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(VIFF) took place from September 27 to October 12, 2018.

Awards

The festival award winners were announced on October 12."Finding Big Country is the People’s Choice as VIFF closes with awards ceremony"
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Programmes

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The Hummingbird Project ''The Hummingbird Project'' is a 2018 thriller drama film about high-frequency trading and ultra-low latency direct market access, written and directed by Kim Nguyen produced by Pierre Even at Item 7. It stars Jesse Eisenberg, Alexander Skarsg� ...

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Kim Nguyen Kim Nguyen is a Canadian film director and screenwriter, best known for his 2012 film ''War Witch (Rebelle)''. The film was the top winner at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards;The Front Runner'' —

Jason Reitman Jason R. Reitman (; born October 19, 1977) is a Canadian-American actor and filmmaker, best known for directing the films ''Thank You for Smoking'' (2005), ''Juno'' (2007), '' Up in the Air'' (2009), ''Young Adult'' (2011), and '' Ghostbusters: ...

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Special Presentations

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Jennifer Baichwal Jennifer Baichwal is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, writer and producer. Biography Baichwal was born in Montreal, Quebec and raised in Victoria, British Columbia.

Nicholas de Pencier Nicholas de Pencier is a Canadian cinematographer and filmmaker. The spouse and professional partner of filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal in Mercury Films, he is the cinematographer and producer on most of her films as well as codirector of the films '' ...

Edward Burtynsky Edward Burtynsky (born February 22, 1955) is a Canadian photographer and artist known for his large format photographs of industrial landscapes. His works depict locations from around the world that represent the increasing development of indust ...

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Boy Erased ''Boy Erased'' is a 2018 American biographical drama film based on Garrard Conley's 2016 memoir of the same name. It is written and directed by Joel Edgerton, who also produced with Kerry Kohansky Roberts and Steve Golin. The film stars Lucas ...

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Joel Edgerton Joel Edgerton (born 23 June 1974) is an Australian actor and filmmaker. He is best known for his appearance in the ''Star Wars'' films ''Attack of the Clones'' (2002) and ''Revenge of the Sith'' (2005) as a young Owen Lars, a role he reprised i ...

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Can You Ever Forgive Me? ''Can You Ever Forgive Me?'' is a 2018 American biographical film directed by Marielle Heller and with a screenplay by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty, based on the 2008 confessional memoir of the same name by Lee Israel. Melissa McCarthy stars ...

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Marielle Heller Marielle Stiles Heller (born October 1, 1979) is an American writer, director, and actress. She is best known for directing the films ''The Diary of a Teenage Girl'' (2015), ''Can You Ever Forgive Me?'' (2018), and ''A Beautiful Day in the Neig ...

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Paweł Pawlikowski Paweł Aleksander Pawlikowski (; born 15 September 1957) is a Polish filmmaker. He garnered early praise for a string of documentaries in the 1990s and for his award-winning feature films of the 2000s, '' Last Resort'' (2000) and ''My Summer of ...

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Colette Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (; 28 January 1873 – 3 August 1954), known mononymously as Colette, was a French author and woman of letters. She was also a mime, actress, and journalist. Colette is best known in the English-speaking world for her ...

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Wash Westmoreland Paul Westmoreland (born 4 March 1966), known professionally as Wash Westmoreland and previously known as Wash West, is a British director who has worked in television, documentaries, and independent films. He frequently collaborated with his hus ...

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The Favourite ''The Favourite'' is a 2018 period black comedy film co-produced and directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, from a screenplay by Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara. Set in early 18th century Great Britain, the film's plot examines the relationship betw ...

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Yorgos Lanthimos Georgios "Yorgos" Lanthimos ( el, Γιώργος Λάνθιμος, Giórgos Lánthimos, ; born 23 September 1973) is a Greek film director, film producer, screenwriter, photographer, theatre director and former professional basketball player. Sin ...

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The Grizzlies ''The Grizzlies'' is a 2018 Canadian sports drama film, directed by Miranda de Pencier. Based on a true story, the film depicts a youth lacrosse team that was set up to help combat an onslaught of youth suicide in the community of Kugluktuk, Nu ...

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Miranda de Pencier Miranda de Pencier (born August 20, 1968 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian film and television director, producer, and actress. She is most noted for her 2011 film '' Throat Song'', which won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Live Action Shor ...

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Olivier Assayas Olivier Assayas (born 25 January 1955) is a French film director, screenwriter and film critic. Assayas is known for his slow-burning period pieces, psychological thrillers, neo-noirs and French comedies. His work has become synonymous with the ...

*'' The Old Man and the Gun'' — David Lowery *''

A Private War ''A Private War'' is a 2018 American biographical war drama film directed by Matthew Heineman, and starring Rosamund Pike as journalist Marie Colvin. The film is based on the 2012 article "Marie Colvin’s Private War" in '' Vanity Fair'' by Mar ...

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Matthew Heineman Matthew Heineman is an American filmmaker. The Sundance Film Festival called Heineman "one of the most talented and exciting documentary filmmakers working today", while Anne Thompson of ''Indiewire'' wrote that Heineman is a "respected and gif ...

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*'' Sharkwater Extinction'' — Rob Stewart *''

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Hirokazu Kore-eda is a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor. He began his career in television and has since directed more than a dozen feature films, including '' Nobody Knows'' (2004), '' Still Walking'' (2008), and '' After the Storm'' ( ...

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The Sisters Brothers ''The Sisters Brothers'' is a 2011 Western novel by Canadian-born author Patrick deWitt. The darkly comic story takes place in Oregon and California in 1851. The narrator, Eli Sisters, and his brother Charlie are assassins tasked with killing He ...

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Special Events

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Dallas Buyers Club ''Dallas Buyers Club'' is a 2013 American biographical drama film written by Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack, and directed by Jean-Marc Vallée. The film tells the story of Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey), an AIDS patient diagnosed in the mi ...

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Phillip Borsos Phillip Borsos (May 5, 1953 – February 2, 1995) was an Australian-born Canadian film director, producer, and screenwriter.Another Day of Life'' — Raúl de la Fuente, Damian Nenow *''

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Gaspar Noé Gaspar Noé (, ; born 27 December 1963) is an Argentine filmmaker based in Paris, France. He is the son of Argentine painter, writer, and intellectual Luis Felipe Noé. In the early 1990s, Noé along with his wife Lucile Hadžihalilović were ...

*'' The House That Jack Built'' —

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Danishka Esterhazy Danishka Esterhazy (born in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian screenwriter and film director. She is best known for her thriller and horror movies, such as '' Black Field'' (2009), '' Level 16'' (2018), ''The Banana Splits Movie'' (2019), and the ...

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Isaac Ezban Isaac Ezban (born 15 April 1986) is a Mexican people, Mexican film director, writer and producer. He is best known for his work on the films ''The Incident (2014 film), The Incident'', ''The Similars'', and ''Parallel''. Life and career Isaac wa ...

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Timur Bekmambetov Timur Nuruakhitovich Bekmambetov (, ; ; born June 25, 1961) is a Russian-Kazakhstan, Kazakh film Film director, director, Film producer, producer, screenwriter, and tech entrepreneur. He is best known for the fantasy epic ''Night Watch (2004 fi ...

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Joel Potrykus Joel Potrykus is an American film director and screenwriter. His feature film debut ''Ape'' won the Best New Director prize at the 2012 Locarno Film Festival, while his follow-up feature ''Buzzard'' won the FIPRESCI Prize at the 2014 Ljubljana I ...

*'' Ruben Brandt, Collector'' — Milorad Krstić *''

Seder-Masochism ''Seder-Masochism'' is a 2018 American animation, animated musical film, musical List of films based on the Bible, biblical comedy-drama film written, directed, produced and animated by American artist Nina Paley. The film reinterprets the Book o ...

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Nina Paley Nina Carolyn Paley (born May 3, 1968) is an American cartoonist, animator, and free culture activist. She was the artist and often the writer of the comic strips ''Nina's Adventures'' and ''Fluff'', after which she worked primarily in animati ...

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Under the Silver Lake ''Under the Silver Lake'' is a 2018 American neo-noir black comedy written, produced and directed by David Robert Mitchell. Set in 2011 Los Angeles, it follows a young man (Andrew Garfield) investigating the sudden disappearance of his neighbor ...

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David Robert Mitchell David Robert Mitchell (born October 19, 1974) is an American film director and writer. He received significant recognition as a director after completing his second feature, the critically acclaimed horror film ''It Follows'' (2014). Early life ...

*''Virus Tropical'' — Santiago Caicedo *''The Wolf House'' — Cristobal León & Joaquín Cociña

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Midi Z Zhao Te-yin (; born 18 December 1982), also known as Midi Z, is a Myanmar-born Taiwanese film director. His 2014 film ''Ice Poison'' was selected as the Taiwanese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards. On November 7, ...

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Sonthar Gyal Sonthar Gyal (born 1974) is a Tibetan film director in People's Republic of China. His films include '' The Sun Beaten Path'' (2011) and ''River'' (2015). Biography Sonthar Gyal was born in Tongde County, Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qin ...

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Asako I & II is a 2018 Japanese romance drama film directed by Ryūsuke Hamaguchi, starring Masahiro Higashide and Erika Karata. It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. It is based on a 2010 novel by Tomoka Shibasaki ...

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Ryūsuke Hamaguchi is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. An alumnus of the University of Tokyo and the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, he started getting attention in his home country with the graduate film ''Passion'' (2008). Hamaguc ...

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Ash Is Purest White ''Ash Is Purest White'' ( zh, 江湖儿女; 'Sons and Daughters of Jianghu') is a 2018 Chinese drama directed by Jia Zhangke. It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. The story is loosely based on the lea ...

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Jia Zhangke Jia Zhangke ( zh, c=贾樟柯, p=Jiǎ Zhāngkē, born 24 May 1970) .He is a Chinese-language film and television director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and writer. He is the dean of the Shanxi Film Academy of Shanxi Media College and the dea ...

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An Elephant Sitting Still ''An Elephant Sitting Still'' () is a 2018 Chinese drama film written, directed, and edited by Hu Bo. The first and only feature film by the novelist-turned-director Hu, who died by suicide soon after finishing his film on 12 October 2017 at the ...

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Hu Bo Hu Bo (; 20 July 1988 – 12 October 2017), also known by his pen name Hu Qian (), was a Chinese novelist and film director, best known for his only feature film ''An Elephant Sitting Still'' (2018), which garnered widespread praise from critics. ...

*'' A Family Tour'' —

Ying Liang Ying Liang (; born 1977) is a Chinese independent film director and screenwriter. Biography Ying Liang graduated from the Department of Directing at the Chongqing Film Academy and Beijing Normal University. His short film ''The Missing House' ...

*'' Father to Son'' — Hsiao Ya-Chuan *'' Girls Always Happy'' — Yang Mingming *''

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Hong Sang-soo Hong Sang-soo (홍상수, born 25 October 1960) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. Early life Hong's parents owned the film production company Cinetel Soul. Hong took the entrance exam and entered the theater department at Chun ...

*'' It's Boring Here, Pick Me Up'' — Ryuichi Hiroki *''

Jinpa ''Jinpa'' (Tibetan: ལག་དམར་, "Butcher" or "Murderer"; ) is a 2018 Chinese Tibetan-language film written and directed by Pema Tseden. The screenplay is based on the novels ''The Slayer'' by Tsering Norbu and ''I Ran Over a Sheep'' by ...

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Pema Tseden Pema Tseden (), also called Wanma Tsaidan (; born December 1969), is a Tibetan film director and screenwriter of Chinese citizenship. He is a member of the China Film Directors' Guild, China Film Association and Chinese Film Literature Association. ...

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A Land Imagined ''A Land Imagined'' () is a 2018 neo-noir mystery thriller film written and directed by Yeo Siew Hua. A Singapore-France-Netherlands co-production, the film tells the story of a police investigator who uncovers the truth behind the disappearance ...

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Yeo Siew Hua Yeo Siew Hua (born 1 April 1985) is a Singaporean director, screenwriter and visual artist. Life and career Graduating among the top of his cohort in Ngee Ann Polytechnic's School of Media Studies, Yeo went on to study philosophy at the Natio ...

*'' Long Day's Journey Into Night'' —

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*'' Lush Reeds'' — Yang Yishu *''

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*'' People's Republic of Desire'' — Hao Wu *'' The Running Actress'' —

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*'' The Scythian Lamb'' —

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The Seen and Unseen ''The Seen and Unseen'' ( id, Sekala Niskala) is a 2017 drama film directed and written by Kamila Andini. Cast *Ni Kadek Thaly Titi Kasih as Tantri *Ida Bagus Putu Radithya Mahijasena as Tantra *Ayu Laksmi as Mother *I Ketut Rina as Father *Hap ...

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Kamila Andini Kamila Andini (born 6 May 1986) is an Indonesian film director known for her critically acclaimed debut ''The Mirror Never Lies''. Biography Andini was born on 6 May 1986 and is the eldest daughter of filmmaker Garin Nugroho. Although unintereste ...

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The Third Wife ''The Third Wife'' ( vi, Vợ ba) is a 2018 Vietnamese costume drama film written and directed by Ash Mayfair, in her feature debut. Set in the 19th century, it follows a 14-year-old girl who becomes the third wife to a landowner in rural northe ...

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Chris the Swiss ''Chris the Swiss'' is a 2018 Swiss animated documentary film directed by Anja Kofmel. It was screened in the International Critics' Week section at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. Cast * Susanne-Marie Wrage as German Narrator / Voice Anja * ...

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The Devil We Know ''The Devil We Know'' is a 2018 investigative documentary film by director Stephanie Soechtig regarding allegations of health hazards from perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA, also known as C8), a key ingredient used in manufacturing Teflon, and DuPont ...

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Markus Imhoof Markus Imhoof (born 19 September 1941) is a Swiss film director, screenwriter, theatre and opera director. Biography He began his career as a documentary maker, focusing on controversial issues. His 1968 film ''Rondo'' was a critical look at ...

*'' The Image You Missed'' by Donal Foreman *''

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*'' John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection'' by Julien Faraut *'' The Lost City of the Monkey God'' by Bill Benenson *''

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Samouni Road ''Samouni Road'' ( it, La strada dei Samouni) is a 2018 Italian documentary film directed by Stefano Savona. The film uses a combination of live action, scratchboard animation and drone footage recreations. It was selected to screen in the Direc ...

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The Serengeti Rules ''The Serengeti Rules'' is a 2018 American documentary film directed by Nicolas Brown, and based on the book by Sean B. Carroll. The film explores the discoveries of five pioneering scientists— Tony Sinclair, Mary E. Power, Bob Paine, John Ter ...

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Shirkers ''Shirkers'' is a 2018 British-American documentary film by Singapore-born filmmaker Sandi Tan about the making of an independent thriller featuring a teenage assassin set in Singapore. It premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival in January ...

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Lynne Sachs Lynne Sachs (born 1961) is an American experimental filmmaker and poet living in Brooklyn, New York. Her moving image work ranges from documentaries, to essay films, to experimental shorts, to hybrid live performances. Working from a feminist pe ...

*'' What Comes Around'' by Reem Saleh *'' Wine Calling'' by Bruno Sauvard

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Bathtubs Over Broadway ''Bathtubs Over Broadway'' is a 2018 American documentary film directed by Dava Whisenant. Comedy writer Steve Young’s assignment to scour bargain-bin vinyl for a late-night segment becomes an unexpected, decades-spanning obsession when he stu ...

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Ron Mann Ronald Mann (born June 13, 1958), credited professionally as Ron Mann, is a Canadian documentary film director. His work includes the films ''Imagine the Sound'' (1981); ''Comic Book Confidential'' (1988); ''Grass'' (1999) and ''Go Further'' ( ...

*'' The Eyes of Orson Welles'' by Mark Cousins *'' Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable'' by

Sasha Waters Freyer Sasha Waters Freyer, also known as Sasha Waters, is an American documentary and experimental filmmaker, and educator. She is professor of Photography and Film at VCU School of the Arts in Richmond, Virginia. Waters Freyer has produced and directe ...

*'' Impulso'' by Emilio Belmonte *''

Jamilia Jamila (russian: link=no, Джамиля , ky, Жамийла, ''Jamila'', ) is the first major novel by Chingiz Aytmatov, published originally in Russian in 1958. The novel is told from the point of view of a fictional Kyrgyz artist, Seit, who ...

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The Price of Everything ''The Price of Everything'' is a 2018 American documentary film directed by Nathaniel Kahn and produced by Jennifer Blei Stockman, Debi Wisch, Carla Solomon and Katharina Otto-Bernstein for HBO. The film features interviews with people prominentl ...

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Nathaniel Kahn Nathaniel Kahn (born November 9, 1962, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American filmmaker. His documentaries '' My Architect'' (2003) – about his father, the architect Louis Kahn – and '' Two Hands'' (2006) were nominated for Academy A ...

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Jill Magid Jill Magid (born 1973) is an American conceptual artist, writer, and filmmaker. Magid’s performance-based practice "interrogates structures of power on an intimate level, exploring the emotional, philosophical, and legal tensions that exist b ...

*'' United Skates'' by Dyana Winkler,

Tina Brown Christina Hambley Brown, Lady Evans (born 21 November 1953), is an English journalist, magazine editor, columnist, talk-show host, and author of '' The Diana Chronicles'' (2007) a biography of Diana, Princess of Wales, '' The Vanity Fair Diari ...

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Connie Field Connie Field is an American film director known for her work in documentaries. Her works include ''The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter'' (1980), ''Forever Activists'' (1990), ''Freedom on My Mind'' (1994) and ''Have You Heard from Johannesbur ...

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Pietra Brettkelly Pietra Brettkelly (born 1965) is a New Zealand filmmaker, known for her documentaries. She is a documentary filmmaker submitted three times for Oscar consideration, a member of The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, and was recently ...

Contemporary World Cinema

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Jafar Panahi Jafar Panâhi ( fa, جعفر پناهی, ; born 11 July 1960) is an Iranian film director, screenwriter, and film editor, commonly associated with the Iranian New Wave film movement. After several years of making short films and working as an ass ...

*'' Ága'' — Milko Lazarov *''All Good (Alles ist gut)'' — Eva Trobisch *''Amateurs (Amatörer)'' —

Gabriela Pichler Gabriela Katarina Pichler (born 11 March 1980 in Huddinge) is a Swedish film director and screenwriter. Biography Pichler and her family moved from Stockholm to Örkelljunga when she was eight years old. Her mother, Ruzica Pichler, is from Bos ...

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Ben Is Back ''Ben Is Back'' is a 2018 American drama film written and directed by Peter Hedges, and starring Julia Roberts, Lucas Hedges and Courtney B. Vance. The plot follows a mother who tries to help her addict son after he returns home from rehab. The f ...

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Peter Hedges Peter Simpson Hedges (born July 6, 1962) is an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, film director and film producer. Early life Hedges was born in West Des Moines, Iowa, where he was raised, the son of Carole (Simpson), a psychotherapis ...

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Barefoot Barefoot is the state of not wearing any footwear. There are health benefits and some risks associated with going barefoot. Shoes, while they offer protection, can limit the flexibility, strength, and mobility of the foot and can lead to ...

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Jan Svěrák Jan Svěrák () (born 6 February 1965 in Žatec) is a Czech film director. He is the son of screenwriter and actor Zdeněk Svěrák. He studied documentary filmmaking at the FAMU. He and his films have received awards including the Academy Award, ...

*'' Becoming Astrid (Unga Astrid)'' —

Pernille Fischer Christensen Pernille Fischer Christensen (born 24 December 1969) is a Danish film director and the older sister of actress Stine Fischer Christensen. She started out in the movie business when she was 20 years old as an assistant to . During that time, Gis ...

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Bel Canto Bel canto (Italian for "beautiful singing" or "beautiful song", )—with several similar constructions (''bellezze del canto'', ''bell'arte del canto'')—is a term with several meanings that relate to Italian singing. The phrase was not associat ...

'' — Paul Weitz *'' Birds of Passage'' —

Ciro Guerra Ciro Guerra (born 6 February 1981) is a Colombian film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his 2015 film ''Embrace of the Serpent'', the film was nominated for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Best Foreign Language Film ...

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Capernaum Capernaum ( ; he, כְּפַר נַחוּם, Kfar Naḥum, Nahum's village; ar, كفر ناحوم, Kafr Nāḥūm) was a fishing village established during the time of the Hasmoneans, located on the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee. It ...

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Nadine Labaki Nadine Labaki ( ar, نادين لبكي ''Nādīn Labikī''; born February 18, 1974) is a Lebanese actress, director and activist. Labaki first came into the spotlight as an actress in the early 2000s. Her film-making career began in 2007 after ...

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Carmen & Lola ''Carmen & Lola'' ( es, Carmen y Lola, links=no) is a 2018 Spanish drama film directed by Arantxa Echevarría which stars Zaira Romero and Rosy Rodríguez alongside Moreno Borja, Rafaela León and Carolina Yuste. It was selected to screen in the ...

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João Salaviza João Salaviza (born João Salaviza Manso Feldman da Silva; 19 February 1984) is a Portuguese film director, screenwriter, editor, producer, and former actor. He is the recipient of several accolades, including the Short Film Golden Bear, the Sh ...

, Renée Nader Messora *'' Dear Son'' —

Mohamed Ben Attia Mohamed Ben Attia, born January 5, 1976, in Tunis ''Tounsi'' french: Tunisois , population_note = , population_urban = , population_metro = 2658816 , population_density_km2 = , tim ...

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Diamantino Diamantino is a municipality in Mato Grosso state in Brazil. It has a population of 22,178 and is near Diamantino River. It is above sea-level, and sits at the foot of the Mato Grosso plateau. Its history dates from 1730 as a gold mining settle ...

'' — Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt *'' Diane'' — Kent Jones *''Djon Africa'' — Filipa Reis, João Miller Guerra *'' Dovlatov'' — Aleksei German *''

Dressage Dressage ( or ; a French term, most commonly translated to mean "training") is a form of horse riding performed in exhibition and competition, as well as an art sometimes pursued solely for the sake of mastery. As an equestrian sport defined b ...

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Fugue In music, a fugue () is a contrapuntal compositional technique in two or more voices, built on a subject (a musical theme) that is introduced at the beginning in imitation (repetition at different pitches) and which recurs frequently in the c ...

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Agnieszka Smoczyńska Agnieszka Smoczyńska (; born 18 May 1978) is a Polish film and television writer and director. She is an alumnus of the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School in Katowice. Her debut feature film, '' The Lure'' (2015), was re-released by The Crite ...

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Jan Hřebejk Jan Hřebejk (; born 27 June 1967) is a Czechs, Czech film director and actor. Life and career Born in Prague, Hřebejk graduated from high school in 1987 and continued his studies at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in ...

*'' The Guilty'' — Gustav Möller *''Hat-Trick'' — Ramtin Lavafi *'' The Heiresses'' —

Marcelo Martinessi Marcelo Martinessi is a Paraguayan filmmaker. His films include "Karai norte" (2009), "The Lost Voice" (2016), and ''The Heiresses'' ( es, Las herederas), the latter being selected to compete for the Golden Bear at the 68th Berlin International F ...

*''Hendi and Hormoz'' — Abbas Amini *''

Holiday A holiday is a day set aside by custom or by law on which normal activities, especially business or work including school, are suspended or reduced. Generally, holidays are intended to allow individuals to celebrate or commemorate an event or tra ...

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Isabella Eklöf Isabella Eklöf (born 10 February 1978) is a Swedish screenwriter and film director. Eklöf attended the National Film School of Denmark. She served on the crew as a "runner" for the 2008 Swedish film ''Let the Right One In (film), Let the Right ...

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In the Aisles ''In the Aisles'' (german: In den Gängen) is a 2018 German drama film, directed by Thomas Stuber, that looks at the lives of people filling shelves in an out-of-town supermarket. It was selected to compete for the Golden Bear in the main compet ...

'' — Thomas Stuber *'' In the Shadows'' — Dipesh Jain *'' Jonathan'' — Bill Oliver *''Last Summer'' —

Jon Jones Jonathan Dwight Jones (born July 19, 1987) is an American professional mixed martial artist currently signed to the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), in which he has competed in the light heavyweight division. He is a former two-time UFC L ...

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Leto In ancient Greek mythology and Ancient Greek religion, religion, Leto (; grc-gre, Λητώ , ''Lētṓ'', or , ''Lātṓ'' in Ancient Greek dialects#Provenance, Doric Greek) is a goddess and the mother of Apollo, the god of music, and Artemis ...

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Kirill Serebrennikov Kirill Semyonovich Serebrennikov (russian: Кирилл Семёнович Серебренников; born 7 September 1969) is a Russian stage and film director and theatre designer. Since 2012, he has been the artistic director of the Gogol C ...

*''Liquid Truth'' — Carolina Jabor *''The Load'' — Ognjen Glavonić *''Mug'' —

Małgorzata Szumowska Małgorzata Szumowska (; born 26 February 1973) is a Polish film director, screenwriter and producer, born in Kraków. Her 2013 film '' In the Name Of'' received the Teddy Award for Best Feature at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival, an ...

*''No One Will Ever Know'' — Jesús Torres Torres *'' Patrimony'' — Jiří Vejdělek *''

Petra Petra ( ar, ٱلْبَتْرَاء, Al-Batrāʾ; grc, Πέτρα, "Rock", Nabataean Aramaic, Nabataean: ), originally known to its inhabitants as Raqmu or Raqēmō, is an historic and archaeological city in southern Jordan. It is adjacent to t ...

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Jaime Rosales Jaime Heliberto Rosales Chirinos (born 8 June 1978) is a Honduran former football defender who last played for Platense. Club career Rosales started his professional career at Marathón and played for several clubs in the Honduran league. ...

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Pity Pity is a sympathetic sorrow evoked by the suffering of others, and is used in a comparable sense to '' compassion'', ''condolence'' or ''empathy'' – the word deriving from the Latin ''pietas'' (etymon also of '' piety''). Self-pity is pi ...

'' — Babis Makridis *'' The Reports on Sarah and Saleem'' — Muayad Alayan *''

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Ursula Meier Ursula Meier (born 24 June 1971) is a French- Swiss film director and screenwriter. Career A native of Besançon, the capital of the Franche-Comté region in eastern France, near the Swiss border, Ursula Meier graduated from Belgium's Institu ...

Lionel Baier Lionel Baier (born 13 December 1975 in Lausanne) is a Switzerland, Swiss film director. Career Lionel Baier studied Art at University of Lausanne from 1995–98. In 2009, he co-founds the production company Bande à Part films, together with Ur ...

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Jean-Stéphane Bron Jean-Stéphane Bron (1969-) is a Switzerland, Swiss film director. Born in 1969 in Lausanne, Jean-Stéphane Bron graduated from the École cantonale d'art de Lausanne (ECAL). After ''Known to Our Departments'' and ''The Way I Look at You'', he dir ...

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Sir ''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as p ...

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Rohena Gera Rohena Gera, born in 1973, is an Indian director, screenwriter and producer. Biography Rohena Gera studied at Stanford University and Sarah Lawrence College. She works as a scriptwriter for Indian cinema. She also engages in non-profit camp ...

*'' The Snatch Thief'' — Agustin Toscano *''

Sofia Sofia ( ; bg, София, Sofiya, ) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain in the western parts of the country. The city is built west of the Iskar river, and ha ...

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Meryem Benm'Barek-Aloïsi Meryem Benm'Barek-Aloïsi is a Moroccan film director and screenwriter. She was a recipient of the 2017 Gan Foundation prize and a grant from the Doha Film Institute in 2017. Her feature film, ''Sofia'' won the best screenplay award at Cannes, ...

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Styx In Greek mythology, Styx (; grc, Στύξ ) is a river that forms the boundary between Earth (Gaia) and the Underworld. The rivers Acheron, Cocytus, Lethe, Phlegethon, and Styx all converge at the centre of the underworld on a great marsh, whic ...

'' — Wolfgang Fischer *''

Transit Transit may refer to: Arts and entertainment Film * ''Transit'' (1979 film), a 1979 Israeli film * ''Transit'' (2005 film), a film produced by MTV and Staying-Alive about four people in countries in the world * ''Transit'' (2006 film), a 2006 ...

'' — Christian Petzold *''Volcano'' — Roman Bondarchuk *''

What They Had ''What They Had'' is a 2018 American drama film written and directed by Elizabeth Chomko (in her feature directorial debut) and starring Hilary Swank, Michael Shannon, Robert Forster, Blythe Danner, Taissa Farmiga, and Josh Lucas. The film had ...

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Elizabeth Chomko Elizabeth Chomko (born 1981) is an American playwright, film director, screenwriter and actress best known for the film ''What They Had.'' Early life Chomko grew up in Chicago, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Her family moved to Belgium when she ...

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The Wild Pear Tree ''The Wild Pear Tree'' ( tr, Ahlat Ağacı) is a 2018 Turkish drama film directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan. It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. It was also selected as the Turkish entry for the Best Forei ...

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Nuri Bilge Ceylan Nuri Bilge Ceylan (, born 26 January 1959) is a Turkish photographer, filmmaker and actor best known for the Palme d'Or winning ''Winter Sleep (film), Winter Sleep'' (2014). Early life Ceylan was born in Istanbul on 26 January 1959. His interes ...

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Winter Flies ''Winter Flies'' ( cs, Všechno bude) is a 2018 Czech-Slovak-Polish-Slovenian co-production road movie drama by Slovenian director Olmo Omerzu. It premiered at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival on 1 July 2018. Olmo Omerzu has won a Best Di ...

'' — Olmo Omerzu *''

Woman at War ''Woman at War'' (''Kona fer í stríð'', literally ''Woman goes to battle'') is a 2018 Icelandic-Ukrainian comedy-drama film written, produced and directed by Benedikt Erlingsson, and starring Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir. Following a premi ...

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Benedikt Erlingsson Benedikt Erlingsson (born 31 May 1969) is an Icelandic actor and theater director, theater and film director. He graduated from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in 1994 and has been with the National Theater of Iceland for most of his career. He h ...

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Working Woman Since the industrial revolution, participation of women in the workforce outside the home has increased in industrialized nations, with particularly large growth seen in the 20th century. Largely seen as a boon for industrial society, women in ...

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Michal Aviad Michal Aviad (born 1955, Jerusalem) is an Israeli director, script writer, producer and senior lecturer at the Department of Cinema and Television, Tel Aviv University. Biography Michal Aviad was born in Jerusalem in 1955. Her mother was an imm ...

*'' Yomeddine'' — Abu Bakr Shawky

Spotlight on France

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Stéphane Brizé Stéphane Brizé (born 18 October 1966) is a French film director, producer, screenwriter and actor. Life and career Stéphane Brizé was born on 18 October 1966 in Rennes, France. He attended a University Institutes of Technology and moved to ...

*''Coincoin and the Extra-Humans (Coincoin et les z'inhumains)'' —

Bruno Dumont Bruno Dumont (; born 14 March 1958) is a French film director and screenwriter. To date, he has directed ten feature films, all of which border somewhere between realistic drama and the avant-garde. His films have won several awards at the Canne ...

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The Image Book ''The Image Book'' (french: Le Livre d'image) is a 2018 Swiss avant-garde essay film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Initially titled ''Tentative de bleu'' and ''Image et parole'', in December 2016 Wild Bunch co-chief Vincent Maraval stated that God ...

(Le Livre d'image)'' —

Jean-Luc Godard Jean-Luc Godard ( , ; ; 3 December 193013 September 2022) was a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the French New Wave film movement of the 1960s, alongside such filmmakers as Fran� ...

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Keep an Eye Out ''Keep an Eye Out!'' (french: Au poste !) is a 2018 French surreal black comedy film written and directed by Quentin Dupieux. It stars Benoît Poelvoorde and Grégoire Ludig, alongside Marc Fraize, Anaïs Demoustier, Philippe Duquesne and Orels ...

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Quentin Dupieux Quentin Dupieux (, born 14 April 1974), also known by his musical stage name Mr. Oizo (), is a French filmmaker, electronic musician, and DJ. Dupieux is credited with his legal name for his films, while the name "Mr. Oizo" is used for his musica ...

*'' Memoir of War (La douleur)'' — Emmanuel Finkiel *''

A Paris Education ''A Paris Education'' (french: Mes provinciales) is a 2018 French drama film directed by Jean-Paul Civeyrac. It was screened in the Panorama section at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival. Cast * Andranic Manet as Etienne * Diane Rouxe ...

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Jean-Paul Civeyrac Jean-Paul Civeyrac (born 24 December 1964) is a French director whose films are usually characterized by close attention to music and actors' bodies. He has adapted a French novel by Anne Wiazemsky, ''Hymnes à l'amour'', with the title ''All the ...

*'' The Prayer (La prière)'' —

Cédric Kahn Cédric Kahn (; born 17 June 1966) is a French screenwriter, film director and actor. His films include ''L'Ennui'' (1998), based on the Alberto Moravia novel ''Boredom'', and '' Red Lights'' (2004), based on the Georges Simenon novel. His film ''R ...

*''Shéhérazade'' — Jean-Bernard Marlin *''

Sorry Angel ''Sorry Angel'' (french: Plaire, aimer et courir vite) is a 2018 French romantic drama film directed by Christophe Honoré. It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. Plot Set in 1993, Jacques (Pierre Dela ...

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Christophe Honoré Christophe Honoré (born 10 April 1970) is a French writer and film and theatre director. Career Honoré was born in Carhaix, Finistère. After moving to Paris in 1995, he wrote articles in ''Les Cahiers du Cinéma''. He started writing soon aft ...

Focus on Italy

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Daughter of Mine ''Daughter of Mine'' ( it, Figlia mia) is an Italian drama film directed by Laura Bispuri. It premiered in the main competition at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival. Cast * Valeria Golino as Tina * Alba Rohrwacher as Angelica * Udo ...

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Laura Bispuri Laura Bispuri (born 20 August 1977) is an Italian director and screenwriter. Biography After graduating in Cinema at the Sapienza University of Rome, Bispuri attended the Fandango Lab Workshop, a school of cinema in Rome. After directing a docum ...

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Matteo Garrone Matteo Garrone (born 15 October 1968) is an Italians, Italian filmmaker. Born in Rome, the son of a theatre critic, Nico Garrone and a photographer, in 1996 Garrone won the ''Sacher d'Oro'', an award sponsored by Nanni Moretti, with the short fi ...

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Euphoria Euphoria ( ) is the experience (or affect) of pleasure or excitement and intense feelings of well-being and happiness. Certain natural rewards and social activities, such as aerobic exercise, laughter, listening to or making music and da ...

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Valeria Golino Valeria Golino (born 22 October 1965) is an Italian actress and film director. She is best known to English-language audiences for her roles in ''Rain Man'', ''Big Top Pee-wee'' and the two ''Hot Shots!'' films, particularly the olive-in-the-bell ...

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Happy as Lazzaro ''Happy as Lazzaro'' ( it, Lazzaro felice) is a 2018 Italian drama film written and directed by Alice Rohrwacher. It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, where Rohrwacher won the award for Best Screenpla ...

(Lazzaro felice)'' —

Alice Rohrwacher Alice Rohrwacher (, ; born 29 December 1980) is an Italian film director, editor and screenwriter. Her film '' Le pupille'' was nominated for Oscar in 2023 in short film categories. Early life Rohrwacher was born in Fiesole, in Tuscany, to an ...

*'' Love and Bullets (Ammore e malavita)'' —

Manetti Bros. Marco (born 15 January 1968) and Antonio Manetti (born 16 September 1970), collectively referred to as Manetti Bros., are Italian filmmakers, famous for their musical comedies. Biography After having directed more than a hundred video clips, fo ...

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Marco Tullio Giordana Marco Tullio Giordana (born 1 October 1950) is an Italian Film director, director and screenwriter. Biography Born in Milan, during the 1970s he approaches the cinema by collaborating on the screenplay of Roberto Faenza's 1977 documentary ''F ...

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*''Sicilian Ghost Story'' — Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza

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*''Communion Los Angeles'' — Adam R. Levine, Peter Bo Rappmund *'' The Flower (La Flor)'' — Mariano Llinás *'' The Grand Bizarre'' —

Jodie Mack Jodie Mack (born January 16, 1983, in London, England) is an English-born American experimental filmmaker and animator. She attended the University of Florida and earned her MFA in film, video, and new media at the School of the Art Institute of ...

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Gastón Solnicki Gastón Solnicki (born 1978) is an Argentine film director. Coming from an immigrant Jewish family, he studied photography at International Center of Photography, as well as film directing at Tisch School of the Arts in New York.Bérénice Reyna ...

*''Notes on an Appearance'' — Ricky D'Ambrose *''Quantification Trilogy'' — Jeremy Shaw *''

Ray & Liz ''Ray & Liz'' is a 2018 British drama film written and directed by Richard Billingham in his feature debut. The film retells Billingham's troubled childhood growing up in a Black Country council flat during the Thatcher era. It focuses "on his p ...

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Richard Billingham Richard Billingham (born 25 September 1970) is an English photographer and artist, film maker and art teacher. His work has mostly concerned his family, the place he grew up in the West Midlands, but also landscapes elsewhere. Billingham is bes ...

*'' What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire?'' —

Roberto Minervini Roberto Minervini (born 1970) is an Italian film director, screenwriter, photographer, and Music Producer. His recent films, focusing on Rural America, American rural life and marginalized populations, have been praised for their "disarming direc ...

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Anthem of a Teenage Prophet ''Anthem of a Teenage Prophet'' is a 2018 Canadian drama film directed by Robin Hays and starring Cameron Monaghan, Peyton List and Juliette Lewis. It is based on Joanne Proulx's young adult novel of the same name. It is also Hays' feature dire ...

'' — Robin Hays *'' Because We Are Girls'' — Baljit Sangra *'' The Darling'' — Lee Seung-Yup *''

Edge of the Knife ''Edge of the Knife'' ( hai, SG̲aawaay Ḵ'uuna, ) is a 2018 Canadian drama film co-directed by Gwaai Edenshaw and Helen Haig-Brown. It is the first feature film spoken only in the Haida language. Set in 19th-century Haida Gwaii, it tells the c ...

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Gwaai Edenshaw Gwaai Edenshaw is a Haida people, Haida artist and filmmaker from Canada. Along with Helen Haig-Brown, he co-directed ''Edge of the Knife'' (), the first Haida language feature film. Background The son of noted Haida artist Guujaaw (Gary Edens ...

Helen Haig-Brown Helen Haig-Brown is a Tsilhqot'in filmmaker working primarily with indigenous and First Nations themes. Many of these derive from her maternal roots in the Tsilhqot'in First Nation. Early life and education Helen Haig-Brown is from the Yunesit'in ...

*'' Finding Big Country'' — Kathleen Jayme *''

Freaks Freak has several meanings: a person who is physically deformed or suffers from an extraordinary disease and condition, a genetic mutation in a plant or animal, etc. Freak, freaks or The Freak may also refer to: Fictional characters * Freak (Ima ...

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Zach Lipovsky Zach Lipovsky is a Canadian director, former child actor and visual effects specialist. Career Lipovsky was a finalist on the first season of the Fox reality show ''On the Lot'' where he placed 5th out of 12,000 directors worldwide. He went on to ...

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Adam Stein Adam Stein is an American film director and screenwriter working in Los Angeles, California. Stein graduated from Harvard University and the directing program at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. He co-directed the Disney live-action movie ''Ki ...

*'' In the Valley of Wild Horses'' — Trevor Mack, Asia Youngman *'' Kingsway'' —

Bruce Sweeney Bruce Sweeney (born in Sarnia, Ontario) is a Canadian film director. He has spent his career based primarily in Vancouver, British Columbia. Career Sweeney's debut film, '' Live Bait'', won the award for Best Canadian Feature Film at the 1995 Toro ...

*'' N.O.N.'' — Zebulon Zang *'' Picking Up the Pieces: The Making of the Witness Blanket'' — Cody Graham and Carey Newman *'' This Mountain Life'' — Grant Baldwin *'' When the Storm Fades'' —

Seán Devlin Seán Yap Sei-Been Devlin (叶世民) is a Canadian comedian and writer based in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is most noted for his 2018 film '' When the Storm Fades'', for which he won the Emerging Canadian Director award at the 2018 Vanco ...

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Clara Clara may refer to: Organizations * CLARA, Latin American academic computer network organization * Clara.Net, a European ISP * Consolidated Land and Rail Australia, a property development consortium People * Clara (given name), a feminine giv ...

'' — Akash Sherman *'' Everything Outside'' — David Findlay *''

The Far Shore ''The Far Shore'' is a Canadian drama film, directed by Joyce Wieland and released in 1976."Far Shore beautiful but flat". ''The Globe and Mail'', September 25, 1976. Wieland's first commercial narrative feature film after years of making experim ...

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Joyce Wieland Joyce Wieland (June 30, 1930 – June 27, 1998) was a Canadian experimental filmmaker and mixed media artist. Wieland found success as a painter when she began her career in Toronto in the 1950s. In 1962, Wieland moved to New York City and e ...

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Firecrackers A firecracker (cracker, noise maker, banger) is a small explosive device primarily designed to produce a large amount of noise, especially in the form of a loud bang, usually for celebration or entertainment; any visual effect is incidental to ...

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Jasmin Mozaffari Jasmin Mozaffari ( fa, یاسمین مظفری) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter.

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Genesis Genesis may refer to: Bible * Book of Genesis, the first book of the biblical scriptures of both Judaism and Christianity, describing the creation of the Earth and of mankind * Genesis creation narrative, the first several chapters of the Book of ...

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Philippe Lesage Philippe Lesage is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec.Giant Little Ones ''Giant Little Ones'' is a 2018 Canadian drama film, written and directed by Keith Behrman.

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Keith Behrman Keith Behrman (born April 1, 1963, in Shaunavon, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian film and television director and writer,"Vancouver director wins Jutra Award for feature". ''Vancouver Sun'', January 15, 2003. who won the Claude Jutra Award in 2003 for ...

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Future//Present

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*'' Waiting for April'' —

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Canadian Short Films

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*''Broken Bunny'' — Meredith Hama-Brown *''La Cartographe'' — Nathan Douglas *''Century'' — Levi Holwell, Gabe Romero *''Compete'' — Emmanuelle Lacombe *''A Dreaming House'' — Devin Shears *''Encore'' —

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International Shorts

*''Akeda (The Binding)'' — Dan Bronfeld *''Anointed'' — Dan Lin *''Aquarium'' — Lorenzo Puntoni *''The Beetle at the End of the Street'' — Joan Vives Lozano *''Bodies'' — Laura Nagy *''Boy Saint'' — Tom Speers *''Coming of Age'' — Doug Tompos *''Dawn'' — Jörn Threlfall *''Eli'' — Colin Gerrard *''Exit Toll'' — Mohammad Najarian Dariani *''First Generation'' — Jeannie Nguyen *''Gerry'' — Victoria Hollup, Paul Agar *''Green'' — Suzanne Andrew Correa *''Hard Rubbish'' — Stephen Packer *''In Lucia's Skin'' — Marya Hermosillo, Angel De Guillermo *''The Light Refracts Into the Shadows'' — Tsung Hsuan Yeh *''Mamartuile'' — Alejandro Saevich *''Matria'' — Alvaro Gago *''Mino Bimaadiziwin'' — Shane McSauby *''Open House'' — Philip Aceto *''Open Your Eyes'' — Ilay Mevorach *''Password: Fajara'' — Séverine Sajous, Patricia Sanchez Mora *''A Picnic Table at Dusk'' — Sheridan O'Donnell *''Precious'' — Mohammed Hammad *''The Racer'' — Alex Harron *''Seen from Above'' — Patrick Brooks *''Shadow Animals'' — Jerry Carlsson *''Skates'' — Maddelin McKenna *''Sorceress'' — Max Blustin *''Theo & Celeste'' — Hanna Dougherty *''Trophy Boy'' — Emrhys Cooper *''Yesterday or the Day Before'' — Hugo Sanz *''You Don't Know Me'' — Rodrigo Sellos

Youth Shorts

*''Big Girls Don't Cry'' — Rebecca Shapass *''The Bunny Odyssey'' — Taerang Yun *''Foreign'' — Timothy Ross *''Gary, Mary, Barry and Craig'' — Carissa Clarkson, Rani Li, Ben Cockell, Sylvie Hopkins, Owen Liu *''Gift'' — Yohann Grignou *''Gone Astray'' — Mabel Ye *''If Teardrops Were Pennies'' — Tiana Bates, Alexandria Sayers *''iRony'' — Radheya Jegatheva *''Jasmine Stung'' —

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*''Little Jerusalem'' — Monika Navickaite *''Matriarch Rising'' — Helen Motts Tommy, Savannah M., Kelly Yellowbird, Shaina W. and Jenna Quock *''My Clayey Conception'' — Zanyar Muhammadineko *''Pulse'' — Gage Oxley *''Rami & Mohammed's Story'' — Khaled Ahmed, Mohamed B., Rami Al Mitwali, Fouad Hammoud *''Replica'' — Han Pham *''Slurp'' — Anya Martin *''Somethings'' — Shira Haimovici *''Squats'' — Karina Jesson *''Urban Poetry'' — Anton Guttenberg

Shorts airing with features

*''ante mis ojos'' — Lina Rodriguez *''Carlotta's Face'' — Valentin Riedl *'' Caterpillarplasty'' — David Barlow-Krelina *''A Fortress'' — Miryam Charles *''The Great Wall of China'' — Aleksandra Odic *''The Harvesters'' — Derek Howard *''Holy Angels'' — Jay Cardinal Villeneuve *''In the Valley of the Wild Horses'' — Trevor Mack, Asia Youngman *''Roy Thomson'' —

*''The Soft Space'' —

, Melanie Scheiner *''Three Atlas'' — Miryam Charles *''Where'' —

References

External links

Official site
(from Internet Archive Wayback Machine, archived during the 2018 festival)
VIFF 2018 Factsheet
(archived from official site)

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