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The 2017 Vancouver International Film Festival , the 36th event in the history of the
Vancouver International Film Festival , was held from September 28 to October 13, 2017.
[1]
The festival's opening gala film was
Mina Shum 's
Meditation Park , and its closing gala was
Todd Haynes 's
Wonderstruck ;
[2] during the festival, a special gala was also dedicated to
Guy Maddin 's film
The Green Fog , with its score performed live in the theatre by the
Kronos Quartet .
[3]
Awards
Award winners were announced on October 13.
[4]
Films
Special Presentations
Contemporary World Cinema
7 Minutes —
Michele Placido
At the End of the Tunnel —
Rodrigo Grande
Azar — Mohammad Hamzei
Beauty and the Dogs —
Kaouther Ben Hania
The Bolshoi —
Valery Todorovsky
Casting — Nicolas Wackerbarth
Cocote — Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias
Columbus —
Kogonada
The Desert Bride — Cecilia Atán, Valeria Pivato
Directions —
Stephan Komandarev
Disappearance — Boudewijn Koole
The Divine Order —
Petra Volpe
The Dragon Defense — Natalia Santa
Farewell (Abscheid von den Eltern) — Astrid Johanna Ofner
Félicité —
Alain Gomis
Gabriel and the Mountain — Fellipe Gamarano Barbosa
Garden Store: Family Friend —
Jan Hřebejk
God's Own Country —
Francis Lee
Golden Exits —
Alex Ross Perry
Good Manners (As Boas Maneiras) — Marco Dutra,
Juliana Rojas
Holy Air — Shady Srour
Hotel Salvation (Mukti Bhawan) —
Shubhashish Bhutiani
Ice Mother (Bába z ledu) —
Bohdan Sláma
In the Fade —
Fatih Akin
The Insult —
Ziad Doueiri
The King's Choice (Kongens nei) —
Erik Poppe
Last Days in Havana (Últimos días en La Habana) —
Fernando Pérez
The Line —
Peter Bebjak
Lipstick Under My Burkha —
Alankrita Shrivastava
Loveless (Нелюбовь) —
Andrey Zvyagintsev
Lucky —
John Carroll Lynch
The Nest of the Turtledove (Гніздо горлиці) — Taras Tkachenko
Newton —
Amit V. Masurkar
The Nile Hilton Incident —
Tarik Saleh
No Bed of Roses —
Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
No Date, No Signature (بدون تاریخ، بدون امضا) —
Vahid Jalilvand
On the Seventh Day (En el séptimo día) —
Jim McKay
The Other Side of Hope (Toivon tuolla puolen) —
Aki Kaurismäki
The Party —
Sally Potter
Los Perros —
Marcela Said
The Queen of Spain (La reina de España) —
Fernando Trueba
Reseba: The Dark Wind — Hussein Hassan
Sami Blood (Sameblod) —
Amanda Kernell
Scary Mother (Sashishi Deda) — Ana Urushadze
Sexy Durga —
Sanal Kumar Sasidharan
Son of Sofia (O gios tis Sofias) — Elina Psykou
Sour Apples (Ekşi Elmalar) —
Yılmaz Erdoğan
Summer 1993 (Estiu 1993) —
Carla Simón
Swallows and Amazons —
Philippa Lowthorpe
Sweet Virginia —
Jamie M. Dagg
Tales of Mexico (La Habitación) — Natalia Beristáin,
Carlos Bolado ,
Carlos Carrera ,
Ernesto Contreras ,
Daniel Giménez Cacho , Alfonso Pineda Ulloa, Alejandro Valle, Iván Ávila Dueñas
Tehran Taboo (تهران تابو) —
Ali Soozandeh
Tenderness (La Tenerezza) —
Gianni Amelio
That Trip We Took with Dad (Die Reise mit Vater) —
Anca Miruna Lăzărescu
Thelma —
Joachim Trier
Thirst Street — Nathan Silver
Tom of Finland —
Dome Karukoski
Vazante —
Daniela Thomas
Western —
Valeska Grisebach
Winter Brothers (Vinterbrødre) —
Hlynur Pálmason
The Wound (Inxeba) —
John Trengove
The Young Karl Marx —
Raoul Peck
Spotlight on France
Documentaries
True North
Gateway
Sea to Sky
Impact
M/A/D
Beuys: Art as a Weapon —
Andres Veiel
Big Time — Kaspar Astrup Schröder
Bosch: The Garden of Dreams (El Bosco, el jardin de los sueños) — José Luis López Linares
Bunch of Kunst — Christine Franz
Chaplin in Bali: Journey to the East —
Raphaël Millet
Chavela —
Catherine Gund , Daresha Kyi
Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives — Chris Perkel
David Hockney at the Royal Academy of Arts —
Phil Grabsky
Leaning Into the Wind: Andy Goldsworthy — Thomas Riedelsheimer
Louise Lecavalier in Motion — Raymond St-Jean
Planeta Petrila — Andrei Dascalescu
Schumann's Bar Talks — Marieke Schroeder
Shadowman —
Oren Jacoby
Song of Granite — Pat Collins
Streetscapes (Dialogue) —
Heinz Emigholz
Where You're Meant to Be — Paul Fegan
Altered States
Canadian Short Films
Alice Ayalik — Reel Youth
Anne Doll — Levi Marshall
Bickford Park — Linsey Stewart, Dane Clark
Bird —
Molly Parker
Birdlime — Evan Derushie
Bunbun Blast — Drake Tuura
Cherry Cola —
Joseph Amenta
Crème de menthe — Jean-Marc E. Roy, Philippe David Gagné
The Crying Conch —
Vincent Toi
Do We Leave This Here — Julia Hutchings
Etymology — Faith Paré
Fence — Alexis Fortier Gauthier
Flood —
Amanda Strong
From Here To — Darynn Bednarczyk
Full Moon Party — Gabriel Adelman
The Glow Is Gone — Ryan Ermacora
Go Play Outside — Adib Alkhalidey
The Good Fight — Mintie Pardoe
Grandmother (ʔEtsu) —
Trevor Mack
His Name Is Willy — Liz Cairns
Idizwadidiz —
Isiah Medina
It Just Might Be True — Evan McDermot, Samantha Campbell
The Knits — Lisa Birke
Let Your Heart Be Light —
Deragh Campbell ,
Sophy Romvari
Life Goes On: John Dub — Moe Yang
Lights Beneath My Feet — Laz
Lira's Forest —
Connor Jessup
Lost Paradise Lost — Yan Giroux
Lower Plenty Garden Views — Adrian St. Louis
Manivald — Chintis Lundgren
The Martyr — Devan Scott, Will Ross
Memory of the Peace — Jennifer Chiu, Jean Parsons
Milk —
Heather Young
The Mountain of SGaana — Christopher Auchter
La Pesca — Pablo Alvarez-Mesa, Fernando López Escrivá
Refugee Rescue — Richard Yang
Rupture —
Yassmina Karajah
Scaffold —
Kazik Radwanski
Scratchy —
Marv Newland
Sea Monster — Daniel Rocque, Kassandra Tomczyk
Shadow Nettes —
Phillip Barker
Slap Happy —
Madeleine Sims-Fewer ,
Dusty Mancinelli
The Tesla World Light —
Matthew Rankin
There Lived the Colliers — Nelson MacDonald
Thug — Daniel Boos
Voices of Kidnapping — Ryan McKenna
When Food Goes Bad — Ben Sprenger
Where Do Cats Go After 9 Lives? — Marion Duhaime
A Woman on the Telephone: Carol — Erica Généreux Smith
International Short Films
100 Second Red Light — Navid Zare
Afterglow — Akira Kamiki
American Psychosis — Amanda Zackem
The Animal — Atasay Koç
Backstory — Joschka Laukeninks
Ballooinator — Joshua Siegel
Bullroarer — Francesco Saviano
C.O.D. — Onur Dogan
Canton Novelty — Fang Lu
Chasing Stars — Markus Eichenberger
Damn Bro! — Travis Frick
Divide — Rabbia Arshad, Alysha Siddigi, Jamil Ur Rehman
Don't Be Afraid of the Light — Jason A. Rostovsky
The Fashion Show — Lucy Lumsden
Flag — Matan Ben Moreh
Forever Now — Kristian Haskjold
Game — Jeannie Donohoe
The Good Girls — Clara Roquet
High Moon — David Zhu
Home, Sweet Home — Carlos Polo
Hsiang Yi — Wu Zi En
Hunger — Alejandro Montalvo
I Love You Forever Now — Youyang Yu
Images of Nowhere — Rubén Guzmán
Invisible Line — Shahnawaz Chachar, Sourath Behan, Danial Shah
The Kodachrome Elegies — Jay Rosenblatt
Land of Happy Dreams — Josh Auter
The Language of Ball — Ramon Rodriguez
Life Is Lifeless — Hawar Rahimi
Lunar Dial — Gao Yuan
Marlon — Jessica Palud
Maxwell's Demon — Marcos Vaz
Munchies — Sinéad Stoddart
Nobody Likes You — Mark Sean Haynes, Kelly Wydryk
Outlines — Ellie Rogers
Overlove — Lucas Helth
Promise — Neville Pierce
Rhythm of Being — Giada Ghiringhelli
Royal Fool — Saba Karseladze
Say No to Early Sex — Alusine Kamara, Susan Kargbo, Ibrahim Kamara, Mariama Kargbo
Shepherd's Purse — Dong Hao
Sissyman — Joshua Atesh Little
Sisters — Toni Kamula
Talking Too Loud — Abel Rubinstein, Georgia Milton
There Was a Man, a Girl and a Rocket — Terence Chim
7ún3l — Klych López
TV in the Fish Tail — Iesh Thapar
Walk of Shame — Maisie Buck
Walt & Me — Yaz Canli
Wardrobe — Pranav Bhasin
Wave — Benjamin Cleary, T.J. O'Grady Peyton
We Belong — Jeremy Herron
Who Is in Charge Here? — Studio Da
Yes, God, Yes — Karen Maine
Modes
489 Years — Hayoun Kwon
Batrachian's Ballad — Leonor Teles
Charged Landscapes — Sara Naomi Goodman
Find Fix Finish — Sylvain Cruiziat, Mila Zhluktenko
Green Screen Gringo — Douwe Dijkstra
Jardins d'été — Quayola
Martin Cries —
Jonathan Vinel
A Photo of Me — Dennis Tupicoff
Roadside Attraction — Iveta Lucas, Patrick Bresnan
Strange Says the Angel — Shalimar Preuss
Studies on the Ecology of Drama — Eija-Liisa Ahtila
A Tall Tale — Maya Schweizer
Tashlikh (Cast Off) — Yael Bartana
References
^ "Vancouver International Film Festival: What to watch".
The Globe and Mail , September 29, 2017.
^ Dana Gee, "See what all the buzz is about; VIFF Preview".
The Province , September 21, 2017.
^ Stuart Derdeyn, "A Creative Collaboration; Kronos Quartet and Guy Maddin combine their talents to create Green Fog".
Vancouver Sun , October 5, 2017.
^ Ian Bailey, "Wagamese adaptation wins audience award at VIFF: Based on the late author's popular novel, Indian Horse takes home the honour based on viewer feedback during the festival".
The Globe and Mail , October 14, 2017.