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2023 Canadian film festival
2023 Vancouver International Film Festival Location Vancouver , British Columbia , CanadaFounded 1958 Festival date September 28 - October 8, 2023 Website VIFF
The 2023 Vancouver International Film Festival , the 42nd event in the history of the Vancouver International Film Festival , was held from September 28 to October 8, 2023.[ 1]
Winners of the juried Canadian film awards were announced on October 5.[ 2] The Vanguard award winner was announced on October 8, and Audience Award winners were announced on October 12.
Award
Film
Filmmaker
Audience Award, Galas & Special Presentations
Monster
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Audience Award, Showcase
The Monk and the Gun
Pawo Choyning Dorji
Audience Award, Panorama
Irena's Vow
Louise Archambault
Audience Award, Vanguard
Let Me Go (Laissez-moi)
Maxime Rappaz
Audience Award, Northern Lights
Aitamaako'tamisskapi Natosi: Before the Sun
Banchi Hanuse
Audience Award, Insights
Physician, Heal Thyself
Asher Penn
Audience Award, Spectrum
Asog
Seán Devlin
Audience Award, Portraits
Call Me Dancer
Leslie Shampaine, Pip Gilmour
Audience Award, Altered States
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant)
Ariane Louis-Seize
Best Canadian Film
Fitting In
Molly McGlynn
Best Canadian Film, Honorable Mention
Gamodi
Felix Kalmenson
Best Canadian Documentary
Someone Lives Here
Zack Russell
Best Canadian Documentary, Honorable Mention
Asog
Seán Devlin
Best Canadian Short Film
Katshinau
Julien G. Marcotte , Jani Bellefleur-Kaltush
Best Canadian Short Film, Honorable Mention
Our Grandmother the Inlet
Jaime Leigh Gianopoulos, Kayah George
Emerging Canadian Director
Valley of Exile
Anna Fahr
Emerging Canadian Director, Honorable Mention
Richelieu
Pier-Philippe Chevigny
Best BC Film
WaaPaKe
Jules Arita Koostachin
Best BC Film, Honorable Mention
Asog
Seán Devlin
Vanguard Award
Animal
Sofia Exarchou
Vanguard Award, Honorable Mention
Octopus Skin (La Piel Pulpo)
Ana Cristina Barragán
The full schedule was announced on September 6.[ 3]
Galas and special presentations [ edit ]
English title
Original title
Director(s)
Production country
Anatomy of a Fall
Anatomie d'une chute
Justine Triet
France
The Boy and the Heron
君たちはどう生きるか
Hayao Miyazaki
Japan
La Chimera
Alice Rohrwacher
Italy, France, Switzerland
Fallen Leaves
Kuolleet lehdet
Aki Kaurismäki
Finland, Germany
I'm Just Here for the Riot
Kathleen Jayme , Asia Youngman
Canada
Last Summer
L'Été dernier
Catherine Breillat
Monster
怪物
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Japan
Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe
Robert McCallum
Canada
A Normal Family
보통의 가족
Hur Jin-ho
South Korea
The Old Oak
Ken Loach
United Kingdom, France, Belgium
The Pot-au-Feu
La Passion de Dodin Bouffant
Tran Anh Hung
France
Priscilla
Sofia Coppola
United States
The Promised Land
Bastarden
Nikolaj Arcel
Denmark, Germany, Sweden
Seven Veils
Atom Egoyan
Canada
Swan Song
Chelsea McMullan
Canada
The Zone of Interest
Jonathan Glazer
United Kingdom, Poland, United States
English title
Original title
Director(s)
Production country
About Dry Grasses
Kuru Otlar Üstüne
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Turkey, France, Germany, Sweden
Close to You
Dominic Savage
Canada, United Kingdom
Creature
Asif Kapadia
United Kingdom
The Delinquents
Los delincuentes
Rodrigo Moreno
Argentina, Brazil, Luxembourg, Chile
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
Nu astepta prea mult de la sfârsitul lumii
Radu Jude
Romania
Evil Does Not Exist
悪は存在しない
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Japan
Four Daughters
بنات ألفة
Kaouther Ben Hania
France, Tunisia, Germany, Saudi Arabia
Four Little Adults
Nelja Pienta Aikuista
Selma Vilhunen
Finland, Sweden
Green Border
Zielona granica
Agnieszka Holland
Poland, Czech Republic, France, Belgium
How to Have Sex
Molly Manning Walker
United Kingdom
I Am Sirat
Deepa Mehta , Sirat Taneja
Canada
Il Boemo
Petr Václav
Czech Republic, Italy, Slovakia
Just the Two of Us
L'Amour et les forêts
Valérie Donzelli
France
Kidnapped
Rapito
Marco Bellocchio
Italy, France, Germany
The Monk and the Gun
Pawo Choyning Dorji
Bhutan, France, United States, Taiwan
The Royal Hotel
Kitty Green
Australia, United Kingdom
The Teachers' Lounge
Das Lehrerzimmer
Ilker Çatak
Germany
They Shot the Piano Player
Dispararon al pianista
Fernando Trueba , Javier Mariscal
Spain, France
Tótem
Lila Avilés
Mexico, Denmark, France
English title
Original title
Director(s)
Production country
19B
Ahmad Abdalla
Egypt
All Ears
Liu Jiayin
China
Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry
Elena Naveriani
Georgia, Switzerland
The Braid
Laetitia Colombani
France, Canada, Italy
Days of Happiness
Les Jours heureux
Chloé Robichaud
Canada
The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed
Joanna Arnow
United States
Gamodi
Felix Kalmenson
Canada, Georgia
Goodbye Julia
وداعا جوليا
Mohamed Kordofani
Sudan
Here
Bas Devos
Belgium
Housekeeping for Beginners
Domakinstvo za Pocetnici
Goran Stolevski
Macedonia, Poland, Croatia, Serbia, Kosovo
If Only I Could Hibernate
Баавгай болохсон, Baavgai Bolohson
Zoljargal Purevdash
Mongolia
In Broad Daylight
白日之下
Lawrence Kan
Hong Kong
Irena's Vow
Louise Archambault
Canada, Poland
Let the River Flow
Ellos Eatnu
Ole Giæver
Norway, Sweden, Finland
Measures of Men
Der vermessene Mensch
Lars Kraume
Germany
Oceans Are the Real Continents
Los océanos son los verdaderos continentes
Tommaso Santambrogio
Cuba, Italy
One Day All This Will Be Yours
En dag kommer allt det här bli ditt
Andreas Öhman
Sweden
Only the River Flows
河边的错误
Wei Shujun
China
Puan
Maria Alché, Benjamín Naishtat
Argentina, Italy, France, Germany, Brazil
Raging Grace
Paris Zarcilla
United Kingdom
The Rapture
Le Ravissement
Iris Kaltenbäck
France
Red Rooms
Les Chambres rouges
Pascal Plante
Canada
Robot Dreams
Pablo Berger
Spain, France
The Settlers
Los Colonos
Felipe Gálvez Haberle
Chile
Snow in Midsummer
五月雪
Chong Keat Aun
Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Suddenly
Melisa Önel
Turkey
There's No Place Like Home
Den, der lever stille
Puk Grasten
Denmark
Toll
Pedágio
Carolina Markowicz
Brazil, Portugal
A Tour Guide
Eun-mi Kwak
South Korea
Tsugaru Lacquer Girl
バカ塗りの娘
Keiko Tsuruoka
Japan
Undercurrent
アンダーカレント
Rikiya Imaizumi
Japan
Wild Swans
Gorai Phakhri
Rajni Basumatary
India
English title
Original title
Director(s)
Production country
Animal
Sofia Exarchou
Greece, Austria, Romania, Cyprus, Bulgaria
Bitten
La Morsure
Romain de Saint-Blanquat
France
The Face of the Jellyfish
El Rostro de la Medusa
Melisa Liebenthal
Argentina
Let Me Go
Laissez-moi
Maxime Rappaz
Switzerland, France, Belgium
Octopus Skin
La Piel Pulpo
Ana Cristina Barragán
Ecuador
On the Go
María Gisèle Royo, Julia de Castro
Spain
The Sea and Its Waves
La Mer et ses vagues
Liana Kassir, Renaud Pachot
Lebanon, France
Tomorrow Is a Long Time
Míng tian bi zuo tian chang jiu
Jow Zhi Wei
Singapore, Taiwan, France, Portugal
English title
Original title
Director(s)
Production country
Asog
Seán Devlin
Canada, Philippines
Between Revolutions
Între revoluții
Vlad Petri
Romania, Croatia, Iran
Hello Dankness
Soda Jerk
Australia
Kim's Video
David Redmon, Ashley Sabin
United States, United Kingdom, France
Lonely Oaks
Vergiss Meyn Nicht
Fabiana Fragale, Kilian Kuhlendahl, Jens Mühlhoff
Germany
Mighty Afrin: In the Time of Floods
Angelos Rallis
Greece, France, Germany
The Mother of All Lies
Kadib Abyad
Asmae El Moudir
Morocco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar
Orlando, My Political Biography
Orlando, ma biographie politique
Paul B. Preciado
France
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
Savvusanna sõsarad
Anna Hints
Estonia, France, Iceland
The Tuba Thieves
Alison O'Daniel
United States
English title
Original title
Director(s)
Production country
The Animal Kingdom
Le Règne animal
Thomas Cailley
France
Animalia
Parmi nous
Sofia Alaoui
Morocco, France, Qatar
Chronicles of a Wandering Saint
Crónicas de una Santa Errante
Tomas Gomez Bustillo
Argentina, United States
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant
Ariane Louis-Seize
Canada
My Animal
Jacqueline Castel
Canada
Restore Point
Bod obnovy
Robert Hloz
Czech Republic, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia
The Sacrifice Game
Jenn Wexler
United States
Tiger Stripes
Amanda Nell Eu
Malaysia, Taiwan, France, Germany
The Wait
La espera
F. Javier Gutierrez
Spain
White Plastic Sky
Műanyag égbolt
Tibor Bánóczki, Sarolta Szabó
Hungary, Slovakia
A special program curated by guest programmer Anthony Shim , featuring a selection of films that had influenced his own journey as a filmmaker.
Focus: Women, Life and Freedom[ edit ]
A special program curated by guest programmer Fay Nass, screening films about misogyny and the subjugation of women.
English title
Original title
Director(s)
Production country
Joonam
Sierra Urich
United States
Numb
Amir Toodehroosta
Iran
Seven Winters in Tehran
Sieben Winter in Teheran
Steffi Niederzoll
Germany, France
Terrestrial Verses
Ayeh Haye Zamini
Ali Asgari , Alireza Khatami
Iran
Valley of Exile
Anna Fahr
Canada, Lebanon
All films in this short film program are Canadian.
English title
Original title
Director(s)
Province
All the Days of May
Tous les jours de mai
Miryam Charles
Quebec
Ancestral Threads
Sean Stiller
British Columbia
Between You and Me
Cameron Kletke
British Columbia
Black Box Investigations
Paige Smith
British Columbia
Cassandra
Bea Santos
Ontario
Cloud Striker
Allan W. Hopkins
British Columbia
Conviction
Bruce Thomas Miller
Alberta
The Company We Keep
Wojtek Jakubiec
Quebec
Cristo Negro
Paul Stavropoulos, Brendan Mills
Ontario
Death Mask
John Greyson
Ontario
Defining Human
Daniel Code
British Columbia
Dickinsonia
Charline Dally
Quebec
Donna
Keenan MacWilliam
Ontario
Dream Tricks: Over a Six Stair
Adam Seward
Ontario
Element
Will Niava
Quebec
Four Mile Creek
Ryan McKenna
Quebec
Gentle Hum of Spring
Simon Garez
Saskatchewan
The Great Kind Mystery
Ella Morton
Newfoundland and Labrador
Hair or No Hair
Janessa St. Pierre
British Columbia
Her Name Is Like a Sigh
Solara Thanh-Binh Dang
British Columbia
In the Wake of the Cedar Tree
Towustasin
British Columbia
Katshinau
Julien G. Marcotte , Jani Bellefleur-Kaltush
Quebec
Lake Baikal
Baigal Nuur
Alisi Telengut
Quebec
Les Lavandières
Laura Kamugisha
Quebec
Making Babies
Faire un enfant
Éric K. Boulianne
Quebec
Master of the House
Dylan Maranda
British Columbia
Modern Goose
Karsten Wall
Manitoba
Mothers and Monsters
Édith Jorisch
Quebec
My Tomato Heart
Mon cœur de tomate
Benoît Le Rouzès Ménard
Quebec
Nigiqtuq (The South Wind)
Lindsay McIntyre
Alberta
Our Grandmother the Inlet
Jaime Leigh Gianopoulos, Kayah George
British Columbia
Outside Center
Eli Jean Tahchi
Quebec
Portrait of the Con Artist as a Young Man
Ryan Leedu
Alberta
Redlights
Eva Thomas
Ontario
Return to Hairy Hill
Retour à Hairy Hill
Daniel Gies
Quebec
Return to Ombabika
Ma-Nee Chacaby , Zoe Gordon, Shayne Ehman
Ontario
Silkworm
Amir Honarmand
British Columbia
Sisters
Marisa Hoicka
Ontario
Soleil de Nuit
Fernando Lopez Escriva, Maria Camila Arias
Quebec
Something Else
Autre Chose
Étienne Lacelle
Quebec
Swallow Flying to the South
Mochi Lin
British Columbia
Sub Terra
Jeffrey Zablotny
Ontario
Sun, Moon and Four Peaks
Kevin Jin Kwan Kim
British Columbia
Take Care
Tony Massil
British Columbia
Two Apples
Bahram Javahery
British Columbia, Yukon
Two One Two
Shira Avni
Quebec
Unspeakable Heap
Kara Ditte Hansen
British Columbia
Where Rabbits Come From
D'où viennent les lapins
Colin Ludvic Racicot
Quebec
You Feel Soft
Cameron Kletke
British Columbia
Yun
Yuezhang Qin
British Columbia
International Shorts [ edit ]
English title
Original title
Director(s)
Production country
Almost Fall
Presque l'automne
Margot Pouppeville
France
Basri & Salma in a Never-Ending Comedy
Basri & Salma Dalam Komedi Yang Terus Berputar
Khozy Rizal
Indonesia, United States
Beyond the Sea
Hippolyte Leibovici
Belgium, France
Big Bang
Carlos Segundo
Brazil
Big Day
Chung Chieh Chiang
Taiwan
Confessions
Stephanie Kaznocha
United States
Cuarto de Hora
Nemo Arancibia
Chile, France
Cut
Samuel Lucas Allen
Australia
Fairplay
Zoel Aeschbacher
Switzerland, France
The Family Circus
Andrew Fitzgerald
United States
Far from the Tree
Daleko od stromu
Emma Marková
Czech Republic
Headdress
Taietsarón:sere ‘Tai’ Leclaire
United States
Hedgehog
D. Mitry
United States
Hide Your Crazy
Austin Kase
United States
In Too Deep
Chris Overton
United Kingdom
Jeong-Dong
Choi Woo Gene
South Korea
Just a Rehearsal
Solo un Ensayo
Hugo Sanz
Spain
Just the Two of Us
Toutes les deux
Clara Lemaire Anspach
France
A Lien
Sam Cutler-Kreutz, David Cutler-Kreutz
United States
Lovebugs
Teddy Alvarez-Nissen
United States
Mira
Eva Louise Hall
United States
Night Shift
Turno nocturno Santiago Lago
Argentina
Nowhere
Garin Hovannisian
Armenia, United States
An Ordinary Day
Ju-yeon Gim
South Korea
Pisko the Crab Child Is in Love
Makoto Nagahisa
Japan
Snif & Snüf
Michael J. Ruocco
United States
Southern Afternoon
Nan fang wu hou
Tian Lan
China
Spasm
اسپاسم
Sahra Asadollahi
Iran
Sushi
Iván Morales
Spain
Where the Time Goes
Justin Tyler Close
United States, Canada
Youssou & Malek
Youssou et Malek
Simon Frenay
France
English title
Original title
Director(s)
Production country
Aqueronte
Manuel Muñoz Rivas
Spain
A Bird Called Memory
Leonardo Martinelli
Brazil, United Kingdom
Let's Talk
Simon Liu
Hong Kong
Loving in Between
Jyoti Mistry
South Africa, Austria
Mast-del
Maryam Tafakory
Iran, United Kingdom
Mother Land
Kantarama Gahigiri
Rwanda, Switzerland
NYC RGB
Viktoria Schmid
Austria, United States
Shadow Does
Laure Prouvost
Belgium, France, Austria
Slow Shift
Shambhavi Kaul
India, United States
Square the Circle
Hanna Hovitie
Finland
This Is Not Here
Charlotte Mungomery
Australia, Peru, Spain