The 2018 Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) took place from September 27 to October 12, 2018."The Vancouver International Film Festival has officially kicked off". Daily Hive, September 27, 2018.
Awards The festival award winners were announced on October 12.Adrian Mack, "Finding Big Country is the People’s Choice as VIFF closes with awards ceremony". The Georgia Straight, October 12, 2018.
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