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 Malick's Voyage of Time.Rafferty Baker, "VIFF reveals feature films for opening and closing galas". CBC News British Columbia, September 8, 2016.
Awards Award winners were announced on October 14.Adrian Mack, "VIFF 2016: And the winner is... Maudie". The Georgia Straight, October 14, 2016.
Award Film Filmmaker People's Choice Maudie Aisling Walsh Most Popular Canadian Documentary Spirit Unforgettable Pete McCormack Most Popular International Feature I, Daniel Blake Ken Loach Most Popular International Documentary Human Yann Arthus-Bertrand Best Canadian Film Window Horses Ann Marie Fleming Best Canadian Documentary Living With Giants (Chez les géants) Sebastien Rist, Aude Leroux-Lévesque Best Canadian Short Film Those Who Remain (Ceux qui restent) Mathieu Vachon Emerging Canadian Director Never Eat Alone Sofia Bohdanowicz Best BC Film Window Horses Ann Marie Fleming Best BC Short Film Here Nor There Julia Hutchings Ignite Award Cabbie Jessica Parsons, Jennifer Chiu BC Emerging Filmmaker Hello Destroyer Kevan Funk Most Promising Director of a Canadian Short Film Parent, Teacher Roman Tchjen VIFF Impact Award Power to Change: The Energy Rebellion Carl-A. Fechner
Films Special Presentations American Honey — Andrea Arnold The Birth of a Nation — Nate Parker Elle — Paul Verhoeven The Girl with All the Gifts — Colm McCarthy Graduation (Bacalaureat) — Cristian Mungiu The Handmaiden — Park Chan-wook Human — Yann Arthus-Bertrand I, Daniel Blake — Ken Loach Julieta — Pedro Almodóvar Manchester by the Sea — Kenneth Lonergan Milton's Secret — Barnet Bain Moonlight — Barry Jenkins Toni Erdmann — Maren Ade
Contemporary World Cinema Album — Mehmet Can Mertoğlu All of a Sudden (Auf Einmal) — Aslı Özge Aquarius — Kleber Mendonça Filho As I Open My Eyes (À peine j'ouvre les yeux) — Leyla Bouzid Barakah Meets Barakah — Mahmoud Sabbagh Beyond the Mountains and Hills (Me'Ever Laharim Velagvaot) — Eran Kolirin The Complexity of Happiness (La felicità è un sistema complesso) — Gianni Zanasi The Confessions (Le confessioni) — Roberto Andò The Death of Louis XIV (La Mort de Louis XIV) — Albert Serra — Michael Rösel Donald Cried — Kristopher Avedisian The Dreamed Path (Der traumhafte Weg) — Angela Schanelec Endless Poetry (Poesía sin fin) — Alejandro Jodorowsky The Giant (Jätten) — Johannes Nyholm Glory (Slava) — Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov Golstone — Ivan Sen A Good Wife (Dobra žena) — Mirjana Karanović Green / Is / Gold — Ryon Baxter The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki (Hymyilevä mies) — Juho Kuosmanen Hedi — Mohamed Ben Attia Hermia and Helena — Matías Piñeiro History's Future — Fiona Tan The Human Surge (El auge del humano) — Eduardo Williams Inversion (Varoonegi) — Behnam Behzadi Junction 48 — Udi Aloni Kate Plays Christine — Robert Greene Kékszakállú — Gastón Solnicki Lantouri — Reza Dormishian The Last Family (Ostatnia rodzina) — Jan P. Matuszyński Like Crazy (La pazza gioia) — Paolo Virzì Lily Lane (Liliom ösvény) — Benedek Fliegauf Lost in Munich (Ztraceni v Mnichově) — Petr Zelenka A Man Called Ove (En man som heter Ove) — Hannes Holm Mother (Ema) — Kadri Kõusaare Nakom — Kelly Daniela Norris, T. W. Pittman Neruda — Pablo Larraín (Gleißendes Glück) — Sven Taddicken The Ornithologist (O Ornitólogo) — João Pedro Rodrigues Panamerican Machinery (Maquinaria Panamericana) — Joaquin del Paso Paterson — Jim Jarmusch Pihu — Vinod Kapri A Quiet Passion — Terence Davies Quit Staring at My Plate (Ne gledaj mi u pijat) — Hana Jušić Radio Dreams — Babak Jalali The Red Turtle (La Tortue Rouge) — Michaël Dudok de Wit The Rehearsal — Alison Maclean The River of Fables (Kothanodi) — Bhaskar Hazarika The Salesman — Asghar Farhadi Scarred Hearts (Inimi cicatrizate) — Radu Jude Shepherds and Butchers — Oliver Schmitz Short Stay — Ted Fendt Sieranevada — Cristi Puiu Sin Alas — Ben Chace Sins of the Flesh (Haram El Gasad) — Khaled El Hagar The Student — Kirill Serebrennikov Suntan — Argyris Papadimitropoulos Sweet Dreams (Fai bei sogni) — Marco Bellocchio Tanna — Martin Butler, Bentley Dean The Teacher (Učiteľka) — Jan Hřebejk To Keep the Light — Erica Fae The Trap (Ottaal) — Jayaraj Rajasekharan Nair Twilight Over Burma (Dämmerung über Burma) — Sabine Derflinger The Unknown Girl (La fille inconnue) — Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne The Yard (Yarden) — Måns Månsson
Spotlight on France After Love (L'Économie du couple) — Joachim Lafosse Being 17 (Quand on a 17 ans) — André Téchiné Chocolat — Roschdy Zem Frantz — François Ozon French Tour (Tour de France) — Rachid Djaïdani Personal Shopper — Olivier Assayas Saint-Amour — Benoît Delépine, Gustave de Kervern The Son of Joseph (Le Fils de Joseph) — Eugène Green Staying Vertical (Rester vertical) — Alain Guiraudie Thanks, Boss! (Merci patron!) — François Ruffin Things to Come (L'Avenir) — Mia Hansen-Løve
Documentaries All This Panic — Jenny Gage Between Fences () — Avi Mograbi Depth Two (Dubina dva) — Ognjen Glavonić Ghostland — Simon Stadler Growing Up Coy — Eric Juhola The Infinite Flight of Days (El Infinito Vuelo de los Días) — Catalina Mesa Kedi — Ceyda Torun Keep Quiet — Joseph Martin, Sam Blair The Killing$ of Tony Blair — Sanne van den Bergh, Greg Ward Magnus — Benjamin Ree Portrait of a Garden (Portret van een tuin) — Rosie Stapel Prison Dogs — Perri Peltz, Geeta Gandbhir Seasons (Les Saisons) — Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud Shadow World — Johan Grimonprez Snow Monkey — George Gittoes Strangers on the Earth — Tristan Cook Tempestad — Tatiana Huezo Tickling Giants — Sara Taksler Tower — Keith Maitland When Two Worlds Collide — Heidi Brandenburg Sierralta, Mathew Orzel
True North 1:54 — Yan England Darwin — Benjamin Duffield The Intestine — Lev Lewis King Dave — Daniel Grou Lights Above Water (Lumières sur l'eau) — Nicolas Lachapelle, Ariel St-Louis Lamoureux Living With Giants (Chez les géants) — Aude Leroux-Lévesque, Sébastien Rist The Lockpicker — Randall Okita Mean Dreams — Nathan Morlando Nelly — Anne Émond Never Eat Alone — Sofia Bohdanowicz Of Ink and Blood (D'encre et de sang) — Alexis Fortier Gauthier, Maxim Rheault, Francis Fortin Old Stone — Johnny Ma The Other Half — Joey Klein Quebec My Country Mon Pays — John Walker Searchers (Maliglutit) — Zacharias Kunuk Shambles (Maudite poutine) — Karl Lemieux Split (Écartée) — Lawrence Côté-Collins Tales of Two Who Dreamt — Andrea Bussmann, Nicolás Pereda We Can't Make the Same Mistake Twice — Alanis Obomsawin Weirdos — Bruce McDonald Werewolf — Ashley McKenzie Where the Universe Sings: The Spiritual Journey of Lawren Harris — Nancy Lang, Peter Raymont
Gateway After the Storm — Hirokazu Kore-eda Alone — Park Hongmin The Bacchus Lady — E J-yong Beautiful 2016 — Jia Zhangke, Stanley Kwan, Hideo Nakata, Alec Su By the Time It Gets Dark — Anocha Suwichakornpong A Copy of My Mind — Joko Anwar Crosscurrent — Yang Chao Godspeed — Chung Mong-hong Harmonium — Kōji Fukada Hema Hema: Sing Me a Song While I Wait — Khyentse Norbu Knife in the Clear Water — Wang Xuebo Life After Life — Zhang Hanyi Lifeline — Akihiko Shiota The Long Excuse — Miwa Nishikawa Mother (Emma) — Riri Riza Mrs. — Adolfo Alix Jr. Our Love Story — Lee Hyun-ju Out of the Frying Pan... — Takashi Komatsu Phantom Detective — Jo Sung-hee The Road to Mandalay — Midi Z A Simple Goodbye — Degena Yun Ta'ang — Wang Bing Ten Years — Kwok Zune, Wong Fei-pang, Jevons Au, Chow Kwun-Wai, Ng Ka-leung While the Women Are Sleeping — Wayne Wang Yellowing — Chan Tze Woon Yourself and Yours — Hong Sang-soo
BC Spotlight Cadence — Alexander Lasheras Hello Destroyer — Kevan Funk Keepers of the Magic — Vic Sarin Koneline: Our Land Beautiful — Nettie Wild Marrying the Family — Peter Benson Mixed Match — Jeff Chiba Stearns A New Moon Over Tohoku — Linda Ohana Spirit Unforgettable — Pete McCormack The Unseen — Geoff Redknap Window Horses — Ann Marie Fleming
Impact Bugs — Andreas Johnsen Command and Control — Robert Kenner Fire at Sea (Fuocoammare) — Gianfranco Rosi Freightened: The Real Price of Shipping — Denis Delestrac Power to Change: The Energy Rebellion — Carl-A. Fechner Rat Film — Theo Anthony RiverBlue — David McIlvride, Roger Williams Sonita — Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami Two Trains Runnin''' — Sam Pollard
M/A/DThe Architect — Jonathan ParkerBANG! The Bert Berns Story — Bob Sarles, Brett BernsBurden — Tim Marrianan, Richard DeweyThe Chinese Lives of Uli Sigg — Michael SchindhelmDon't Blink – Robert Frank — Laura IsraelFranca: Chaos and Creation — Francesco CarrozziniGimme Danger — Jim JarmuschHarold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story — Daniel RaimHarry Benson: Shoot First — Matthew Miele, Justin BareI Called Him Morgan — Kasper CollinThe Model — Mads MatthiesenPlaying Lecuona — Juan Manuel Villar Betancort, Pavel GiroudReset (Relève) — Thierry Demaizière and Alban TeurlaiVersus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach — Louise OsmondVita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt — Ada UshpizWe Are X — Stephen KijakYarn — Una LorenzenYohji Yamamoto: Dressmaker — Ngo The Chau
Altered StatesAnother Evil — Carson MellThe Eyes of My Mother — Nicolas PesceIn a Valley of Violence — Ti WestLavender — Ed Gass-DonnellyLittle Sister — Zach ClarkThe Love Witch — Anna BillerOperation Avalanche — Matt JohnsonShe's Allergic to Cats — Michael ReichUnder the Shadow — Babak AnvariWe Are the Flesh (Temenos la carne) — Emiliano Rocha Minter
Canadian Short Films24.24.24 — Daniel DietzelAnother Prayer — Sofia BohdanowiczAs Dinosaurs — Émilie RosasBeyond Blue Waves — Joëlle Desjardins PaquetteBlack Cop — Cory BowlesBlind Vaysha — Theodore UshevA Brief History of the Apocalypse — Erica Généreux SmithBy the Pool — Karine BélangerCabbie — Jessica Parsons, Jennifer ChiuThe Cameraman — Connor GastonCarver — Jeremy WamissCave of Sighs — Nathan DouglasClouds — Diego MacleanColour — Taryn Birket, Alannah JohnsonA Dance For... — Emily FengDataMine — Tim TraceyDora Blondin — Iris, Naomi, Paige, Tayla Einst — Jessica JohnsonEmma — Martin EdralinAn Evening — Sofia BohdanowiczFantassut/Rain on the Borders — Federica FogliaFish — Heather YoungFour Faces of the Moon — Amanda StrongGanjy — Benjamin RatnerHere Nor There — Julia HutchingsHomesick — Sophie JarvisI Am Here — Eoin DuffyIf You See Something — Daria AzizianImitations — Markus Henkel, Milos Mitrovic, Ian Bawa, Fabian VelascoIt's No Real Pleasure in Life — Nikolay MichaylovLast Night — Joel SalaysayLate Night Drama — Patrice LalibertéThe Lift — Manny MahalMamie — Janice NadeauThe Movieland Movie — Zachary KerrholdenMy Body — Annie Kruger, Danica Denommé, Florence Dubé, Ryan TitusThe New Canada — Alexander CarsonNine Behind — Sophy RomvariNutag: Homeland — Alisi TelengutOh What a Wonderful Feeling — François JarosOld Man — Alicia EisenParent, Teacher — Roman TchjenPopsong — Matthew Taylor BlaisA Prayer — Sofia BohdanowiczRanger — Sandra IgnagniSeven Stars — Sofia BanzhafSigismond Imageless — Albéric AurtenècheSrorrim — Wayne WapeemukwaStone Makers (Carrière) — Jean-Marc E. RoyThe Taste of Vietnam — Pier-Luc LatulippeThis Home Is Not Empty — Carol NguyenThose Who Remain (Ceux qui restent) — Mathieu VachonTwo — Christopher Spencer-LoweVlad the Unemployed — Ashley KobayashiWild Skin (La Peau sauvage) — Ariane Louis-SeizeYour Mother and I — Anna Maguire