2022 Canadian film festival
2022 Vancouver International Film FestivalOpening film | Bones of Crows by Marie Clements |
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Closing film | Broker by Hirokazu Kore-eda |
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Location | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
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Founded | 1958 |
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No. of films | 237 |
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Festival date | September 29 - October 9, 2022 |
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Website | VIFF |
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Vancouver International Film Festival |
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The 2022 Vancouver International Film Festival, the 41st event in the history of the Vancouver International Film Festival, was held from September 29 to October 9, 2022.[1] The festival opened with the Marie Clements film Bones of Crows, and closed with Hirokazu Kore-eda's film Broker.[2]
The festival scheduled 135 feature films and 102 short films overall.[3] All films were screened in-person, although a selection of films was also available throughout British Columbia on the online VIFF Connects platform.[3]
The most noted change at the 2022 festival is the introduction of Vanguard, a competitive program for films by emerging directors.[1] The festival will present a $5,000 award to the film selected as the best film in that program.[1] Some of the festival's programs have also been renamed from past years, including the Canadian film program being renamed from True North to Northern Lights and the Music/Art/Design (M/A/D) program for documentary films about the arts being renamed to Portraits.
Awards
Juried award winners were announced on October 7, 2022,[4] with audience award winners announced following the conclusion of the festival.[5]
Award | Film | Filmmaker |
Audience Award, Galas & Special Presentations | The Grizzlie Truth | Kathleen Jayme |
Audience Award, Showcase | Crystal Pite: Angels' Atlas | Chelsea McMullan |
Audience Award, Panorama | The Blue Caftan | Maryam Touzani |
Audience Award, Vanguard | Harvest Moon (Эргэж ирэхгүй намар) | Amarsaikhan Baljinnyam |
Audience Award, Northern Lights | Riceboy Sleeps | Anthony Shim |
Audience Award, Insights | The Klabona Keepers | Tamo Campos, Jasper Snow-Rosen |
Audience Award, Spectrum | The Hermit of Treig | Lizzie MacKenzie |
Audience Award, Portraits | Lay Down Your Heart | Marie Clements |
Audience Award, Altered States | Rodeo | Lola Quivoron |
Best Canadian Film | Riceboy Sleeps | Anthony Shim |
Best Canadian Film, Honorable Mention | Queens of the Qing Dynasty | Ashley McKenzie |
Best Canadian Documentary | Geographies of Solitude | Jacquelyn Mills |
Best Canadian Documentary, Honorable Mention | Ever Deadly | Tanya Tagaq, Chelsea McMullan |
Best Canadian Short Film | Baba | Meran Ismailsoy, Anya Chirkova |
Best Canadian Short Film, Honorable Mentions | Agony | Armand Beaudoux |
Heartbeat of a Nation | Eric Janvier |
Emerging Canadian Director | Falcon Lake | Charlotte Le Bon |
Emerging Canadian Director, Honorable Mention | Until Branches Bend | Sophie Jarvis |
Best BC Film |
Best BC Film, Honorable Mention | The Klabona Keepers | Tamo Campos, Jasper Snow-Rosen |
Vanguard Award | Other Cannibals (Altri Cannibali) | Francesco Sossai |
Vanguard Award, Honorable Mention | Tortoise Under the Earth | Shishir Jha |
Films
Galas and special presentations
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
The Banshees of Inisherin | Martin McDonagh | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States |
Bones of Crows | Marie Clements | Canada |
Broker | 브로커 | Hirokazu Kore-eda | South Korea |
Corsage | Marie Kreutzer | Austria, France, Germany |
Decision to Leave | Park Chan-wook | South Korea |
Empire of Light | Sam Mendes | United Kingdom, United States |
EO | Jerzy Skolimowski | Poland, Italy |
The Grizzlie Truth | Kathleen Jayme | Canada |
One Fine Morning | Un beau matin | Mia Hansen-Løve | France |
The Son | Florian Zeller | United Kingdom |
Stars at Noon | Claire Denis | France |
Triangle of Sadness | Ruben Östlund | Sweden, United Kingdom, United States, France, Greece |
The Whale | Darren Aronofsky | United States |
Women Talking | Sarah Polley | United States |
Showcase
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
Alcarràs | Carla Simón | Spain, Italy |
Before, Now & Then | Nana | Kamila Andini | Indonesia |
Black Ice | Hubert Davis | Canada |
Boy from Heaven | Tarik Saleh | Sweden |
Brother | Clement Virgo | Canada |
Call Jane | Phyllis Nagy | United States |
Close | Lukas Dhont | Belgium, Netherlands, France |
Crystal Pite: Angels' Atlas | Chelsea McMullan | Canada |
Emily | Frances O'Connor | United Kingdom, United States |
Holy Spider | Ali Abbasi | Denmark, Germany, Sweden, France |
Klondike | Клондайк | Maryna Er Gorbach | Ukraine |
Motherhood | Bosei / 母性 | Ryūichi Hiroki | Japan |
Nostalgia | Mario Martone | Italy, France |
Pacifiction | Tourment sur les îles | Albert Serra | France, Spain, Germany, Portugal |
Peter von Kant | François Ozon | France |
R.M.N. | Cristian Mungiu | Romania, France |
Tori and Lokita | Tori et Lokita | Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne | Belgium |
Viking | Stéphane Lafleur | Canada |
Panorama
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
Aftersun | Charlotte Wells | United Kingdom, United States |
The Beasts | As bestas | Rodrigo Sorogoyen | Spain, France |
The Blue Caftan | Le Bleu du Caftan | Maryam Touzani | Morocco, France, Belgium, Denmark |
Carajita | Silvina Schnicer, Ulises Porra Guardiola | Dominican Republic, Argentina |
Dos estaciones | Juan Pablo González | Mexico, France, United States |
Falcon Lake | Charlotte Le Bon | Canada, France |
Field of Blood | Campo de Sangue | João Mário Grilo | Portugal |
Fogaréu | Flávia Neves | Brazil, France |
The Forger | Der Passfälscher | Maggie Peren | Germany, Luxembourg |
Joyland | Saim Sadiq | Pakistan |
Karaoke | Moshe Rosenthal | Israel |
Leonora addio | Paolo Taviani | Italy |
Like a Fish on the Moon | Balaye aseman zire ab | Dornaz Hajiha | Iran |
Maigret | Patrice Leconte | France |
A Matter of Trust | Ingen kender dagen | Annette K. Olesen | Denmark |
Mediterranean Fever | Maha Haj | Palestine, Germany, France, Cyprus, Qatar |
The Mountain | La Montagne | Thomas Salvador | France |
Nanny | Nikyatu Jusu | United States |
Nayola | José Miguel Ribeiro | Portugal, Belgium, France, Netherlands |
No Prior Appointment | Bedoun-e Gharar-e Ghabli | Behrooz Shoaibi | Iran |
The Novelist's Film | 소설가의 영화, Soseolgaui Yeonghwa | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea |
Once Upon a Time in Calcutta | Aditya Vikram Sengupta | India, France, Norway |
Piaffe | Ann Oren | Germany |
A Piece of Sky | Drii Winter | Michael Koch | Switzerland |
Plan 75 | Chie Hayakawa | Japan |
Queens of the Qing Dynasty | Ashley McKenzie | Canada |
Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush | Rabiye Kurnaz gegen George W. Bush | Andreas Dresen | Germany, France |
Riverside Mukolitta | 川っぺりムコリッタ, Kawapperi Mukoritta | Naoko Ogigami | Japan |
Scarlet | L’Envol | Pietro Marcello | France, Italy, Germany |
Septet: The Story of Hong Kong | 七人樂隊 | Ann Hui, Sammo Hung, Ringo Lam, Patrick Tam, Johnnie To, Hark Tsui, Yuen Woo-ping | Hong Kong, China |
Stonewalling | 石門 | Huang Ji, Otsuka Ryuji | Japan |
There There | Andrew Bujalski | United States |
Thunder | Foudre | Carmen Jaquier | Switzerland |
Utama | Alejandro Loayza Grisi | Bolivia, Uruguay, France |
We Are Family | 出租家人 | Benny Lau | Hong Kong |
What We Do Next | Stephen Belber | United States |
A Woman Escapes | Sofia Bohdanowicz, Burak Çevik, Blake Williams | Canada, Turkey |
The Word | Slovo | Beata Parkanová | Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland |
Zátopek | David Ondříček | Czech Republic, Slovakia |
Vanguard
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
Harvest Moon | Эргэж ирэхгүй намар | Amarsaikhan Baljinnyam | Mongolia |
Know Your Place | Zia Mohajerjasbi | United States |
The Locust | Faeze Azizkhani | Iran, Germany |
Moja Vesna | Sara Kern | Australia, Slovenia |
Nightsiren | Světlonoc | Tereza Nvotová | Slovakia, Czech Republic |
Other Cannibals | Altri Cannibali | Francesco Sossai | Germany |
Tortoise Under the Earth | Shishir Jha | India |
The Uncle | Stric | David Kapac, Andrija Mardešić | Croatia, Serbia |
Northern Lights
Insights
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
1341 Frames of Love and War | Ran Tal | Israel, United Kingdom, United States |
Adam Ondra: Pushing the Limits | Jan Šimánek, Petr Záruba | Czech Republic, Italy |
All That Breathes | Shaunak Sen | India, United States, United Kingdom |
A Fire Inside | Justin Krook, Luke Mazzaferro | Australia |
Framing Agnes | Chase Joynt | Canada |
Good Night Oppy | Ryan White | United States |
If You Are a Man | Simon Panay | France, Burkina Faso |
The Killing of a Journalist | Matt Sarnecki | Denmark |
The Klabona Keepers | Tamo Campos, Jasper Snow-Rosen, Rhoda Quock | Canada |
Last Flight Home | Ondi Timoner | United States |
Love Will Come Later | Julia Furer | Switzerland |
My Imaginary Country | Mi país imaginario | Patricio Guzmán | Chile, France |
Rebellion | Elena Sánchez Bellot and Maia Kenworthy | United Kingdom |
Retrograde | Matthew Heineman | United States |
Unarchived | Hayley Gray, Elad Tzadok | Canada |
Spectrum
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
8 Stories About My Hearing Loss | Charo Mato | Argentina, Uruguay |
Day After... | Anyadin… | Kamar Ahmad Simon | Bangladesh, France, Norway |
De Humani Corporis Fabrica | Véréna Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor | France, Switzerland |
The Eclipse | Formorkelsen / Pomračenje | Nataša Urban | Norway, Serbia |
Geographies of Solitude | Jacquelyn Mills | Canada |
The Hermit of Treig | Lizzie MacKenzie | United Kingdom |
Riotsville, U.S.A. | Sierra Pettengill | United States |
See You Friday, Robinson | À vendredi, Robinson | Mitra Farahani | France, Switzerland, Iran, Lebanon |
Portraits
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
Cesária Évora | Ana Sofia Fonseca | Portugal |
Dancing Pina | Florian Heinzen-Ziob | Germany |
Ever Deadly | Chelsea McMullan, Tanya Tagaq | Canada |
Goya, Carrière and the Ghost of Buñuel | José Luis López-Linares | France, Spain, Portugal |
Hopper: An American Love Story | Phil Grabsky | United Kingdom, United States |
The King of Wuxia | Lin Jing-jie | Taiwan |
Lay Down Your Heart | Marie Clements | Canada |
The Melt Goes On Forever: The Art and Times of David Hammons | Judd Tully, Harold Crooks | Canada, United States |
Music Pictures: New Orleans | Ben Chace | United States |
Okay!: The ASD Band Film | Mark Bone | Canada |
Soviet Bus Stops | Kristoffer Hegnsvad | Denmark, Canada, United Kingdom, Sweden, Latvia |
Altered States
Short Forum
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
Adore | Beth Warrian | Canada |
Agony | Agonie | Arnaud Beaudoux |
Baba | Anya Chirkova, Meran Ismailsoy |
The Ballad of Gus | Brian Barnhart |
Blond Night | Nuit blonde | Gabrielle Demers |
Brasier | Émilie Mannering |
Chasing Birds | Una Lorenzen |
Coin Slot | Scott Jones |
Dhulpa | Kunsang Kyirong |
The Faraway Place | Kenny Welsh |
First Months of Freedom | Kriss Li |
The Flying Sailor | Le Matelot volant | Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis |
Framing the Self | Andrea Cristini |
From Chile to Canada: Media Herstories | Sarah Shamash, Sonia Medel |
Grown in Darkness | Devin Shears |
Heartbeat of a Nation | Eric Janvier |
Hills and Mountains | Salar Pashtoonyar |
Horse Brothers | Milos Mitrovic, Fabian Velasco |
I Empower as a Mother | Dani Barker, Inder Nirwan |
I See Me Watching | Sidney Gordon |
I, Sun | Moi soleil | Julien Falardeau |
I Thought the World of You | Kurt Walker |
Late Summer | Ryan Steel |
Mariposa | John Greyson, Bongani Ndodana-Breen |
Meeting with Robert Dole | Rencontre avec Robert Dole | François Harvey |
Minus Twenty | Jack Parker |
Mother's Skin | Leah Johnston |
Municipal Relaxation Module | Matthew Rankin |
My Thoughts Exactly | Mike Archibald |
Nanitic | Carol Nguyen |
N’xaxaitkw | Asia Youngman |
Paco | Kent Donguines |
The Passing | Jackson Harvey |
Patty vs. Patty | Chris Strikes |
La Plage aux êtres | Kendra McLaughlin |
Pro Pool | Piscine pro | Alec Pronovost |
Red House | Barry Doupé |
Reste | Ginger Le Pêcheur |
Rocket Fuel | Jessie Posthumus |
Rose | Roxann Whitebean |
Rumination | Ashleigh Vaillancourt |
The Runner | Amar Chebib |
Scaring Women at Night | Karimah Zakia Issa |
Sexy Highland Stream | Nathan Adler |
Sikiitu | Gabriel Allard Gagnon |
Square Peg | Christian Bunea |
Terror/Forming | Rylan Friday |
Tibi | Jarret Twoyoungmen |
Tidal | Chloe Van Landschoot |
Tongue | Kaho Yoshida |
International Shorts
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
Baby | Bebé | Cristina Sánchez Salamanca | Colombia |
Before Birth | Antes de nacer | Carmen Jiménez, Álex Mena | Spain |
Bye Bye | Partir un jour | Amélie Bonnin | France |
Censor of Dreams | Léo Berne, Raphaël Rodriguez | France |
The Ceremony | Lisle Turner | United Kingdom |
The Cormorant | Le Cormoran | Lubna Playoust | France |
A Different Place | Sophie Black | United Kingdom |
Ellie | Fernando Bonelli | Spain |
Empire of My Melodious Mind | Jeannette Louie | United States |
Firecracker Bullets | Chad Charlie | United States |
For Real | Na Serio | Ernest Lorek | Poland |
For You Today the Light of the Sun Will Not Shine | Per Voi Oggi la Luce del sole non splenderà | Andrea Bordoli | Switzerland |
Further and Further Away | Chhngai Dach Alai | Polen Ly | Cambodia |
Island of Freedom | Ostrov svobody | Petr Januschka | Czech Republic |
Judy, Judy, Judy | Jessica McGaugh | United States |
Killing Ourselves | Maya Yadlin | Israel |
The Lone Wolf | O lobo solitário | Filipe Melo | Portugal |
Magnified City | Isaku Kaneko | Japan |
Marianne | Julien Gaspar-Oliveri | France |
A Moral Man | Paul Wade, Simon Wade | United Kingdom |
Mumu | Mo Sha | China |
My Name Is Anti | Andreas Vakalios, Fili Olsefski | Greece |
Nest | James Hunter | Australia |
OST | Abhichoke Chandrasen | Thailand |
Perspective | Alaa Algburi | Iraq, Jordan |
Plastic Killer | Jose Pozo | Andorra, Spain |
Ponto Final | Miguel López Beraza | Spain, Portugal |
The Silent Ones | Les Silencieux | Basile Vuillemin | France, Belgium, Switzerland |
Solar Eclipse | Eclipse | Raha Amirfazli, Alireza Ghasemi | France, Iran |
Starfuckers | Antonio Marziale | United States |
Will You Look at Me | Dang wo wang xiang ni de shi hou | Shuli Huang | China |
Reel Youth
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
CITSALP | Jean A. Evangelista | Philippines |
Dear Karen | Mika Washington, Kaniel Jacob-Cross | Canada |
Fireworks | Nicolas Leclerc | Canada |
Fishing | Andreas Duerr | Germany |
For My Father | Waka Wikaire James | New Zealand |
The Hill We Climb | Wide Angle Youth Media | United States |
Lonely Souls | Finn Morgan-Roberts | United Kingdom |
Not Quite Quarantine | Julian Lee | United States |
Paper Talk | A l'unisson | Nathalie Dunselman | France |
Patterns in Our Lives | Leili Hamidi | Canada |
Power | Hannah Gallant, Madison Jules George, Nona Marchand, Danielle Taralson | Canada |
Prom and Potions | Baile da Magia | Ana Maria Teixeira Hora | Brazil |
Self | Gagan Kumar C | India |
She Said, She Said | Fraser Hannay | Canada |
Solitude | Fiyin Coker | Canada |
Sound of Borders | Bahar Rezvanifar | Iran |
Through | Gaukhar Akzhol | Kazakhstan |
Trailblazer | Jenna Hammerlindl, Heather Addison | Canada |
Whisperer | Pasapalabra | Andrea Testini | Spain |
The White Rose | Ian Kim | United States |
Modes
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
Backflip | Nikita Diakur | Germany, France |
The Earth Will Swallow It All | Ziemia wchłonie to wszystko | Dominik Ritszel | Poland |
The Fruit Tree | Isabelle Tollenaere | Belgium |
Hardly Working | Susanna Flock, Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf | Austria |
Intermission | Réka Bucsi | Hungary |
It's Raining Frogs Outside | Ampangabagat Nin Talakba Ha Likol | Maria Estela Paiso | Philippines |
Laika | Deborah Stratman | United States |
Lake of Fire | Neozoon | Germany |
Neighbour Abdi | Douwe Dijkstra | Netherlands |
Parasite Family | Prapat Jiwarangsan | Thailand |
Perforated Realities | Gustaf Broms | Sweden |
Prelude Op. 28 No.2 | Preludi Op. 28 nro 2 | Jenni Toikka | Finland |
Saving Some Random Insignificant Stories | Anna Vasof | Austria, Greece |
The Stopover | L'Escale | Paul Shemisi, Nizar Saleh, Anne Reijniers, Rob Jacobs | Belgium, Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Very, Very Tremendously | 非常,非常,非常地 | Guangli Liu | China, France |
Watch the Fire or Burn Inside It | Il faut regarder le feu ou brûler dedans | Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel | France |
Woman as Image, Man as Bearer of the Look | La mujer como imagen, el hombre como portador de la mirada | Carlos Velandia | Colombia |
Zoon | Jonatan Schwenk | Germany |
References
- ^ a b c "Bones of Crows, Broker among titles at 2022 Vancouver International Film Festival". CBC News, September 7, 2022.
- ^ Dana Gee, "Vancouver International Film Festival announces Marie Clements' Bones of Crows kicks off 2022 program". Vancouver Sun, September 7, 2022.
- ^ a b Daniel Chai, "Over 200 films to see at Vancouver International Film Festival starting this month". Daily Hive, September 7, 2022.
- ^ Noel Ransome, "‘Riceboy Sleeps’ and ‘Until Branches Bend’ win top film prizes at VIFF". Toronto Star, October 7, 2022.
- ^ Angelica Babiera, "VIFF announces nine audience award winners". Playback, October 19, 2022.