2016 Vancouver International Film Festival Explained
The 2016 Vancouver International Film Festival, the 35th event in the history of the Vancouver International Film Festival, was held from September 29 to October 14, 2016.
The festival's opening gala film was Aisling Walsh's Maudie, and its closing gala was Terrence Mallick's Voyage of Time.[1]
Awards
Award winners were announced on October 14.[2]
Films
Special Presentations
Contemporary World Cinema
Spotlight on France
Documentaries
True North
Gateway
BC Spotlight
Impact
M/A/D
Altered States
Canadian Short Films
- 24.24.24 — Daniel Dietzel
- Another Prayer — Sofia Bohdanowicz
- As Dinosaurs — Émilie Rosas
- Beyond Blue Waves — Joëlle Desjardins Paquette
- Black Cop — Cory Bowles
- Blind Vaysha — Theodore Ushev
- A Brief History of the Apocalypse — Erica Généreux Smith
- By the Pool — Karine Bélanger
- Cabbie — Jessica Parsons, Jennifer Chiu
- The Cameraman — Connor Gaston
- Carver — Jeremy Wamiss
- Cave of Sighs — Nathan Douglas
- Clouds — Diego Maclean
- Colour — Taryn Birket, Alannah Johnson
- A Dance For... — Emily Feng
- DataMine — Tim Tracey
- Dora Blondin — Iris, Naomi, Paige, Tayla
- Einst — Jessica Johnson
- Emma — Martin Edralin
- An Evening — Sofia Bohdanowicz
- Fantassut/Rain on the Borders — Federica Foglia
- Fish — Heather Young
- Four Faces of the Moon — Amanda Strong
- Ganjy — Benjamin Ratner
- Here Nor There — Julia Hutchings
- Homesick — Sophie Jarvis
- I Am Here — Eoin Duffy
- If You See Something — Daria Azizian
- Imitations — Markus Henkel, Milos Mitrovic, Ian Bawa, Fabian Velasco
- It's No Real Pleasure in Life — Nikolay Michaylov
- Last Night — Joel Salaysay
- Late Night Drama — Patrice Laliberté
- The Lift — Manny Mahal
- Mamie — Janice Nadeau
- The Movieland Movie — Zachary Kerrholden
- My Body — Annie Kruger, Danica Denommé, Florence Dubé, Ryan Titus
- The New Canada — Alexander Carson
- Nine Behind — Sophy Romvari
- Nutag: Homeland — Alisi Telengut
- Oh What a Wonderful Feeling — François Jaros
- Old Man — Alicia Eisen
- Parent, Teacher — Roman Tchjen
- Popsong — Matthew Taylor Blais
- A Prayer — Sofia Bohdanowicz
- Ranger — Sandra Ignagni
- Seven Stars — Sofia Banzhaf
- Sigismond Imageless — Albéric Aurtenèche
- Srorrim — Wayne Wapeemukwa
- Stone Makers (Carrière) — Jean-Marc E. Roy
- The Taste of Vietnam — Pier-Luc Latulippe
- This Home Is Not Empty — Carol Nguyen
- Those Who Remain (Ceux qui restent) — Mathieu Vachon
- Two — Christopher Spencer-Lowe
- Vlad the Unemployed — Ashley Kobayashi
- Wild Skin (La Peau sauvage) — Ariane Louis-Seize
- Your Mother and I — Anna Maguire
International Short Films
- Aeris — Lukas Huffman
- Affordance — Nove Hatayo
- Albedo Absolute — Vlad Marsavin
- Après Suzanne — Félix Moati
- As One — Alan Powell
- Best Efforts — Hadley Hillel
- Between Them — Alexia Maltner
- Black Pudding — Nicole Nabi
- Catch — Dominic Rees-Roberts, Paul Cooke
- Champion — Andrés Passoni
- Conslitruction — Nakanishi Yoshihisa
- Datum Point — Orikawa Ryo
- Dear Drew — Dylan Shapiro
- Don't Leave Me — Laura Jou
- Éclair — Hugo Keijzer
- Eden Hostel — Gonzaga Manso
- Encounter — Fabrizio Rinaldi
- Fabrizio's Initiation — Mariano Biasin
- Finder — Satoh Yoshinao
- Friday Night — Alexis Michalik
- Grown Up — Hong-Ruei Lin
- Heaven — Hirabayashi Isamu
- Her Paradise — Shobi Sen
- How to Get People to Like You — Alexandra Yakovleva
- I Have the Future — Ouchi Rieko
- I Love Anna — Joonas Rutanen
- Indefinite Pitch — James N. Kienitz Wilkins
- The Laughing Spider — Tanaami Keiichi
- The Law of Moments — Emma Samms
- Litterbugs — Peter Stanley-Ward
- Lock In — Neville Pierce
- Minor Setback — Augustine Frizzell
- On the Roof — Damia Serra Cauchetiez
- Out of the Village — Jonathan Stein
- Painterbrain — Glenn Diehl
- Paris, 1971 — David Khachatorian
- Promise — Akihiko Shiota
- Rotten Love — Matt Lacorte
- Sanun — Kyle Nieva, Miggy Hilario
- Soju and Ice Cream — Lee Kwang-kuk
- The Sparrow's Flight — Tom Schroeder
- Stars — Krista Vernoff
- This Modern Man Is Beat — Alex Merkin
- Three Minute Warning — Iqbal Mohammed
- Tide — Alexander von Hofmann
- Today They Took My Son — Pierre Dawalibi
- Vanya — Christine Rabotenko
- Walden Pink — Peter Bolte
- When Day Is Done — Brandon Roots
- Winds of Furnace — Yamil Quintana
- Without You — Nariman Aliev
Notes and References
- Rafferty Baker, "VIFF reveals feature films for opening and closing galas". CBC News British Columbia, September 8, 2016.
- Adrian Mack, "VIFF 2016: And the winner is... Maudie". The Georgia Straight, October 14, 2016.