2015 Vancouver International Film Festival
| Opening film | Brooklyn by John Crowley |
|---|---|
| Closing film | I Saw the Light by Marc Abraham |
| Location | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Festival date | September 24–October 9, 2015 |
The 2015 Vancouver International Film Festival, the 34th event in the history of the Vancouver International Film Festival, was held from September 24 to October 9, 2015.[1]
The festival's opening gala film was John Crowley's Brooklyn, and its closing gala was Marc Abraham's I Saw the Light.
Awards
[edit]Award winners were announced on October 9.[2]
| Award | Film | Filmmaker |
|---|---|---|
| People's Choice | Brooklyn | John Crowley |
| Most Popular Canadian Feature | Room | Lenny Abrahamson |
| Most Popular Canadian Documentary | Haida Gwaii: On the Edge of the World | Charles Wilkinson |
| Most Popular International Documentary | Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words (Jag är Ingrid) | Stig Björkman |
| Best Canadian Film | Sleeping Giant | Andrew Cividino |
| Best Canadian Short Film | Blue-Eyed Blonde | Pascal Plante |
| Emerging Canadian Director | The Sound of Trees (Le Bruit des arbres) | François Péloquin |
| Best BC Film | Fractured Land | Damien Gillis, Fiona Rayher |
| BC Emerging Filmmaker | The Devout | Connor Gaston |
| Most Promising Director of a Canadian Short Film | Never Steady, Never Still | Kathleen Hepburn |
| VIFF Impact: Canadian Audience Award | Fractured Land | Damien Gillis, Fiona Rayher |
| VIFF Impact: International Audience Award | Landfill Harmonic | Brad Allgood, Graham Townsley |
| Women in Film and Television Artistic Merit Award | Ninth Floor | Mina Shum |
Films
[edit]Special Presentations
[edit]- Arabian Nights — Miguel Gomes
- Beeba Boys — Deepa Mehta
- Dheepan — Jacques Audiard
- High-Rise — Ben Wheatley
- Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words (Jag är Ingrid) — Stig Björkman
- Louder Than Bombs — Joachim Trier
- Room — Lenny Abrahamson
- A Tale of Three Cities — Mabel Cheung
- This Changes Everything — Avi Lewis
- Youth — Paolo Sorrentino
Canadian Images
[edit]- The Amina Profile (Le profil Amina) — Sophie Deraspe
- Borealis — Sean Garrity
- Charlotte's Song — Nicholas Humphries
- Le Dep — Sonia Boileau
- The Devout — Connor Gaston
- A Dog's Life (Chienne de vie) — Hélène Choquette
- Eadweard — Kyle Rideout
- Fire Song — Adam Garnet Jones
- The Forbidden Room — Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson
- Fractured Land — Damien Gillis, Fiona Rayher
- Frank and the Wondercat — Tony Massil, Pablo Alvarez Mesa
- Hadwin's Judgement — Sasha Snow
- Haida Gwaii: On the Edge of the World — Charles Wilkinson
- The Heart of Madame Sabali (Le cœur de Madame Sabali) — Ryan McKenna
- Hurt — Alan Zweig
- Hyena Road — Paul Gross
- Into the Forest — Patricia Rozema
- Michael Shannon Michael Shannon John — Chelsea McMullan
- My Good Man's Gone — Nick Citton
- My Internship in Canada (Guibord s'en va-t-en guerre) — Philippe Falardeau
- Ninth Floor — Mina Shum
- No Men Beyond This Point — Mark Sawers
- O, Brazen Age — Alexander Carson
- Our Loved Ones (Les êtres chers) — Anne Émond
- Painted Land: In Search of the Group of Seven — Phyllis Ellis
- The Pass System — Alex Williams
- Remember — Atom Egoyan
- The Sandwich Nazi — Lewis Bennett
- Sleeping Giant — Andrew Cividino
- The Sound of Trees (Le Bruit des arbres) — François Péloquin
- Tricks on the Dead: The Story of the Chinese Labour Corps in WWI — Jordan Paterson
- Ville-Marie — Guy Édoin
Cinema of Our Time
[edit]- 31st October — Shivaji Lotan Patil
- 45 Years — Andrew Haigh
- 600 Miles (600 Millas) — Gabriel Ripstein
- Absence (Ausência) — Chico Teixeira
- Accused (Lucia de B.) — Paula van der Oest
- Adama — Simon Rouby
- Ayanda — Sara Blecher
- The Boda Boda Thieves (Abbabi ba boda boda) — Donald Mugisha, James Tayler
- Body (Ciało) — Małgorzata Szumowska
- Bravo! (Aferim!) — Radu Jude
- Breathe (Umphefumlo) — Mark Dornford-May
- Chevalier — Athina Rachel Tsangari
- Chronic — Michel Franco
- The Club (El Club) — Pablo Larraín
- The Daughter — Simon Stone
- Dead Slow Ahead — Mauro Herce
- Decor — Ahmad Abdalla
- The Dinner (I nostri ragazzi) — Ivano De Matteo
- Embrace of the Serpent (El abrazo de la serpiente) — Ciro Guerra
- Entertainment — Rick Alverson
- Experimenter — Michael Almereyda
- The Falling — Carol Morley
- Francofonia — Alexander Sokurov
- Golden Kingdom — Brian Perkins
- Greenery Will Bloom Again (Torneranno i prati) — Ermanno Olmi
- Hilda — Andrés Clariond Rangel
- Home Care (Domácí péče) — Slávek Horák
- I Am Nojoom, Age 10 and Divorced — Khadija al-Salami
- I Promise You Anarchy (Te Prometo Anarquía) — Julio Hernández Cordón
- In Your Arms (I dine hænder) — Samanou Acheche Sahlstrøm
- It's Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong — Emily Ting
- Ivy (Sarmaşık) — Tolga Karaçelik
- Ixcanul — Jayro Bustamante
- Jafar Panahi's Taxi — Jafar Panahi
- James White — Josh Mond
- The Lobster — Yorgos Lanthimos
- London Road — Rufus Norris
- Lost and Beautiful (Bella e perduta) — Pietro Marcello
- Love Among the Ruins (Amore tra le rovine) — Massimo Ali Mohammad
- Love, Theft and Other Entanglements (Al-Hob wa Al-Sariqa wa Mashakel Ukhra) — Muayad Alayan
- Magallanes — Salvador del Solar
- The Magic Mountain — Anca Damian
- Marshland (La isla mínima) — Alberto Rodríguez Librero
- The Mask from San (Le Masque de San) — Jacques Sarasin
- Men Go to Battle — Zachary Treitz
- The Movement (El Movimiento) — Benjamín Naishtat
- Mustang — Deniz Gamze Ergüven
- My Skinny Sister (Min lilla syster) — Sanna Lenken
- Nahid — Ida Panahandeh
- Nasty Baby — Sebastián Silva
- One Floor Below (Un etaj mai jos) — Radu Muntean
- Paradise (Ma dar Behesht) — Sina Ataeian Dena
- Paulina (La Patota) — Santiago Mitre
- A Perfect Day — Fernando León de Aranoa
- Pioneer Heroes — Natalia Kudryashova
- The Project of the Century (La Obra del siglo) — Carlos Quintela
- Rainbow Island (Jazireh-ye Rangin) — Khosrow Sinai
- Rams (Hrútar) — Grímur Hákonarson
- Schneider vs. Bax — Alex van Warmerdam
- The Second Mother (Que Horas Ela Volta?) — Anna Muylaert
- Short Skin (I Dolori del giovane Edo) — Duccio Chiarini
- The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers — Ben Rivers
- Slackjaw — Zach Weintraub
- Son of Saul (Saul fia) — László Nemes
- Songs My Brothers Taught Me — Chloé Zhao
- Sparrows (Þrestir) — Rúnar Rúnarsson
- The Summer of Sangailė (Sangailės vasara) — Alantė Kavaitė
- Three Windows and a Hanging (Tri Dritare dhe një Varje) — Isa Qosja
- Tough Love (Härte) — Rosa von Praunheim
- The Treasure (Comoara) — Corneliu Porumboiu
- The Two of Us — Ernest Nkosi
- Umrika — Prashant Nair
- Victoria — Sebastian Schipper
- Wednesday, May 9 (Chaharshanbeh, 19 Ordibehesht) — Vahid Jalilvand
- Wondrous Boccaccio (Maraviglioso Boccaccio) — Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
Spotlight on France
[edit]- The Anarchists (Les Anarchistes) — Elie Wajeman
- Anton Tchékhov 1890 — René Féret
- Disorder (Maryland) — Alice Winocour
- In the Shadow of Women (L'Ombre des femmes) — Philippe Garrel
- The Last Hammer Blow (Le Dernier Coup de marteau) — Alix Delaporte
- The Measure of a Man (La Loi du marché) — Stéphane Brizé
- My Friend Victoria (Mon amie Victoria) — Jean-Paul Civeyrac
- My Golden Days (Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse) — Arnaud Desplechin
- Portrait of the Artist (Le Dos rouge) — Antoine Barraud
- Standing Tall (La Tête haute) — Emmanuelle Bercot
- Vincent (Vincent n'a pas d'écailles) — Thomas Salvador
- We Did It on a Song (Chante ton bac d'abord) — David André
Documentaries
[edit]- 3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets — Marc Silver
- Above and Below — Nicolas Steiner
- Alice Cares — Sander Burger
- All Eyes and Ears — Vanessa Hope
- Among the Believers — Hemal Trivedi, Mohammed Ali Naqvi
- Banking Nature — Denis Delestrac, Sandrine Feydel
- Brand: A Second Coming — Ondi Timoner
- City of Gold — Laura Gabbert
- Containment — Peter Galison, Robb Moss
- Dark Horse: The Incredible True Story of Dream Alliance — Louise Osmond
- Deep Time — Noah Hutton
- Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead — Douglas Tirola
- Ever the Land — Sarah Grohnert
- Falciani's Tax Bomb: The Man Behind the Swiss Leaks — Ben Lewis
- A Flickering Truth — Pietra Brettkelly
- From Scotland with Love — Virginia Heath
- Hannah: Buddhism's Untold Journey — Adam Penny, Marta György-Kessler
- Homme Less — Thomas Wirthenson
- Hurricane — Andy Byatt
- Ice and the Sky (La Glace et le ciel) — Luc Jacquet
- In Transit — Albert Maysles, Lynn True, David Usui, Nelson Walker III, Benjamin Wu
- Jumbo Wild — Nick Waggoner
- Meru — Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
- The Messenger — Su Rynard
- Ming of Harlem: Twenty One Storeys in the Air — Phillip Warnell
- A Nazi Legacy: What Our Fathers Did — David Evans
- One Million Dubliners — Aoife Kelleher
- Palio — Cosima Spender
- The Pearl Button (El botón de nácar) — Patricio Guzmán
- Racing Extinction — Louie Psihoyos
- Requiem for the American Dream — Peter D. Hutchison, Kelly Nyks, Jared P. Scott
- The Royal Road — Jenni Olson
- Sam Klemke's Time Machine — Matthew Bate
- Steak (R)evolution — Franck Ribière
- A Syrian Love Story — Sean McAllister
- Topophilia — Peter Bo Rappmund
- Very Semi-Serious — Leah Wolchok
- The Visit (An Alien Encounter) — Michael Madsen
Dragons & Tigers
[edit]- 32 + 4 — Chan Hon Chun
- 100 Yen Love — Masaharu Take
- The Assassin — Hou Hsiao-hsien
- Alice in Earnestland — Ahn Gooc-jin
- Am I Dreaming of Others, or Are Others Dreaming of Me? — Shigeo Arikawa
- Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories — Phan Đăng Di
- Cemetery of Splendour — Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- The Chinese Mayor — Zhou Hao
- The Classified File — Kwak Kyung-taek
- The Console — Mitsuo Toyama
- Dark Mixer — Hirotoshi Iwasaki
- Gonin Saga — Takashi Ishii
- Goodbye Utopia — Ding Shiwei
- Greed: Ghost Light — Kim Nakyung
- I Can't Breathe — Sayaka Kihata
- Kaili Blues — Bi Gan
- Kim — Shumpei Shimizu
- Li Wen at East Lake — Luo Li
- Love And... — Zhang Lü
- Master Blaster — Sawako Kabuki
- A Matter of Interpretation — Lee Kwang-kuk
- A Midsummer's Fantasia — Jang Kun-jae
- Morning (Asa) + News — Takeshi Beat
- Mountains May Depart — Jia Zhangke
- Mr. Zhang Believes — Qiu Jiongjiong
- Murmur of the Hearts — Sylvia Chang
- My Life with a King — Carlo Encisco Catu
- Octopus — Isamu Hirabayashi
- Omura Plant Specimens — Natsumi Sudo
- Perfect Conjugal Bliss — Zhong Su
- A Place to Name — Ataru Sakagami
- Port of Call — Philip Yung
- Reflection — Yoju Matsubayashi
- Rolling — Masanori Tominaga
- Siti — Eddie Cahyono
- Tandem — King Palisoc
- Thanatos, Drunk — Chang Tso-chi
- Tharlo — Pema Tseden
- Three Stories of Love — Ryōsuke Hashiguchi
- Veil — Yoriko Mizushiri
- What Happened in Past Dragon Year — Sun Xun
- Yanji — Park Ki-yong
- Zinnia Flower — Tom Lin Shu-yu
Altered States
[edit]- Aaaaaaaah! — Steve Oram
- Cop Car — Jon Watts
- Crumbs — Miguel Llansó
- Deathgasm — Jason Lei Howden
- The Demolisher — Gabriel Carrer
- Green Room — Jeremy Saulnier
- The Nightmare (Der Nachtmahr) — Achim Bornhak
- Nina Forever — Ben Blaine, Chris Blaine
- Observance — Joseph Sims-Dennett
- The Similars (Los Parecidos) — Isaac Ezban
Arts & Letters
[edit]- 808 — Alexander Dunn
- Argentina (Zonda, folclore argentino) — Carlos Saura
- A Ballerina's Tale — Nelson George
- Circus Without Borders: The Story of Artcirq and Kalabante — Susan Gray
- The Competition — Angel Borrego Cubero
- The Dream of Shahrazad — François Verster
- Erbarme dich: Matthäus Passion Stories — Ramon Gieling
- Hockney — Randall Wright
- Imperfect Harmony — Carmen Cobos
- Innocence of Memories — Grant Gee
- Invention — Mark Lewis
- Landfill Harmonic — Brad Allgood, Graham Townsley
- Love Is All — Kim Longinotto
- Magicarena — Andrea Prandstaller, Niccolo Bruna
- Mavis! — Jessica Edwards
- Monty Python: The Meaning of Live — Roger Graef, James Rogan
- No Land's Song — Ayat Najafi
- Original Copy — Florian Heinzen-Ziob
- Paco de Lucía: A Journey (Paco de Lucía: La búsqueda) — Francisco Sánchez Varela
- Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict — Lisa Immordino Vreeland
- Sound of Redemption: The Frank Morgan Story — N. C. Heikin
- Tana Bana — Pat Murphy
- The Thoughts That Once We Had — Thom Andersen
Canadian Short Films
[edit]- 4 Quarters — Ashley McKenzie
- At the Beach — Jeremy Peter Allen
- Balmoral Hotel — Wayne Wapeemukwa
- Big Brother — Lucas Hrubizna
- Big O — Jenna Hambrook
- Blood Manifesto — Theodore Ushev
- Blue-Eyed Blonde — Pascal Plante
- Blue Thunder (Bleu tonnerre) — Philippe-David Gagné, Jean-Marc E. Roy
- Boxing — Grayson Moore, Aidan Shipley
- Calendar Girls — Lisa Birke
- The Canoe — Alex Balkam
- Clouds of Autumn — Trevor Mack, Matthew Taylor Blais
- Crazy House — Aaron Mirkin
- Debris — John Bolton
- The Dollhouse — Chad Galloway, Heather Benning
- Dysmorphia — Katherine Grubb
- Golden Teachers — Harry Cepka
- If I Was God — Cordell Barker
- Interview with a Free Man (Entrevue avec un homme libre) — Nicolas Lévesque
- Kokom — Kevin Papatie
- Lewis — Fantavious Fritz
- Lifeguard — Devan Scott, Will Ross
- Maurice — François Jaros
- May We Sleep Soundly — Denis Côté
- Mia — Amanda Strong, Bracken Hanuse Corlett
- The Muses of Salomé — Mirek Hamet
- My Enemy, My Brother — Ann Shin
- My Favourite Season — Liz Cairns
- Nephew — David Findlay
- Never Steady, Never Still — Kathleen Hepburn
- Ocean Falls — Ryan Ermacora, Jessica Johnson
- The Orchard — Darcy Van Poelgeest
- Penny's for Tea — Sophie Jarvis, Kane Stewart
- Rebel (Bihttoš) — Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
- Rock the Box — Katherine Monk
- She Stoops to Conquer — Zack Russell
- The Sleepwalker (Sonámbulo) — Theodore Ushev
- Star — Émilie Mannering
- Wave — Jasmin Mozaffari
- Wind Through a Tree — Seth Smith
- Winter Hymns — Dusty Mancinelli
- World Famous Gopher Hole Museum — Chelsea McMullan
International Short Films
[edit]- Adolescence — Javier Blanco
- Almost Not Beautiful — Sarah Jean Kruchowski
- The Aquarium — Jacobie Gray
- Atlantis — Ben Russell
- Behold — Mark Sargent, Maya Tsambrou
- Birthday — Chris King
- Cheerful Blues for the Dead Man — J. M. Quevedo Gonzalez
- Cherry Cake — Jane Green
- Coffee to Go — Patricia Font
- Deformity Prays for Radiation — Nathan Hertz
- Drift — Felipe Prado
- The Error — Brando de Sica
- The Exquisite Corpus — Peter Tscherkassky
- The Formula — Kathrin Frey
- Gloria — Luis Hernandez de la Peña
- Harvey's Dream — Alexander von Hofmann
- In My Shoes — Mat Govoni, Monique Schafter
- In the Night — Joshua Erkman
- In the Still of the Night — Erich Steiner
- Injury Time — Jack Sheridan
- Interior. Family — Gerard Quinto, Esteve Soler, David Torras
- Last Base — Aslak Danbolt
- Little Bear — Daire Glynn, Ger Duffy
- Looking Out — Tristan Artin
- The Man from the Council — Barnaby Southcombe
- Mine — Trilby Glover
- The Moor — George Kyrtsis
- Mystic Jungfraujoch — Markus Eichenberger
- Night Without Distance — Lois Patiño
- Operator — Caroline Bartleet
- Red Nuts — Jackson Mullane
- A Riot — Nathan Silver
- Scrabble — Cristian Sulser
- Setting them Straight — Kaleb McKenna
- Soap — Christopher Brown
- Solo Finale — Ingo Putze
- Stutterer — Benjamin Cleary
- Through the Breaking Glass — Ivan Mena-Tinoco
- The Train — Asher Grodman
- Treading Water — Liz Cardenas Franke
- Trench — Nathan Hunt
References
[edit]- ^ "VIFF highlights include comedies, literary adaptations". The Early Edition, September 24, 2015.
- ^ Julianna Cummins, "Brooklyn, Room win VIFF audience prizes". Playback, October 13, 2015.