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.

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.

2023
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
 * The Whirlpool — Directed by Denis Kryuchkov
 * W — Directed by Anna Eriksson
 * Deirdre Lorenz — Return to New York
 * Graham Streeter — Unfix
 * 8-Ball — Original Screenplay by Adrien Marquet
 * Have a Nice Apocalypse — Directed by Dávid Géczy
 * My Two Lives — Directed by Sarita Gold
 * Little Planet 7406 — Directed by Goran Šporčić
 * Fearless — Music by J Edna Mae
 * Vampire — Directed by Persia White
 * Wolfgang Cerny (The Whirlpool)
 * '''An Occurrence — Directed by Dien Vo
 * Touching Moon — Edited by Sophia Liu
 * La Pietra — Cinematography by Michael Bradley
 * W — Film Score by Anna Eriksson
 * Stay With Me — Written by Zsolt Pozsgai

2022
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
 * Playing Through – directed by Balbinka Korzeniowska
 * Playing Through – directed by Balbinka Korzeniowska
 * Balbinka Korzeniowska – Playing Through
 * Živa (The Death of the Goddess Živa) – directed by Nataša Stearns
 * Frozen Heart – directed by Nina Guseva
 * Ballymanus – directed by Patrick Sharkey, Séan Doupe
 * Blue Delusion – directed by Guan Fang
 * Big Boss – directed by Keke Palmer
 * Hot Mess by Evelyne Tollman
 * Me and My Winter Games-Perfect Holiday – directed by Haoling Lee, Ming Zhong, Zhe Zhang, Liwen Wang
 * Julia Rae – Playing Through
 * Brandon Sklenar – Futra Days
 * Rosanna Arquette – Futra Days
 * Long Flat Balls “Broken Promises” – music by Zach Robinson
 * Molly’s Rainbow – by Katie Hardyman
 * Other Side of the Mountain – directed by Markus Otz
 * JIZO-Evangelist – written and directed by Tokoroten Nakamura
 * The Violin and its Shadow – directed by Greg Babalas
 * The Faerie Rings – written by Zina Brown
 * Change of Course – directed by Andreas Ortner

2020
Grand Prix
 * Grand Cancan — Directed by Mikhail Kosyrev-Nesterov

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

2019
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

2018
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

2017
Grand Prix (The Golden Sphinx)
 * Million Loves In Me — Directed by Sampson Yuen

Best Feature Film
 * Platonov — Directed by Andreas Morell

Best Director
 * Ebrahim Hatamikia (Bodyguard)

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

2016
Grand Prix (The Golden Sphinx)
 * Let's dance to the rhythm

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
 * Imperfect Sky — Directed by Graham Streeter
 * Dito Tsintsadze (God of Happiness)
 * The Closer — Original Screenplay by Eli Hershko & Isaac Broyn
 * After Truth — Directed by Nicolas Ehret
 * “Parade” de Satie — Directed by Kōji Yamamura
 * Violins of Hope: Strings of the Holocaust — Directed by Lance Shultz
 * The Calling — Directed by Chris Boyd
 * Let's dance to the rhythm — Directed by Bardroy Barretto
 * Tiësto / The Chainsmokers - Split — Directed by Joe Zohar
 * Blake Lewis (Imperfect Sky)
 * Robert Berlin (The Closer)
 * After Truth — Directed by Nicolas Ehret
 * Let's Dance to the Rhythm — Directed by Bardroy Barretto
 * God of Happiness — Cinematography by Ralf M. Mendle