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 | |
| 2004 | Seven Times Lucky | Gary Yates | |
| 2005 | Lucid | Sean Garrity | |
| 2006 | Everything's Gone Green | Paul Fox | |
| 2007 | Normal | Carl Bessai | |
| 2008 | Fifty Dead Men Walking | Kari Skogland | |
| 2009 | I Killed My Mother (J'ai tué ma mère) | Xavier Dolan | |
| 2010 | Incendies | Denis Villeneuve | |
| 2011 | Nuit #1 | Anne Émond | |
| 2012 | Blackbird | Jason Buxton | |
| 2013 | Rhymes for Young Ghouls | Jeff Barnaby | |
| That Burning Feeling | Jason James | ||
| 2014 | Violent | Andrew Huculiak | |
| 2015 | Sleeping Giant | Andrew Cividino | |
| 2016 | Window Horses | Ann Marie Fleming | |
| 2017 | Black Cop | Cory Bowles | |
| 2018 | Edge of the Knife (SG̲aawaay Ḵ'uuna) | Gwaai Edenshaw, Helen Haig-Brown | |
| Genesis (Genèse) | Philippe Lesage | ||
| The Grizzlies | Miranda de Pencier | ||
| 2019 | One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk | Zacharias Kunuk | |
| Blood Quantum | Jeff Barnaby | ||
| 2020 | Beans | Tracey Deer | |
| 2021 | Without Havana (Sin la Habana) | Kaveh Nabatian | |
| 2022 | Riceboy Sleeps | Anthony Shim | |
| Queens of the Qing Dynasty | Ashley McKenzie | ||
| 2023 | Fitting In | Molly McGlynn | |
| Gamodi | Felix Kalmenson |