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Do not miss this beautiful romantic comedy THE TRUTH ABOUT LIES.
Come see THE TRUTH ABOUT LIES at the 2015 MONTREAL WORLD FILM FESTIVAL!
Meet the producer Isen Robbins with whom we sat down in Montreal and shared about the film and the vast festival experience he has.
Sunday Aug. 30, 2015 - 11:00 AM
Tuesday Sept 1, 2015 - 01:30 PM
CINEMA QUARTIER LATIN 13
THE TRUTH ABOUT LIES stars Fran Kranz, Odette Annable, Chris Diamantopoulos, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Miles Fisher, and...
FLICKFILM proudly presents
WANJA
WANJA to receive North American Premiere at Montreal World Film Festival, in the Focus On World Cinema Section
Feature film, 4K, 87 Min., Germany, 2015 Written and directed by Carolina Hellsgård Produced by Johanna Aust / FLICKFILM GbR
Cast: Anne Ratte-Polle, Nele Trebs, Viktor Minich, Marko Dyrlich, Michael Baderschneider and Mehmet Yilmaz
The former bank robber Wanja is released from a long prison sentence. As her f...
We met Cornelia the author of Chucks, avery successful book turned into a film. Chucks, The film, has had its world premiere today in Montreal: the directing couple Sabine Hiebler and Gerhard Ertl return to the festival, 3 years after their Audience Award Prize.
A Conversation with Cornelia Travnicek
Was there a scene or statement that led you to write the novel CHUCKS?
In hindsight, of course, that’s always hard to say – there’s that nice word “i...
KURDISTAN-KURDISTAN
Réal./Dir.: Bulent Gunduz.
Monday, August 31st, 4.10 pm, Cinéma Quartier Latin, Room 16
Synopsis
In the 1990s, Delil Dilanar, one of the great Kurdish singers, who continues to keep alive a tradition of a rich and complex musical style of dengbej that he has inherited from master Egîtê Cimo, was forced to leave his homeland and go into exile in Europe. After 20 years of exile, he finds that his heart hasn’t followed him. During a concert in...
TERUG NAAR MORGEN / SUM OF HISTORIES
Lukas Bossuyt (director and scriptwriter) and Ivy Vanhaecke in Montreal
2015, Colour, Belgium, Netherlands. The, First Films World Competition
Production Team
Director : Lukas Bossuyt
Screenwriter : Lukas Bossuyt
Cinematographer : Stijn Van der Veken
Editor : Philippe Ravoet
Cast : Koen De Graeve, Matteo Simoni, Robrecht Vanden Thoren, Karina Smulders, Charlotte Anne Bongaerts, Bart Holland...
Susanna Duellmann
2015, Colour, Germany, Focus on World Cinema
Production Team
Director : Tor Iben
Screenwriter : Tor Iben, Kristina Spitzley, Samir Moussa, Niklas Peters
Cinematographer : Manuel Ruge
Editor : Markus Morkötter
Cast : Özay Fecht, Neil Malik Abdullah, Tuncay Gary, Ilknur Boyraz
Music : William Kudahl, Sørensen, Bartosz Bludau, Tele
Film production and Sales : Prod.: Susanna Duellmann, Duellmann Film...
2015, Colour, Australia, China, Focus on World Cinema
Production Team
Director : Emma Jaay
Screenwriter : Emma Jaay
Cinematographer : Husain Amer
Editor : Ryan Walsh
Cast : Emma Jaay, Martin Butz, Carlotta Trevisan, Levi Woodard, Shao Yue Heng, Zhou Le, Fu Song
Music : Travis Ash
Film production and Sales : Prod.: Emma Jaay, Em Jaay Productions, 12 Lang Road, Centennial Park, Sydney NSW 2021 (Australie), emjaay51@gmail.com / Beijing Meishao M...
PROVA DE CORAGEM / A MATTER OF COURAGE
2015, Colour, Brazil, Uruguay, World Competition
Production Team
Director : Roberto Gervitz
Screenwriter : Roberto Gervitz. D’après/Based on: Horse Hands. De/By: Daniel Galera
Cinematographer : Lauro Escorel
Editor : Manga Campion
Cast : Armando Babaioff, Mariana Ximenes, Áurea Maranhão, Daniel Volpi, Cesar Troncoso
Music : Luiz Henrique Xavier
Film production and Sales&nb...
Lord David Puttnam will teach a master class on the importance of the audio visual world in Montréal for the WFF.
The class will be held at cinema Impérial at 2 PM this Friday August 28th.
It's free and for everyone. First arrived first enlightened!
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'Under Construction' had its world premiere at Seattle International Film Festival 2015 the film is participating in this year’s Montreal World Film Festival. This is a film about a modern Muslim woman struggling to find herself in the sprawl of urban Bangladesh, written and directed by Rubaiyat Hossain as her second feature film.
2015, Colour, Bangladesh, Focus on World Cinema
Production Team
Director : Rubaiyat Hossain
Screenwriter : Rubai...
DANY LAFERRIÈRE, President
Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 1953, Dany Laferrière left his native country following the killing of his colleague and friend, journalist Gasner Raymond. His first novel, Comment faire l’amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer was published in 1985 and became an overnight success, propelling him into the front ranks of the new generation of Quebec writers. The novel was later adapted into a sccreenplay by Laferrière and Richard Sadl...
The romantic comedy, Get Happy, which will be having its world premiere at the 39th Montreal World Film Festival. The film previously had a test screening at the Manhattan Film Festival were it won Best Romantic Comedy!
The lead actor, Chris Riggi, well known for his role on Gossip Girl, among other prominent movies and TV shows, will be in attendance during the festival screenings.
Get Happy is about about a perpetually miserable...
The documentary Autour de Maïr (In Maïr's Company), directed and produced by Hejer Charf, has been selected by the 39th Montreal World Film Festival (Festival des Films du Monde de Montréal), August 27 to September 7, 2015 and figures in the section Documentaries of the World (Documentaires du Monde).
There will be two showings of this world premiere: Saturday, September 5 at 18h30 (6.30 pm.) and Sunday, September 6 at 12h00 (noon.) They will both take place in the Quartier Latin movi...
Chucks had its world Premiere in Montreal World Film Festival August 30, 2015 and received the Audience Award
CHUCKS - Live. Love. Dance. Now!
The team behind "Coming of Age (Anfang 80)", Montreal 2012 Festival Audience Award Winner (and best actor Award), returns to the Montreal with a new comedy having its world Premiere in competition.
A film by Sabine Hiebler and Gerhard Ertl
After the novel by Cornelia Travnicek
CHUCKS, the...
The latest film by renowned Iranian director Majid Majidi (3-time winner of the Grand Prix des Amériques) will open the festival and have its world premiere at the 39th Montreal World Film Festival, it was announced. This 171-minute epic on the early years of the prophet of Islam is, with a budget of over $50 million, the most expensive film ever made in Iran, and has been in production for five years. “The Festival is very proud to be able to host the premiere of this imp...
Till Nowak’s amazing, award-winning short film, DISSONANCE will screen at Montreal.
Written and directed by Nowak, the film features a stunning blend of animation and live-action, and a gripping story about a lonely musician’s struggles to separate fantasy and reality. After premiering at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year, DISSONANCE went on to win the Best Animation Award at the Aspen Shortsfest, the Grand Prix at Brazil’s Anima Mundi and has played in countless...
September 3, 2015, at 6 p.m.
September 4, 2015, at 11:40 a.m.
at Cineplex Odeon Quartier Latin
Minerva Pictures and Baraki Film are delighted to announce that the film Mina Walking by Yosef Baraki will be screened at the Cineplex Odeon Quartier Latin theatre as part of the Montreal World Film Festival, which is being held from August 27 to September 7.
Acclaimed for its documentary-style portrait of contemporary Afghanistan and for the tour-de-force performance of its 12-year-old star ...
The Montreal World Film Festival had added the world premiere of The Girl King, directed by Mika Kaurismäki to its official competition, it was announced. Co-produced by Galafilm and Triptych Media(Canada), Marianna Films (Finland), Starhaus Filmproduktion (Germany) and Anagram (Sweden). “I was seduced by Michel-Marc Bouchard’s script,” says producer Arnie Gelbart. “It’s an unusual story of an extraordinary woman. The characters are very contempora...
Belgian Rhapsody the MWFF closing film will be North-American Premiered (Out of Competition) it was announced. Produced by Peter Bouckaert for Eyeworks (Ben X, The Verdict, Marina presented and awarded at the MWFF) this comedy stars Amaryllis Ouitterlinden, Arthur Dupont, Jos Verbist, Marc Weiss, Koen Van Impe, Philippe Résimont.
Two Belgian brass bands, the Flemish “Sint Cecilia” and the Walloon “En Avant”, have both been select...
THE WORLD GREATS SECTION OF THE MWFF PRESENTS NEW FILMS BY NOTED DIRECTORS
Twenty-four features from a score of countries are being shown in the World Greats (out of competition) section of the MWFF. “ Dedicated to experienced filmmakers, this selection offers the latest works by some of the best known directors from around the world, ” said Serge Losique.
Notable among the cineastes included are Majid Majidi whose Muhammad will be getting ...
39TH MWFF JURY
DANY LAFERRIÈRE, President
Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 1953, Dany Laferrière left his native country following the killing of his colleague and friend, journalist Gasner Raymond. His first novel, Comment faire l’amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer was published in 1985 and became an overnight success, propelling him into the front ranks of the new generation of Quebec writers. The novel was later adapted into a sccreenplay by Laferri&e...
The 39th edition of the Montreal World Film Festival gets with the times. A digital age requires a digital solution. Over 86 countries will be represented in its 2015 edition, a new record. We wanted to allow domestic and international media simultaneous access to the line-up of films in the World Competition and the First Films Competition. This announcement will be accompanied by an online discussion open to journalists from anywhere and the MWFF will respond directly via chat mode to ...
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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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