VIFF 2010 list
VIFF ended yesterday. Here’s a list of films I saw (and directors). My top ten are double-asterisked (top 5) or single-asterisked (6 to 10). I’m defining “short” as less than 20 minutes, “mid-length” as 20 to 60 minutes; everything else is a feature (61 minutes or more).
- Protektor | Protector | Marek Najbrt (Czech Rep.)
- Rewers | Reverse | Borys Lankosz (Poland)
- Morgen | Marian Crisan (Romania / Hungary)
- *Psychohydrography (documentary) | Peter Bo Rappmund (USA)
- Sawako Decides | Ishii Yuya (Japan)
- L’arbre et la forêt | Family Tree | Olivier Ducastel & Jacques Martineau (France)
- **En ganske snill mann | A Somewhat Gentle Man | Hans Peter Moland (Norway)
- Kawasakiho ruze | Kawasaki’s Rose | Jan Hrebejk (Czech Rep.)
- *Der Røde Kapel | The Red Chapel (documentary) | Mads Brügger (Denmark)
- Armadillo (documentary) | Janus Metz (Denmark)
- R U There? | David Verbeek (Netherlands)
- Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child (documentary) | Tamra Davis (USA)
- Plasticity 3D (short) | Ryan Suits (USA)
- *The Eye 3D - Life and Science on Cerro Peranal (documentary, mid-length) | Nikolai Vialkowistch (Germany)
- Altitude | Kaare Andrews (Canada - B.C.)
- Rubber | Quentin Dupieux (France / USA)
- *Snap | Carmel Winters (Ireland)
- Die Fremde | When We Leave | Feo Aladag (Germany / Turkey)
- 12 Angry Lebanese: The Documentary (documentary) | Zeina Daccache (Lebanon)
- Mumbai Disconnected (documentary, mid-length) | Camilla Nielsson & Frederik Jacobi (Denmark)
- Bogotá Change (documentary, mid-length) | Andreas Møl Dalsgaard (Denmark)
- Un homme qui crie | A Screaming Man | Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (France / Belgium / Chad)
- 36 vues du Pic Saint-Loup | Around a Small Mountain | Jacques Rivette (France / Italy)
- Transfer | Damir Lukacevic (Germany)
- La Belle endormie | The Sleeping Beauty | Catherine Breillat (France)
- La Vie au ranch | Chicks | Sophie Letourneur (France)
- **Into Eternity (documentary) | Michael Madsen (Denmark)
- Plug & Pray (documentary) | Jens Schanze (Germany)
- 5 Variations on a Long String (documentary, mid-length) | Peter Esmond (USA)
- Opfindelsen at Dr. Nakamats (documentary, mid-length) | The Invention of Dr. Nakamats | Kaspar Astrup Schröder (Denmark)
- Harragas | Les Brûleurs | Merzak Allouache (Algeria / France)
- *Os inquilinos | The Tenants | Sérgio Bianchi (Brazil)
- **Uncle Brian | Nick McAnulty (Canada - Ont.)
- **Der Räuber | The Robber | Benjamin Heisenberg (Austria / Germany)
- R | Michael Noer & Tobias Lindholm (Denmark)
- Lila Lila | My Words, My Lies - My Love | Alain Gsponer (Germany)
- **Carlos | Olivier Assayas (France / Germany)
- Amazon Falls | Katrin Bowen (Canada - B.C.)
- Raindrops over Rwanda (documentary, mid-length) | Charles Annenberg Weingarten (Rwanda)
- A Place Without People (documentary, mid-length) | Andreas Apostolides (Greece / Tanzania)
- The Yellow Bank (documentary, mid-length) | J.P. Sniadecki (USA / China)
- Año bisiesto | Leap Year | Michael Rowe (Mexico)
- Winds of Heaven (documentary) | Michael Ostroff (Canada)
- Nostalgia de la luz (documentary) | Nostalgia for the Light | Patricio Guzmán (Chile)
- Monsters | Gareth Edwards (UK)
- Tanzträume | Dancing Dreams: Teenagers Perform “Kontakthof” by Pina Bausch (documentary) | Anne Linsel & Rainer Hoffman (Germany)
- The Tree | Julie Bertuccelli (Australia / France)
- The White Meadows | Mohammad Rasoulof (Iran)
- Sodankylä Forever - The Century of Cinema (documentary) | Peter von Bagh (Finland)
- Cry Rock (documentary, mid-length) | Banchi Hanuse (Canada - B.C.)
- Mammalian (documentary) | Frank Wolf (Canada - B.C.)