VIFF Vienna Independent Film Festival is an international film festival held annually in July in Vienna, capital of Austria.

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.