VIFF Vienna Independent Film Festival

Grand Prix

• Grand Cancan — Directed by Mikhail Kosyrev-Nesterov[1]

Best Feature Film

• Between Pain and Amen — Directed by Toma Enache

Best Director

• Great Poetry (Aleksandr Lungin)

Best Original Screenplay

• Laugh or Die — Original Screenplay by Heikki Kujanpää

Best Short Film

• To Her — Directed by Jacopo Ardolino

Best Documentary Film

• Armenia(s), Time for Artists — Directed by Anahit Dasseux Ter Mesropian and David Vital-Durand

Best Experimental Film

• Our Turn — Directed by Martiros Vartanov

Best Music Video

• Champagne Drag Queen — Directed by Anna Haslehner

Best Actor

• Martti Suosalo (Laugh or Die)

Best Supporting Actor

• Jon Voight (Roe v. Wade)

Best Cinematography

• Grand Cancan — Cinematography by Dmitriy Ulyukaev

Grand Prix

• Doing Money — Directed by Lynsey Miller

Best Feature Film

• M — Directed by Anna Eriksson

Best Director

• Doing Money (Lynsey Miller)

Best Original Screenplay

• Murder on the Road to Kathmandu — Original Screenplay by Rupalee Verma

Best Short Film

• Dark like the Night. Karenina-2019 — Directed by Radda Novikova

Best Documentary Film

• Three Scenes of a Wedding — Directed by Jason Tovey

Best Experimental Film

• Fragmented Dreams — Directed by Tonatiuh Garcia

Best Music Video

• Theresa's Groove — Directed by Aleksey Igudesman

Best Actor

• Atul Kulkarni (Murder on the Road to Kathmandu)

Best Supporting Actor

• Konstantin Khabensky (Dark like the Night. Karenina-2019)

Best Art Direction

• The Lossen — Directed Colin Skevington

Best Cinematography

• M — Cinematography by Matti Pyykkö

Best Film Score

• Hinge — Film score by Diana Ringo

Grand Prix

• I May Regret — Directed by Graham Streeter

Best Feature Film

• NO-ONE — Directed by Lev Prudkin, Vladimir Prudkin

Best Director

• I May Regret (Graham Streeter)

Best Original Screenplay

• Rosemarie — Original Screenplay by Adonis Floridis

Best Short Film

• Father of the Man — Directed by Tommy Creagh

Best Documentary Film

• Ballad of a Righteous Merchant — Directed by Herbert Golder

Best Experimental Film

• Ghosts on the Road to Camalt — Directed by Jason Tovey

Best Music Video

• The Sea — Directed by Hisanori Tsukuda

Best Actor

• Danny Glover (Buckout Road)

Best Cinematography

• NO-ONE — Cinematography by Ziv Berkovich, David Stragmeister

Special Jury Prize

• Krieg — Directed by Jeff Fry

Grand Prix (The Golden Sphinx)

• Million Loves In Me — Directed by Sampson Yuen

Best Feature Film

• Platonov — Directed by Andreas Morell[2]

Best Director

• Ebrahim Hatamikia (Bodyguard)[3][4][5]

Best Original Screenplay

• Million Loves in Me — Original Screenplay by John Yiu, Tiong Wooi LIM, Jeremy Tan

Best Short Film

• Forgiveness — Directed by Rima Irani

Best Documentary Film

• Chasing Stars — Directed by Markus Eichenberger
• The Writer with No Hands — Directed by William Westaway

Best Experimental Film

• Je Suis Le Ténébreux — Directed by Rank Amateur, Christopher Chaplin

Best Music Video

• Nara - alt-J — Directed by Jasmin Selen Heinz

Best Actor

• John Yiu (Million Loves in Me)

Best Supporting Actor

• Babak Hamidian (Bodyguard)

Best Art Direction

• Bodyguard — Directed by Ebrahim Hatamikia

Best Cinematography

• Platonov — Cinematography by Felix Cramer

Grand Prix (The Golden Sphinx)

• Let's dance to the rhythm

Best Feature Film

• Imperfect Sky — Directed by Graham Streeter

Best Director

• Dito Tsintsadze (God of Happiness)

Best Original Screenplay

• The Closer — Original Screenplay by Eli Hershko & Isaac Broyn

Best Short Film

• After Truth — Directed by Nicolas Ehret

Best Animated Film

• “Parade” de Satie — Directed by Kōji Yamamura

Best Documentary Film

• Violins of Hope: Strings of the Holocaust — Directed by Lance Shultz[6][7][8]

Best Experimental Film

• The Calling — Directed by Chris Boyd

Best Music Film

• Let's dance to the rhythm — Directed by Bardroy Barretto

Best Music Video

• Tiësto / The Chainsmokers - Split — Directed by Joe Zohar

Best Actor

• Blake Lewis (Imperfect Sky)

Best Supporting Actor

• Robert Berlin (The Closer)

Best Art Direction

• After Truth — Directed by Nicolas Ehret
• Let's Dance to the Rhythm — Directed by Bardroy Barretto

Best Cinematography

• God of Happiness — Cinematography by Ralf M. Mendle

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  Director Graham Streeter and producer Alex Lebosq presenting their film "Imperfect Sky" at the VIFF 2016
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  Director Bardroy Barretto receiving his Grand Prix for the film "Let's dance to the Rhythm" at the VIFF 2016
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  Fashion designer La Hong Nhut and director Rima Irani at the VIFF 2017
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  Director Sarah Scherer presenting her film "Golden Shot" at the VIFF 2017
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  Actor John Yiu and producer Kenny Chan presenting their film "Million Loves in Me" at the VIFF 2017
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  Director Andreas Morell and cinematographer Felix Cramer presenting their film "Platonov" at the VIFF 2017