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{{Infobox Film festival
| name           = Vancouver International Film Festival
| image          = 
| caption        = Festival poster
| opening        = ''[[Guest of Honour (2019 film)|Guest of Honour]]'' by [[Atom Egoyan]]
| closing        = ''[[La Belle Époque (film)|La Belle Époque]]'' by [[Nicolas Bedos]]
| location       = [[Vancouver]], [[British Columbia]], Canada
| founded        = 
| host           = 
| number         = 
| date           = September 26 - October 11, 2019
| website        = 
}}

The '''38th [[Vancouver International Film Festival]]''' (VIFF) took place from September 26 to October 11, 2019.<ref>Dorothy Woodend, [https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2019/09/24/VIFF-2019-Edition/ "VIFF in a Jiff, the 2019 Edition"]. ''[[The Tyee]]'', September 24, 2019.</ref> The opening film was [[Atom Egoyan]]'s ''[[Guest of Honour (2019 film)|Guest of Honour]]'', and the closing film was [[Nicolas Bedos]]'s ''[[La Belle Époque (film)|La Belle Époque]]''.<ref>[https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/viff-opening-closing-dates "VIFF announces opening and closing films, plus special events"]. ''[[Daily Hive]]'', September 5, 2019.</ref>

==Awards==
The festival award winners were announced on October 15.<ref>Craig Takeuchi, [https://www.straight.com/movies/1314136/indigenous-films-parasite-and-more-take-top-honours-2019-vancouver-international-film "Indigenous films, Parasite, and more take top honours at 2019 Vancouver International Film Festival"]. ''[[The Georgia Straight]]'', October 15, 2019.</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|- 
! Award
! Film
! Director
|-
| People's Choice
| ''[[Parasite (2019 film)|Parasite]]''
| [[Bong Joon-ho]]
|-
| Most Popular Canadian Feature
| ''[[Red Snow (2019 film)|Red Snow]]''
| [[Marie Clements]]
|-
| Most Popular Canadian Documentary
| ''[[Haida Modern]]''
| [[Charles Wilkinson (director)|Charles Wilkinson]]
|-
| Most Popular International Documentary
| ''[[Coup 53]]''
| [[Taghi Amirani]]
|-
| [[Vancouver International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Film|Best Canadian Film]]
| ''[[One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk]]''
| [[Zacharias Kunuk]]
|-
| Best Canadian Film, Honorable Mention
| ''[[Blood Quantum (film)|Blood Quantum]]''
| [[Jeff Barnaby]]
|-
| Best Canadian Documentary
| ''[[Jordan River Anderson, the Messenger]]''
| [[Alanis Obomsawin]]
|-
| Best Canadian Documentary, Honorable Mention
| ''My Dads, My Moms and Me''
| Julia Ivanova
|-
| Best Canadian Short Film
| ''At the Bottom of the Sea''
| Caroline So Jung Lee
|-
| Best Canadian Short Film, Honorable Mention
| ''[[The Physics of Sorrow]]''
| [[Theodore Ushev]]
|-
| Emerging Canadian Director
| ''[[Murmur (film)|Murmur]]''
| [[Heather Young (filmmaker)|Heather Young]]
|-
| Emerging Canadian Director, Honorable Mention
| ''[[Kuessipan]]''
| [[Myriam Verreault]]
|-
| Most Promising Canadian Director of a Short Film
| ''[[Acadiana (film)|Acadiana]]''
| [[Guillaume Fournier]], [[Samuel Matteau]], [[Yannick Nolin]]
|-
| Most Promising Canadian Director of a Short Film, Honorable Mention
| ''Labour/Leisure''
| Jessica Johnson, Ryan Ermacora
|-
| Best BC Film
| ''[[The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open]]''
| [[Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers]], [[Kathleen Hepburn]]
|-
| Sea to Sky Award
| ''[[The World Is Bright]]''
| [[Ying Wang (director)|Ying Wang]]
|-
| BC Emerging Filmmaker
| ''The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open''
| [[Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers]]
|-
| VIFF Impact Award
| ''[[Resistance Fighters]]''
| [[Michael Wech]]
|-
| [[Rob Stewart (filmmaker)|Rob Stewart]] Eco Warrior Award
| ''[[The Pollinators]]''
| Peter Nelson
|}

==Films==
===Galas===
*''[[Guest of Honour (2019 film)|Guest of Honour]]'' — [[Atom Egoyan]] (Opening)
*''[[La Belle Époque (film)|La Belle Époque]]'' — [[Nicolas Bedos]] (Closing)

===Special Presentations===
*''[[Ford v Ferrari]]'' — [[James Mangold]]
*''[[Harriet (film)|Harriet]]'' — [[Kasi Lemmons]]
*''[[A Hidden Life (2019 film)|A Hidden Life]]'' — [[Terrence Malick]]
*''[[Jojo Rabbit]]'' — [[Taika Waititi]]
*''[[Just Mercy]]'' — [[Destin Daniel Cretton]]
*''[[The Laundromat (2019 film)|The Laundromat]]'' — [[Steven Soderbergh]]
*''[[The Lighthouse (2019 film)|The Lighthouse]]'' — [[Robert Eggers]]
*''[[Marriage Story]]'' — [[Noah Baumbach]]
*''[[Motherless Brooklyn (film)|Motherless Brooklyn]]'' — [[Edward Norton]]
*''[[Mr Jones (2019 film)|Mr. Jones]]'' — [[Agnieszka Holland]]
*''[[No.7 Cherry Lane]]'' — [[Yonfan]]
*''[[Pain and Glory]]'' — [[Pedro Almodóvar]]
*''[[The Painted Bird (film)|The Painted Bird]]'' — [[Václav Marhoul]]
*''[[Parasite (2019 film)|Parasite]]'' — [[Bong Joon-ho]]
*''[[Portrait of a Lady on Fire]]'' — [[Céline Sciamma]]
*''[[The Song of Names]]'' — [[François Girard]]
*''[[Sorry We Missed You]]'' — [[Ken Loach]]
*''[[The Two Popes]]'' — [[Fernando Meirelles]]
*''[[Young Ahmed]]'' — [[Dardenne brothers|Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne]]

===Contemporary World Cinema===
*''[[Adam (2019 Moroccan film)|Adam]]'' — Maryam Touzani
*''[[And Then We Danced]]'' — [[Levan Akin]]
*''Babysplitters'' — Sam Friedlander
*''[[Bacurau]]'' — [[Kleber Mendonça Filho]]
*''[[Beanpole (film)|Beanpole]]'' — [[Kantemir Balagov]]
*''[[Burning Cane]]'' — [[Phillip Youmans]]
*''Castle of Dreams'' — [[Reza Mirkarimi]]
*''Chained'' — Yaron Shani
*''[[Checkered Ninja]]'' — [[Anders Matthesen]]
*''{{ill|Cherry Blossoms and Demons|de|Kirschblüten & Dämonen}}'' — [[Doris Dörrie]]
*''The Day After I'm Gone'' — Nimrod Eldar
*''[[Divine Love (film)|Divine Love]]'' — [[Gabriel Mascaro]]
*''A Dog and His Man'' — Siddharth Tripathy
*''[[Dogs Don't Wear Pants]]'' — J-P Valkeapää
*''[[Fourteen (film)|Fourteen]]'' — [[Dan Sallitt]]
*''[[Frankie (2019 film)|Frankie]]'' — [[Ira Sachs]]
*''[[I Was at Home, But]]'' — [[Angela Schanelec]]
*''[[The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão]]'' — [[Karim Aïnouz]]
*''[[It Must Be Heaven]]'' — [[Elia Suleiman]]
*''Joel'' — [[Carlos Sorín]]
*''[[Koko-di Koko-da]]'' — Johannes Nyholm
*''[[Lara (film)|Lara]]'' — [[Jan-Ole Gerster]]
*''The Last to See Them'' — Sara Summa
*''[[Little Joe (film)|Little Joe]]'' — [[Jessica Hausner]]
*''Noah Land'' — Cenk Ertürk
*''[[Once in Trubchevsk]]'' — Larisa Sadilova
*''Out of Tune'' — Frederikke Aspöck
*''[[Port Authority (film)|Port Authority]]'' — [[Danielle Lessovitz]]
*''[[Queen of Hearts (2019 film)|Queen of Hearts]]'' — [[May el-Toukhy]]
*''[[The Realm (film)|The Realm]]'' — [[Rodrigo Sorogoyen]]
*''[[Retrospekt]]'' — [[Esther Rots]]
*''[[Scarborough (2018 film)|Scarborough]]'' — Barnaby Southcombe
*''[[Sometimes Always Never]]'' — [[Carl Hunter]]
*''[[Song Without a Name]]'' — [[Melina León (director)|Melina León]]
*''[[Spider (2019 film)|Spider]]'' — [[Andrés Wood]]
*''Staff Only'' — [[Neus Ballús]]
*''[[Stitches (2019 film)|Stitches]]'' — Miroslav Terzić
*''[[Synonyms (film)|Synonyms]]'' — [[Nadav Lapid]]
*''[[Tehran: City of Love]]'' — [[Ali Jaberansari]]
*''Temblores'' — [[Jayro Bustamante]]
*''[[Those Who Remained]]'' — Barnabás Tóth
*''Vai'' — [[Nicole Whippy]], Becs Arahanga, Amberley Jo Aumua, Matasila Freshwater, [[Dianna Fuemana]], [[Mīria George]], 'Ofa-ki Guttenbeil-Likiliki, Marina Alofagia McCartney
*''A Voluntary Year'' — Ulrich Köhler, Henner Winkler
*''[[The Whistlers (film)|The Whistlers]]'' — [[Corneliu Porumboiu]]
*''[[A White, White Day]] (Hvítur, Hvítur Dagur)'' — [[Hlynur Pálmason]]
*''Yuli'' — [[Icíar Bollaín]]

===Spotlight on France===
*''Amanda'' — Mikhaël Hers
*''[[By the Grace of God (film)|By the Grace of God]]'' — [[François Ozon]]
*''[[Deerskin (film)|Deerskin]]'' — [[Mr. Oizo|Quentin Dupieux]]
*''[[I Lost My Body]]'' — Jérémy Clapin
*''[[Joan of Arc (2019 film)|Joan of Arc]]'' — [[Bruno Dumont]]
*''[[Les Misérables (2019 film)|Les Misérables]]'' — [[Ladj Ly]]
*''[[Oh Mercy!]]'' — [[Arnaud Desplechin]]
*''[[The Specials (2019 film)|The Specials]]'' — [[Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache]]
*''[[Who You Think I Am]]'' — [[Safy Nebbou]]

===Focus on Italy===
*''[[Amare amaro]]'' — [[Julien Paolini]]
*''Dafne'' — Federico Bondi
*''The Disappearance of My Mother'' — Beniamino Barrese
*''[[Dolce Fine Giornata]]'' — [[Jacek Borcuch]]
*''Marghe and Her Mother'' — [[Mohsen Makhmalbaf]]
*''Santiago, Italia'' — [[Nanni Moretti]]
*''[[Sole (film)|Sole]]'' — Carlo Sironi

===Vanguard===
*''[[Bait (2019 film)|Bait]]'' — [[Mark Jenkin]]
*''Belonging'' — Burak Çevik
*''I, Wretched Man'' — Bastian Wilplinger
*''Miel-Emile'' — Peter van Houten
*''My Window'' — Rodrigo John
*''Off Season'' — Henning Beckhoff
*''[[One Man Dies a Million Times]]'' — [[Jessica Oreck]]
*''Ridge'' — John Skoog
*''Subject to Review'' — Theo Anthony
*''[[Vitalina Varela]]'' — [[Pedro Costa]]

===Sea to Sky===
*''[[Ash (2019 film)|Ash]]'' — [[Andrew Huculiak]]
*''[[The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open]]'' — [[Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers]], [[Kathleen Hepburn]]
*''[[Daughter (2019 Canadian film)|Daughter]]'' — [[Anthony Shim]]
*''Haida Modern'' — [[Charles Wilkinson (director)|Charles Wilkinson]]
*''My Dads, My Moms and Me'' — Julia Ivanova
*''[[Raf (film)|Raf]]'' — Harry Cepka
*''[[Red Snow (2019 film)|Red Snow]]'' — [[Marie Clements]]
*''Water Over Glass'' — Kellen Jackson, Zoe Kirk-Gushawaty, Amanda Thomson, Jimi Pantalon
*''[[The World Is Bright]]'' — [[Ying Wang (director)|Ying Wang]]

===True North===
*''[[The Acrobat (2019 film)|The Acrobat]] (L'Acrobate)'' — [[Rodrigue Jean]]
*''[[American Woman (2019 film)|American Woman]]'' — [[Semi Chellas]]
*''[[And the Birds Rained Down]] (Il pleuvait des oiseaux)'' — [[Louise Archambault]]
*''[[Assholes: A Theory (film)|Assholes: A Theory]]'' — [[John Walker (filmmaker)|John Walker]]
*''[[A Brother's Love]] (La femme de mon frère)'' — [[Monia Chokri]]
*''[[Castle in the Ground]]'' — [[Joey Klein]]
*''[[Disappearance at Clifton Hill|Clifton Hill]]'' — [[Albert Shin]]
*''Conviction'' — Ariella Pahlke, Teresa MacInnes, Nance Ackerman
*''Cranks'' — [[Ryan McKenna (filmmaker)|Ryan McKenna]]
*''[[Easy Land]]'' — [[Sanja Živković]]
*''[[Jordan River Anderson, the Messenger]]'' — [[Alanis Obomsawin]]
*''[[Kuessipan]]'' — [[Myriam Verreault]]
*''[[L.A. Tea Time]]'' — [[Sophie Bédard Marcotte]]
*''[[One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk]]'' — [[Zacharias Kunuk]]
*''[[Rustic Oracle]]'' — [[Sonia Boileau]]
*''Symphony in Aquamarine'' — Dan Popa
*''[[Three Feathers]]'' — Carla Ulrich
*''[[To Live to Sing]]'' — [[Johnny Ma]]
*''When We Walk'' — [[Jason DaSilva]]
*''[[White Lie (film)|White Lie]]'' — [[Yonah Lewis]], [[Calvin Thomas (director)|Calvin Thomas]]

===Future//Present===
*''[[Anne at 13,000 Ft.]]'' — [[Kazik Radwanski]]
*''[[Danny (2019 film)|Danny]]'' — Aaron Zeghers, Lewis Bennett
*''Killer Queen'' — Ramin Fahrenheit
*''[[MS Slavic 7]]'' — [[Sofia Bohdanowicz]]
*''[[Murmur (film)|Murmur]]'' — [[Heather Young (filmmaker)|Heather Young]]
*''Tapeworm'' — Fabián Velasco, Miloš Mitrovič
*''[[Tito (2019 film)|Tito]]'' — [[Grace Glowicki]]
*''[[The Twentieth Century]]'' — [[Matthew Rankin]]

===Impact===
*''[[63 Up]]'' — [[Michael Apted]]
*''[[Buddha in Africa]]'' — [[Nicole Schafer]]
*''[[Coup 53]]'' — [[Taghi Amirani]]
*''The Euphoria of Being'' — Reka Szabo
*''Gateways to New York'' — Martin Witz
*''The Great Green Wall'' — [[Jared P. Scott]]
*''Human Nature'' — Adam Bolt
*''The Men's Room'' — Petter Sommer, Jo Vemund Svendsen
*''[[Midnight Family]]'' — Luke Lorentzen
*''My Father and Me'' — [[Nick Broomfield]]
*''The Pollinators'' — Peter Nelson
*''The Rabbi Goes West'' — Amy Geller, [[Gerald Peary]]
*''Reason'' — [[Anand Patwardhan]]
*''[[Resistance Fighters]]'' — Michael Wech
*''[[Scheme Birds]]'' — Ellen Fiske, Ellinor Hallin
*''Sea of Shadows'' — Richard Ladkani
*''A Seat at the Table'' — David Nash, Simon Mark-Brown
*''Stieg Larsson: The Man Who Played With Fire'' — Henrik Georgsson
*''[[Talking About Trees]]'' — [[Suhaib Gasmelbari]]
*''Trust Machine: The Story of Blockchain'' — [[Alex Winter]]
*''We Are Not Princesses'' — Bridgette Auger, Itab Azzam
*''The Whale and the Raven'' — Miriam Leuze
*''Wildland'' — Alex Jablonski, Kahlil Hudson

===Gateway===
*''[[Another Child]]'' — [[Kim Yoon-seok]]
*''[[Balloon (2019 Chinese film)|Balloon]]'' — [[Pema Tseden]]
*''[[Birthday (2019 film)|Birthday]]'' — Lee Jong-un
*''Boluomi'' — Lau Kek-Huat, Vera Chen
*''[[The Cave (2019 Thai film)|The Cave]]'' — [[Tom Waller]]
*''[[Children of the Sea (film)|Children of the Sea]]'' — [[Ayumu Watanabe]]
*''Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains'' — Gu Xiaogang
*''Every Day a Good Day'' — [[Tatsushi Ōmori]]
*''Hard-Core'' — [[Nobuhiro Yamashita]]
*''Krabi, 2562'' — [[Ben Rivers]], [[Anocha Suwichakornpong]]
*''Lost Course'' — Jill Li
*''[[Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom]]'' — [[Pawo Choyning Dorji]]
*''Melancholic'' — Seiji Tanaka
*''No Longer Human'' — [[Mika Ninagawa]]
*''[[Present.Perfect. (2019 film)|Present. Perfect.]]'' — Shengze Zhu
*''Samsara'' — Moon Jeong-yun
*''[[The Shadow Play (2018 film)|The Shadow Play]]'' — [[Lou Ye]] 
*''Spring Tide'' — Yang Lina
*''[[Still Human]]'' — Oliver Siu Kuen Chan
*''Vanishing Days'' — Zhu Xin
*''[[Wet Season (film)|Wet Season]]'' — Anthony Chen
*''[[White Snake (film)|White Snake]]'' — Amp Wong, Zhao Ji
*''[[The Wild Goose Lake]]'' — [[Diao Yinan]]
*''Wild Sparrow'' — Shih Li

===M/A/D===
*''Architecture of Infinity'' — [[Christoph Schaub]]
*''Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint'' — Halyna Dyrschka
*''Cunningham'' — Alla Kovgan
*''Devil's Pie: D'Angelo'' — Carine Bulsma
*''Edo Avant-Garde'' — [[Linda Hoaglund]]
*''Eliades Ochoa: From Cuba to the World'' — Cynthia Biestek
*''Escher: Journey Into Infinity'' — Robin Lutz
*''It Was All So Wonderful: The Everyday Magic of Mary Pratt'' — [[Kenneth J. Harvey]]
*''Leonardo: The Works'' — [[Phil Grabsky]]
*''Martha: A Picture Story'' — Selina Miles
*''Neutra: Survival Through Design'' — Pi Letofsky
*''Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin'' — [[Werner Herzog]]
*''Other Music'' — Puloma Basu, Rob Hatch-Miller
*''Our Time Machine'' — Yang Sun, [[S. Leo Chiang]]
*''Stuffed'' — Erin Derham
*''System K'' — Renaud Barret
*''Ursula Von Rydingsvard: Into Her Own'' — [[Daniel Traub]]
*''Varda by Agnès'' — [[Agnès Varda]]
*''What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael'' — Rob Garver
*''Years of Construction'' — [[Heinz Emigholz]]

===ALT===
*''[[Blood Quantum]]'' — [[Jeff Barnaby]]
*''[[Boyz in the Wood]]'' — Ninian Doff
*''[[Come to Daddy (film)|Come to Daddy]]'' — [[Ant Timpson]]
*''[[The Death of Dick Long]]'' — [[Daniels (directors)|Daniel Scheinert]]
*''[[Extra Ordinary (film)|Extra Ordinary]]'' — Mike Ahern, Enda Loughman
*''[[Greener Grass]]'' — Jocelyn DeBoer, Dawn Luebbe
*''[[In the Tall Grass (film)|In the Tall Grass]]'' — [[Vincenzo Natali]]
*''[[Judy and Punch]]'' — [[Mirrah Foulkes]]
*''[[Knives and Skin]]'' — [[Jennifer Reeder]]
*''[[The Lodge (film)|The Lodge]]'' — [[Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala]]
*''[[Paradise Hills (film)|Paradise Hills]]'' — [[Alice Waddington]]

===Canadian Shorts===
*''At the Bottom of the Sea'' — Caroline So Jung Lee
*''The Beach Raiders'' — Tyson Breuer
*''Bumblebee'' — Adam Beck
*''Canaan'' — Wang Weibin
*''Chubby'' — [[Madeleine Sims-Fewer]], [[Dusty Mancinelli]]
*''The Cut (La Coupure)'' — [[Chloé Cinq-Mars]]
*''Days of Rage'' — Eli Jean Tahchi
*''Deady Freddy'' — Alicia Eisen
*''[[Delphine (2019 film)|Delphine]]'' — [[Chloé Robichaud]]
*''Finding Uranus'' — Ivan Li
*''Flood'' — [[Joseph Amenta]]
*''Ghoulish Galactic Grievances'' — Josh Owen
*''Grandma's House'' — [[Sophy Romvari]]
*''Hand Job'' — Kara Hornland
*''[[Heart Bomb]] (Une bombe au cœur)'' — [[Rémi St-Michel]]
*''Highway to Heaven: A Mosaic in One Mile'' — Sandra Ignagni
*''[[I Am in the World as Free and Slender as a Deer on a Plain]]'' — [[Sofia Banzhaf]]
*''[[I'll End Up in Jail]] (Je finirai en prison)'' — [[Alexandre Dostie]]
*''In Which Life Continues Without Time'' — Sheridan Tamayo-Henderson
*''[[Jarvik (film)|Jarvik]]'' — [[Émilie Mannering]]
*''Labour/Leisure'' — Jessica Johnson, Ryan Ermacora
*''Main Squeeze'' — Brendan Prost
*''My Heart Is Walking Around Outside of My Body'' — Matthew Taylor Blais
*''[[No Crying at the Dinner Table]]'' — [[Carol Nguyen]]
*''[[Now Is the Time (film)|Now Is the Time]]'' — [[Christopher Auchter]]
*''[[The Physics of Sorrow]]'' — [[Theodore Ushev]]
*''[[Pick (film)|Pick]]'' — [[Alicia K. Harris]]
*''[[Pinch (film)|Pinch]]'' — Diego Maclean
*''Pools'' — Seth Fluker
*''[[The Procession (film)|The Procession]] (Le Cortège)'' — Pascal Blanchet, Rodolphe Saint-Gelais
*''Shadow Trap'' — Damian Gillis, Michael Bourquin
*''Solastalgia'' — [[Millefiore Clarkes]]
*''The Spirit Keepers of Makuta'ay'' — Yen-Chao Lin
*''Standard of Care'' — James Rathbone
*''This Ink Runs Deep'' — [[Asia Youngman]]
*''Unkept'' — Michael P. Vidler
*''Venusian'' — Cameron Mackenzie, Suzanne Friesen
*''A Winter Morning'' — Manny Mahal

===International Shorts===
*''Amparo's Offerings'' — Leonel Chee
*''Call Connect'' — Indianna Bell, Josiah Allen
*''A Disappearance'' — Laura Spini, Laurence Brook
*''Disrepute'' — Stephane Mounkassa, Stefan Sundin
*''Diversion'' — Mathieu Mégemont
*''Family Hour'' — Maria Ponomarova
*''First Disco'' — Helen O'Reilly
*''Flush'' — Sheridan O'Donnell
*''Forgiveness'' — Marcello Cotugno
*''Grandpa'' — Clifford Miu
*''[[I Signed the Petition]]'' — [[Mahdi Fleifel]]
*''In the Shadow of the Guacari'' — Greg Mendez
*''The Interview'' — Ivan Sosnin
*''Itohime'' — Nao Izumi
*''Kill the Boy'' — Juan Pablo Villavicencio Borges
*''Lee Ann Womack's "Hollywood"'' — Chris Ullens
*''The Legend'' — Manon Eyriey
*''Liminaali & Communitas'' — Laura Rantanen
*''Long-Legged Nuria'' — Frank Vera Jimenez
*''Masmelos'' — Duvan Duque
*''Mortis'' — Xindi Lou
*''My Generation'' — Ludovic Houplain
*''Nurtured'' — Ben Pearce
*''O Holy Ghost'' — Mark Bradshaw
*''Pearl'' — Yuchao Feng
*''Romantica.com'' — Shay Fellner
*''The Sea'' — Cameron Richards
*''Song Sparrow'' — Farzaneh Omidvarnia
*''Taboo'' — Olivia Altavilla
*''Tangle'' — Malihe Ghloamzadeh
*''Tender'' — Anthony Lucido
*''Tolerance'' — Shaunoh
*''Vaca'' — Marta Bayarri
*''Way Back Home'' — Diego Freitas

===Reel Youth===
*''2:00'' — Maxence Pupillo
*''AMO'' — Hana Huang
*''Better Off'' — Jules Brown
*''Body Love'' — Grace Larey
*''Bottle'' — Yegor Bondarenko
*''Eyedentity'' — Yoo Jung Hong
*''Falling Deeper'' — Ryan Chow
*''Freedom of Breath'' — Yasin Farrokhi
*''Frozen in Place'' — Sasha Argirov
*''G.P.S. Girl Positioning System'' — Devin Johnson
*''Home Sweet Home'' — Sarah Andrews
*''Human Box'' — Tsai Chia-Jen
*''Jericho'' — Sarah Andrews
*''Marlene Heavyshields (Glowing in the Dark Woman)'' — Jubei Quesnelle, Jayna Creighton-Fox
*''Qirqqut'' — Kadence Kikoak
*''Sekani Dekelth'' — Jacoby Macdonald
*''Super Grandma'' — Isabella Spadone
*''To You'' — Amanda Blake, Maira Gimenes, Jin Lee, Emma Watson
*''Tracks'' — Alicia Holownia, Caitlin Mungall, Jessica Lau, Joud Shawwa, Paige Ingram, Sophie McLean
*''u really hurt me'' — Callahan Bracken
*''Wamin (The Apple)'' — Katherine Nequado

===Shorts screened with features===
*''[[Acadiana (film)|Acadiana]]'' — [[Guillaume Fournier]], [[Samuel Matteau]] and [[Yannick Nolin]] 
*''Elvis: Strung Out'' — Mark Oliver
*''Forest on Fire'' — Reed Harkness
*''Happytime Social Club'' — David Rodden Shortt
*''Here and There (Aquí y allá)'' — [[Lina Rodriguez]]
*''I'm Not Next'' — Tristin Greyeyes
*''Lily'' — Adrienne Gruben
*''Memoirs'' — Aaron Zeghers
*''Names for Snow'' — Rebecca Thomassie
*''Preface to a History'' — Devan Scott, Will Ross
*''Question Period'' — [[Ann Marie Fleming]]
*''Sofia'' — Nikolay Michaylov
*''[[Throat Singing in Kangirsuk]]'' — [[Eva Kaukai]], [[Manon Chamberland]]
*''Turns'' — Mariano Sosa
*''When the Children Left'' — Charlene Moore
*''Wildfire'' — [[Bretten Hannam]]

===Modes===
*''Amusement Ride'' — Tomonari Nishikawa
*''Cavalcade'' — Johann Lurf
*''L'Étoile de mer (The Starfish)'' — Maya Schweizer
*''Hard On'' — Joanna Rytel
*''Interbeing'' — Martina Hoogland Ivanow
*''Kasiterit'' — Riar Rizaldi
*''New Acid'' — Basim Magdy
*''Stay Awake, Be Ready'' — Pham Thien An
*''The Stroker'' - Pilvi Takala
*''Swatted'' — Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis
*''Swinguerra'' — Barbara Wagner, Benjamin De Burca
*''Umbra'' — Florian Fischer, Johannes Krell

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20191007071152/https://viff.org/Online/default.asp Official website] (from Internet Archive Wayback Machine, archived during the 2019 festival)
* [https://viff.org/ArticleMedia/Files/Media%20factsheet_%20VIFF%20key%20numbers.pdf VIFF 2019 Factsheet] (from official site)
* [https://archive.viff.org/e-blasts/viff/2019/media/15_VIFF2019ClosingAwards_MR.html Closing release including official list of award winners] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191017160427/https://archive.viff.org/e-blasts/viff/2019/media/15_VIFF2019ClosingAwards_MR.html |date=2019-10-17 }}

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