Vancouver International Film Festival

42^st Edition

where:	Vancouver, Canada
when:	September 26^th - October 6^th, 2024
address:	1181 Seymour Street Vancouver, BC Canada V6B 3M7
tel:	+1604 685.0260
email:	info@viff.org
website:	www.viff.org
deadline:	May 31^st, 2024
entry form:	Submission at Filmfreeway.com

VIFF screens more than 180 features and 80 shorts in a multi-venue showcase of exceptional films from around the world. VIFF takes great pride in championing international cinema's most exciting new voices, offering diverse, progressive programming, fostering enlightening dialogue and hosting the world’s largest showcase of contemporary Canadian cinema.
Furthermore, event expands the frame to include talks, workshops, performances and other unique Films+ events that celebrate innovations in screen-based storytelling.
PROGRAMMING STREAMS:
* Panorama - The world's boldest creators and their exceptional works. The year's most anticipated international films and new discoveries curated specifically for VIFF audiences.
* Sea To Sky - A showcase of the inspired works emerging from the creative nexus that is British Columbia.
* True North - A celebration of the extraordinary creativity and craft being demonstrated by Canadian storytellers from coast to coast.
* Impact - Uncompromising films and insightful discussions that spark action and change the way we see the world.
* Gateway - Journey into the cinematic reaches of East Asia with some of the world's most compelling storytellers as your guides.
* M/A/D - Music, art and design receive their deserved big-screen treatment in this aesthetically alluring stream.
* ALT - Genre-bending features that defy traditional classification and creators who push short form storytelling to its limits.

participations

2024	The End by Joshua Oppenheimer: Galas & Special Presentations Gloria! by Margherita Vicario: Showcase Grand Tour by Miguel Gomes: Showcase Most People Die on Sundays by Iair Said: Panorama Real by Adele Tulli: Spectrum Samia by Yasemin Samdereli: Panorama A stranger quest by Andrea Gatopoulos: Portraits
2023	Il Boemo by Petr Václav: Showcase The Braid by Laetitia Colombani: Panorama La chimera by Alice Rohrwacher: Galas & Special Presentations Kidnapped by Marco Bellocchio: Showcase Oceans are the real continents by Tommaso Santambrogio: Panorama Priscilla by Sofia Coppola: Galas & Special Presentations Puán by María Alché, Benjamin Naishtat: Panorama
2022	Alcarràs by Carla Simon: Showcase EO by Jerzy Skolimowski: Galas & Special Presentations Leonora addio by Paolo Taviani: Panorama Nostalgia by Mario Martone: Showcase Scarlet by Pietro Marcello: Panorama
2021	Molecules by Andrea Segre: Insights Small Body by Laura Samani: Contemporary World Cinema
2020	Bad Tales by Damiano D'Innocenzo, Fabio D'Innocenzo: Contemporary World Cinema Hammamet by Gianni Amelio: Contemporary World Cinema Here we are by Nir Bergman: Contemporary World Cinema Illusione by Lorenzo Quagliozzi: International Shorts Sarita by Sergio Basso: Contemporary World Cinema Siberia by Abel Ferrara: Contemporary World Cinema
2019	Amare amaro by Julien Paolini: Focus on Italy Dafne by Federico Bondi: Focus on Italy The disappearance of my mother by Beniamino Barrese: Focus on Italy Fulci for Fake by Simone Scafidi: Brigadoon Marghe and Her Mother by Mohsen Makhmalbaf: Focus on Italy The Nest by Roberto de Feo: Oficial Fantàstic Competición Santiago, Italia by Nanni Moretti: Focus on Italy Sole by Carlo Sironi: Focus on Italy
2018	Bajkonur, Earth by Andrea Sorini: Documentaries Daughter of Mine by Laura Bispuri: Focus on Italy Dogman by Matteo Garrone: Focus on Italy Euforia by Valeria Golino: Focus on Italy Happy as Lazzaro by Alice Rohrwacher: Focus on Italy The Happy Prince by Rupert Everett: Special Presentations Love and Bullets by Marco Manetti, Antonio Manetti: Focus on Italy The Man Who Stole Banksy by Marco Proserpio: Music/Art/Design Nome di donna by Marco Tullio Giordana: Focus on Italy Piazza Vittorio by Abel Ferrara: Focus on Italy Samouni Road by Stefano Savona: VIFF Impact Sicilian Ghost Story by Antonio Piazza, Fabio Grassadonia: Focus on Italy What You Gonna Do When The World’s On Fire? by Roberto Minervini: Vanguard
2017	7 Minutes by Michele Placido: Contemporary World Cinema Call Me By Your Name by Luca Guadagnino: Special Presentations Holding Hands by Gianni Amelio: Contemporary World Cinema
2016	The Complexity of Happiness by Gianni Zanasi: Panorama The Confessions by Roberto Andò: Panorama Fire at Sea by Gianfranco Rosi: Impact Franca: Chaos and Creation by Francesco Carrozzini: Style in Film Like Crazy by Paolo Virzì: Panorama Sweet Dreams by Marco Bellocchio: Panorama
2015	The Dinner by Ivano De Matteo: Cinema of Our Time Greenery will bloom again by Ermanno Olmi: Cinema of Our Time Lost and Beautiful by Pietro Marcello: Cinema of Our Time Love among the Ruins by Massimo Alì Mohammad: Cinema of Our Time Magicarena by Niccolò Bruna, Andrea Prandstraller: Arts and Letters Palio by Cosima Spender: Nonfiction Features Short Skin by Duccio Chiarini: Cinema of Our Time Wondrous Boccaccio by Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani: Cinema of Our Time Youth by Paolo Sorrentino: Special Presentations
2014	The Creation of Meaning by Simone Rapisarda Casanova: Canadian Images Human Capital by Paolo Virzì: Cinema of Our Time Sacro GRA by Gianfranco Rosi: Nonfiction Features La sapienza by Eugène Green: Spotlight on France Still Life by Uberto Pasolini: Cinema of Our Time The Wonders by Alice Rohrwacher: Cinema of Our Time
2013	Dormant Beauty by Marco Bellocchio: Cinema of Our Time The Future by Alicia Scherson: Cinema of Our Time The Great Beauty by Paolo Sorrentino: Special Presentations The Italian Character by Angelo Bozzolini: Arts and Letters Redemption by Miguel Gomes: Cinema of Our Time There Will Come a Day by Giorgio Diritti: Cinema of Our Time The Venice Syndrome by Andreas Pichler: Nonfiction Features
2012	Reality by Matteo Garrone: Cinema of Our Time When the Night by Cristina Comencini: Cinema of Our Time
2011	Derailments by Chelsea McMullan: Canadian Images Heavenly Body by Alice Rohrwacher: Cinema of Our Time the Jewel by Andrea Molaioli: Cinema of Our Time The Salt of Life by Gianni Di Gregorio: Special Presentations
2010	Certified Copy by Abbas Kiarostami: Special Presentations I am Tony Scott. The Story of How Italy Got Rid of the Greatest Jazz Clarinetist by Franco Maresco: Nonfiction Features: Arts and Letters La nostra vita by Daniele Luchetti: Cinema of Our Time
2009	Antichrist by Lars von Trier: Special Presentations The Little One by Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel: Cinema of Our Time Mid-August Lunch by Gianni di Gregorio: Cinema of Our Time Puccini and the Girl by Paolo Benvenuti: Cinema of Our Time Quiet chaos by Antonello Grimaldi: Cinema of Our Time The Time That Remains by Elia Suleiman: Cinema of Our Time The White Ribbon by Michael Haneke: Special Presentations
2008	Il divo by Paolo Sorrentino: Cinema of Our Time The Girl by the Lake by Andrea Molaioli: Cinema of Our Time Gomorrah by Matteo Garrone: Cinema of Our Time Motherland by Nello La Marca: Cinema of Our Time The Romance of Astrea and Celadon by Eric Rohmer: Spotlight on France Sonetàula by Salvatore Mereu: Cinema of Our Time
2007	Don't Touch The Axe by Jacques Rivette: Spotlight on France Go Go Tales by Abel Ferrara: Cinema of Our Time In Memory of Myself by Saverio Costanzo: Cinema of Our Time It's a Free World... by Ken Loach: Cinema of Our Time The missing star by Gianni Amelio: Cinema of Our Time One Hundred Nails by Ermanno Olmi: Cinema of Our Time
2006	Don't tell by Cristina Comencini: Cinema of Our Time Excellent cadavers by Marco Turco: Nonfiction Features of 2006 Family law by Daniel Burman: Cinema of Our Time Never Again as Before by Giacomo Campiotti: Cinema of Our Time The Queen by Stephen Frears: Galas The Wedding Director by Marco Bellocchio: Cinema of Our Time
2005	Changing destiny by Daniele Gaglianone: Cinema of Our Time First Love by Matteo Garrone: Cinema of Our Time Hidden by Michael Haneke: Special Presentations Live and become by Radu Mihaileanu: Audience Award The method by Marcelo Pineyro: Cinema of Our Time A particular silence by Stefano Rulli: Best Documentary Feature Stolen childhood by Andrea Frazzi, Antonio Frazzi: Cinema of Our Time Through the eyes of another by Gianpaolo Tescari: Cinema of Our Time
2004	Il dono by Michelangelo Frammartino: Cinema of Our Time Good morning, night by Marco Bellocchio: Cinema of Our Time I like to work (mobbing) by Francesca Comencini: Cinema of Our Time L'isola by Costanza Quatriglio: Cinema of Our Time Oh! Uomo by Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi: Cinema of Our Time
2003	The angel on the right shoulder by Djamshed Usmonov: Cinema of Our Time Angela by Roberta Torre: Cinema of Our Time The best of youth by Marco Tullio Giordana: Cinema of Our Time El Alamein by Enzo Monteleone: Cinema of Our Time Neapoletan heart by Paolo Santoni: Latin Music: From Fiesta to Fado Pater Familias by Francesco Patierno: Cinema of Our Time The return of Cagliostro by Daniele Ciprì, Franco Maresco: Cinema of Our Time
2002	The best day of my life by Cristina Comencini: Cinema of Our Time Between strangers by Edoardo Ponti: Special Presentations The embalmer by Matteo Garrone: Cinema of Our Time Nothing more by Juan Carlos Cremata: Cinema of Our Time Sailing home by Vincenzo Marra: Cinema of Our Time
2001	All the knowledge in the world by Eros Puglielli: Cinema of our time Holy tongue by Carlo Mazzacurati: Panorama Jung (war): in the land of the Mujaheddin by Alberto Vendemmiati, Fabrizio Lazzaretti: The National Film Board Award for Best Documentary Feature My father's words by Francesca Comencini: Panorama

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