Vienna Independent Film Festival

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VIFF Vienna Independent Film Festival
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Location Vienna, Austria
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VIFF Vienna Independent Film Festival is an international film festival held annually in July in Vienna, capital of Austria. The festival focuses on independent cinema.

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History

The Vienna Independent Film Festival was held for the first time on 4–7 July 2016 in the cinemas UCI Kinowelt Millenium City and CineCenter. The festival program consisted of 38 films from 14 countries in international competition. Opening film of the festival was God of Happiness by Dito Tsintsadze who won the Best Director award. Grand Prix of the festival – The Golden Sphinx – was awarded to the Konkani film Let's dance to the rhythm directed by Bardroy Barretto. Graham Streeter received the Best Feature Film award for his film Imperfect Sky. The award for Best Documentary Film was awarded to Violins of Hope: Strings of the Holocaust narrated by Adrien Brody and directed by Lance Shultz.

Winners

2023 Best Actor award winner Wolfgang Cerny at the festival Actor Wolfgang Cerny and director Denis Kryuchkov at the Vienna Independent Film Festival 2023.jpg
2023 Best Actor award winner Wolfgang Cerny at the festival

2024

[1]

Kintsugi — Directed by Diego Dicarlo

Francois Arnaud (Canadian Sniper)

Sofia Verna — Kintsugi

Carlos Arjona (Far Away from My Town)

Michel Kandinsky (Canadian Sniper)

The Journey — Directed by Dan Istrate

Kyle Browne, Stan Strickland, Ken Kinna (Spirit Sensing - Anima of the Quarry)

Kintsugi — Cinematography by Diego Dicarlo

He — Written by Chunzi Zhang

The Ocean — Directed by Jennifer Schlieper

I'm Hip — Directed by John Musker

Won't Be Around — Directed by Terry Blade

ego — Song by Ava Della Pietra

HOME — Directed by Kazumi Shimizu

PharmacyNice — Written by Joey Gu

2023

[2] Grand Prix

Best Feature Film

Best Short Film Director

Best Feature Film

Best Original Screenplay

Best Short Film

Best Documentary Film

Best Experimental Film

Best Song

Best Music Video

Best Actor

Best Art Direction

Best Editing

Best Cinematography

Best Film Score

Best Unproduced Script

2022

[3] Grand Prix

Best Feature Film

Best Director

Best Short Film

Best Music video

Best Documentary Film

Best Experimental Film

Best Musical Film

Best Comedy Film

Best Animated Film

Best Actress

Best Actor

Best Supporting Actress

Best Film Score

Best Song

Best Cinematography

Best Screenplay

Best Art Direction

Best Unproduced Script

Honorary Mention for Social Impact

2020

Grand Prix

Best Feature Film

Best Director

Best Original Screenplay

Best Short Film

Best Documentary Film

Best Experimental Film

Best Music Video

Best Actor

Best Supporting Actor

Best Cinematography

2019

Grand Prix

Best Feature Film

Best Director

Best Original Screenplay

Best Short Film

Best Documentary Film

Best Experimental Film

Best Music Video

Best Actor

Best Supporting Actor

Best Art Direction

Best Cinematography

Best Film Score

2018

Grand Prix

Best Feature Film

Best Director

Best Original Screenplay

Best Short Film

Best Documentary Film

Best Experimental Film

Best Music Video

Best Actor

Best Cinematography

Special Jury Prize

2017

Grand Prix (The Golden Sphinx)

Best Feature Film

Best Director

Best Original Screenplay

Best Short Film

Best Documentary Film

Best Experimental Film

Best Music Video

Best Actor

Best Supporting Actor

Best Art Direction

Best Cinematography

2016

Grand Prix (The Golden Sphinx)

Best Feature Film

Best Director

Best Original Screenplay

Best Short Film

Best Animated Film

Best Documentary Film

Best Experimental Film

Best Music Film

Best Music Video

Best Actor

Best Supporting Actor

Best Art Direction

Best Cinematography

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