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2015 Vancouver International Film Festival

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2015 Vancouver International Film Festival
Opening filmBrooklyn by John Crowley
Closing filmI Saw the Light by Marc Abraham
LocationVancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Festival dateSeptember 24–October 9, 2015

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.[1]

The festival's opening gala film was John Crowley's Brooklyn, and its closing gala was Marc Abraham's I Saw the Light.

Awards

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Award winners were announced on October 9.[2]

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

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Special Presentations

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Canadian Images

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Cinema of Our Time

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Spotlight on France

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Documentaries

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Dragons & Tigers

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Altered States

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Arts & Letters

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Canadian Short Films

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International Short Films

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  • Adolescence — Javier Blanco
  • Almost Not Beautiful — Sarah Jean Kruchowski
  • The Aquarium — Jacobie Gray
  • Atlantis — Ben Russell
  • Behold — Mark Sargent, Maya Tsambrou
  • Birthday — Chris King
  • Cheerful Blues for the Dead Man — J. M. Quevedo Gonzalez
  • Cherry Cake — Jane Green
  • Coffee to Go — Patricia Font
  • Deformity Prays for Radiation — Nathan Hertz
  • Drift — Felipe Prado
  • The Error — Brando de Sica
  • The Exquisite Corpus — Peter Tscherkassky
  • The Formula — Kathrin Frey
  • Gloria — Luis Hernandez de la Peña
  • Harvey's Dream — Alexander von Hofmann
  • In My Shoes — Mat Govoni, Monique Schafter
  • In the Night — Joshua Erkman
  • In the Still of the Night — Erich Steiner
  • Injury Time — Jack Sheridan
  • Interior. Family — Gerard Quinto, Esteve Soler, David Torras
  • Last Base — Aslak Danbolt
  • Little Bear — Daire Glynn, Ger Duffy
  • Looking Out — Tristan Artin
  • The Man from the Council — Barnaby Southcombe
  • Mine — Trilby Glover
  • The Moor — George Kyrtsis
  • Mystic Jungfraujoch — Markus Eichenberger
  • Night Without Distance — Lois Patiño
  • Operator — Caroline Bartleet
  • Red Nuts — Jackson Mullane
  • A Riot — Nathan Silver
  • Scrabble — Cristian Sulser
  • Setting them Straight — Kaleb McKenna
  • Soap — Christopher Brown
  • Solo Finale — Ingo Putze
  • Stutterer — Benjamin Cleary
  • Through the Breaking Glass — Ivan Mena-Tinoco
  • The TrainAsher Grodman
  • Treading Water — Liz Cardenas Franke
  • Trench — Nathan Hunt

References

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