuben Atlas, Sam Pollard
  • Blue — Karina Holden
  • Evolution of Organic — Mark Kitchell
  • Frank SerpicoAntonino D'Ambrosio
  • HondrosGreg Campbell
  • Human FlowAi Weiwei
  • Keep Talking — Karen Lynn Weinberg
  • The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov — Askold Kurov
  • The Venerable WBarbet Schroeder
  • A Yangtze Landscape — Chang Jiang

M/A/D

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  • Beuys: Art as a WeaponAndres Veiel
  • Big Time — Kaspar Astrup Schröder
  • Bosch: The Garden of Dreams (El Bosco, el jardin de los sueños) — José Luis López Linares
  • Bunch of Kunst — Christine Franz
  • Chaplin in Bali: Journey to the EastRaphaël Millet
  • ChavelaCatherine Gund, Daresha Kyi
  • Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives — Chris Perkel
  • David Hockney at the Royal Academy of ArtsPhil Grabsky
  • Leaning Into the Wind: Andy Goldsworthy — Thomas Riedelsheimer
  • Louise Lecavalier in Motion — Raymond St-Jean
  • Planeta Petrila — Andrei Dascalescu
  • Schumann's Bar Talks — Marieke Schroeder
  • ShadowmanOren Jacoby
  • Song of Granite — Pat Collins
  • Streetscapes (Dialogue)Heinz Emigholz
  • Where You're Meant to Be — Paul Fegan

Altered States

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Canadian Short Films

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International Short Films

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  • 100 Second Red Light — Navid Zare
  • Afterglow — Akira Kamiki
  • American Psychosis — Amanda Zackem
  • The Animal — Atasay Koç
  • Backstory — Joschka Laukeninks
  • Ballooinator — Joshua Siegel
  • Bullroarer — Francesco Saviano
  • C.O.D. — Onur Dogan
  • Canton Novelty — Fang Lu
  • Chasing Stars — Markus Eichenberger
  • Damn Bro! — Travis Frick
  • Divide — Rabbia Arshad, Alysha Siddigi, Jamil Ur Rehman
  • Don't Be Afraid of the Light — Jason A. Rostovsky
  • The Fashion Show — Lucy Lumsden
  • Flag — Matan Ben Moreh
  • Forever Now — Kristian Haskjold
  • Game — Jeannie Donohoe
  • The Good Girls — Clara Roquet
  • High Moon — David Zhu
  • Home, Sweet Home — Carlos Polo
  • Hsiang Yi — Wu Zi En
  • Hunger — Alejandro Montalvo
  • I Love You Forever Now — Youyang Yu
  • Images of Nowhere — Rubén Guzmán
  • Invisible Line — Shahnawaz Chachar, Sourath Behan, Danial Shah
  • The Kodachrome Elegies — Jay Rosenblatt
  • Land of Happy Dreams — Josh Auter
  • The Language of Ball — Ramon Rodriguez
  • Life Is Lifeless — Hawar Rahimi
  • Lunar Dial — Gao Yuan
  • Marlon — Jessica Palud
  • Maxwell's Demon — Marcos Vaz
  • Munchies — Sinéad Stoddart
  • Nobody Likes You — Mark Sean Haynes, Kelly Wydryk
  • Outlines — Ellie Rogers
  • Overlove — Lucas Helth
  • Promise — Neville Pierce
  • Rhythm of Being — Giada Ghiringhelli
  • Royal Fool — Saba Karseladze
  • Say No to Early Sex — Alusine Kamara, Susan Kargbo, Ibrahim Kamara, Mariama Kargbo
  • Shepherd's Purse — Dong Hao
  • Sissyman — Joshua Atesh Little
  • Sisters — Toni Kamula
  • Talking Too Loud — Abel Rubinstein, Georgia Milton
  • There Was a Man, a Girl and a Rocket — Terence Chim
  • 7ún3l — Klych López
  • TV in the Fish Tail — Iesh Thapar
  • Walk of Shame — Maisie Buck
  • Walt & Me — Yaz Canli
  • Wardrobe — Pranav Bhasin
  • Wave — Benjamin Cleary, T.J. O'Grady Peyton
  • We Belong — Jeremy Herron
  • Who Is in Charge Here? — Studio Da
  • Yes, God, Yes — Karen Maine

Modes

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  • 489 Years — Hayoun Kwon
  • Batrachian's Ballad — Leonor Teles
  • Charged Landscapes — Sara Naomi Goodman
  • Find Fix Finish — Sylvain Cruiziat, Mila Zhluktenko
  • Green Screen Gringo — Douwe Dijkstra
  • Jardins d'été — Quayola
  • Martin CriesJonathan Vinel
  • A Photo of Me — Dennis Tupicoff
  • Roadside Attraction — Iveta Lucas, Patrick Bresnan
  • Strange Says the Angel — Shalimar Preuss
  • Studies on the Ecology of Drama — Eija-Liisa Ahtila
  • A Tall Tale — Maya Schweizer
  • Tashlikh (Cast Off) — Yael Bartana

References

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  1. ^ "Vancouver International Film Festival: What to watch". The Globe and Mail, September 29, 2017.
  2. ^ Dana Gee, "See what all the buzz is about; VIFF Preview". The Province, September 21, 2017.
  3. ^ Stuart Derdeyn, "A Creative Collaboration; Kronos Quartet and Guy Maddin combine their talents to create Green Fog". Vancouver Sun, October 5, 2017.
  4. ^ Ian Bailey, "Wagamese adaptation wins audience award at VIFF: Based on the late author's popular novel, Indian Horse takes home the honour based on viewer feedback during the festival". The Globe and Mail, October 14, 2017.