2014 Vancouver International Film Festival
| Opening film | Wild by Jean-Marc Vallée |
|---|---|
| Closing film | Whiplash by Damien Chazelle |
| Location | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Festival date | September 25–October 10, 2014 |
The 2014 Vancouver International Film Festival, the 33rd event in the history of the Vancouver International Film Festival, was held from September 25 to October 10, 2014.[1]
The festival's opening gala film was Jean-Marc Vallée's Wild, and its closing gala was Damien Chazelle's Whiplash.
Awards
Award winners were announced on October 10.[2]
| Award | Film | Filmmaker |
|---|---|---|
| People's Choice | The Vancouver Asahi | Yuya Ishii |
| Most Popular Canadian Feature | Preggoland | Jacob Tierney |
| Most Popular Canadian Documentary | All the Time in the World | Suzanne Crocker |
| Most Popular International Documentary | Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me | James Keach |
| Best Canadian Film | Violent | Andrew Huculiak |
| Best BC Film | Violent | Andrew Huculiak |
| BC Emerging Filmmaker | Sitting on the Edge of Marlene | Ana Valine |
| Most Promising Director of a Canadian Short Film | The Cut (La Coupe) | Geneviève Dulude-De Celles |
| VIFF Impact Award | Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story | Grant Baldwin |
| Women in Film and Television Artistic Merit Award | Sitting on the Edge of Marlene | Ana Valine |
Films
Special Presentations
- Above Us All — Eugene Jensen
- Amazonia 3D — Thierry Ragobert
- Cathedrals of Culture — Michael Madsen, Michael Glawogger, Margreth Olin, Karim Aïnouz, Robert Redford, Wim Wenders
- Clouds of Sils Maria — Olivier Assayas
- Foxcatcher — Bennett Miller
- Goodbye to Language — Jean-Luc Godard
- The Golden Era — Ann Hui
- Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed — David Trueba
- Maps to the Stars — David Cronenberg
- Men, Women & Children — Jason Reitman
- The Riot Club — Lone Scherfig
- The Tale of the Princess Kaguya — Isao Takahata
- The Vancouver Asahi — Yuya Ishii
- Welcome to Me — Shira Piven
- Wild Tales — Damián Szifron
- Winter Sleep — Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Canadian Images
- 1987 — Ricardo Trogi
- All the Time in the World — Suzanne Crocker
- Black Fly — Jason Bourque
- The Boy from Geita — Vic Sarin
- Bye Bye Blues — Anne Wheeler
- Corbo — Mathieu Denis
- The Creation of Meaning — Simone Rapisarda Casanova
- A Different Drummer: Celebrating Eccentrics — John Zaritsky
- Dirty Singles — Alex Pugsley
- Elephant Song — Charles Binamé
- Everything Will Be — Julia Kwan
- An Eye for Beauty (La Règne de la beauté) — Denys Arcand
- Fall — Terrance Odette
- Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story — Grant Baldwin
- Marinoni: The Fire in the Frame — Tony Girardin
- Martin's Pink Pickle — René Brar
- Miraculum — Daniel Grou
- Mommy — Xavier Dolan
- Monsoon — Sturla Gunnarsson
- October Gale — Ruba Nadda
- Preggoland — Jacob Tierney
- The Price We Pay — Harold Crooks
- The Pristine Coast — Scott Renyard
- Sitting on the Edge of Marlene — Ana Valine
- Songs She Wrote About People She Knows — Kris Elgstrand
- Turbulence — Soran Mardookhi
- Two 4 One — Maureen Bradley
- The Valley Below — Kyle Thomas
- Violent — Andrew Huculiak
- What Are We Doing Here? (Qu’est-ce qu’on fait ici ?) — Julie Hivon
- You're Sleeping Nicole (Tu dors Nicole) — Stéphane Lafleur
Cinema of Our Time
- 52 Tuesdays — Sophie Hyde
- Asteroid — Marcelo Tobar
- August Winds (Ventos de Agosto) — Gabriel Mascaro
- Beautiful Youth (Hermosa juventud) — Jaime Rosales
- Behavior (Conducta) — Ernesto Daranas
- Beloved Sisters (Die geliebten Schwestern) — Dominik Graf
- Boy and the World (O Menino e o Mundo) — Alê Abreu
- Boychoir — François Girard
- Buzzard — Joel Potrykus
- Casa Grande — Fellipe Barbosa
- Charlie's Country — Rolf de Heer
- Class Enemy (Razredni sovražnik) — Rok Biček
- Clownwise (Klauni) — Viktor Tauš
- Come to My Voice (Were Denge Min) — Hüseyin Karabey
- Corn Island (Simindis kundzuli) — Giorgi Ovashvili
- Decent People (Gente de bien) — Franco Lolli
- Difret — Zeresenay Berhane Mehari
- Field of Dogs (Psie Pole) — Lech Majewski
- Fish & Cat — Shahram Mokri
- The Fool (Durak) — Yuri Bykov
- Force Majeure (Turist) — Ruben Östlund
- Free Fall (Szabadesés) — György Pálfi
- The Gambler (Losejas) — Ignas Jonynas
- God Help the Girl — Stuart Murdoch
- Güeros — Alonso Ruizpalacios
- Heaven Knows What — Ben and Joshua Safdie
- Highway — Imtiaz Ali
- History of Fear (Historia del Miedo) — Benjamín Naishtat
- Hope and Wire — Gaylene Preston
- Horse Money (Cavalo Dinheiro) — Pedro Costa
- Human Capital (Il capitale umano) — Paolo Virzì
- In Order of Disappearance (Kraftidioten) — Hans Petter Moland
- Jauja — Lisandro Alonso
- The Kindergarten Teacher — Nadav Lapid
- Lakshmi — Nagesh Kukunoor
- Leviathan — Andrey Zvyagintsev
- The Liberator (Libertador) — Alberto Arvelo
- Listen Up Philip — Alex Ross Perry
- Manos sucias — Josef Wladyka
- Mr. Turner — Mike Leigh
- N – The Madness of Reason — Peter Krüger
- Navajazo — Ricardo Silva
- Noble — Stephen Bradley
- Of Horses and Men (Hross í oss) — Benedikt Erlingsson
- The Owners — Adilkhan Yerzhanov
- Papusza — Joanna Kos-Krauze, Krzysztof Krauze
- Parasite (Huba) — Wilhelm Sasnal, Anka Sasnal
- Paris of the North (París Norðursins) — Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson
- Phoenix — Christian Petzold
- The Princess of France (La princesa de Francia) — Matías Piñeiro
- Queen and Country — John Boorman
- Red Knot — Scott Cohen
- Rocks in My Pockets (Akmeņi manās kabatās) — Signe Baumane
- The Rooftops — Merzak Allouache
- Run — Philippe Lacôte
- Something Must Break (Nånting måste gå sönder) — Ester Martin Bergsmark
- Sorrow and Joy (Sorg og glæde) — Nils Malmros
- Stations of the Cross (Kreuzweg) — Dietrich Brüggemann
- Still Life — Uberto Pasolini
- Tales — Rakhshān Banietemad
- To Kill a Man (Matar a un hombre) — Alejandro Fernández Almendras
- Two Days, One Night (Deux jours, une nuit) — Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
- The Two Faces of January — Hossein Amini
- Two Shots Fired (Dos disparos) — Martín Rejtman
- Two Step — Alex R. Johnson
- Una Vida: A Fable of Music and the Mind — Richie Adams
- Welcome to New York — Abel Ferrara
- White Bird in a Blizzard — Gregg Araki
- The Womb (El Vientre) — Daniel Rodríguez Risco
- The Wonders (Le meraviglie) — Alice Rohrwacher
- Zero Motivation — Talya Lavie
Spotlight on France
- 24 Days (24 jours, la vérité sur l'affaire Ilan Halimi) — Alexandre Arcady
- Handmade with Love from France (Le Temps suspendu) — Julie Georgia Bernard
- In the Name of My Daughter (L'Homme qu'on aimait trop) — André Téchiné
- The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq (L'enlèvement de Michel Houellebecq) — Guillaume Nicloux
- Life of Riley (Aimer, boire et chanter) — Alain Resnais
- Li'l Quinquin (P'tit Quinquin) — Bruno Dumont
- Love at First Fight (Les Combattants) — Thomas Cailley
- Miss and the Doctors (Tirez la langue, mademoiselle) — Axelle Ropert
- La Sapienza — Eugène Green
Documentaries
- Becoming Bulletproof — Michael Barnett
- Challat of Tunis — Kaouther Ben Hania
- Concerning Violence — Göran Olsson
- The Creator of the Jungle (Sobre la marxa) — Jordi Morató
- A Dangerous Game — Anthony Baxter
- The Decent One (Der Anständige) — Vanessa Lapa
- Faith Connections — Pan Nalin
- Flore (Flore, route de la Mer) — Jean-Albert Lièvre
- Food Chains — Sanjay Rawal
- How I Came to Hate Math (Comment j'ai détesté les maths) — Olivier Peyon
- Iranian — Mehran Tamadon
- Jalanan — Daniel Ziv
- Maidan — Sergei Loznitsa
- Marmato — Mark Grieco
- Meat and Milk (De chair et de lait) — Bernard Bloch
- My Name Is Salt — Farida Pacha
- Nelson Mandela, the Myth and Me — Khalo Matabane
- New Boobs — Sacha Polak
- Red Army — Gabe Polsky
- Sacro GRA — Gianfranco Rosi
- Waiting for August — Teodora Ana Mihai
- Walking Under Water — Eliza Kubarska
- We Come as Friends — Hubert Sauper
- The Wild Years (Els anys salvatges) — Ventura Durall
- The Wound and the Gift — Linda Hoaglund
- Yakona — Anlo Sepulveda, Paul Collins
Dragons & Tigers
- 2030 (Nước) — Nguyễn Võ Nghiêm Minh
- Black Coal, Thin Ice — Diao Yinan
- Blind Massage — Lou Ye
- Coming Home — Zhang Yimou
- A Corner of Heaven — Zhang Miaoyan
- Disconcerto — Tatsushi Omori
- The Dossier — Rikun Zhu
- Exit — Chienn Hsiang
- Flowing Stories — Jessey Tsang Tsui-Shan
- The Furthest End Awaits — Chiang Hsiu-chiung
- Hill of Freedom — Hong Sang-soo
- The Horses of Fukushima — Yojyu Matsubayashi
- The Iron Ministry — J.P. Sniadecki
- Journey to the West — Tsai Ming-liang
- Jungle School (Sokola Rimba) — Riri Riza
- Man on High Heels — Jang Jin
- Men Who Save the World — Liew Seng Tat
- The Midnight After — Fruit Chan
- Non Fiction Diary — Jung Yoon-suk
- Ow — Yohei Suzuki
- Rekorder — Mikhail Red
- Revivre — Im Kwon-taek
- Sea Fog (Haemoo) — Shim Sung-bo
- Sharing — Makoto Shinozaki
- The Sun, the Moon and the Hurricane — Andri Cung
- Uncertain Relationships Society — Heiward Mak
- The Uncle Victory — Zhang Meng
Altered States
- Alleluia — Fabrice Du Welz
- Bloody Knuckles — Matt O'Mahony
- The Editor — Adam Brooks and Matthew Kennedy
- A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night — Ana Lily Amirpour
- Housebound — Gerard Johnstone
- The Incident (El Incidente) — Isaac Ezban
- The Infinite Man — Hugh Sullivan
- It Follows — David Robert Mitchell
- The Well — Thomas Hammock
Arts & Letters
- Advanced Style — Lina Plioplyte
- Art and Craft — Sam Cullman, Jennifer Grausman
- Ballet 422 — Jody Lee Lipes
- Before the Last Curtain Falls — Thomas Wallner
- Cartoonists - Foot Soldiers of Democracy — Stéphanie Valloatto
- Dominguinhos — Mariana Aydar, Joaquim Castro, Eduardo Nazarian
- Finding Fela — Alex Gibney
- Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me — James Keach
- The Great Museum — Johannes Holzhausen
- Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Enter Here — Amei Wallach
- In Search of Chopin — Phil Grabsky
- Looking for Light: Jane Bown — Luke Dodd, Michael Whyte
- Mercedes Sosa: The Voice of Latin America — Rodrigo H. Vila
- Miss Hill: Making Dance Matter — Greg Vander Veer
- Nas: Time Is Illmatic — One9
- National Gallery — Frederick Wiseman
- The Other One: The Long Strange Trip of Bob Weir — Mike Fleiss
- The Past Is a Grotesque Animal — Jason Miller
- The Possibilities Are Endless — James Hall, Edward Lovelace
- Pulp: A Film About Life, Death and Supermarkets — Florian Habicht
- Que Caramba es la Vida — Doris Dörrie
- Regarding Susan Sontag — Nancy Kates
- The Salt of the Earth — Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
- Trespassing Bergman — Jane Magnusson, Hynek Pallas
Canadian Short Films
- 3rd Page from the Sun — Theodore Ushev
- 40 Candles — Sophie Jarvis
- The Acting Teacher — Aaron Craven
- Back Streets — Cameron MacGowan
- Bedbugs: A Musical Love Story — Matthew Kowalchuk
- Bengal Light — Olivier Godin
- Bison — Kevan Funk
- The Blue Marble — Co Hoedeman
- Broken Face — Alain Fournier
- Broken Palace — Ross Munro
- Burnt Grass — Ray Wong
- Chamber Drama — Jeffrey Zablotny
- The Chaperone — Fraser Munden
- The Cut (La Coupe) — Geneviève Dulude-De Celles
- Cutaway — Kazik Radwanski
- Day 40 — Sol Friedman
- Dead Hearts — Stephen W. Martin
- Dorsal — Aidan Shipley
- Eclissi — Tygh Runyan
- Fallow — Breanna Cheek
- Godhead — Connor Gaston
- Hard Card — Lucas Hrubizna
- The Hearing — Russell Ratt-Brascoupe
- Hole — Martin Edralin
- Howard and Jean — Heather Young
- Just Living — Bryan Demore and Neil Champagne
- Jutra — Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre
- Kreb — Tim Tracey
- Land of the Sun — Melissa Flagg
- Life's a Bitch (Toutes des connes) — François Jaros
- Lifers — Joel Salaysay
- Light — Yassmina Karajah
- Little Brother (Petit frère) — Rémi St-Michel
- Luk'Luk'I: Mother — Wayne Wapeemukwa
- Mynarski Death Plummet — Matthew Rankin
- Never Stop Cycling — Colin Lepper
- Not Indian Enough — Alex Zahara
- Pour Retourner — Scooter Corkle
- The Rehearsal — Carl-Antonyn Dufault
- Righteous — Cory Bowles
- Ship — Jeff Petry
- Sleeping Giant — Andrew Cividino
- Stray — Ashley McKenzie
- Tigerbomb! — Andrew Struthers
- A Tomb with a View — Ryan J. Noth
- The Weatherman and the Shadowboxer — Randall Okita
- What Doesn't Kill You — Rob Grant
- Withering Heights — Liz Van Allen Cairns
International Short Films
- 130909: A Portrait of Marina Abramovic — Matthu Placek
- 6-Minute Mom — Chris Shimojima
- Absolution — Dean Butler
- All the Pain in the World — Tommaso Pitta
- Alphonso — Erenik Beqiri
- Anal Juice — Sawako Kabuki
- Anmado/Clean Me — Kang Sangwoo
- The Black Butterflies — Antoine Blanchet
- Budding, Swelling — Ryoya Usuha
- Business as Usual: The Prophet's on Board (Business As Usual – Der Prophet fliegt mit) — Lenn Kudrjawizki
- Cowboy Ben — Scott Rawsthorne, Jon Shaikh
- David Hockey: In the Now — Lucy Walker
- De Riria Subasutaimu — Shinsaku Hidaka
- Deaf and Wind — Hwang Kyuil
- Emo: The Musical — Neil Triffett
- Flower Bud — Saki Nakano
- Grounded — Alexis Michalik
- Gyro — Madoka
- Hollygrove: The True Life Story of Monserrat — Carlos Hurtado
- I'm Not a Hairdresser — Lee Hyungsuk
- In the Blind — Davis Hall
- Inside Voices — Ryland Walker Knight
- Katie — Nathan Gotsch
- Keep Dancing — Greg Vander Veer
- Leidi — Simon Mesa Soto
- Letter to Annabelle — Dom Marano
- The Light Harvester — Jason Howden
- The Lion's Mouth Opens — Lucy Walker
- A Long Beside — Paul Wong
- Magnificent View — Nam Keunhak
- Nest of Stone — Kim Noce
- Newspaper — Yoshinao Satoh
- Niagara — Chie Hayakawa
- No One But Lydia — Rob Richert
- Out of Reach (Rain Night) — Pablo Diartinez
- Outlier — Martin Wallner
- Penance — Jeff Wolfe
- Phone Box — Alan Powell
- Rain on Film — Tim Woodall, Phil Drinkwater
- Rappa — Yuki Nakajima
- Rattlefly — Min Ding
- Revelations — Annakate Chappell
- Los Rosales — Daniel Ferreira
- Sequence — Carles Torrens
- Skunk — Annie Silverstein
- The Small Garden — Shunsuke Saito
- Snow Hut — Yoriko Mizushiri
- Soliton — Isamu Hirabayashi
- Sophie — Alex Lombard
- The Stomach — Ben Steiner
- They Came at Night — Andrew Ellis, Alex Mallis
- The Tide Keeper — Alyx Duncan
- Waiter — Ryoji Yamada
- White, Heat, Lights — Takashi Nakajima
References
- ^ Marsha Lederman, "Japanese baseball feature leads off Vancouver International Film Festival". The Globe and Mail, September 3, 2014.
- ^ Bethany Lindsay, "Baseball film hits home run at VIFF; The Vancouver Asahi takes people's choice award". Vancouver Sun, October 11, 2014.