The 2015 Vancouver International Film Festival, the 34th event in the history of the Vancouver International Film Festival, was held from September 24 to October 9, 2015."VIFF highlights include comedies, literary adaptations". The Early Edition, September 24, 2015.
The festival's opening gala film was John Crowley's Brooklyn, and its closing gala was Marc Abraham's I Saw the Light.
Awards Award winners were announced on October 9.Julianna Cummins, "Brooklyn, Room win VIFF audience prizes". Playback, October 13, 2015.
Award Film Filmmaker People's Choice Brooklyn John Crowley Most Popular Canadian Feature Room Lenny Abrahamson Most Popular Canadian Documentary Haida Gwaii: On the Edge of the World Charles Wilkinson Most Popular International Documentary Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words (Jag är Ingrid) Stig Björkman Best Canadian Film Sleeping Giant Andrew Cividino Best Canadian Short Film Blue-Eyed Blonde Pascal Plante Emerging Canadian Director The Sound of Trees (Le Bruit des arbres) François Péloquin Best BC Film Fractured Land Damien Gillis, Fiona Rayher BC Emerging Filmmaker The Devout Connor Gaston Most Promising Director of a Canadian Short Film Never Steady, Never Still Kathleen Hepburn VIFF Impact: Canadian Audience Award Fractured Land Damien Gillis, Fiona Rayher VIFF Impact: International Audience Award Landfill Harmonic Brad Allgood, Graham Townsley Women in Film and Television Artistic Merit Award Ninth Floor Mina Shum
Films Special Presentations Arabian Nights — Miguel Gomes Beeba Boys — Deepa Mehta Dheepan — Jacques Audiard High-Rise — Ben Wheatley Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words (Jag är Ingrid) — Stig Björkman Louder Than Bombs — Joachim Trier Room — Lenny Abrahamson A Tale of Three Cities — Mabel Cheung This Changes Everything — Avi Lewis Youth — Paolo Sorrentino
Canadian Images The Amina Profile (Le profil Amina) — Sophie Deraspe Borealis — Sean Garrity Charlotte's Song — Nicholas Humphries Le Dep — Sonia Boileau The Devout — Connor Gaston A Dog's Life (Chienne de vie) — Hélène Choquette Eadweard — Kyle Rideout Fire Song — Adam Garnet Jones The Forbidden Room — Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson Fractured Land — Damien Gillis, Fiona Rayher Frank and the Wondercat — Tony Massil, Pablo Alvarez Mesa Hadwin's Judgement — Sasha Snow Haida Gwaii: On the Edge of the World — Charles Wilkinson The Heart of Madame Sabali (Le cœur de Madame Sabali) — Ryan McKenna Hurt — Alan Zweig Hyena Road — Paul Gross Into the Forest — Patricia Rozema Michael Shannon Michael Shannon John — Chelsea McMullan My Good Man's Gone — Nick Citton My Internship in Canada (Guibord s'en va-t-en guerre) — Philippe Falardeau Ninth Floor — Mina Shum No Men Beyond This Point — Mark Sawers O, Brazen Age — Alexander Carson Our Loved Ones (Les êtres chers) — Anne Émond Painted Land: In Search of the Group of Seven — Phyllis Ellis The Pass System — Alex Williams Remember — Atom Egoyan The Sandwich Nazi — Lewis Bennett Sleeping Giant — Andrew Cividino The Sound of Trees (Le Bruit des arbres) — François Péloquin Tricks on the Dead: The Story of the Chinese Labour Corps in WWI — Jordan Paterson Ville-Marie — Guy Édoin
Cinema of Our Time 31st October — Shivaji Lotan Patil 45 Years — Andrew Haigh 600 Miles (600 Millas) — Gabriel Ripstein Absence (Ausência) — Chico Teixeira Accused (Lucia de B.) — Paula van der Oest Adama — Simon Rouby Ayanda — Sara Blecher The Boda Boda Thieves (Abbabi ba boda boda) — Donald Mugisha, James Tayler Body (Ciało) — Małgorzata Szumowska Bravo! (Aferim!) — Radu Jude Breathe (Umphefumlo) — Mark Dornford-May Chevalier — Athina Rachel Tsangari Chronic — Michel Franco The Club (El Club) — Pablo Larraín The Daughter — Simon Stone Dead Slow Ahead — Mauro Herce Decor — Ahmad Abdalla The Dinner (I nostri ragazzi) — Ivano De Matteo Embrace of the Serpent (El abrazo de la serpiente) — Ciro Guerra Entertainment — Rick Alverson Experimenter — Michael Almereyda The Falling — Carol Morley Francofonia — Alexander Sokurov Golden Kingdom — Brian Perkins Greenery Will Bloom Again (Torneranno i prati) — Ermanno Olmi Hilda — Andrés Clariond Rangel Home Care (Domácí péče) — Slávek Horák I Am Nojoom, Age 10 and Divorced — Khadija al-Salami I Promise You Anarchy (Te Prometo Anarquía) — Julio Hernández Cordón In Your Arms (I dine hænder) — Samanou Acheche Sahlstrøm It's Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong — Emily Ting Ivy (Sarmaşık) — Tolga Karaçelik Ixcanul — Jayro Bustamante Jafar Panahi's Taxi — Jafar Panahi James White — Josh Mond The Lobster — Yorgos Lanthimos London Road — Rufus Norris Lost and Beautiful (Bella e perduta) — Pietro Marcello Love Among the Ruins (Amore tra le rovine) — Massimo Ali Mohammad Love, Theft and Other Entanglements (Al-Hob wa Al-Sariqa wa Mashakel Ukhra) — Muayad Alayan Magallanes — Salvador del Solar The Magic Mountain — Anca Damian Marshland (La isla mínima) — Alberto Rodríguez Librero The Mask from San (Le Masque de San) — Jacques Sarasin Men Go to Battle — Zachary Treitz The Movement (El Movimiento) — Benjamín Naishtat Mustang — Deniz Gamze Ergüven My Skinny Sister (Min lilla syster) — Sanna Lenken Nahid — Ida Panahandeh Nasty Baby — Sebastián Silva One Floor Below (Un etaj mai jos) — Radu Muntean Paradise (Ma dar Behesht) — Sina Ataeian Dena Paulina (La Patota) — Santiago Mitre A Perfect Day — Fernando León de Aranoa Pioneer Heroes — Natalia Kudryashova The Project of the Century (La Obra del siglo) — Carlos Quintela Rainbow Island (Jazireh-ye Rangin) — Khosrow Sinai Rams (Hrútar) — Grímur Hákonarson Schneider vs. Bax — Alex van Warmerdam The Second Mother (Que Horas Ela Volta?) — Anna Muylaert Short Skin (I Dolori del giovane Edo) — Duccio Chiarini The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers — Ben Rivers Slackjaw — Zach Weintraub Son of Saul (Saul fia) — László Nemes Songs My Brothers Taught Me — Chloé Zhao Sparrows (Þrestir) — Rúnar Rúnarsson The Summer of Sangailė (Sangailės vasara) — Alantė Kavaitė Three Windows and a Hanging (Tri Dritare dhe një Varje) — Isa Qosja Tough Love (Härte) — Rosa von Praunheim The Treasure (Comoara) — Corneliu Porumboiu The Two of Us — Ernest Nkosi Umrika — Prashant Nair Victoria — Sebastian Schipper Wednesday, May 9 (Chaharshanbeh, 19 Ordibehesht) — Vahid Jalilvand Wondrous Boccaccio (Maraviglioso Boccaccio) — Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
Spotlight on France The Anarchists (Les Anarchistes) — Elie Wajeman Anton Tchékhov 1890 — René Féret Disorder (Maryland) — Alice Winocour In the Shadow of Women (L'Ombre des femmes) — Philippe Garrel The Last Hammer Blow (Le Dernier Coup de marteau) — Alix Delaporte The Measure of a Man (La Loi du marché) — Stéphane Brizé My Friend Victoria (Mon amie Victoria) — Jean-Paul Civeyrac My Golden Days (Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse) — Arnaud Desplechin Portrait of the Artist (Le Dos rouge) — Antoine Barraud Standing Tall (La Tête haute) — Emmanuelle Bercot Vincent (Vincent n'a pas d'écailles) — Thomas Salvador We Did It on a Song (Chante ton bac d'abord) — David André
Documentaries 3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets — Marc Silver Above and Below — Nicolas Steiner Alice Cares — Sander Burger All Eyes and Ears — Vanessa Hope Among the Believers — Hemal Trivedi, Mohammed Ali Naqvi Banking Nature — Denis Delestrac, Sandrine Feydel Brand: A Second Coming — Ondi Timoner City of Gold — Laura Gabbert Containment — Peter Galison, Robb Moss Dark Horse: The Incredible True Story of Dream Alliance — Louise Osmond Deep Time — Noah Hutton Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead — Douglas Tirola Ever the Land — Sarah Grohnert Falciani's Tax Bomb: The Man Behind the Swiss Leaks — Ben Lewis A Flickering Truth — Pietra Brettkelly From Scotland with Love — Virginia Heath Hannah: Buddhism's Untold Journey — Adam Penny, Marta György-Kessler Homme Less — Thomas Wirthenson Hurricane — Andy Byatt Ice and the Sky (La Glace et le ciel) — Luc Jacquet In Transit — Albert Maysles, Lynn True, David Usui, Nelson Walker III, Benjamin Wu Jumbo Wild — Nick Waggoner Meru — Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi The Messenger — Su Rynard Ming of Harlem: Twenty One Storeys in the Air — Phillip Warnell A Nazi Legacy: What Our Fathers Did — David Evans One Million Dubliners — Aoife Kelleher Palio — Cosima Spender The Pearl Button (El botón de nácar) — Patricio Guzmán Racing Extinction — Louie Psihoyos Requiem for the American Dream — Peter D. Hutchison, Kelly Nyks, Jared P. Scott The Royal Road — Jenni Olson Sam Klemke's Time Machine — Matthew Bate Steak (R)evolution — Franck Ribière A Syrian Love Story — Sean McAllister Topophilia — Peter Bo Rappmund Very Semi-Serious — Leah Wolchok The Visit (An Alien Encounter) — Michael Madsen
Dragons & Tigers 32 + 4 — Chan Hon Chun 100 Yen Love — Masaharu Take The Assassin — Hou Hsiao-hsien Alice in Earnestland — Ahn Gooc-jin Am I Dreaming of Others, or Are Others Dreaming of Me? — Shigeo Arikawa Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories — Phan Đăng Di Cemetery of Splendour — Apichatpong Weerasethakul The Chinese Mayor — Zhou Hao The Classified File — Kwak Kyung-taek The Console — Mitsuo Toyama Dark Mixer — Hirotoshi Iwasaki Gonin Saga — Takashi Ishii Goodbye Utopia — Ding Shiwei Greed: Ghost Light — Kim Nakyung I Can't Breathe — Sayaka Kihata Kaili Blues — Bi Gan Kim — Shumpei Shimizu Li Wen at East Lake — Luo Li Love And... — Zhang Lü Master Blaster — Sawako Kabuki A Matter of Interpretation — Lee Kwang-kuk A Midsummer's Fantasia — Jang Kun-jae Morning (Asa) + News — Takeshi Beat Mountains May Depart — Jia Zhangke Mr. Zhang Believes — Qiu Jiongjiong Murmur of the Hearts — Sylvia Chang My Life with a King — Carlo Encisco Catu Octopus — Isamu Hirabayashi Omura Plant Specimens — Natsumi Sudo Perfect Conjugal Bliss — Zhong Su A Place to Name — Ataru Sakagami Port of Call — Philip Yung Reflection — Yoju Matsubayashi Rolling — Masanori Tominaga Siti — Eddie Cahyono Tandem — King Palisoc Thanatos, Drunk — Chang Tso-chi Tharlo — Pema Tseden Three Stories of Love — Ryōsuke Hashiguchi Veil — Yoriko Mizushiri What Happened in Past Dragon Year — Sun Xun Yanji — Park Ki-yong Zinnia Flower — Tom Lin Shu-yu
Altered States Aaaaaaaah! — Steve Oram Cop Car — Jon Watts Crumbs — Miguel Llansó Deathgasm — Jason Lei Howden The Demolisher — Gabriel Carrer Green Room — Jeremy Saulnier The Nightmare (Der Nachtmahr) — Achim Bornhak Nina Forever — Ben Blaine, Chris Blaine Observance — Joseph Sims-Dennett The Similars (Los Parecidos) — Isaac Ezban
Arts & Letters 808 — Alexander Dunn Argentina (Zonda, folclore argentino) — Carlos Saura A Ballerina's Tale — Nelson George Circus Without Borders: The Story of Artcirq and Kalabante — Susan Gray The Competition — Angel Borrego Cubero The Dream of Shahrazad — François Verster Erbarme dich: Matthäus Passion Stories — Ramon Gieling Hockney — Randall Wright Imperfect Harmony — Carmen Cobos Innocence of Memories — Grant Gee Invention — Mark Lewis Landfill Harmonic — Brad Allgood, Graham Townsley Love Is All — Kim Longinotto Magicarena — Andrea Prandstaller, Niccolo Bruna Mavis! — Jessica Edwards Monty Python: The Meaning of Live — Roger Graef, James Rogan No Land's Song — Ayat Najafi Original Copy — Florian Heinzen-Ziob Paco de Lucía: A Journey (Paco de Lucía: La búsqueda) — Francisco Sánchez Varela Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict — Lisa Immordino Vreeland Sound of Redemption: The Frank Morgan Story — N. C. Heikin Tana Bana — Pat Murphy The Thoughts That Once We Had — Thom Andersen
Canadian Short Films 4 Quarters — Ashley McKenzie At the Beach — Jeremy Peter Allen Balmoral Hotel — Wayne Wapeemukwa Big Brother — Lucas Hrubizna Big O — Jenna Hambrook Blood Manifesto — Theodore Ushev Blue-Eyed Blonde — Pascal Plante Blue Thunder (Bleu tonnerre) — Philippe David Gagné, Jean-Marc E. Roy Boxing — Grayson Moore, Aidan Shipley Calendar Girls — Lisa Birke The Canoe — Alex Balkam Clouds of Autumn — Trevor Mack, Matthew Taylor Blais Crazy House — Aaron Mirkin Debris — John Bolton The Dollhouse — Chad Galloway, Heather Benning Dysmorphia — Katherine Grubb Golden Teachers — Harry Cepka