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The MONTREAL WORLD FILM FESTIVAL (INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL OF MONTREAL) is the only competitive film festival in North America recognized by the FIAPF.
Montreal ranks among the most prestigious festivals in the world. Filmfestivals.com rates this festival in the top 10.
The 2017 Festival edition will run August 24 - September 4
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Fou D Amour by Philippe Ramos tells the story of man accused of two murders in France (1959).
Found guilty, he is condemned to death. He is guillotined. But his head begins to tell the story of his life. He was a priest. He loved life, he loved women, he loved God and preached every Sunday in his church. A perfect life! An admired priest, a wonderful lover, his earthly paradise seemed neverending... “In my earlier film, Ici-bas, I placed all the anguish of the world on the shoulde...
Award Winners in Montreal 39th
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Leopoldo Soto (filmfestivals.com correspondent fromMexico) accepting The Bronze Zenith for the First Fiction Feature Film: La Linea Delgada Amarilla (The Thin Yellow Line) from Celso Garcia (Mexico) Produced by Guillermo del Toro, Bertha Navarro and Alejandro Springall
AWARDS..."LA delgada línea amarilla" The yellow thin line...was awarded in 39o Montreal World Film Festival: Best Latinoamerican Movie - Glober Rocha Award- and also Bronze Zenith, f...
Laura Blum and Editor in chief Bruno Chatelin sat down with french icon director Jean Jacques Annaud about his new phenomenal film Wolf Totem, shot over 18 months in Mongolia with wolves...Historical moment where a french filmmaker gets to direct a smashing box office based on the best seller of a chinese book.
We often hear that directing animals and children is hell on a filmmaker. So why is Jean-Jacques Annaud nostalgic about the 200 horses, 1,000 sheep, 35 wolves and smatt...
LETNIE PRZESILENIE / SUMMER SOLSTICE
2014, Colour, Germany, Poland, World Competition
Production Team
Director : Michal Rogalski
Screenwriter : Michal Rogalski
Cinematographer : Jerzy Zieli?ski
Editor : Joanna Brühl, Milenia Fiedler
Cast : Filip Piotrowicz, Jonas Nay, Urszula Bogucka, Maria Semotiuk, Steffen Scheuman, Gerdy Zint, Bart?omiej Topa, Agnieszka Krukówna
Music : Rainer Oleak
Film pro...
AWARDS OF THE MONTREAL WORLD FILM FESTIVAL MONTRÉAL 2015
Jury
President : Dany Laferrière, writer (Canada)
Luis Urquiza, filmmaker (Mexico)
Gerardo Salcedo, festival programmer (Mexico)
Peter Rainer, writer & film critic (United States)
Ventura Pons, filmmaker, (Spain)
Tea Falco, actress (Italy)
Features
Grand Prize of the Americas: Mad Love from Philippe Ramos (France)
Video interview with Diane Rouxel for Fou d'...
" The visitor" by Mehmet Eryilmaz; was awarded with a FIPRESCI Mention, during 2015 Montreal Festival des Films du Monde, for the "Remarkable contribution to learn more the values of the turkish society".
Filmed by Leopoldo Soto
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Signis awarded Guillermo Ivan´s "Havana Moment" with a 1st. Mention During 39th Montreal Festival Films du Monde, 2015.
UN INSTANTE EN LA HABANA / HAVANA MOMENT
2015, Colour, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, USA, World Competition
Production Team
Director : Guillermo Ivàn Duenas
Screenwriter : Guillermo Ivàn Duenas
Cinematographer : Mauricio Vidal
Editor : David Constantino...
Wang Fan, directs a free adaptation of classic Prosper Merimee´s Carmen, in a chinesse version. It´s her first feature film, and was produced throught the coproducton forum, in the past Festival du Films du Monde in Montreal. Leopoldo Soto interviewed the director for filmfestivals.com
BEIJING CARMEN
2015, Colour, China, First Films World Competition
Production Team
Director : Wang Fan
Screenwriter : Wang Fan
Cinematographer : Han ...
Bloody January, a film from Azerbaijan screened in the Focus on World Cinema at Latin Quartier Cinemas in Montreal and held a Press Conference, some highlights by Leopoldo Soto.
Baku Film studio shot “Bloody January”, a film dedicated to the 25th anniversary of one of the most tragic events in the history of Azerbaijan
QANLI YANVAR / BLOODY JANUARY
2015, Colour, Azerbaijan, Focus on World Cinema
Production Team
Director&n...
What does the future holds for the Festival des Films du Monde?, Dr. Norman Cornett, a recognized academic of Montreal, has a few ideas he shared during the 39th edition with Leopoldo Soto for filmfestivals.com viewers.
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THE GIRL KING
2015, Colour, Germany, Canada, Finland, Sweden, World Competition
Production Team
Director : Mika Kaurismäki
Screenwriter : Michel Marc Bouchard
Cinematographer : Guy Dufaux
Editor : Hans Funck
Cast : Malin Buska, Sarah Gadon, Michael Nyqvist, Lucas Bryant, Laura Birn, Hippolyte Girardot, François Arnaud, Patrick Bauchau
Music : Anssi Tikanmäki
Film production and Sales : Prod.: Marianna Films / Triptyc...
Leopoldo Soto met the director Noé Santillán-López and producer of mexican feel good movie "La Ultima y nos Vamos" , Last song before we go at at the 39th Montreal World Film Festival.
UNA ULTIMA Y NOS VAMOS / LAST SONG BEFORE WE GO
2014, Colour, Mexico, Focus on World Cinema
Production Team
Director : Noé Santillán-López
Screenwriter : Mauricio Argüelles, César Rodr&iacut...
Leopoldo Soto sat down withthe filmmakers in Montreal.
Palestinan poem, directed by Marc Ruchman, about the atraction of two people, agaisnt the rest of the world.
QUI SUIS-JE APRÈS TON EXIL EN MOI / WHO AM I AFTER YOUR EXILE IN ME
2015, Colour, France, Focus on World Cinema - short films
Production Team
Director : Marc Ruchmann
Screenwriter : Marc Ruchman
Cinematographer : Yossi Shalev
Editor : Louis Goldschmidt
Cast : Ziad Barki, L...
Leopoldo Soto sat with Selim Evci, director of Secret, which was selected at Montreal.
Born in Istanbul in 1975, Turkish filmmaker Selim Evci studied at Maltepe University and took his master’s in film from Beykent University. He directed a documentary, Red, in 2001, and founded his own production company, Evci Films, in 2006. TWO LINES (2008), his fiction directorial debut, premiered at the Venice Festival and showed at several prominent international festivals. He followed ...
SAKLI / SECRET
2015, Couleur, Turquie, Compétition mondiale
Production Team
Director : Selim Evci
Screenwriter : Selim Evci
Cinematographer : Ferhat Öçmen
Editor : Selim Evci
Cast : ?lhan Sesen, Settar Tanriögen, Turku Turan, Pelin Akil, Ümit Cirak, Sehnaz Bölen Taftali, Bala Atabek
Music : Cengiz Onural
Film production and Sales : Prod.: Selim Evci, Evci Films, ?stiklal Cad./mis Sok. Tan Apt. D:6, Beyo?l...
Filmfestivals.com Leopoldo Soto met with Spanish filmmaker Anna Bofarull in Montreal. She took a humanities degree from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona before studying film at CECC and and Université Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris. She participated in the 2011 Berlinale Talent Campus. Filmography: To the Barbed Wire (2003), Pasajes (2004), HAMMADA (2009, shown at the MWFF), FOOTNOTES (2009), Expeditions (2014).
In the concert hall the audience are taking their seats. Julia, ...
Filmfestivals.com met with Nemanja Cipranic in Montreal where his debut featured premiered in competition.
Born in Belgrade, Serbia in 1986, Nemanja Cipranic studied philosophy briefly at Belgrade University, before switching to cinema at Belgrade’s SAE Institute, from which he graduated in 2013. While there he directed and produced several projects, among them a documentary, The Roman Well, and a short film, The Madness of War. He also authored several music videos and television ...
ET MAINTENANT NOUS SOMMES EN VIE / NOW WE’RE ALIVE
2014, Colour, Belgium, France, Focus on World Cinema
Production Team
Director : Thibault Arbre
Screenwriter : Thibault Arbre
Cinematographer : Vincent Toujas
Editor : Thibault Arbre
Cast : Charles Lemaire, Victoria Oberli, Laure Haulet
Music : Climax
Film production and Sales : Prod.: Gilles Daoust, Title Media, Galerie de la Porte Louise 203/5, 1050 Bruxelles (Belgique), t&e...
Filmfestivals.com met Jon Pettersson in Montreal where his film John Hron received its world premiere.
Born in 1982, Swedish filmmaker Jon Pettersson enrolled at a very young age in film directing at university and, upon graduation, quickly sold two of his short films to television: Skuggan (2005) and Badvakten (2005). He subsequently directed Skönheten (2007) and A Waking Contradiction (2008). His first feature, JOHN HRON was self-produced and is based on a true story.
JOHN ...
The Director Norihito Iki
Professional photographer and former director commercials, Norihito Iki has had his works exhibited widely at national and international exhibitions and competitions, in particular in Vancouver, Busan, New York and at the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial. His filmography includes: Tagboat, Art Line Daegu, Tokyo Front Line.
2015, Colour & B/W, Japan, First Films World Competition
Production Team
Director : Norihito Iki
Scr...
The Montreal World Film Festival is an event wherethere is always something to discover. The 39th edition is the perfect illustration, with more than 80 countries represented: beside the major producing countries, the Festival is hosting works from Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bermuda, Congo, Greenland, Kyrgyzstan, Kosovo, Liberia, Malawi, Nepal, Nicaragua.&nbs...
BEHIND THE COVE, 2015, Japan by Keiko Yagi
Sunday, September 6, at 4.30 p.m., Cinéma Quartier Latin, Room 17
Monday, September 7, at 2.30 p.m., Cinéma Quartier Latin, Room 14
Synopsis
In 2010, THE COVE, a documentary about dolphin hunting in Taiji, Japan, won an Academy Award. The movie certainly brought attention to the whaling issue as a whole. But was the documentary entirely truthful? Did it portray both sides of the story correctly? Or wa...
MAGIC WORLD, the first movie by young director Julien Hosmalin, produced by Pierre-André Marion, will screen at Montreal World Fest.
MAGIC WORLD : 2015, Colour, France, Focus on World Cinema - short films
Production Team
Director : Julien Hosmalin
Screenwriter : Julien Hosmalin
Cinematographer : Bertrand Marin
Editor : Valentin Feron
Cast : Eloise Parramore, Fantin Ravat, Anthony Bajon
Music : Julien Besins
Film producti...
A CHANCE TO DRESS
2015, Colour, USA, Documentaries
Production Team
Director : Alice Bouvrie
Cinematographer : Tom Curran, Brian Dowley, David Rabinovitz, Jonathan Skurnik, Alice Bouvrie
Editor : Bernice Schneider
Music : Claes Nystrom
Film production and Sales : Prod.: Alice D. Bouvrie, Mineral King Productions, 143 Woodside Lane, Arlington, MA 02474 (États-Unis), tél.: 781 643-6347, abouvrie@comcast.net.
Synopsi...
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About The Montreal World Film Festival
 Losique Serge The MONTREAL WORLD FILM FESTIVAL (INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL OF MONTREAL)is the only competitive film festival in North America recognized by the FIAPF.
Montreal ranks among the most prestigious festivals in the world.
2015 Coverage includes 120 articles and interviews with winning producers and directors. It was provided by Musivision Films, Laurie Gordon Musivision (video interview), Tom Llewellin, Ken Fernandez, Dejan Nikolaj Kraljacic and Bruno Chatelin
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