Vancouver International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Film

The Vancouver International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Film is an annual award, presented by the Vancouver International Film Festival to honour the film selected by a jury as the best Canadian film screened at VIFF that year.

The award was presented for the first time in 2003. It was initially open only to films from Western Canada, but was expanded in 2009 to include all Canadian films.

Winners

Year	Film	Director	Ref.
2003	On the Corner	Nathaniel Geary	^[1]
2004	Seven Times Lucky	Gary Yates	^[2]
2005	Lucid	Sean Garrity	^[3]
2006	Everything's Gone Green	Paul Fox	^[4]
2007	Normal	Carl Bessai	^[5]
2008	Fifty Dead Men Walking	Kari Skogland	^[6]
2009	I Killed My Mother (J'ai tué ma mère)	Xavier Dolan	^[7]
2010	Incendies	Denis Villeneuve	^[8]
2010	Curling	Denis Côté	^[8]
2011	Nuit #1	Anne Émond	^[9]
2011	Wetlands (Marécages)	Guy Édoin	^[9]
2012	Blackbird	Jason Buxton	^[10]
2012	Becoming Redwood	Jesse James Miller	^[10]
2013	Rhymes for Young Ghouls	Jeff Barnaby	^[11]
2013	That Burning Feeling	Jason James	^[11]
2014	Violent	Andrew Huculiak	^[12]
2015	Sleeping Giant	Andrew Cividino	^[13]
2016	Window Horses	Ann Marie Fleming	^[14]
2017	Black Cop	Cory Bowles	^[15]
2018	Edge of the Knife (SG̲aawaay Ḵ'uuna)	Gwaai Edenshaw, Helen Haig-Brown	^[16]
	Genesis (Genèse)	Philippe Lesage
	The Grizzlies	Miranda de Pencier
2019	One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk	Zacharias Kunuk	^[17]
2019	Blood Quantum	Jeff Barnaby	^[18]
2020	Beans	Tracey Deer	^[19]
2021	Without Havana (Sin la Habana)	Kaveh Nabatian	^[20]
2022	Riceboy Sleeps	Anthony Shim	^[21]
2022	Queens of the Qing Dynasty	Ashley McKenzie
2023	Fitting In	Molly McGlynn	^[22]
2023	Gamodi	Felix Kalmenson	^[22]

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Vancouver International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Film

Winners

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References