2010 Festival des films du monde closing awards

François Papineau of Route 132 wins Best Actor at the 34th FFM

The 2010 Festival des Films du Monde (FFM), or the Montreal World Film Festival as we say in English, drew to a close on September 6. Prior to the closing night screening of Bertrand Tavernier's period film La Princesse de Montpensier (The Princess of Montpensier), awards were presented at the Theatre Maisonneuve in Place des Arts. Leading the way was the Belgian-Dutch film Oxygène (Oxygen) by Hans Van Nuffel, which tells of a man dealing with cystic fibrosis. It took the main prize, the Grand prix des Amériques. It also won the Prix du jury œcuménique (Ecumenical Jury Award).

Other multiple award-winners included De la Infancia (From Childhood) which won Best Screenplay and Best Latin American Film, Tromper le silence (Silence Lies) which won the Innovation Award and Canadian Audience favourite, and Das Lied in Mir (The Day I was not Born) which won the FIPRESCI prize, a special mention for the Ecumenical Jury prize and shared the general Audience Award with Parajos de papel. François Papineau took the Best Actor prize for his work in Louis Bélanger's Route 132, while Eri Fukatsu won Best Actress for the Japanese film Akunin / Villain by Lee Sang-Il.
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Complete list of Award Winners for the 34th Festival des films du monde

FEATURE FILMS:
Jury:
President: Bille August, director (Denmark)
Irene Bignardi, journalist and festival director (Italy)
Anne-Marie Cadieux, actress (Canada)
Marwan Hamed, director (Egypt)
Igor Minaev, director (Ukraine-France)
Edouard Molinaro, director (France)
Lijung Tang, festival director (China)

Grand prix des Amériques: 
Oxygène, Hans van Nuffel (Belgium/Netherlands)

Grand Prix spécial du jury:
Dalla Vita in Poi (From the Waist On), Gianfrancesco Lazotti (Italy)

Prix de la mise en scène ex-aequo (Best director prize):
Limbo, Maria Sødahl (Norway/Sweden/Denmark/Trinidad and Tobago)
Tête de Turc (Turk's Head), Pascal Elbé (France)

Prix d'interprétation féminine (Best actress prize):
Eri Fukatsu for the film Akunin / Villain by Lee Sang-Il (Japan)

Prix d'interprétation masculine (Best actor prize):
François Papineau for the film Route 132 by Louis Bélanger (Canada)

Prix du meilleur scénario (Best screenplay prize):
De la Infancia (From Childhood), Carlos Carrera, screenplay by Silvia Pasternac, Fernando Leon, Carlos Carrera (Mexico)

Prix de l'innovation (Innovation Award):
Tromper le silence (Silence Lies), Julie Hivon (Canada)


SHORT FILMS:
1st prize:
El Vendedor del ano (The Best Vendor of the Year), Coté Soler (Spain)

Prix du jury :
Sexting by Neil Labute (U.S.A.)


ZÉNITHS DE LA PREMIÈRE ŒUVRE 2010 (Debut feature awards)

Jury:
Christian Gaines (U.S.A.)
Marie-Catherine Marchetti (France)
Ivan Trujillo (Mexico)

Zénith d’or pour le meilleur premier long métrage de fiction (Gold):
Amore Liquido (Liquid Love), Marco Luca Cattaneo (Italy)

Zénith d’argent pour le premier long métrage de fiction (Silver):
Contre-Mouvement (Counter-motion), Andrey Stempkovsky (Russia)

Zénith de bronze pour le premier long métrage de fiction (Bronze)
Le sentiment de la chair (The sense of the flesh), Roberto Garzelli (France)

Mention spéciale du Jury de la 1e œuvre (Special mention):
Europolis, Cornel Gheorghita (Romania-France)


PRIX DU PUBLIC (AUDIENCE AWARDS)
The public was invited to vote for films  in the following categories:

Prix du public pour le film le plus populaire (Most popular): 
Parajos de papel, Emilio Aragon (Spain)
Das Lied in Mir (The Day I was not Born), Florian Cossen (Germany)

Prix de la Cinémathèque québécoise pour le long métrage canadien coup de cœur du public (Canadian film) 
Tromper le silence (Silence Lies), Julie Hivon (Canada)

Prix Glauber Rocha pour le meilleur film de l’Amérique latine (Latin American film):
De la Infancia (From Childhood), Carlos Carrera (Mexico)

Prix du meilleur film documentaire (Documentary): 
Che, un hombre nuevo (Che, A New Man), Tristan Bauer (Argentina-Cuba-Spain)

Prix du meilleur court métrage canadien (Best Canadian short film) :
Le Cirque (The Circus), Nicolas Brault (Canada)


Prix e la FIPRESCI (International Critics)
Das Lied in Mir (The Day I was not Born), Florian Cossen (Germany)
PRIX DU JURY ŒCUMÉNIQUE 
Adem (Oxygène), Hans van Nuffel (Belgium/Netherlands) 
Jury Special Mention:Das Lied in Mir (The Day I was not Born), Florian Cossen (Germany)

AUTRES PRIX
Sspecial prizes were awarded for their outstanding contribution to film art to:
Nathalie Baye (France)
Stefania Sandtrelli (Italy)