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VIFF | GUESTS 2009

Here is a list of currently confirmed directors confirmed to attend VIFF 2009. Up-to-date information to be added daily.

We are also pleased to note that we will have special guest appearances by musicians Trimpin and Charlie Haden at their respective films!

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Du Haibin

1999

 

Lenin Sivam

65_RedRoses

 

Philip Lyall & Nimisha Mukerji

Adelaide

 

Liliana Greenfield-Sanders

The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector

 

Vikram Jayanti

Ana & Arthur

 

Larry Young

The Anchorage

 

Anders Edström & Curtis Winter

Antoine

 

Laura Bari

Argippo Resurrected

 

Dan Krames

The Art of Drowning

 

Diego Maclean

At Home By Myself... With You

 

Kris Booth

At the Edge of the world

 

Dan Stone

Backstory

 

Mark Lewis

Bakal Boys

 

Ralston Jover

The Beekeepers

 

Richard Knox Robinson

Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo

 

Jessica Oreck

Big Head

 

Dylan Akio Smith

Black Field

 

Danishka Esterhazy

A Blooming Business

 

Ton van Zantvoort

Broke.

 

Rosie Dransfeld

Burden

 

Michael David Lynch

A Cargo to Africa

 

Roger Cantin

Carmen

 

Larry Young

Cats

 

Kim Ji-Hyun

Cellulose

 

Stephen J. Swierczyna

Certainty

 

David Hauka

Cinema Museum

 

Mark Lewis

Cole

 

Carl Bessai

Conrad the Wise

 

Alan Miller

Cooking with Stella

 

Dilip Mehta

Coopers' Camera

 

Warren Sonoda

Crackie

 

Sherry White

Debt

 

Mike Weiss

Eighteen

 

Jang Kun-Jae

Empire State Building Murders

 

William Karel

Encirclement: Neo-Liberalism Ensnares Democracy

 

Richard Brouillette

Everything's Coming Up Rosie

 

Jereme Watt

Excited

 

Bruce Sweeney

The Exploding Girl

 

Bradley Rust Gray

Facing Ali

 

Pete McCormack

Finding Farley

 

Leanne Allison

First Steps

 

Jason DaSilva

For a Son

 

Alix de Maistre

For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism

 

Gerald Peary

Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould

 

Michèle Hozer & Peter Raymont

Grace

 

Samantha Simmonds

The Great Contemporary Art Bubble

 

Ben Lewis

The Greims

 

Peter Bolte

H2Oil

 

Shannon Walsh

Heliopolis

 

Ahmad Abdella

HomeGrown

 

Robert McFalls

How Eunice Got Her Baby

 

Ana Valine

In Between

 

Nadine Valcin

In Search of Beethoven

 

Phil Grabsky

Infinite Space: The Architecture of John Lautner

 

Murray Grigor

Instant

 

Mark Schroeder

Intervelometer

 

Aparna Kapur, Deniz Merdanogullari & Kunal Sen

Island of Dreams

 

Tsuta Tetsuichiro

Jan Klusák—Axis Temporum

 

Dan Krames

John Rabe

 

Florian Gallenberger

Karaoke

 

Chris Chong Chan Fui

Karelian Cowgirls

 

Minttu Mäntynen

Kill Daddy Goodnight

 

Michael Glawogger

Kun 1: Action

 

Wu Haohao

Learning from Light: The Vision of I.M. Pei

 

Bo Landin

Left Out

 

Sasaki Omoi

Leslie, My Name Is Evil

 

Reg Harkema

Letters to the President from Petr Lom

 

Petr Lom

Lightheaded

 

Mike Dacko

Losing It

 

Alexandre Leblanc

Man and the Beast

 

Martin Thibaudeau

The Man Who Slept

 

Ines Sedan

McDull Kung Fu Kindergarten

 

Brian Tse

Mike Inc.

 

Pablo Gonzalez & Paal Wilhelm Nesset

Moon at the Bottom of the Well

 

Nguyen Vinh Son

Mortimer

 

Nolan Sarner

The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers

 

Judith Ehrlich & Rick Goldsmith

The Moth and the Firefly

 

Daniel Stedman

My Tehran for Sale

 

Granaz Moussavi

Ninja Assassin

 

James McTeigue

Nora

 

Alla Kovgan

Oxhide II

 

Liu Jiayin

Peggy Baker Four Phrases

 

Howie Shia

Pinprick

 

Daniel Young

Playground

 

Libby Spears

Porgy and Me: In the World of Porgy and Bess

 

Susanna Boehm

Postalolio

 

Marv Newland

Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push' by Sapphire

 

Lee Daniels

Prom Night in Mississippi

 

Paul Saltzman

Puck Hogs

 

Warren Sonoda

Punching the Clown

 

Gregori Viens

Queen to Play

 

Caroline Bottaro

The Red Rooster

 

Terry Miles

Redland

 

Asiel Norton

Rocaterrania

 

Brett Ingram

Sacred Flight

 

Peter Chrzanowski & Ivan Hughes

The Search

 

Pema Tseden

A Shine of Rainbows

 

Vic Sarin

Shi-Shi-Etko

 

Kate Kroll

Short on Love

 

Josh Close

Son of the Sunshine

 

Ryan Ward

Soul Birds

 

Thomas Riedelsheimer

Soundtrack for a Revolution

 

Bill Guttentag

Spare Change

 

Laurie Gordon

Sweet Crude

 

Sandy Cioffi

Sweetgrass

 

Lucien Castaing-Taylor

The Tangent

 

Vincent Vesco

Taqwacore—The Birth of Punk Islam

 

Omar Majeed

This Land

 

Dianne Whelan

This Way of Life

 

Tom Burstyn

Tibet in Song

 

Ngawang Choephel

To Die Like a Man

 

Joao Pedro Rodrigues

Today Is Better Than Two Tomorrows

 

Anna Rodgers

Trimpin: The Sound of Invention

 

Peter Esmonde

Trolls

 

Brianne Nord-Stewart

Under One Sky

 

Christine McDowell

Under Rich Earth

 

Malcolm Rogge

Unlocked

 

Mio Adilman

Vegas: Based on a True Story

 

Amir Naderi

The Veiled Commodity

 

Dickson Chow & Vinh Chung

Vive la Rose

 

Bruce Alcock

Wah Do Dem (What They Do)

 

Ben Chace & Sam Fleischner

warZone

 

Saul Herckis

We Live in Public

 

Ondi Timoner

Weight

 

Kevan Funk

Well-Founded Concerns

 

Timothy Cawley

The Wind and the Water

 

Vero Bollow

Yellow Kid

 

Mariko Tetsuya

ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction

 

Kevin Hamedani

Zooey & Adam

 

Sean Garrity