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Vienna, Austria

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Website
  
vienna-film-festival.com

Instances
  
2016 Vienna Independent Film Festival

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

VIFF 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.

2016

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

    • 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

  • Tiesto / 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

    • References

    VIFF Vienna Independent Film Festival Wikipedia
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