2018 Vancouver International Film Festival
The 2018 Vancouver International Film Festival took place from September 27 to October 12, 2018.
Awards
The festival award winners were announced on October 12.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 | 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 | Sean 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 | Amanda Strong |
VIFF Impact Award | The Devil We Know | Stephanie Soechtig |
Daily Hive #mustseeBC | Finding Big Country | Kathleen Jayme |
Programmes
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Gateway
- 14 Apples by Midi Z
- Ala Changso by Sonthar Gyal
- Asako I & II by Ryūsuke Hamaguchi
- Ash Is Purest White by Jia Zhangke
- Burning by Lee Chang-dong
- An Elephant Sitting Still by Hu Bo
- A Family Tour by Ying Liang
- Father to Son by Hsiao Ya-Chuan
- Girls Always Happy by Yang Mingming
- Grass by Hong Sang-soo
- It's Boring Here, Pick Me Up by Ryuichi Hiroki
- Jinpa by Pema Tseden
- A Land Imagined by Yeo Siew Hua
- Long Day's Journey Into Night by Bi Gan
- Lush Reeds by Yang Yishu
- Manta Ray by Phuttiphong Aroonpheng
- Microhabitat by Jeon Go-woon
- Mirai by Mamoru Hosoda
- Mori, The Artist's Habitat by Shuichi Okita
- Nervous Translation by Shireen Seno
- No. 1 Chung Ying Street by Derek Chiu
- People's Republic of Desire by Hao Wu
- The Running Actress by Moon So-ri
- The Scythian Lamb by Daihachi Yoshida
- The Seen and Unseen by Kamila Andini
- The Third Wife by Ash Mayfair
- Wangdrak's Rain Boots by Lhapal Gyal
Impact
- 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
- ' 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
- ' 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
- Bathtubs Over Broadway by Dava Whisenant
- ' by Jane Magnusson
- ' by Sophie Huber
- Carmine Street Guitars by Ron Mann
- The Eyes of Orson Welles by Mark Cousins
- ' 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
- ' 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
Panorama
Sea to Sky
- Anthem of a Teenage Prophet by Robin Hays
- The Darling by Lee Seung-Yup
- Edge of the Knife by Gwaai Edenshaw and Helen Haig-Brown
- Finding Big Country by Kathleen Jayme
- Freaks by Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein
- In the Valley of Wild Horses by Trevor Mack and Asia Youngman
- Kingsway by Bruce Sweeney
- The Museum of Forgotten Triumphs by Bojan Bodružić
- N.O.N. by Zebulon Zang
- by Cody Graham and Carey Newman
- This Mountain Life by Grant Baldwin
- When the Storm Fades by Sean Devlin
True North
- ante mis ojos by Lina Rodriguez
- ' by Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier and Edward Burtynsky
- ' by Phillip Borsos
- Clara by Akash Sherman
- Everything Outside by David Findlay
- The Far Shore by Joyce Wieland
- Fausto by Andrea Bussmann
- Firecrackers by Jasmin Mozaffari
- A Fortress by Miryam Charles
- Genesis by Philippe Lesage
- Giant Little Ones by Keith Behrman
- The Grizzlies by Miranda de Pencier
- Holy Angels by Jay Cardinal Villeneuve
- The Hummingbird Project by Kim Nguyen
- Mangoshake by Terry Chiu
- M/M by Drew Lint
- Mouthpiece by Patricia Rozema
- The New Romantic by Carly Stone
- Quiet Killing by Kim O'Bomsawin
- Roads in February by Katherine Jerkovic
- Roy Thomson by Sofia Bohdanowicz
- Sharkwater Extinction by Rob Stewart
- A Sister's Song by Danae Elon
- The Soft Space by Sofia Bohdanowicz and Melanie Scheiner
- Song of a Seer by Aïda Maigre-Touchet
- Spice It Up by Lev Lewis, Yonah Lewis and Calvin Thomas
- Splinters by Thom Fitzgerald
- The Stone Speakers by Igor Drljaca
- Three Atlas by Miryam Charles
- Through Black Spruce by Don McKellar
- Ville Neuve by Félix Dufour-Laperrière
- Waiting for April by Olivier Godin
- What Is Democracy? by Astra Taylor
- What Walaa Wants by Christy Garland
- Where by Sofia Bohdanowicz
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