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2021 Canadian film festival
The 2021 Vancouver International Film Festival , the 40th event in the history of the Vancouver International Film Festival , was held from October 1 to October 11, 2021.[ 1] Unlike the 2020 Vancouver International Film Festival , which was staged entirely online due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the 2021 festival featured in-person screenings at the VIFF Centre and other venues, although most titles were also available on the online VIFF Connects platform.[ 2]
The festival opened with the film The Electrical Life of Louis Wain , and closed with the film Petite Maman .[ 1] 190 films from 51 countries where screened in the festival constituting 113 features, 77 shorts, 80 narrative features and 33 documentary features.
In addition, the festival screened some titles outside Vancouver, including in Terrace and Powell River .[ 3] Some, but not all, titles on the online platform were available for viewing across Canada rather than being geoblocked to British Columbia.[ 3]
Audience-voted awards were announced on October 13 following the end of the festival; however, the juried award winners were announced during the festival as a technique to help publicize and promote the winning films.[ 4]
Award
Film
Filmmaker
Audience Award, Galas & Special Presentations
Official Competition (Competencia oficial)
Gastón Duprat & Mariano Cohn
Audience Award, Contemporary World Cinema
The In-Laws (Tesciowie)
Kuba Michalczuk
Audience Award, True North
Handle With Care: The Legend of the Notic Streetball Crew
Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux , Kirk Thomas
Audience Award, Gateway
Time
Ricky Ko
Audience Award, Impact
Little Palestine: Diary of an Occupation
Abdallah Al-Khatib
Audience Award, Insights
The Six
Arthur Jones
Audience Award, M/A/D
Charlotte
Eric Warin, Tahir Rana
Audience Award, Altered States
Saloum
Jean Luc Herbulot
Best Canadian Film
Without Havana (Sin la Habana)
Kaveh Nabatian
Best Canadian Documentary
Returning Home
Sean Stiller
Best Canadian Short Film
Together
Albert Shin
Emerging Canadian Director
Bootlegger
Caroline Monnet
Best BC Film
Handle With Care: The Legend of the Notic Streetball Crew
Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux , Kirk Thomas
Best BC Short Film
The Horses
Liz Cairns
BC Emerging Filmmaker
Portraits from a Fire
Trevor Mack
VIFF Impact Award
Blue Box
Michal Weits
Rob Stewart Eco Warrior Award
Coextinction
Gloria Pancrazi, Elena Jean
Immersed (Virtual Reality Program), Best Cinematic Live Action
Symphony
Igor Cortadellas
Immersed, Best Documentary
Inside COVID19
Gary Yost, Adam Loften
Immersed, Best Augmented Reality
Mission to Mars AR
Piotr Baczyński, Bartosz Rosłoński
Immersed, Best Animation
Beat
Keisuke Itoh
Immersed, Best Animation Honorable Mention
The Passengers
Ziad Touma
Immersed, Audience Award
Red Eyes
Sngmoo Lee
Special presentations [ edit ]
All My Puny Sorrows
Michael McGowan
Canada
Belfast
Kenneth Branagh
United Kingdom, Ireland
Benediction
Terence Davies
United Kingdom, United States
Bergman Island
Mia Hansen-Løve
France, Mexico, Brazil, Germany
Drive My Car
Doraibu mai kā
Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Japan
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
Will Sharpe
United Kingdom, United States
Everything Went Fine
Tout s'est bien passé
François Ozon
France
Memoria
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Thailand, Colombia, France, Germany, Mexico, China
Mothering Sunday
Eva Husson
United Kingdom
Night Raiders
Danis Goulet
Canada
Official Competition
Competencia oficial
Gastón Duprat & Mariano Cohn
Spain
One Second
秒 びょう 钟
Zhang Yimou
China
Petite Maman
Céline Sciamma
France
Red Rocket
Sean Baker
United States
The Worst Person in the World
Verdens verste menneske
Joachim Trier
Norway
Contemporary World Cinema [ edit ]
Azor
Andreas Fontana
Argentina, France, Switzerland
The Beta Test
Jim Cummings , PJ McCabe
United States
Bone Marrow
Hamid Reza Ghorbani
Iran
The Book of Delights
O Livro dos Prazeres
Marcela Lordy
Brazil
Brighton 4th
Levan Koguashvili
Georgia, Russia, Bulgaria, Monaco, United States
Brother's Keeper
Okul Tıraşı
Ferit Karahan
Turkey, Romania
Bye Bye Morons
Adieu les cons
Albert Dupontel
France
Celts
Kelti
Milica Tomović
Serbia
Clara Sola
Nathalie Álvarez Mesén
Sweden, Costa Rica, Belgium, Germany
Compartment No. 6
Hytti nro 6
Juho Kuosmanen
Finland, Estonia, Germany, Russia
Fabian – Going to the Dogs
Fabian oder Der Gang vor die Hunde
Dominik Graf
Germany
Father Pablo
Padre Pablo
José Luis Isoard Arrubarrena
Mexico
The Girl and the Spider
Das Mädchen und die Spinne
Ramon Zürcher, Silvan Zürcher
Switzerland
Girlfriends
Chavalas
Carol Rodríguez Colás
Spain
Godavari
Nikhil Mahajan
India
Havel
Slávek Horák
Czech Republic
Him
Han
Guro Bruusgaard
Norway
Hit the Road
Jadde Khaki
Panah Panahi
Iran
The In-Laws
Tesciowie
Kuba Michalczuk
Poland
Lamya's Poem
Alex Kronemer
Canada, United States
Miracle
Miracol
Bogdan George Apetri
Romania, Czech Republic, Latvia
Paris, 13th District
Les Olympiades
Jacques Audiard
France
Queen of Glory
Nana Mensah
United States
The Siamese Bond
Las siamesas
Paula Hernández
Argentina
Small Body
Piccolo Corpo
Laura Samani
Italy, France, Slovenia
Souad
Ayten Amin
Egypt, Tunisia, Germany
A Tale of Love and Desire
Une histoire d'amour et de désir
Leyla Bouzid
France, Tunisia
Unclenching the Fists
Разжимая кулаки
Kira Kovalenko
Russia
What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?
Ras vkhedavt, rodesac cas vukurebt?
Alexandre Koberidze
Germany, Georgia
Ayukawa: The Weight of Life
Tu Neill, Jim Speers
New Zealand, United Kingdom, Japan
Behind the Headlines
Daniel Andreas Sager
Germany
Blue Box
Michal Weits
Israel, Canada, Belgium
From the Wild Sea
Fra det vilde hav
Robin Petré
Denmark
Her Socialist Smile
John Gianvito
United States
Little Palestine: Diary of an Occupation
Abdallah Al-Khatib
Lebanon, France, Qatar
Secrets from Putumayo
Aurélio Michiles
Brazil
Daughter of a Lost Bird
Brooke Pepion Swaney
United States
Faya Dayi
Jessica Beshir
Ethiopia, United States, Qatar
The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation
Avi Mograbi
France, Finland, Israel, Germany
Flee
Jonas Poher Rasmussen
United States, United Kingdom, France, Sweden, Norway, Denmark
Just a Movement
Juste un mouvement
Vincent Meessen
Belgium, France
The King of North Sudan
Danny Abel
United States, China, Egypt, Thailand
Maya
Jamshid Mojaddadi, Anson Hartford
United Kingdom, Iran
My Childhood, My Country - 20 Years in Afghanistan
Phil Grabsky , Shoaib Sharifi
Afghanistan, United Kingdom
The Six
Arthur Jones
China
Taming the Garden
Salomé Jashi
Switzerland, Germany, Georgia
The Velvet Queen
La Panthère des neiges
Marie Amiguet [fr ] , Vincent Munier
France
Venetian Molecules
Molecole
Andrea Segre
Italy
Charlotte
Eric Warin, Tahir Rana
Canada, France, Belgium
The Endless Moment: The Painter Rolf Kuhlmann
Claudia Schmid
Germany, Greece
Keep Rolling
Man Lim Chung
Hong Kong
Nine Sevilles
Nueve Sevillas
Gonzalo García Pelayo, Pedro G. Romero
Spain, France
Records
Alan Zweig
Canada
Rock Bottom Riser
Fern Silva
United States
Stories That Transform Us
Corey Payette
Canada
To the Moon
Tadhg O'Sullivan
Ireland
White Cube
Renzo Martens
Netherlands, Belgium
Adversarial Infrastructure
Anna Engelhardt
Russia
The Canyon
Zachary Epcar
United States
The Coast
Sohrab Hura
India
Corps Samples
Astrid de la Chapelle
France
Happiness Is a Journey
Ivete Lucas, Patrick Bresnan
United States, Estonia
In Flow of Words
Eliane Esther Bots
Netherlands
I've Been Afraid
Cecelia Condit
Mexico
Motorcyclist's Happiness Won't Fit Into His Suit
Al motociclista no le cabe la felicidad en el traje
Gabriel Herrera
Mexico
Neon Phantom
Fantasma Neon
Leonardo Martinelli
Brazil
New Abnormal
Sorayos Prapapan
Thailand, South Korea, Singapore
Once Upon a Screen: Explosive Paradox
Kevin B. Lee
Germany, United States
Show Me Other Places
Rajee Samarasinghe
Sri Lanka, United States
International Shorts [ edit ]
Al-Sit
Suzannah Mirghani
Sudan, Qatar
All Dogs Die
Allir Hundar Deyja
Ninna Pálmadóttir
Iceland
Anyhow, Anyway
Seja como for
Catarina Romano
Portugal
Apart, Together
Olivia Hang Zhou
United States, China
The Black Disquisition
Quincy G. Ledbetter
United States
Carrier
Lasti
Max Ovaska
Finland
Chants from a Holy Book
Cassiana Der Haroutiounian, Cesar Gananian
Brazil
Charlotte
Zach Dorn
United States
Charon
Yannick Karcher
France
Don vs. Lightning
Big Red Button
United Kingdom
Dona
Marga Melià
Spain
Fall of the Ibis King
Mikai Geronimo, Josh O'Caoimh
Ireland
Flowing Home
Nhu môt dòng sông
Sandra Desmazières
France
The Following Year
Miguel Campaña
Spain
Goodbye Tornio
Hei hei Tornio
Emilia Hernesniemi
Finland
Granny's Sexual Life
Babičino seksualno življenje
Urška Djukić
Slovenia, France
MeTube: August Sings Una Furtiva Lagrima
Daniel Moshel
Austria
The Monkey
Lorenzo Degl´Innocenti, Xosé Zapata
Portugal, Spain
Neko and Flies
Tsao Shih Han
Taiwan
The Night I Left America
Laki Karavias
United States
Nuevo Rico
Kristian Mercado Figueroa
United States
Quality Time
Omer Ben-David
Israel
A Quiet Man
L'Homme silencieux
Nyima Cartier
France
A Roll in the Hay
Une partie en l'air
Geoffrey Fighiera
France
Roy
Tom Berkeley, Ross White
United Kingdom
The Saverini Widow
La Veuve Savarini
Loïc Gaillard
France
Unnecessary Things
Непотрібні речі
Dmytro Lisenbart
Ukraine
Wake
Mark Boston
United Kingdom
Your Street
Deine Strasse
Güzin Kar
Switzerland
10am
Prodipto Saha
Bangladesh
All Alone
Mackenzie Dy
Canada
The Art of Being in a World of Not Being
Soheil Soheili, Parsa Shojai, Alireza Ahmadi, Sajad Teymoori
Iran
Christopher Hunte
Tiffany Siu, Andrea Leung
Canada
Eye Robot
Elina Villemure, Noah Harrison
United States
From the North
Avi Maksagak
Canada
ḥaḥuupač̓akukqin
Tim Masso
Canada
A Letter to Hong Kong
Wynne Kwok
Canada
Kamayan
Minerva Navasca
Canada
kʷənáŋət néʔ
Marius Fernandes, Julian Fernandes, Anthony Fernandes, Malinalli Angulo, Weah Fernandes
Canada
The Moments
Chwile
Piotr Kaźmierczak
Poland
Music for the End of the World
Emmanuel Li
United Kingdom
Pitoc e icinakosian
Jos-Onimskiw Ottawa-Dubé, Gerry Ottawa
Canada
The Secret of Colors
Travis Nguyen
Canada
Sophie and Jacob
Max Shoham
Canada
Wicket
Harsh Khurana
India
Witch's Hunt Day
Odilia Tanujaya
Indonesia
^ Jump up to: a b Dana Gee, "VIFF back in theatres for 40th anniversary festival" . The Province , September 8, 2021.
^ Marsha Lederman, "VIFF to offer full lineup in-person for 40th year" . The Globe and Mail , September 8, 2021.
^ Jump up to: a b Craig Takeuchi, "Vancouver International Film Festival returns to cinemas for 40th-anniversary edition" . The Georgia Straight , September 8, 2021.
^ Steve Newton, "Vancouver International Film Fest announces award winners" . The Georgia Straight , October 13, 2021.