2017 Vancouver International Film Festival
Appearance
Opening film | Meditation Park by Mina Shum |
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Closing film | Wonderstruck by Todd Haynes |
Location | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
Festival date | September 28–October 13, 2017 |
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]
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
[edit]Award winners were announced on October 13.[4]
Award | Film | Filmmaker |
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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
[edit]Special Presentations
[edit]- Borg vs McEnroe — Janus Metz Pedersen
- Breathe — Andy Serkis
- Call Me by Your Name — Luca Guadagnino
- A Fantastic Woman (Una mujer fantástica) — Sebastián Lelio
- The Florida Project — Sean Baker
- Happy End — Michael Haneke
- The Killing of a Sacred Deer — Yorgos Lanthimos
- Loving Vincent — Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman
- Mountain — Jennifer Peedom
- The Square — Ruben Östlund
- Top of the Lake: China Girl — Jane Campion, Ariel Kleiman
Contemporary World Cinema
[edit]- 7 Minutes — Michele Placido
- At the End of the Tunnel — Rodrigo Grande
- Azar — Mohammad Hamzei
- Beauty and the Dogs — Kaouther Ben Hania
- The Bolshoi — Valery Todorovsky
- Casting — Nicolas Wackerbarth
- Cocote — Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias
- Columbus — Kogonada
- The Desert Bride — Cecilia Atán, Valeria Pivato
- Directions — Stephan Komandarev
- Disappearance — Boudewijn Koole
- The Divine Order — Petra Volpe
- The Dragon Defense — Natalia Santa
- Farewell (Abscheid von den Eltern) — Astrid Johanna Ofner
- Félicité — Alain Gomis
- Gabriel and the Mountain — Fellipe Gamarano Barbosa
- Garden Store: Family Friend — Jan Hřebejk
- God's Own Country — Francis Lee
- Golden Exits — Alex Ross Perry
- Good Manners (As Boas Maneiras) — Marco Dutra, Juliana Rojas
- Holy Air — Shady Srour
- Hotel Salvation (Mukti Bhawan) — Shubhashish Bhutiani
- Ice Mother (Bába z ledu) — Bohdan Sláma
- In the Fade — Fatih Akin
- The Insult — Ziad Doueiri
- The King's Choice (Kongens nei) — Erik Poppe
- Last Days in Havana (Últimos días en La Habana) — Fernando Pérez
- The Line — Peter Bebjak
- Lipstick Under My Burkha — Alankrita Shrivastava
- Loveless (Нелюбовь) — Andrey Zvyagintsev
- Lucky — John Carroll Lynch
- The Nest of the Turtledove (Гніздо горлиці) — Taras Tkachenko
- Newton — Amit V. Masurkar
- The Nile Hilton Incident — Tarik Saleh
- No Bed of Roses — Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
- No Date, No Signature (بدون تاریخ، بدون امضا) — Vahid Jalilvand
- On the Seventh Day (En el séptimo día) — Jim McKay
- The Other Side of Hope (Toivon tuolla puolen) — Aki Kaurismäki
- The Party — Sally Potter
- Los Perros — Marcela Said
- The Queen of Spain (La reina de España) — Fernando Trueba
- Reseba: The Dark Wind — Hussein Hassan
- Sami Blood (Sameblod) — Amanda Kernell
- Scary Mother (Sashishi Deda) — Ana Urushadze
- Sexy Durga — Sanal Kumar Sasidharan
- Son of Sofia (O gios tis Sofias) — Elina Psykou
- Sour Apples (Ekşi Elmalar) — Yılmaz Erdoğan
- Summer 1993 (Estiu 1993) — Carla Simón
- Swallows and Amazons — Philippa Lowthorpe
- Sweet Virginia — Jamie M. Dagg
- Tales of Mexico (La Habitación) — Natalia Beristáin, Carlos Bolado, Carlos Carrera, Ernesto Contreras, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Alfonso Pineda Ulloa, Alejandro Valle, Iván Ávila Dueñas
- Tehran Taboo (تهران تابو) — Ali Soozandeh
- Tenderness (La Tenerezza) — Gianni Amelio
- That Trip We Took with Dad (Die Reise mit Vater) — Anca Miruna Lăzărescu
- Thelma — Joachim Trier
- Thirst Street — Nathan Silver
- Tom of Finland — Dome Karukoski
- Vazante — Daniela Thomas
- Western — Valeska Grisebach
- Winter Brothers (Vinterbrødre) — Hlynur Pálmason
- The Wound (Inxeba) — John Trengove
- The Young Karl Marx — Raoul Peck
Spotlight on France
[edit]- Ava — Léa Mysius
- BPM (Beats per Minute) — Robin Campillo
- Dalida — Lisa Azuelos
- Django — Étienne Comar
- Faces Places — Agnès Varda, JR
- Ismael's Ghosts (Les Fantômes d'Ismaël) — Arnaud Desplechin
- Milla — Valérie Massadian
- A Season in France (Une Saison en France) — Mahamat Saleh Haroun
- The Valley of the Wolves (La Vallée des loups) — Jean-Michel Bertrand
- The Workshop (L'Atelier) — Laurent Cantet
Documentaries
[edit]- 24 Frames (۲۴ فریم) — Abbas Kiarostami
- AlphaGo — Greg Kohs
- Armed with Faith — Asad Faruqi, Geeta Gandbhir
- Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story — Alexandra Dean
- Caniba — Véréna Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor
- Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? — Travis Wilkerson
- Dina — Daniel Sickles, Antonio Santini
- Dirtbag: The Legend of Fred Beckey — Dave O'Leske
- The Farthest — Emer Reynolds
- Good Luck — Ben Russell
- Machines — Rahul Jain
- Maineland — Miao Wang
- A Marriage Story (Strnadovi) — Helena Třeštíková
- Searching for a New Science — David Malone
- Untitled — Michael Glawogger, Monika Willi
- West of the Jordan River — Amos Gitai
True North
[edit]- Black Cop — Cory Bowles
- Eye on Juliet — Kim Nguyen
- Fail to Appear — Antoine Bourges
- Fake Tattoos (Les faux tatouages) — Pascal Plante
- Forest Movie — Matthew Taylor Blais
- In the Waves — Jacquelyn Mills
- Infiltration (Le problème d’infiltration) — Robert Morin
- Like a Pebble in the Boot (Comme un caillou dans la botte) — Hélène Choquette
- Maison du Bonheur — Sofia Bohdanowicz
- Mass for Shut-Ins — Winston DeGiobbi
- Our People Will Be Healed — Alanis Obomsawin
- Prototype — Blake Williams
- Rebels on Pointe — Bobbi Jo Hart
- A Skin So Soft (Ta peau si lisse) — Denis Côté
- Still Night, Still Light (Mes nuits feront écho) — Sophie Goyette
- Suck It Up — Jordan Canning
- Unarmed Verses — Charles Officer
- Worst Case, We Get Married (Et on pire, on se mariera) — Léa Pool
- You're Soaking in It — Scott Harper
Gateway
[edit]- 2 Cool 2 Be 4gotten — Petersen Vargas
- Anarchist from Colony — Lee Joon-ik
- Angkor Awakens — Robert H. Lieberman
- Bad Genius — Nattawut Poonpiriya
- A Beautiful Star — Daihachi Yoshida
- Becoming Who I Was — Moon Chang-yong, Jeon Jin
- Burma Storybook — Petr Lom
- Claire's Camera — Hong Sang-soo
- Close-Knit — Naoko Ogigami
- The Departure — Lana Wilson
- Dragonfly Eyes — Xu Bing
- The First Lap — Kim Dae-hwan
- A Fish Out of Water — Lai Kuo-An
- The Foolish Bird — Huang Ji, Ryuji Otsuka
- The Great Buddha+ — Huang Ji, Ryuji Otsuka
- Gukoroku: Traces of Sin — Kei Ishikawa
- Have a Nice Day — Liu Jian
- The Hidden Sword — Xu Haofeng
- Honeygiver Among the Dogs — Dechen Roder
- I've Got the Blues — Angie Chen
- In Time to Come — Tan Pin Pin
- King of Peking — Sam Voutas
- The Last Roar of a Mother Bear — Doug Chan
- Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts — Mouly Surya
- Motherland — Ramona S. Diaz
- Okja — Bong Joon-ho
- Paradox — Wilson Yip
- Sweating the Small Stuff — Ryutaro Ninomiya
Sea to Sky
[edit]- Adventures in Public School — Kyle Rideout
- cə̓snaʔəm, the city before the city — Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
- Dead Shack — Peter Ricq
- Entanglement — Jason James
- Gregoire — Cody Bown
- Hollow in the Land — Scooter Corkle
- Indian Horse — Stephen Campanelli
- Luk'Luk'I — Wayne Wapeemukwa
- Meet Beau Dick: Maker of Monsters — LaTiesha Fazakas, Natalia Tudge
- Never Steady, Never Still — Kathleen Hepburn
- On Putin's Blacklist — Boris Ivanov
- Once There Was a Winter — Ana Valine
- Shut Up and Say Something — Melanie Wood
Impact
[edit]- ACORN and the Firestorm — Reuben Atlas, Sam Pollard
- Blue — Karina Holden
- Evolution of Organic — Mark Kitchell
- Frank Serpico — Antonino D'Ambrosio
- Hondros — Greg Campbell
- Human Flow — Ai Weiwei
- Keep Talking — Karen Lynn Weinberg
- The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov — Askold Kurov
- The Venerable W — Barbet Schroeder
- A Yangtze Landscape — Chang Jiang
M/A/D
[edit]- Beuys: Art as a Weapon — Andres 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 East — Raphaël Millet
- Chavela — Catherine Gund, Daresha Kyi
- Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives — Chris Perkel
- David Hockney at the Royal Academy of Arts — Phil 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
- Shadowman — Oren Jacoby
- Song of Granite — Pat Collins
- Streetscapes (Dialogue) — Heinz Emigholz
- Where You're Meant to Be — Paul Fegan
Altered States
[edit]- Animals (Tiere) — Greg Zglinski
- Bad Day for the Cut — Chris Baugh
- Bitch — Marianna Palka
- The Crescent — Seth A. Smith
- The Endless — Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead
- Friendly Beast (O Animal Cordial) — Gabriela Amaral Almeida
- Housewife — Can Evrenol
- Lowlife — Ryan Prows
- Tiger Girl — Jakob Lass
- Tragedy Girls — Tyler MacIntyre
Canadian Short Films
[edit]- Alice Ayalik — Reel Youth
- Anne Doll — Levi Marshall
- Bickford Park — Linsey Stewart, Dane Clark
- Bird — Molly Parker
- Birdlime — Evan Derushie
- Bunbun Blast — Drake Tuura
- Cherry Cola — Joseph Amenta
- Crème de menthe — Jean-Marc E. Roy, Philippe David Gagné
- The Crying Conch — Vincent Toi
- Do We Leave This Here — Julia Hutchings
- Etymology — Faith Paré
- Fence — Alexis Fortier Gauthier
- Flood — Amanda Strong
- From Here To — Darynn Bednarczyk
- Full Moon Party — Gabriel Adelman
- The Glow Is Gone — Ryan Ermacora
- Go Play Outside — Adib Alkhalidey
- The Good Fight — Mintie Pardoe
- Grandmother (ʔEtsu) — Trevor Mack
- His Name Is Willy — Liz Cairns
- Idizwadidiz — Isiah Medina
- It Just Might Be True — Evan McDermot, Samantha Campbell
- The Knits — Lisa Birke
- Let Your Heart Be Light — Deragh Campbell, Sophy Romvari
- Life Goes On: John Dub — Moe Yang
- Lights Beneath My Feet — Laz
- Lira's Forest — Connor Jessup
- Lost Paradise Lost — Yan Giroux
- Lower Plenty Garden Views — Adrian St. Louis
- Manivald — Chintis Lundgren
- The Martyr — Devan Scott, Will Ross
- Memory of the Peace — Jennifer Chiu, Jean Parsons
- Milk — Heather Young
- The Mountain of SGaana — Christopher Auchter
- La Pesca — Pablo Alvarez-Mesa, Fernando López Escrivá
- Refugee Rescue — Richard Yang
- Rupture — Yassmina Karajah
- Scaffold — Kazik Radwanski
- Scratchy — Marv Newland
- Sea Monster — Daniel Rocque, Kassandra Tomczyk
- Shadow Nettes — Phillip Barker
- Slap Happy — Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Dusty Mancinelli
- The Tesla World Light — Matthew Rankin
- There Lived the Colliers — Nelson MacDonald
- Thug — Daniel Boos
- Voices of Kidnapping — Ryan McKenna
- When Food Goes Bad — Ben Sprenger
- Where Do Cats Go After 9 Lives? — Marion Duhaime
- A Woman on the Telephone: Carol — Erica Généreux Smith
International Short Films
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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 Cries — Jonathan 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
[edit]- ^ "Vancouver International Film Festival: What to watch". The Globe and Mail, September 29, 2017.
- ^ Dana Gee, "See what all the buzz is about; VIFF Preview". The Province, September 21, 2017.
- ^ Stuart Derdeyn, "A Creative Collaboration; Kronos Quartet and Guy Maddin combine their talents to create Green Fog". Vancouver Sun, October 5, 2017.
- ^ 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.