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2018 Vancouver International Film Festival

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Vancouver International Film Festival
Opening filmThe Hummingbird Project by Kim Nguyen
Closing filmThe Front Runner by Jason Reitman
LocationVancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Festival dateSeptember 27 – October 12, 2018

The 2018 Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) took place from September 27 to October 12, 2018.[1]

Awards

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The festival award winners were announced on October 12.[2]

Award Film Director
People's Choice Finding Big Country Kathleen Jayme
Most Popular Canadian Feature Edge of the Knife Gwaai Edenshaw and Helen Haig-Brown
Most Popular International Feature Shoplifters Hirokazu Kore-eda
Most Popular International Documentary Bathtubs Over Broadway Dava Whisenant
Best Canadian Film Edge of the Knife Gwaai Edenshaw and Helen Haig-Brown
Best Canadian Film, Honorable Mention Genesis (Genèse) Philippe Lesage
Best Canadian Film, Honorable Mention The Grizzlies Miranda de Pencier
Best Canadian Documentary The Museum of Forgotten Triumphs Bojan Bodružić
Best Canadian Documentary, Honorable Mention A Sister's Song Danae Elon
Best Canadian Short Film Fauve Jérémy Comte
Emerging Canadian Director When the Storm Fades Seán Devlin
Emerging Canadian Director, Honorable Mention M/M Drew Lint
Most Promising Canadian Director of a Short Film EXIT Claire Edmondson
Best BC Film Edge of the Knife Gwaai Edenshaw and Helen Haig-Brown
Sea to Sky Award Broken Bunny Meredith Hama-Brown
Sea to Sky Award, Honorable Mention Anthem of a Teenage Prophet Robin Hays
BC Emerging Filmmaker Freaks Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein
Best BC Short Film Biidaaban (The Dawn Comes) Amanda Strong
VIFF Impact Award The Devil We Know Stephanie Soechtig
Daily Hive #mustseeBC Finding Big Country Kathleen Jayme

Programmes

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Galas

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Special Presentations

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Special Events

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ALT

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Modes

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  • Hi I Need to Be Loved — Marnie Ellen Hertzler
  • The Hymns of Muscovy — Dimitri Venkov
  • Julio Iglesias's House — Natalia Marin
  • LHB — Charlotte Prodger
  • Lost Head & the Bird — Sohrab Hura
  • The Rare EventBen Rivers, Ben Russell
  • A Room with a Coconut ViewTulapop Saenjaroen
  • Unearthing. In Conversation — Belinda Kazeem-Kaminski
  • The White Elephant — Shuruq Harb

Gateway

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Impact

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M/A/D

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Contemporary World Cinema

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Spotlight on France

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Focus on Italy

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Vanguard

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Sea to Sky

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True North

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Future//Present

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Canadian Short Films

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International Shorts

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  • Akeda (The Binding) — Dan Bronfeld
  • Anointed — Dan Lin
  • Aquarium — Lorenzo Puntoni
  • The Beetle at the End of the Street — Joan Vives Lozano
  • Bodies — Laura Nagy
  • Boy Saint — Tom Speers
  • Coming of Age — Doug Tompos
  • Dawn — Jörn Threlfall
  • Eli — Colin Gerrard
  • Exit Toll — Mohammad Najarian Dariani
  • First Generation — Jeannie Nguyen
  • Gerry — Victoria Hollup, Paul Agar
  • Green — Suzanne Andrew Correa
  • Hard Rubbish — Stephen Packer
  • In Lucia's Skin — Marya Hermosillo, Angel De Guillermo
  • The Light Refracts Into the Shadows — Tsung Hsuan Yeh
  • Mamartuile — Alejandro Saevich
  • Matria — Alvaro Gago
  • Mino Bimaadiziwin — Shane McSauby
  • Open House — Philip Aceto
  • Open Your Eyes — Ilay Mevorach
  • Password: Fajara — Séverine Sajous, Patricia Sanchez Mora
  • A Picnic Table at Dusk — Sheridan O'Donnell
  • Precious — Mohammed Hammad
  • The Racer — Alex Harron
  • Seen from Above — Patrick Brooks
  • Shadow Animals — Jerry Carlsson
  • Skates — Maddelin McKenna
  • Sorceress — Max Blustin
  • Theo & Celeste — Hanna Dougherty
  • Trophy Boy — Emrhys Cooper
  • Yesterday or the Day Before — Hugo Sanz
  • You Don't Know Me — Rodrigo Sellos

Youth Shorts

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  • Big Girls Don't Cry — Rebecca Shapass
  • The Bunny Odyssey — Taerang Yun
  • Foreign — Timothy Ross
  • Gary, Mary, Barry and Craig — Carissa Clarkson, Rani Li, Ben Cockell, Sylvie Hopkins, Owen Liu
  • Gift — Yohann Grignou
  • Gone Astray — Mabel Ye
  • If Teardrops Were Pennies — Tiana Bates, Alexandria Sayers
  • iRony — Radheya Jegatheva
  • Jasmine StungPartho Gupte
  • Little Jerusalem — Monika Navickaite
  • Matriarch Rising — Helen Motts Tommy, Savannah M., Kelly Yellowbird, Shaina W. and Jenna Quock
  • My Clayey Conception — Zanyar Muhammadineko
  • Pulse — Gage Oxley
  • Rami & Mohammed's Story — Khaled Ahmed, Mohamed B., Rami Al Mitwali, Fouad Hammoud
  • Replica — Han Pham
  • Slurp — Anya Martin
  • Somethings — Shira Haimovici
  • Squats — Karina Jesson
  • Urban Poetry — Anton Guttenberg

Shorts airing with features

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References

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