2022 Canadian film festival
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.
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 |
Galas and special presentations[edit]
| 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[edit]
| 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[edit]
| 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[edit]
| 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[edit]
Insights[edit]
| 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[edit]
| 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[edit]
| 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[edit]
Short Forum[edit]
| 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[edit]
| 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[edit]
| 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 |
| 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[edit]
- ^ 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.
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