2018 Vancouver International Film Festival
Appearance
Opening film | The Hummingbird Project by Kim Nguyen |
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Closing film | The Front Runner by Jason Reitman |
Location | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
Festival date | September 27 – October 12, 2018 |
The 2018 Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) took place from September 27 to October 12, 2018.[1]
Awards
[edit]The festival award winners were announced on October 12.[2]
Programmes
[edit]Galas
[edit]- The Hummingbird Project — Kim Nguyen (Opening)
- The Front Runner — Jason Reitman (Closing)
Special Presentations
[edit]- Anthropocene: The Human Epoch — Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, Edward Burtynsky
- Boy Erased — Joel Edgerton
- Can You Ever Forgive Me? — Marielle Heller
- Cold War — Paweł Pawlikowski
- Colette — Wash Westmoreland
- Everybody Knows — Asghar Farhadi
- The Favourite — Yorgos Lanthimos
- The Grizzlies — Miranda de Pencier
- The Happy Prince — Rupert Everett
- Non-Fiction — Olivier Assayas
- The Old Man and the Gun — David Lowery
- A Private War — Matthew Heineman
- Shadow — Zhang Yimou
- Sharkwater Extinction — Rob Stewart
- Shoplifters — Hirokazu Kore-eda
- The Sisters Brothers — Jacques Audiard
Special Events
[edit]- VIFF Trbute Award: Jean-Marc Vallée, with screening of Dallas Buyers Club
- An Evening with Jane Goodall, with screening of Jane
- Bethune: The Making of a Hero — Phillip Borsos
ALT
[edit]- Another Day of Life — Raúl de la Fuente, Damian Nenow
- Climax — Gaspar Noé
- The House That Jack Built — Lars von Trier
- Level 16 — Danishka Esterhazy
- Mega Time Squad — Tim Van Dammen
- One Cut of the Dead — Shin'ichirô Ueda
- Parallel — Isaac Ezban
- Profile — Timur Bekmambetov
- Relaxer — Joel Potrykus
- Ruben Brandt, Collector — Milorad Krstić
- Seder-Masochism — Nina Paley
- Under the Silver Lake — David Robert Mitchell
- Virus Tropical — Santiago Caicedo
- The Wolf House — Cristobal León & Joaquín Cociña
Modes
[edit]- 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 Event — Ben Rivers, Ben Russell
- A Room with a Coconut View — Tulapop Saenjaroen
- Unearthing. In Conversation — Belinda Kazeem-Kaminski
- The White Elephant — Shuruq Harb
Gateway
[edit]- 14 Apples — Midi Z
- Ala Changso — Sonthar Gyal
- Asako I & II — Ryūsuke Hamaguchi
- Ash Is Purest White — Jia Zhangke
- Burning — Lee Chang-dong
- An Elephant Sitting Still — Hu Bo
- A Family Tour — Ying Liang
- Father to Son — Hsiao Ya-Chuan
- Girls Always Happy — Yang Mingming
- Grass — Hong Sang-soo
- It's Boring Here, Pick Me Up — Ryuichi Hiroki
- Jinpa — Pema Tseden
- A Land Imagined — Yeo Siew Hua
- Long Day's Journey Into Night — Bi Gan
- Lush Reeds — Yang Yishu
- Manta Ray — Phuttiphong Aroonpheng
- Microhabitat — Jeon Go-woon
- Mirai — Mamoru Hosoda
- Mori, The Artist's Habitat — Shuichi Okita
- Nervous Translation — Shireen Seno
- No. 1 Chung Ying Street — Derek Chiu
- People's Republic of Desire — Hao Wu
- The Running Actress — Moon So-ri
- The Scythian Lamb — Daihachi Yoshida
- The Seen and Unseen — Kamila Andini
- The Third Wife — Ash Mayfair
- Wangdrak's Rain Boots — Lhapal Gyal
Impact
[edit]- Central Airport THF by Karim Aïnouz
- Chris the Swiss by Anja Kofmel
- Cuban Food Stories by Asori Soto
- Dawnland by Adam Mazo, Ben Pender-Cudlip
- The Devil We Know by Stephanie Soechtig
- The Distant Barking of Dogs by Simon Lereng Wilmont
- Dolphin Man: The Story of Jacques Mayol by Lefteris Charitos
- Dreaming Under Capitalism by Sophie Bruneau
- Eldorado by Markus Imhoof
- The Image You Missed by Donal Foreman
- In My Room by Ayelet Albenda
- Inside My Heart by Debra Kellner
- Jane by Brett Morgen
- John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection by Julien Faraut
- The Lost City of the Monkey God by Bill Benenson
- The Oslo Diaries by Mor Loushy, Daniel Sivan
- Piazza Vittorio by Abel Ferrara
- Putin's Witnesses by Vitaly Mansky
- Samouni Road by Stefano Savona
- The Serengeti Rules by Nicolas Brown
- Shirkers by Sandi Tan
- The Silence of Others by Almudena Carracedo, Robert Bahar
- Theatre of War by Lola Arias
- The Washing Society by Lizzie Olesker, Lynne Sachs
- What Comes Around by Reem Saleh
- Wine Calling by Bruno Sauvard
M/A/D
[edit]- Bathtubs Over Broadway by Dava Whisenant
- Bergman - A Year in a Life by Jane Magnusson
- Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes by Sophie Huber
- Carmine Street Guitars by Ron Mann
- The Eyes of Orson Welles by Mark Cousins
- Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable by Sasha Waters Freyer
- Impulso by Emilio Belmonte
- Jamilia by Aminatou Echard
- Le Grand Bal by Laetitia Carton
- The Man Who Stole Banksy by Marco Proserpio
- Maria by Callas by Tom Volf
- Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. by Stephen Loveridge
- Minute Bodies: The Intimate Lives of F. Percy Smith by Stuart A. Staples
- O Horizon by The Otolith Group
- The Price of Everything by Nathaniel Kahn
- The Proposal by Jill Magid
- United Skates by Dyana Winkler, Tina Brown
- The Whistleblower of My Lai by Connie Field
- Yellow Is Forbidden by Pietra Brettkelly
Contemporary World Cinema
[edit]- 3 Faces — Jafar Panahi
- Ága — Milko Lazarov
- All Good (Alles ist gut) — Eva Trobisch
- Amateurs (Amatörer) — Gabriela Pichler
- Ben Is Back — Peter Hedges
- Barefoot (Po strništi bos) — Jan Svěrák
- Becoming Astrid (Unga Astrid) — Pernille Fischer Christensen
- Bel Canto — Paul Weitz
- Birds of Passage — Ciro Guerra, Cristina Gallego
- Capernaum — Nadine Labaki
- Carmen & Lola (Carmen y Lola) — Arantxa Echevarría
- The Dead and the Others — João Salaviza, Renée Nader Messora
- Dear Son — Mohamed Ben Attia
- Diamantino — Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt
- Diane — Kent Jones
- Djon Africa — Filipa Reis, João Miller Guerra
- Dovlatov — Aleksei German
- Dressage — Pooya Badkoobeh
- Fugue — Agnieszka Smoczyńska
- Garden Store: Suitor — Jan Hřebejk
- The Guilty — Gustav Möller
- Hat-Trick — Ramtin Lavafi
- The Heiresses — Marcelo Martinessi
- Hendi and Hormoz — Abbas Amini
- Holiday — Isabella Eklöf
- In My Room — Ulrich Köhler
- In the Aisles — Thomas Stuber
- In the Shadows — Dipesh Jain
- Jonathan — Bill Oliver
- Last Summer — Jon Jones
- Leto — Kirill Serebrennikov
- Liquid Truth — Carolina Jabor
- The Load — Ognjen Glavonić
- Mug — Małgorzata Szumowska
- No One Will Ever Know — Jesús Torres Torres
- Patrimony — Jiří Vejdělek
- Petra — Jaime Rosales
- Pity — Babis Makridis
- The Reports on Sarah and Saleem — Muayad Alayan
- Shock Waves — Ursula Meier, Lionel Baier, Frédéric Mermoud, Jean-Stéphane Bron
- Sir — Rohena Gera
- The Snatch Thief — Agustin Toscano
- Sofia — Meryem Benm'Barek-Aloïsi
- Styx — Wolfgang Fischer
- Transit — Christian Petzold
- Volcano — Roman Bondarchuk
- What They Had — Elizabeth Chomko
- The Wild Pear Tree — Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- Winter Flies — Olmo Omerzu
- Woman at War — Benedikt Erlingsson
- Working Woman — Michal Aviad
- Yomeddine — Abu Bakr Shawky
Spotlight on France
[edit]- At War (En guerre) — Stéphane Brizé
- Coincoin and the Extra-Humans (Coincoin et les z'inhumains) — Bruno Dumont
- The Image Book (Le Livre d'image) — Jean-Luc Godard
- Keep an Eye Out (Au poste!) — Quentin Dupieux
- Memoir of War (La douleur) — Emmanuel Finkiel
- A Paris Education (Mes provinciales) — Jean-Paul Civeyrac
- The Prayer (La prière) — Cédric Kahn
- Shéhérazade — Jean-Bernard Marlin
- Sorry Angel (Plaire, aimer et courir vite) — Christophe Honoré
Focus on Italy
[edit]- Daughter of Mine (Figlia mia) — Laura Bispuri
- Dogman — Matteo Garrone
- Euphoria (Euforia) — Valeria Golino
- Happy as Lazzaro (Lazzaro felice) — Alice Rohrwacher
- Love and Bullets (Ammore e malavita) — Manetti Bros.
- A Woman's Name (Nome di donna) — Marco Tullio Giordana
- Piazza Vittorio — Abel Ferrara
- Sicilian Ghost Story — Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza
Vanguard
[edit]- Communion Los Angeles — Adam R. Levine, Peter Bo Rappmund
- The Flower (La Flor) — Mariano Llinás
- The Grand Bizarre — Jodie Mack
- Introduzione all'oscuro — Gastón Solnicki
- Notes on an Appearance — Ricky D'Ambrose
- Quantification Trilogy — Jeremy Shaw
- Ray & Liz — Richard Billingham
- What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire? — Roberto Minervini
Sea to Sky
[edit]- Anthem of a Teenage Prophet — Robin Hays
- Because We Are Girls — Baljit Sangra
- The Darling — Lee Seung-Yup
- Edge of the Knife — Gwaai Edenshaw, Helen Haig-Brown
- Finding Big Country — Kathleen Jayme
- Freaks — Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein
- In the Valley of Wild Horses — Trevor Mack, Asia Youngman
- Kingsway — Bruce Sweeney
- N.O.N. — Zebulon Zang
- Picking Up the Pieces: The Making of the Witness Blanket — Cody Graham and Carey Newman
- This Mountain Life — Grant Baldwin
- When the Storm Fades — Seán Devlin
True North
[edit]- Clara — Akash Sherman
- Everything Outside — David Findlay
- The Far Shore — Joyce Wieland
- Firecrackers — Jasmin Mozaffari
- Genesis (Genèse) — Philippe Lesage
- Giant Little Ones — Keith Behrman
- Mouthpiece — Patricia Rozema
- The New Romantic — Carly Stone
- Quiet Killing — Kim O'Bomsawin
- Roads in February (Les routes en février) — Katherine Jerkovic
- A Sister's Song — Danae Elon
- Splinters — Thom Fitzgerald
- Through Black Spruce — Don McKellar
- Ville Neuve — Félix Dufour-Laperrière
- What Is Democracy? — Astra Taylor
- What Walaa Wants — Christy Garland
Future//Present
[edit]- Fausto by Andrea Bussmann
- M/M by Drew Lint
- Mangoshake by Terry Chiu
- The Museum of Forgotten Triumphs — Bojan Bodružić
- Song of a Seer — Aïda Maigre-Touchet
- Spice It Up — Lev Lewis, Yonah Lewis, Calvin Thomas
- The Stone Speakers — Igor Drljaca
- Waiting for April — Olivier Godin
Canadian Short Films
[edit]- 7A — Zack Russell
- Acres — Rebeccah Love
- Animal Behaviour — Alison Snowden, David Fine
- Best Friends Read the Same Books — Matthew Taylor Blais
- Biidaaban (The Dawn Comes) — Amanda Strong
- Broken Bunny — Meredith Hama-Brown
- La Cartographe — Nathan Douglas
- Century — Levi Holwell, Gabe Romero
- Compete — Emmanuelle Lacombe
- A Dreaming House — Devin Shears
- Encore — Connor Gaston, Vaughn Gaston
- EXIT — Claire Edmondson
- Fauve — Jérémy Comte
- From Across the Street and Through Two Sets of Windows — Steven McCarthy
- Girl on a Bus — Matthew B. Schmidt
- Glitter's Wild Woman — Danielle Roney
- Guts — Nano Clow
- Haus — Joseph Amenta
- Hazel Isle — Jessica Johnson
- Hole — G. Goletski
- Loretta's Flowers — Brendan Prost
- The Lure of the Deep — Larissa Corriveau
- Mahalia Melts in the Rain — Émilie Mannering
- Medical Drama — Sophie Jarvis
- My Life Is a Joke — Chelsea McMullan, Sarafina Difelice
- Paddock — Michel Kandinsky
- Paseo — Matthew Hannam
- Prawn — Andrew Gillingham
- Pumpkin Movie — Sophy Romvari
- The Subject — Patrick Bouchard
- Titanyum — Gökçe Erdem
- Train Hopper — Amélie Hardy
- Turbine — Alex Boya
- Under the Viaduct — Norm Li
- The Urge to Run a Lap — Lesley Loksi Chan
- Veslemøy's Song — Sofia Bohdanowicz
- Woman in Stall — Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Dusty Mancinelli
International Shorts
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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 Stung — Partho 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
[edit]- ante mis ojos — Lina Rodriguez
- Carlotta's Face — Valentin Riedl
- Caterpillarplasty — David Barlow-Krelina
- A Fortress — Miryam Charles
- The Great Wall of China — Aleksandra Odic
- The Harvesters — Derek Howard
- Holy Angels — Jay Cardinal Villeneuve
- In the Valley of the Wild Horses — Trevor Mack, Asia Youngman
- Roy Thomson — Sofia Bohdanowicz
- The Soft Space — Sofia Bohdanowicz, Melanie Scheiner
- Three Atlas — Miryam Charles
- Where — Sofia Bohdanowicz
References
[edit]- ^ "The Vancouver International Film Festival has officially kicked off". Daily Hive, September 27, 2018.
- ^ Adrian Mack, "Finding Big Country is the People’s Choice as VIFF closes with awards ceremony". The Georgia Straight, October 12, 2018.
External links
[edit]- Official site (from Internet Archive Wayback Machine, archived during the 2018 festival)
- VIFF 2018 Factsheet (archived from official site)
- Closing release including official list of award winners