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Vancouver International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Film

The Vancouver International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Film is an annual award, presented by the Vancouver International Film Festival to honour the film selected by a jury as the best Canadian film screened at VIFF that year.

The award was presented for the first time in 2003. It was initially open only to films from Western Canada, but was expanded in 2009 to include all Canadian films.

Winners

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Year Film Director Ref.
2003 On the Corner Nathaniel Geary [1]
2004 Seven Times Lucky Gary Yates [2]
2005 Lucid Sean Garrity [3]
2006 Everything's Gone Green Paul Fox [4]
2007 Normal Carl Bessai [5]
2008 Fifty Dead Men Walking Kari Skogland [6]
2009 I Killed My Mother (J'ai tué ma mère) Xavier Dolan [7]
2010 Incendies Denis Villeneuve [8]
Curling Denis Côté
2011 Nuit #1 Anne Émond [9]
Wetlands (Marécages) Guy Édoin
2012 Blackbird Jason Buxton [10]
Becoming Redwood Jesse James Miller
2013 Rhymes for Young Ghouls Jeff Barnaby [11]
That Burning Feeling Jason James
2014 Violent Andrew Huculiak [12]
2015 Sleeping Giant Andrew Cividino [13]
2016 Window Horses Ann Marie Fleming [14]
2017 Black Cop Cory Bowles [15]
2018 Edge of the Knife (SG̲aawaay Ḵ'uuna) Gwaai Edenshaw, Helen Haig-Brown [16]
Genesis (Genèse) Philippe Lesage
The Grizzlies Miranda de Pencier
2019 One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk Zacharias Kunuk [17]
Blood Quantum Jeff Barnaby [18]
2020 Beans Tracey Deer [19]
2021 Without Havana (Sin la Habana) Kaveh Nabatian [20]
2022 Riceboy Sleeps Anthony Shim [21]
Queens of the Qing Dynasty Ashley McKenzie
2023 Fitting In Molly McGlynn [22]
Gamodi Felix Kalmenson
2024 Universal Language Matthew Rankin [23]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Kamchatka earns kudos at Vancouver film festival". The Globe and Mail, October 13, 2003.
  2. ^ Ian Edwards, "Surging VIFF breaks $1M barrier". Playback, October 25, 2004.
  3. ^ Ken Eisner, "VIFF voters back local Horse". The Georgia Straight, October 20, 2005.
  4. ^ Alexandra Gill, "VIFF winners". The Globe and Mail, October 14, 2006.
  5. ^ Adele Weder, "Vancouver fest wraps, hands out awards". The Hollywood Reporter, October 14, 2007.
  6. ^ Fiona Morrow, "Film fest honours the best in the West". The Globe and Mail, October 11, 2008.
  7. ^ "Xavier Dolan's debut feature tops Vancouver International Film Festival". The Canadian Press. October 16, 2009.
  8. ^ Marsha Lederman, "Villeneuve's Incendies wins Best Canadian Film at VIFF". The Globe and Mail, October 15, 2010.
  9. ^ Etan Vlessing, "VIFF 2011: Anne Emond’s Nuit #1 wins top jury prize". Playback, October 17, 2011.
  10. ^ Jordan Twiss, "Buxton’s Blackbird wins at VIFF". Playback, October 15, 2012.
  11. ^ Danielle Ng See Quan, "It’s a tie: VIFF picks two for Best Canadian First Feature". Playback, October 15, 2013.
  12. ^ Adrian Mack (October 6, 2014). "VIFF 2014: Jurors get Violent". The Georgia Straight.
  13. ^ Pinto, Jordan (October 5, 2015). "Sleeping Giant, Fractured Land win VIFF prizes". Playback.
  14. ^ Pinto, Jordan (October 11, 2016). "VIFF names BC Spotlight winners". Playback.
  15. ^ Jordan Pinto, "Cory Bowles’ Black Cop wins VIFF’s best Canadian feature prize". Playback, October 10, 2017.
  16. ^ Adrian Mack (October 6, 2018). "Haida-language feature Edge of the Knife wins VIFF's top B.C. Spotlight awards". The Georgia Straight.
  17. ^ Derek Neary, "Kunuk’s latest effort earns ‘Best Canadian Film’ in Vancouver". Northern News Services, October 6, 2019.
  18. ^ Kelly Townsend, "‘The Body Remembers’ wins two awards in VIFF’s BC Spotlight". Playback, October 9, 2019.
  19. ^ Craig Takeuchi, "VIFF 2020: Beans, Violation, and The Hidden Life of Trees among award winners". The Georgia Straight, October 2, 2020.
  20. ^ Steve Newton, "Vancouver International Film Fest announces award winners". The Georgia Straight, October 13, 2021.
  21. ^ Noel Ransome, "‘Riceboy Sleeps’ and ‘Until Branches Bend’ win top film prizes at VIFF". Toronto Star, October 7, 2022.
  22. ^ V.S. Wells, "VIFF announces Canadian film award winners". The Georgia Straight, October 5, 2023.
  23. ^ Gail Johnson, "Vancouver International Film Festival announces winners of 2024 juried awards". Stir, October 3, 2024.
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