# 2018 Vancouver International Film Festival

The 2018 Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) 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 (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
### Galas

* The Hummingbird Project — Kim Nguyen (Opening)
* The Front Runner — Jason Reitman (Closing)

### Special Presentations

* 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

* 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

* 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

* 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

* 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

* 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

* 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

* 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

* 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

* 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

* 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

* 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

* 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

* 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

* 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

* 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

* 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

* 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