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2023 Vancouver International Film Festival
The 2023 Vancouver International Film Festival, the 42nd event in the history of the Vancouver International Film Festival, was held from September 28 to October 8, 2023. Awards Winners of the juried Canadian film awards were announced on October 5. The Vanguard award winner was announced on October 8, and Audience Award winners were announced on October 12. Films The full schedule was announced on September 6.Becca Clarkson"Lineup for 2023 VIFF revealed ahead of the 1st fully in-cinema event since the pandemic" CIVT-DT, CTV News Vancouver, September 6, 2023. Galas and special presentations Showcase Panorama Vanguard Northern Lights Insights Spectrum Portraits Altered States Leading Lights A special program curated by guest programmer Anthony Shim, featuring a selection of films that had influenced his own journey as a filmmaker. Focus: Women, Life and Freedom A special program curated by guest programmer Fay Nass, screening films about misogyny and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vancouver
Vancouver ( ) is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the List of cities in British Columbia, most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the city, up from 631,486 in 2016. The Greater Vancouver, Greater Vancouver area had a population of 2.6million in 2021, making it the List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada#List, third-largest metropolitan area in Canada. Greater Vancouver, along with the Fraser Valley Regional District, Fraser Valley, comprises the Lower Mainland with a regional population of over 3 million. Vancouver has the highest population density in Canada, with over 5,700 people per square kilometre, and fourth highest in North America (after New York City, San Francisco, and Mexico City). Vancouver is one of the most Ethnic origins of people in Canada, ethnically and Languages of Canada, linguistically diverse cities in Canada: 49.3 percent of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ariane Louis-Seize
Ariane Louis-Seize is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec. She has attracted critical acclaim and more than dozen awards for her filmmaking work. Career Short films She received critical acclaim in 2016 for her first short film, ''Wild Skin (La Peau sauvage)'', which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards and a Prix Iris nominee for Best Short Film at the 19th Quebec Cinema Awards. She received further acclaim for her next short film, '' Little Waves (Les petites vagues)'', which was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's annual Canada's Top Ten list in 2018."TIFF's Canada's Top Ten list skews a lot younger this year" '' |
Pier-Philippe Chevigny
Pier-Philippe Chevigny (born 1988) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec,Martin Gignac"Portrait du TIFF: Pier-Philippe Chevigny" ''Voir'', September 6, 2019. most noted for his 2019 short film ''Rebel (Recrue)''. Originally from Contrecœur, Quebec, he is a graduate of the film school at the Université de Montréal. He made a number of short films before breaking through with ''Rebel'', which premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. In 2021 he entered production on his feature debut, ''Richelieu''. The film was shown under the name ''Temporaries'' at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival. Filmography * ''Carré de sable'' - 2011 * ''Les Jours qui suivront'' - 2012 * ''La Résistance d'Hippocrate'' - 2013 * ''La Gardienne'' - 2013 * ''Tala'' - 2013 * ''The Visit (La Visite)'' - 2015 * ''Vétérane'' - 2017 * ''Hamecon'' - 2019 * ''Rebel (Recrue)'' - 2019 * ''Richelieu Richelieu (, ; ) may refer to: People * Cardinal Richelieu (Armand-Jean du Ples ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richelieu (2023 Film)
''Richelieu'' (french: Richelieu), also released as ''Temporaries'' in some territories, is a Canadian drama film, directed by Pier-Philippe Chevigny and released in 2023. The film stars Ariane Castellanos as Ariane, a woman who is hired as a Spanish-French translator at a food processing plant in Quebec that has a large staff of temporary migrant workers from Guatemala, but becomes an ally and advocate for the workers as she realizes the need to defend them from abuse and exploitation by owner Stéphane (Marc-André Grondin).Pierre-Marc Durivage"Le long métrage québécois Richelieu en compétition à Tribeca" '' La Presse'', April 18, 2023. The cast also includes Nelson Coronado, Micheline Bernard, Ève Duranceau, Luis Oliva, Gerardo Miranda, Antonio Ortega, Émile Schneider and Marc Beaupré. Chevigny's full-length directorial debut, the film entered production in 2021, under the working title ''Rive-Sud''. The film premiered on June 8, 2023, in competition at the Tribeca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Fahr
Anna may refer to: People Surname and given name * Anna (name) Mononym * Anna the Prophetess, in the Gospel of Luke * Anna (wife of Artabasdos) (fl. 715–773) * Anna (daughter of Boris I) (9th–10th century) * Anna (Anisia) (fl. 1218 to 1221) * Anna of Poland, Countess of Celje (1366–1425) * Anna of Cilli (1386–1416) * Anna, Grand Duchess of Lithuania (died 1418) * Anne of Austria, Landgravine of Thuringia (1432–1462) * Anna of Nassau-Dillenburg (died 1514) * Anna, Duchess of Prussia (1576–1625) * Anna of Russia (1693–1740) * Anna, Lady Miller (1741–1781) * Anna Russell, Duchess of Bedford (1783–1857) * Anna, Lady Barlow (1873–1965) * Anna (feral child) (1932–1942) * Anna (singer) (born 1987) Places Australia * Hundred of Anna, a cadastral district in South Australia Iran * Anna, Fars, a village in Fars Province * Anna, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, a village in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province Russia * Anna, Voronezh Oblast, an urban locality in Vorone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valley Of Exile
''Valley of Exile'' is a Canadian-Lebanese drama film, directed by Anna Fahr and released in 2023.Sabina Dana Plasse"Valley of Exile" ''Film Threat'', August 18, 2023. The film centres on Rima (Maria Hassan) and Nour (Hala Hosni), two sisters from Syria who are living in a refugee camp in Lebanon after fleeing their homes during the Syrian civil war. The cast also includes Michel Hourani, Najwa Kandakji, Joy Hallak, Sajed Amer, Tarek Hakmi, Moe Lattouf and Mohamad Yassine. The film was shot in late 2021 and early 2022, principally in a real refugee camp in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. The film premiered in August 2023 at the Cinequest Film & Creativity Festival, where it won the award for Best Narrative Feature Film, Drama. It was later screened in the Focus: Women, Life and Freedom program at the 2023 Vancouver International Film Festival The 2023 Vancouver International Film Festival, the 42nd event in the history of the Vancouver International Film Festival, was held from Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jani Bellefleur-Kaltush
Jani Bellefleur-Kaltush is an Innu filmmaker from Nutashkuan, Quebec, Canada. She is most noted as director of ''Do Not Tell (Ne le dis pas / Nika tshika uiten mishkut)'', which was the winner of the Best Short Documentary award at the 2010 ImagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival, and co-director with Julien G. Marcotte of '' Katshinau (Les Mains sales)'', which won the award for Best Canadian Short Film at the 2023 Vancouver International Film Festival and was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2023. Bellefleur-Kaltush trained at the Institut national de l'image et du son The Institut national de l'image et du son (INIS) National Institute College of Image and Sound is a training institute for film, television and interactive media creation located in Montreal, Quebec. The institute was incorporated as a non-profit o ... (INIS) in Quebec. She has also directed episodes of the children's television series ''Couleurs du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julien G
Julien may refer to: People * Julien (given name) * Julien (surname) Music * ''Julien'' (opera), a 1913 poème lyrique by Gustave Charpentier * ''Julien'' (album), by Dalida, 1973 * "Julien" (song), by Carly Rae Jepsen, 2019 Places United States * Julien's Auctions, an auction house in Los Angeles, California * Julien's Restorator (ca.1793-1823), a restaurant in Boston, Massachusetts * Julien Hall (Boston), a building built in 1825 in Boston, Massachusetts * Brasserie Julien, an American restaurant in New York City Elsewhere * Julien Day School, a co-educational primary, secondary and senior secondary school in Kolkata, West Bengal, India * Julien Inc., a Canadian stainless steel fabrication company * Camp Julien, the main base for the Canadian contingent of the International Security Assistance Force in Kabul, Afghanistan * Fort Julien, a fort in Egypt originally built by the Ottoman Empire and occupied by the French * Pont Julien, a Roman stone arch bridge over t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katshinau
''Katshinau'' (french: Les Mains sales, lit. "Dirty Hands") is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Jani Bellefleur-Kaltush and Julien G. Marcotte, and released in 2023. The film stars Soleil Launière as Marie, an indigenous slave in New France who is driven to undertake radical actions to secure her freedom. The cast also includes Fred-Eric Salvail, Geneviève Boivin-Roussy, Dorothée Gauthier Nolett, Ryan Bommarito, Benoît Mauffette and Adrien Lessard. The film premiered at the 2023 Vancouver International Film Festival The 2023 Vancouver International Film Festival, the 42nd event in the history of the Vancouver International Film Festival, was held from September 28 to October 8, 2023. Awards Winners of the juried Canadian film awards were announced on Octob ..., where it was named the winner of the award for Best Canadian Short Film. The film was named to TIFF's annual Canada's Top Ten list for 2023.Pat Mullen"TIFF’s Canada’s Top Ten Includes BlackBerry, S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zack Russell
Zack Russell is a Canadian writer and filmmaker.Andrew Parker"TIFF 2018 Short Takes: Zack Russell on 7A" ''TheGATE.ca'', September 5, 2018. He is most noted for his 2015 short film ''She Stoops to Conquer'', which was the winner of the Canadian Screen Award for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016. He previously worked in theatre, most notably collaborating with Sook-Yin Lee on the 2019 play ''Unsafe'' for Canadian Stage, and has also directed the short film ''7A'' and episodes of the web series ''True Dating Stories''. His debut documentary film, '' Someone Lives Here'', premiered at the 2023 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, where it was named the winner of the Rogers Audience Award. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Someone Lives Here
''Someone Lives Here'' is a 2023 Canadian documentary film, directed by Zack Russell. The film profiles Khaleel Seivwright, a carpenter who has launched a project of building small private shelters for homeless people in Toronto during the COVID-19 pandemic, against the bureaucratic resistance of the city government. The film premiered at the 2023 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, where it was named the winner of the Rogers Audience Award. Critical response Rachel Ho of ''Exclaim!'' praised the film, writing that "Russell may not have had aspirations to become a documentarian, but he sure has a natural knack for it. The film comes in at a lean 75 minutes, the perfect amount of time to tell Seivwright's story and explore the various angles to the greater issue of homelessness in Toronto. It's a simple thing, but particularly for a first-time documentary filmmaker, Russell shows a lot of restraint in not adding unnecessary pomp, ensuring the maximum impact is fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gamodi
''Gamodi'' is a Canadian-Georgian science fiction film, directed by Felix Kalmenson and released in 2023.Taimur Sikander Mirza"Five Canadian features set for world premiere at VIFF" ''Playback'', September 7, 2023. Set during the COVID-19 pandemic, the film stars Matt Shally and Maqzime Rauch as Viktor and Tarzan, a drag queen and a teenage drifter in Tbilisi who, with nowhere to self-isolate during COVID lockdowns, squat together in an abandoned tower block which increasingly resembles a purgatory between life and death.Yves Lafontaine"La sélection (queer, mais pas que) de la 52e édition du Festival du nouveau cinéma" ''Fugues'', October 2, 2023. The film premiered in the Panorama program at the 2023 Vancouver International Film Festival, where it received an honorable mention from the Best Canadian Film award jury.V.S. Wells"VIFF announces Canadian film award winners" '' The Georgia Straight'', October 5, 2023. It was also subsequently screened in the National Competition l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
