212 feature films (110 world or international premieres)
16 medium length films (12 world or international premieres)
144 short films (94 world or international premieres)
60 films in the Canadian Student Film Festival
The sections:
World Competition (features and shorts)
First Films World Competition (features)
Out of Competition (features)
Focus on World Cinema (features and shorts)
Documentaries of the World (features, medium-length films, shorts)
Canadian Student Film Festival (short films)
Loto-Québec Movies Under the Stars (features)
Our Cinema – Review of a year of hits (features)
For an art that is sometimes said to be dying, at least going through the pains of wholsesale transition, the cinema seems in remarkably vivid condition. The Festival has never seen as many films as this year. The Festival's selection team viewed some 3000 films of all sizes and genres, either abroad, at various festivals, markets and custom film events, or at home in the Festival's own screening facilities. Films from around the world, from countries with large, established film industries, and from countries that are largely unknown to local filmgoers.
This cornucopia of films had the Festival's selectors wondering where to draw the line on acceptance. Were we sufficiently patient with films that were slow to tell their stories? Had the speed and unlimited choice of the Internet spoiled our viewing habits? Cinephilia, an appreciation of the cinema in all its variety, is a learned attribute. But it can easily be corrupted by an unbalanced diet of blockbusters and Youtube clips.
The Internet allows curious cinephiles to learn about unusual films from faraway places, but the rampant piracy of the Internet often deprives already struggling artists of the means not only to be making their next films but of paying the bills on their previous ones. Digital technology has at once democratized the making of movies and endangered the ability of young cineastes to make a living at their art.
This year's harvest at the the Montreal World Film Festival includes 432 films from 80 countries – 212 features, 16 medium-length films and 204 shorts. Of the 212 features, 60 are debut efforts. The Festival's hews to its mission of providing a showcase for new talent.
THE JURY OF THE 36th MONTREAL WORLD FILM FESTIVAL
Greta Scacchi – President
Raised in England and Australia, Greta Scacchi received her early theatrical training at the Bristol Old Vic. She gained attention in the Merchant-Ivory production, Heat and Dust (1982). Scacchi was also memorable in Dusan Makavejev's The Coca Cola Kid (1985). By the late 1980s, after such high-profile projects as White Mischief (1987) and Presumed Innocent (1990), she seemed destined for typecasting as a femme fatale. But a standout performance in Robert Altman's The Player (1992) gave her career a renewed critical boost, and she excelled in several period films. In 1984, Scacchi stepped into one of Garbo's signature roles in a TV-movie remake of Camille. For her performance as the Czarina Alexandra in Rasputin (1996), Scacchi won a Supporting Actress Emmy. More recently , she has appeared in Kevin Spacey's Beyond the Sea (2004). In 2010 she returned to the stage in A Little Night Music at the Théâtre du Chatelet in Paris.
Véra Belmont
One of France's top producers, Véra Belmont began her career as an actress. In 1966 she produced Paul Vecchiali's The Devil's Tricks and a year later José Giovanni's The Law of the Survivor, In four decades she has produced over thirty films, including works by some of the best known directors of French and European cinema: André Téchiné's Memories of France (1975), Quest for Fire (1980, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud), Fucking Ferdinand (1987) by Gérard Mordillat, Farinelli (1994) by Gérard Corbiau, Franceso Rosi's The Truce (1997). In 1977 she made her own directorial debut in Mao's Prisoners and she returned to the director's chair in Red Kiss (1985) starring Charlotte Valandrey and Lambert Wilson , in The Lover (1991), starring Valérie Kaprisky and Stacy Keach, and Marquise starring Sophie Marceau (1997). More recently she directed Surviving With Wolves, a hit at the French box office in 2008.
Michel Côté
A graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada in 1973, Michel Côté has appeared on all the top stages and screens in Quebec, and that's not to mention the 33 years and counting that he has appeared in Broue created with Marc Messier and Marcel Gauthier in 1979. On the small screen he appeared in such series as La Petite Vie and the various seasons of Omerta, collecting prizes along the way. On the big screen he starred in Au clair de la lune and Le vent du Wyoming by André Forcier, Liste noire (Jean-Marc Vallée), Dans le ventre du dragon (Yves Simoneau), T'es belle Jeanne (Robert Ménard) – which earned him a Gémeaux award – and La vie après l'amour (Gabriel Pelletier), Le Dernier Tunnel (Érik Canuel) – Jutra and Genie nominations – and Ma fille mon ange (Alexis Durand-Brault). His performance in Jean-Marc Vallée's C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005) garnered a slew of honours including best actor at the Jutras, Genies and Vancouver Films Critics Awards.
Kim Dong Ho
A founding member of one of South Korea's top film institutions, the Busan International Film Festival, Kim Dong Ho has filled various government posts at the South Korean Ministry of Culture over the past 27 years. He served as president at the Korean Motion Picture Promotion Corporation and at the Seoul Arts Centre and he was vice-minister at the Department of Culture and Tourism. After serving 15 years as director of the Busan International Film Festival, he is now its honorary director. He was appointed dean of the Graduate School of Cinema at Dankook University in March 2012. He was awarded the Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et de Lettres by the French government in 2000 and he won the Outstanding Contribution to Asian Cinema Award at the Asian Film Awards in Hong Kong last year. He served on numerous festival juries including those in Cannes, Seattle, Rotterdam, Taipei, San Sebastian.
Andrei Plakhov
Russian film critic and cinema historian Andrei Plakhov graduated in mathematics from Lvov University then defended his Ph.D. thesis (on Visconti and Italian cinema) at VGIK, the celebrated Moscow film school. He began writing film criticism for Russian magazines then became a contributor to such international publications as Sight and Sound and the Cahiers de Cinéma. He is a columnist for Kommersant, the Russian daily. During the Perestroika period, Plakhov was a secretary of the USSR Union of Cinematographers and a head of the conflict committee, which released more than 200 films banned by Soviet censorship. He was president of the International Federation of Film Critics from 2005 to 2010, is currently its honorary president, and he is a member of the European Film Academy. He is a consultant to numerous film festivals around the world. His books include “The Soviet Cinema” (in English; 1988), “Altogether 33: Stars of World Cinema” (1999) and “Catherine Deneuve: From ‘Les Parapluies de Cherbourg' to ‘8 Femmes'” (2005).
Goya Toledo
A native of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands, Spanish actress Goya Toledo began her career as a model then attended drama workshops under Augusto Fernandez and Sanchis Sinisterra. After several parts in Spanish television serials, she made her big screen debut in 1996 in Diario de un amor violado directed by Giacomo Battiato, quickly followed by Pedro Olea's Más allá del jardín (1996), José Miguel Juárez's Dile a Laura que la quiero and Antonio José Betancor's Mararía (1998), which earned her a Goya (Spanish Oscars) nomination. She then came to critical and popular attention in Amores perros by Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu, an international hit that earned an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Film. In 2003 she starred in Laura Mañá's Killing Words and received a Shooting Stars Award at the 2003 Berlin Festival. She confirmed her international reputation in 13 Roses (2007) by Emilio Martínez Lázaro. Her performance in Paco Arango's Maktub (2011) won a CEC (Spanish cinema writers) award as well as another Goya nomination.
Wang Xueqi
Born in Beijing in 1952, Wang Xueqi has been one of the most popular actors in China over the past 25 years. He began his career in the drama troupe of the Chinese Air Force, then got his big screen start as the soldier collecting folk songs in rural China in director Chen Kaige's breakthrough 1984 film Yellow Earth. He collaborated with Kaige again two years later on The Big Parade and was cast in other early Fifth Generation films, such as Huang Jianxin's Samsara (1988) and Zhang Yimou's Codename Cougar (1989). Other hit films include In the Heat of the Sun (1994) directed by Jiang Wen, and Sun Valley (1996) by He Ping for whom he later starred in Warriors of Heaven and Earth (2003). Among the acting prizes he recently added to his collection are the Golden Rooster for Forever Enthralled (2008) and the Asian Film Award for his performance in Bodyguards and Assassins (2009). His sole foray into directing, Sun Bird, won the Special Jury Prize at the 1998 Montreal World Film Festival.
THE WORLD COMPETITION
KARAKARA – Claude Gagnon (Canada – Japan) with Gabriel Arcand, Youki Kudoh, Megumi Tomita. Looking to embark on a spiritual journey, Pierre Masson, a 61-year-old retired Quebec university professor, ends up making a short, unsettling trip around Okinawa with Junko, a 40-year-old runaway wife. The unprepared intellectual would rather not get involved with this unlikely and passionate lover, especially in an unfamiliar and disorienting cultural context. The confused, unwilling sexagenarian decides nevertheless to follow his destiny, unsure of where it (she?…) will take him.
WINGS - Yazhou Yang & Bo Yang (China)
Succumbing to the materialistic climate of modern Beijing, Xiaobei has contracted to be a surrogate mother. A botched attempt at suicide brings her into the arms of a handicapped young man.
ANATAE / DEAREST – Yasuo Furuhata (Japan) with Ken Takakura, Yuko Tanaka, Koichi Sato. Eiji's wife leaves a posthumous request for her ashes to returned to the sea off the coast of her hometown. She also informs Eiji that there is a letter awaiting him there in the post office.
ANFANG 80 / COMING OF AGE - Sabine Hiebler &Gerhard Ertl (Austria) avec Karl Merkatz et Christine Ostermeyer. Two people who consider themselves to be over the hill and irrelevant in today's world suddenly learn what it means to pursue once-in-a-lifetime happiness.
CVJETNI TRG / FLOWER SQUARE – Krsto Papic (Croatia)
What happens to ordinary people in extraordinary situations? In this case the question applies to an average bourgeois family which finds itself falling into the clutches of the mafia and the underworld. A portrait of contemporary Croatia that goes behind the newspaper headlines...
MIEL DE NARANJAS / ORANGE HONEY – Imanol Uribe (Spain – Portugal) with Iban Gárate, Blanca Suárez, Karra Elejalde. Andalusia, Spain, 1950s. Enrique and Carmen, who have just met, fall deeply in love. Carmen manages to get her boyfriend assigned to the city courthouse to do his military service. Enrique witnesses injustices every day and realizes that if he wants to change things, he will have to take action. He soon finds himself caught up in dangerous situations that place his life and that of his companions at risk.
ELS NENS SALVATGES / THE WILD ONES – Patricia Ferreira (Spain)
Alex, Gabi and Oky are three Spanish teenagers who are strangers to their parents, their teachers and themselves. Their emotional isolation will have unexpected consequences...
OBLAWA / MANHUNT – Marcin Krzysztalowicz (Poland)
A Polish forest, autumn 1943. A small group of partisans await orders to kill Nazis and collaborators. They are partisans devoted to special ops, only they are in need of some special operations themselves...
ISKUPLENIYE / EXPIATION – Alexander Proshkin (Russia)
New year's 1946, southern USSR; the war has ended and people are trying to resume whatever lives they have. Sasha, 16, idolizes her dead father, a war hero, but despises her mother... she accuses her mother of stealing government property, a serious crime in this Stalinist society. By chance, at the police station where her mother is interrogated, Sasha meets August, a handsome young lieutenant who caught her eye the previous evening. She is smitten. But August, Jewish, has personal tragedies of his own.
ENDE DER SCHONZEIT / CLOSED SEASON – Franziska Schlotterer (Germany – Israel) with Brigitte Hobmeier, Hans-Jochen Wagner, Christian Friedel. In 1942, Avi is fleeing the Nazis. After a failed attempt to cross the Swiss-German border, he is found by Fritz, a local farmer. Against his wife Emma's wishes, Fritz hides Albert in the barn of his isolated farm in the mountains of the Black Forest. In exchange, Albert helps Fritz on the farm. Fritz and his wife are mocked in the village because after many years of marriage they have remained childless. Fritz is desperate for a child and asks Albert to sleep with his wife…
INVASION – Dito Tsintsadze (Germany – Austria)
Joseph is mourning the death of his beloved wife. Some unexpected visitors introduce themselves as relatives of his deceased wife, a woman named Nina and her son Simon. Before long, Nina asks Joseph if they could live at his place. As time passes, Nina seems to be showing up at Joseph's with increasing frequency, and soon her boyfriend and Milena's son Marco have taken up residence in his house. These new sub-tenants become increasingly aggressive…
DAS WOCHENENDE / THE WEEKEND – Nina Grosse (Germany) with Katja Riemann, Sebastian Koch, Tobias Moretti. When Inga learns of the early prison release of RAF terrorist Jens Kessler, her life is turned upside down. Jens was not only the great love of her youth, but also the father of her son Gregor.
DOM ÖVER DÖD MAN / THE LAST SENTENCE – Jan Troell (Sweden)
The complex, dramatic story of Torgny Segerstedt, a Swedish journalist celebrated for his staunch opposition to the Nazis at a precarious moment in Sweden's history.
SANGHAJ / SHANGHAI GYPSY – Marko Nabersnik (Slovenia)
The Mirgas are a Roma family whose patriarch, Lutvija Belmondo Mirga, has decided to establish his own village. He names it Shanghai. Lutvija Belmondo earns his living as a smuggler. His power and influence spread and eventually include the local police and politicians. He has become untouchable. But now that Yugoslavia has begun to disintegrate, the smuggling of goods is being replaced by the smuggling of arms. This traffic is more lucrative but it is also more dangerous.
TWO JACKS – Bernard Rose (USA) with Sienna Miller, Billy Zane, Danny Huston, Jacqueline Bisset, Jack Huston. When Jack Hussar, renowned but long time absent filmmaker returns to L.A., he meets Brad, an adoring fan who sees a chance to advance his own career. Brad attaches himself to Jack, happily picking up the tab and driving him around Hollywood, taking him to high-powered industry parties in search of potential investors to fund his next film. Though he meets and falls in love with the stunning Diana, he quickly tires of the sycophantic financiers and he is reminded of why he left Hollywood…Years later, Jack's son, also named Jack, arrives in L.A for his directorial debut.
COMME UN HOMME / BAD SEEDS - Safy Nebbou (France) with Émile Berling et Charles Berling. Quiet 16-year-old Louis, son of the high school headmaster, has never been in trouble. His best friend, 18-year-old Greg, is his polar opposite: provocative, angry, violent. He has been called up before a disciplinary committee and risks expulsion because he brandished scissors at Camille, a young inexperienced English teacher. To get revenge and teach her a lesson, Greg decides to kidnap Camille…
ATESIN DÜSTÜGÜ YER / WHERE THE FIRE BURNS – Ismail Gunes (Turkey)
Ayse suddenly falls sick is hospitalized for an urgent operation. Her family is hugely supportive at first, but during the operation the girl is found to be pregnant. Ayse refuses to reveal the identy of her baby's father. The family who rallied to save her life, is now determined to kill her. Her father Osman, who takes on the task of killinmg her to save the family's "honour", sets off on a trip with Ayse…
WORLD COMPETITION SHORT FILMS
DAYS OF AWE - Rehana Rose Khan (United Kingdom)
PERSONNE(S) / NO BODY – Marc Fouchard (France)
LAS TARDES DE TINTICO (Alejandro Garcia Caballero (Mexico)
LA TIRICIA O DE COMÓ CURAR LA TRISTEZA / THE DOLDRUMS OR HOW TO CURE SADNESS – Ángeles Cruz (Mexico)
NORMAN CATHERINE CURRICULUM VITAE – Paulene Abrey (South Africa)
SNAPSHOT – Cesar Salmeron (Australia)
LE PETIT NUAGE / THE LITTLE CLOUD - Renee George (USA)
MACPHERSON – Martine Chartrand (Canada)
THE BANQUET OF THE CONCUBINE – Hefang Wei (France – Canada)
ZIMMER 606 / ROOM 606 - Peter Volkart (Switzerland)
REMEZ / HINT – Adi Bar Yossef (Israël)
JURY OF THE FIRST FILMS WORLD COMPETITION
Klaus Eder
Born in Augsburg, Germany, Klaus Eder lives and works in Munich. He studied German literature at the University of Stuttgart and has worked as a film critic since the 1960s. Currently a reviewer for the Bayerischer Rundfunk national radio network he contributes to several German language film magazines. He has published books on numerous international filmmakers, including monographs on Andrzej Wajda, Luis Bunuel, Nikita Mikhalkov and Andrei Konchalovsky, Arturo Ripstein, Im Kwon-taek, Nagisa Oshima. He was programmer of the Munich International Film Festival from 1986 to 2007 and he has been a consultant for several international festivals. Since 1987 he has been General Secretary of the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI).
Eddie Muller
San Francisco writer Eddie Muller is a contemporary renaissance man. He writes novels, biographies, movie histories, plays, short stories, and films. He also programs film festivals, curates museums, designs books, and provides commentary for television, radio, and DVDs. He produces and hosts NOIR CITY: The San Francisco Film Noir Festival, which now has satellite festivals in four other U.S. cities. As founder and president of the Film Noir Foundation, he has been instrumental in “rescuing America's noir heritage. In 2011 he presented a 40-film series of rare works at the Cinémathèque française in Paris. His debut novel, The Distance, earned the Best First Novel Award from the Private Eye Writers of America, and he's a two-time Edgar Award nominee from the Mystery Writers of America. In 2007 he published Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star.
Miroljub Vučković
Miroljub Vučković has been general manager of the Belgrade Film Institute since 1995 and artistic director of the Belgrade International Film Festival from 1997 to 2010. A member of European Film Academy, and Serbian representative in Eurimages since 2008, he was a film critic and writer of a monthly TC program Cinema Art, from 1995 to 1998. He has written and produced several TV documentaries on international film personalities: Nagisa Oshima, Peter Greenaway, Chantal Akerman, Harvey Keitel, Atom Egoyan, Sergey Bodrov, Tsai Ming-liang, Paul Morrissey, Hou Hsiao-hsien. An adviser to many international film festivals (Busan, Thessaloniki, Venice, Rotterdam, Reykjavik), he organized retrospectives of Yugoslav films in Paris, Brussels and Pordenone, and he has served on juries at festivals around the world.
FIRST FILMS WORLD COMPETITION
SCHULD SIND IMMER DIE ANDEREN / SHIFTING THE BLAME - Lars-Gunnar Lotz (Germany) A young offender who committed violent crimes is expected to be rehabilitated in an institution run by one of his victims.
LAO SHAO QIA / LATITUDE 52 – Degena Yun & Leon Du (China)
In the late 1960s, when relations between China and the USSR were at their most hostile, a Chinese border guard enters into an unusual relationship with his Soviet counterpart.
ZDJECIE / THE PHOTOGRAPH – Maciej Adamek (Poland - Germany – Hungary)
Sixteen-year-old Adam who discovers an old picture of his mother with a strange man and tries to find out who his real father is. A story about first love, infidelity and an encounter with death.
BOGHZ / HATRED – Reza Dormishian (Iran)
Zhaleh and Hamed are Iranian refugees who left their country for political and economic reasons, hoping to live their lives in peace in Turkey. But their plans go awry.
RAZGOVOR / THE TALK - Sergey Komarov (Russia)
Three days earlier Boris ran over a man with his car. Now he is behind bars. But Broris can't remember a thing about the accident.
CLOSE QUARTERS - Jack C. Newell (USA)
Forced to work an extra shift, two young baristas must come to terms with their own relationship while being bombarded by the very different issues of their diverse customers.
CASADENTRO – Joanna Lombardi (Peru)
Pilar, 81, is a creature of habit and fixed routines. When her daughter calls to say that she is coming to visit, along with her daughter's husband and child, she knows that conflicts are in store.
GRAND COMME UN BAOBAB / TALL AS A BAOBAB TREE – Jeremy Teicher (Senégal – USA)
In a rural African village poised at the outer edge of the modern world, a teenage girl hatches a secret plan to rescue her 11-year-old sister from an arranged marriage.
SONO YORU NO SAMURAI / THE SAMURAI THAT NIGHT – Masaaki Akahori (Japan)
Nakamura is released from prison after serving five years for killing a woman in a hit-and-run accident. The woman's husband has vowed revenge.
DIE BRÜCKE AM IBAR / MY BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY – Michaela Kezele (Germany - Serbia – Croatia)
During the 1999 civil war in Kosovo, an injured Kosovan fighter seeks refuge in the home of a Serbian woman whose husband had died in the fighting.
BOUCHERIE HALAL / HALAL BUTCHER SHOP – Babek Aliassa (Canada)
A young Muslim couple open a butcher in Montreal hoping to integrate themselves into Quebec society, but the husband's father, a fundamentalist imam has other ideas.
B.A. PASS – Ajay Bahl (India)
When 19-year-old Mukesh loses his parents in a car accident he ends up in the big city, worrying how to support himself and his two younger sisters. He stumbles into the world of gigolos...
SOONGAVA / DANCE OF THE ORCHIDS – Subarna Thapa (France – Nepal)
Diya's hopes of becoming a traditional Nepalese dancer are shattered when her parents arrange for her to marry a stranger.
WELCOME HOME – Tom Heene (Belgium)
Coming home from a long trip, Lila encounters Bilal, an Iranian returning to Brussels for the first time in forty years. She is fascinated by the old man and decides to accompany him through his search for the Brussels house he once lived in. In another sequence, Lila comes home and breaks up with her boyfriend Benjamin. We discover how the physical relation between her and Benjamin can be raw and unsettling.
INN I MØRKET / INTO THE DARK – Thomas Wangsmo (Norway)
An eight-year-old boy is hit by a car, and a deep rift develops between the two neighbouring couples involved, which will prove hard to repair.
CHERRY ON THE CAKE – Laura Morante (Italy - France)
Amanda seems to suffer from androphobia, a fear of men that causes her to systematically destroy any relationship that could become serious.
A LA DERIVA / ADRIFT – Fernando Pacheco (Argentina)
Deep in debt, Ramón agrees to participate in an easy drug smuggling scheme. But no scheme is really that easy.
METAMORPHOSIS – Chris Swanton (United Kingdom)
An adaptation of Frank Kafka's story about a travelling salesman who wakes up one morning after fretful dreams to find himself mutated into a venimous insect of grotesque proportions.
FOCUS ON CHINA DURING THE MONTREAL WORLD FILM FESTIVAL
CHINA FILM BUSINESS WEEK AT MWFF
The China Film Business Week which will be held in Montreal August 27 to 31, 2012 within the framework of the Montreal World Film Festival, will be articulated around four large groups including the China Movie Channel which broadcasts on 21 national networks and the China Film Group which produces 30 features, 1000 telefilms and 400 TV series annually. Via its subsidiary, the China Film Co-Production Corporation, the China Film Group also manages all Chinese co-productions with foreign companies in over 50 countries.
China Film Promotion International groups nearly all domestic production companies in China, and China Film Group Distribution includes Chinese domestic distributors along with Chinese distributors of foreign films. Another distribution group, Huaxia Film Distribution, will also be in attendance.
During the week, the Chinese delegation will participate in the exchange of co-production projects, will visit Montreal film studios and laboratories, will participate in a forum on distribution in China, and join in networking sessions with producers, distributors and broadcasters.
The China Film Business Week will provide an exceptional opportunity to meet with top management from some of the most important production and distribution companies in China.
A CHINESE FILM TO OPEN WORLD FILM FESTIVAL
MILLION DOLLAR CROCODILE, a popular entertainment directed by Chinese filmmaker Lisheng Lin, will open the 2012 Montreal World Film Festival, and will inaugurate its World Greats section,. "The Chinese cinema is one of the strongest in the world right now and can be compared to Hollywood in its variety and depth," stated Serge Losique. Director Lisheng Lin and the film's team will be in attendance in Montreal. In 2004 he co-wrote the script for Feng Xiagang's WORLD WITHOUT THIEVES which opened the 2005 Montreal World Film Festival. He subsequently directed two of his own features.
“HAPPINESS NEVER COMES ALONE” TO CLOSE FESTIVAL
The French film “Un Bonheur n'arrive jamais seul” (Happiness Never Comes Alone) directed by James Huth with Sophie Marceau, Gad Almaleh, Maurice Barthélémy, François Berléand telle the story of Sacha who plays jazz, loves partying and his life free from constraints and Charlotte who has three children, two ex-husbands and a career to manage. They have nothing in common. Or so they think...
HORS CONCOURS / WORLD GREATS
EL TAAIB / LE REPENTI / THE REPENTANT – Merzak Allouache (Algeria – France)
LA MER À L'AUBE / CALM AT SEA – Volker Schlöndorff (France – Germany)
REHÉN DE ILUSIONES / OTAGE D'UNE ILLUSION / HOSTAGE OF AN ILLUSION – Eliseo Subiela (Argentina)
LA VOZ DORMIDA / THE SLEEPING VOICE – Benito Zambrano (Spain)
A VIZSGA / L'EXAMEN / THE EXAM – Péter Bergendy (Hungary)
YAMAMOTO ISOROKU / ADMIRAL YAMAMOTO – Izuru Narushima (JaponJapan)
WAS BLEIBT / HOME FOR THE WEEKEND - Hans-Christian Schmid (Germany)
DER VERDINGBUB / L'ENFANT PLACÉ / THE FOSTER BOY – Markus Imboden (Switzerland)
LIV OG INGMAR / LIV ET INGMAR / LIV & INGMAR – Dheeraj Akolkar (Norway)
GRUPO 7 / UNIT 7 – Alberto Rodriguez (Spain)
BATTLE FOR UKRAINE / LA BATAILLE POUR L'UKRAINE – Andrei Konchalovsky (Russia - Switzerland – Ukraine)
7 DÍAS EN LA HABANA / 7 JOURS À LA HAVANE / 7 DAYS IN HAVANA – Benicio Del Toro, Pablo Trapero, Julio Medem, Elia Suleiman, Gaspar Noé, Juan Carlos Tabio, Laurent Cantet, (Spain – France)
LA NOCHE DE ENFRENTE / LA NUIT D'EN FACE / INTO THE NIGHT – Raul Ruiz (Chile – France)
UN BONHEUR N'ARRIVE JAMAIS SEUL / HAPPINESS NEVER COMES ALONE – James Huth (France)
CORNOUAILLE – Anne Le Ny (France)
À L'AVEUGLE / BLIND MAN – Xavier Palud (France)
JE ME SUIS FAIT TOUT PETIT / LOW PROFILE – Cécilia Rouaud (France)
NOBOU NO SHIRO / LE CHÂTEAU FLOTTANT / THE FLOATING CASTLE – Isshin Inudo & Shinji Higuchi (Japan)
BELIY TIGR / LE TIGRE BLANC / WHITE TIGER – Karen Shakhnazarov (Russia)
MILLION DOLLAR CROCODILE – Lisheng Lin (China)
LA LAPIDATION DE SAINT ÉTIENNE / THE STONING OF SAINT STEPHEN – Pere Vilá i Barceló (Spain – France)
ITAI / REUNION – Ryoichi Kimizuka (Japan)
RUSHLIGHTS – Antoni Stutz (USA)
LA MOGLIE DEL SARTO / LA FEMME DU TAILLEUR / THE TAILOR'S WIFE – Massimo Scaglione (Italy)
MAGNIFICA PRESENZA / MAGNIFICENT PRESENCE – Ferzan Ozpetek (Italy)
OBA NATHUWA OBA EKKA / AVEC TOI, SANS TOI / WITH YOU, WITHOUT YOU – Prasanna Vithanage (Sri Lanka – India)
BAI LU YUAN / WHITE DEER PLAIN – Wang Quan'an (China)
THE WORDS – Brian Klugman & Lee Sternthal (USA)
FOCUS ON WORLD CINEMA – Feature films
LES PIROGUES DES HAUTES TERRES / SAND'S TRAIN – Olivier Langlois (France – Senégal)
PAISAJES DEVORADOS / VANISHING LANDSCAPES – Eliseo Subiela (Argentina)
ECSTASY / IRVINE WELSH'S ECSTASY – Rob Heydon (Canada - Netherlands - United Kingdom)
¿ALGUIEN A VISTO A LUPITA? / HAVE YOU SEEN LUPITA? – Gonzalo Justiniano (Chile - Mexico – Argentina)
TOP OF THE HILL PEOPLE - Wanfeng Han (China)
MEET IN PYONGYANG / RENCONTRE À PYONGYANG – Xierzhati Yahepu & Hyon Chol Kim (China - North Korea)
BROTHER / LE FRÈRE – ZhanJun An (China)
XIANG YANG PO / LA LÉGENDE DE SUNNYLAND / THE LEGEND OF SUNNYLAND – Jin Ge (China)
TRES MARÍAS / TROIS MARIAS / THREE MARYS – Francisco Gonzalez (Costa Rica)
ASMAA – Amr Salama (Egypt)
SEIS PUNTOS SOBRE EMMA / SIX POINTS SUR EMMA / SIX POINTS ABOUT EMMA – Roberto Pérez Toledo (Spain)
KANIMAMBO – Abdelatif Hwidar, Carla Subirana, Adán Aliaga (Spain – Mozambique)
HILJAISUUS / SILENCE – Sakari Kirjavainen (Finland)
MISSÄ KULJIMME KERRAN / WHERE ONCE WE WALKED - Peter Lindholm (Finland)
PARADA / LA PARADE / THE PARADE – Srdjan Dragojevic (Serbia - Croatia - Macedonia – Slovenia)
TEY / AUJOURD'HUI / TODAY – Alain Gomis (France – Senégal)
I POLI TON PAIDION / LA CITÉ DES ENFANTS / THE CITY OF CHILDREN – Yorgos Gkikapeppas (Greece)
UTOLSÓ RAPSZÓDIA / DERNIÈRE RHAPSODIE / LAST RHAPSODY – Bence Gyöngyössy (Hungary – France)
YEKI MIKHAD BAHAT HARF BEZANE / QUELQU'UN VEUT TE PARLER / SOMEONE WANNA TALK TO YOU – Manouchehr Hadi (Iran)
YE ASHEGHANE-YE SADEH / UNE SIMPLE HISTOIRE D'AMOUR / A SIMPLE LOVE STORY – Saman Moghadam (Iran)
THE ENIGMA OF FRANK RYAN / L'ÉNIGME DE FRANK RYAN – Desmond Bell (Ireland)
Á ANNAN VEG / EITHER WAY - Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson (Iceland)
SHARQIYA – Ami Livne (Israel - France – Germany)
KAZOKU NO KUNI / NOTRE TERRE NATALE / OUR HOMELAND – Yonghi Yang (Japan)
THE CAPTAIN OF NAKARA – Bob Nyanja (Kenya – Germany)
CHALÁN / LE COURSIER / GOFER - Jorge Michel Grau (Mexico)
FECHA DE CADUCIDAD / DATE D'EXPIRATION/ EXPIRATION DATE – Kenya Márquez (Mexico)
HIGHWAY / AUTOROUTE / HIGHWAY – Deepak Rauniyar (Népal – USA)
DE BENDE VAN OSS / THE GANG OF OSS – André van Duren (Netherlands)
PRÍLIŠ MLADÁ NOC / A NIGHT TOO YOUNG – Olmo Omerzu (Czech Republic – Slovenia)
BOLO GASEIRNEBA LE GARDIEN / THE GUARDIAN – Zaza Urushadze (Georgia)
PAZIRAIE SADEH / MODESTE RÉCEPTION / MODEST RECEPTION – Mani Haghighi (Iran)
ZENNE / ZENNE DANCER – Caner Alper & Mehmet Binay (Turkey)
AURORA / VANISHING WAVES – Kristina Buozyte (Lithuania – France)
LA SEGUNDA MUERTE / LA SECONDE MORT / THE SECOND DEATH – Santiago Fernande (Argentina)
TUTTI GIÙ – Niccolò Castelli (Switzerland)
VIARA, LJUBOV I WISKEY / FAITH, LOVE AND WHISKEY – Kristina Nikolova (Bulgaria – USA)
MATERIAL – Craig Freimond (South Africa)
CAPITÃES DE AREIA / CAPITAINES DES SABLES / CAPTAINS OF THE SANDS – Cecilia Amado (Brazil)
YOSSI – Eytan Fox (Israël)
TOATA LUMEA DIN FAMILIA NOASTRA / TOUT LE MONDE DANS LA FAMILLE / EVERYBODY IN OUR FAMILY - Radu Jude (Romania)
DE GOEDE DOOD / UNE BELLE MORT / A GOOD DEATH – Wannie de Wijn (Netherlands)
MARIACHI GRINGO – Tom Gustafson (Mexico – USA)
KONSHIN - Yoshinari Nishikori (Japan)
LA CEBRA / LE ZÈBRE / THE ZEBRA – Fernando León (Mexico)
TYSTA LEKEN / THE QUIET GAME – Görel Crona (Sweden)
TRANSPAPA - Sarah Judith Mettke (Germany)
FORMENTERA - Ann-Kristin Reyels (Germany)
GIB MIR NOCH EIN JAHR / DONNE-MOI UNE ANNÉE DE PLUS / GIVE ME ANOTHER YEAR – Curtis Burz (Germany)
AMARANTO / AMARANTE / AMARANTH – Amin Yoma (Argentina)
PARAISOS ARTIFICIAIS / LES PARADIS ARTIFICIELS / ARTIFICIAL PARADISES – Marcos Prado (Brazil – Netherlands)
TALKING TO THE TREES / EN PARLANT AUX ARBRES - Ilaria Borrelli & Guido Freddi (Italy – Cambodia)
TÂM HÔN ME / ÂME MATERNELLE / MOTHER'S SOUL - Nhue Giang Pham (Vietnam - France / Vietnam – France)
LES ENFANTS DE TROUMARON / THE CHILDREN OF TROUMARON – Harrikrisna Anenden (Mauritius)
THE TRAIL / LA TRACE – Tom Strnad (Canada)
QUAND JE SERAI PETIT / TWICE UPON A TIME - Jean-Paul Rouve (France – Belgium)
L'ÂGE ATOMIQUE / ATOMIC AGE – Héléna Klotz (France)
PUNK - Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire (France)
DÉSORDRES / CHAOS – Étienne Faure (France)
BE A MOTHER / ÊTRE MÈRE – Zhong Yu (China)
A PUERTA FRIA / COLD CALL – Xavi Puebla (Spain)
UP THERE / LÀ-HAUT – Zam Salim (United Kingdom)
RASSKAZI / SHORT STORIES – Mikhail Segal (Russia)
BOKUNO NAKANO OTOKONOKO / LA PETITE FILLE EN MOI / THE LITTLE GIRL IN ME – Shoji Kubota (Japan)
DAR ENTEZAR-E MOJEZEH / EN ATTENDANT LE MIRACLE / WAITING FOR A MIRACLE – Rasoul Sadr-Ameli (Iran)
HEMEL – Sacha Polak (Netherlands)
APPARTAMENTO AD ATENE / UN APPARTEMENT À ATHÈNES / APARTMENT IN ATHENS – Ruggero Dipaola (Italy)
7SEX7 – Irena Škoric (Croatia)
RUTA DE LA LUNA / LA ROUTE DE LA LUNE / ROUTE OF THE MOON - Juan Sebastián Jácome (Panama – Ecuador)
10i MERA / 10e JOUR / 10th DAY – Vassilis Mazomenos (Greece)
EL SUEÑO DE LU / LE RÊVE DE LU / THE DREAM OF LU – Carlos Sama (Mexico)
DEINE SCHÖNHEIT IST NICHTS WERT / YOUR BEAUTY IS WORTH NOTHING – Hüseyin Tabak (Austria)
LA GUERRA DEL MAIALE / LA GUERRE DU COCHON / THE WAR OF THE PIG - David Maria Putorti (Italy – Argentina)
TSUI NO SHINTAKU / A TERMINAL TRUST – Masayuki Suo (Japan)
AMBROSIA – Baharak Saeid Monir (Canada)
PLEASE KILL MR. KNOW IT ALL – Sandra Feldman & Colin Carter (Canada)
MARIANA / THE HERMIT CRAB - Joseph Israel Laban (Philippines)
LITTLE BLACK SPIDERS – Patrice Toye (Belgium – Netherlands)
KOMPANI ORHEIM / THE ORHEIM COMPANY – Arild Andresen (Norway)
MER ELLER MINDRE MANN / THE ALMOST MAN – Martin Lund (Norway)
KUMA – Umut Dag (Austria)
PUSTOI DOM / LA MAISON VIDE / THE EMPTY HOME – Nurbek Egen (Russia – Kyrgyzstan)
COM'É BELLO FAR L'AMORE / L'AMOUR EST DANS L'AIR / LOVE IS IN THE AIR – Fausto Brizzi (Italy)
E' NATA UNA STAR ? / UNE ÉTOILE EST NÉE / A STAR IS BORN – Lucio Pellegrini (Italy)
FALLING CITY – Zheng Dasheng (China)
JE VOUS AI COMPRIS / HAVE UNDERSTOOD YOU – Frank Chiche (France)
LA TRAVERSÉE / THE CROSSING – Jérôme Cornuau (France)
DEEMONID / DÉMONS / DEMONS – Ain Mäeots (Estonia)
UNLUCKY / MALCHANCEUX - Ian A. Robertson (Canada)
UNE NOCHE UNE NUIT / ONE NIGHT – Lucy Mulloy (Cuba - USA - United Kingdom)
LE MONDE NOUS APPARTIENT / THE WORLD BELONGS TO US – Stephan Streker (Belgium - France – Netherlands)
LO AZUL DEL CIELO / LE BLEU DU CIEL / THE BLUE OF THE SKY – Juan Uribe (Colombia)
BLIND INTERSECTIONS / CROISEMENTS – Lara Saba (Lebanon)
MARGARITA – Dominique Cardona & Laurie Colbert (Canada)
FEROCIOUS – Robert Cuffley (Canada)
FOCUS ON WORLD CINEMA – Short films
El Jazz – Andrés Peralta (Mexico)
Bajo el sol / Sous le soleil / Under the Sun – Arcadi Palerm (Mexico)
Der Krieg im Kopf / La Guerre dans ma tête / The War Inside my Head – Christoph Lacmanski (Germany)
Philomirrophobia – Yuke Qin (China)
Dura Lex – Anke Blondé (Belgium)
Lie to Me / Mens-moi – Kathleen Hrayssi (Australia)
On the Beach Sur la plage - Marie-Elsa Sgualdo (Switzerland)
Rendez-vous aux cieux / Meeting in the Heavens – Rodolphe Viémont (France)
Ça promet! – Christophe Garnier (France)
Bake a Cake – Aliocha (France)
A Beautiful Impurity – Zaheer Ahmad (United Kingdom)
Ennakum Oru Per / Moi aussi, j'ai un nom / I Too Have a Name – Suba Sivakumaran (Sri Lanka)
Erik Zamani / Le Temps des prunes / Time of the Plums – Sezen Kayhan (Turkey)
Hold on Me – Samuel Abrahams (United Kingdom)
A Doll's Life / Une vie de poupée – Natalia Andreadis (United Kingdom)
Kthimi / Le Retour / The Return – Blerta Zeqiri (Kosovo)
Sea Pavilion – Todd Somodevilla & Marysia Makowska (South Africa – USA)
Kavinsky – Daniel – Schraner (Switzerland)
I Am Neda / Je suis Neda – Nicole Kian Sadighi & Nader Sadighi (USA)
Peach Juice / Jus de pêche – Callum Paterson, Nathan Gilliss, Brian Lye (Canada)
Under – Mark Raso (Canada - USA – France)
Dave vs Death / David contre la mort – Patrick Hagarty (Canada)
Revolutionary Memories of Bhaman Who Loved Leila - Farahnaz Sharifi (Iran)
Unremembered / Oublié – Kelly Parslow (United Kingdom)
Queen - Adam Rose (USA)
À mi-chemin / Halfway There – Arnaud Benoliel (France)
Edwige – Mounia Meddour (France)
Fleuve rouge, Song Hong / Red River, Song Hong – Stéphanie Lansaque & François Leroy (France)
Ernest (45) Céline Savoldelli (France)
Écoute s'il pleut / Listen to Your Weeping Heart – Clary Demangeon (France)
Les Lettres de Saïgon / The Letters From Saigon – Bénédicte Mathieu (France)
Uzla Taht Al-Shams / Soleil privé / Private Sun – Rami Alayan (Palestinian Territories)
Towing – Wenhwa Tsao (USA)
In film la nasu' / Dans le film du Parrain / In Godfather's Movie – Cristina Jacob (Romania)
Remen / Ramez / Row! – Adriana Vior (Argentina)
En Op N Goede Dag / And Then One Day / Heddy Honigmann (Netherlands)
Bahari – Ahmed Ghoneimy (Egypt)
The Ritual Cat – Bob Svihovec (USA)
Dita e fundit e Loro Shestanit / Le Dernier jour de Loro Shestanit / The Last Day of Loro Shestanit – Sokol Keraj (Albania)
Rio / Rivière / River – Nicolas Serrano (Colombia)
Eight-Minute Deadline - Zina Papadopoulou & Petros Papadopoulos (Greece)
La Ville lumière – Pascal Tessaud (France)
I'm Your Man – Keren Ben Rafael (France)
African Race – Julien Paolini (France - Burkina Faso)
Shattered Past – Boris Sverlow (Belgium)
Police, ouvrez! / Police, Open! – Elliott Covrigaru (France)
Ce n'est pas un film de cow-boys / It's Not a Cowboy Movie – Benjamin Parent (France)
Dérapages – Olivier Riou (France)
Pesaran-e-buzkashi / Les Fils de Buzkashi / Buzkashi Boys – Sam French (USA - Afghanistan)
The Fox and the Chickadee / Le Renard et la mésange – Evan DeRushie (Canada)
Crainte et tremblement / Fear and Trembling – Tristan Tondino & Joséane Brunelle (Canada)
Now and Forever – Robert Holbrook (Canada)
Wolf Dog Tales / Les Contes du chien-loup – Bernadine Santistevan (USA)
Sonya – Florence Pelletier (Canada)
Comment rattraper le coup? / If You Can't Beat them, Join them – Majid Tounsi (Canada)
The Things My Father Never Taught Me – Burleigh Smith (Australia)
Voice Over – Martin Rosete (Spain)
Rauch – Franziska Krentzien (Germany)
Foxes – Lorcan Finnegan (Ireland)
La Mirada perdida / Le Regard perdu / The Missing Look – Damian Dionisio (Argentina)
La Noche anuncia la aurora / Night Announces Dawn – Gerard Uzcátegui (Venezuela)
Asad – Bryan Buckley (South Africa – USA)
Apocrifo / Apocryphe / Apocryphal – Ernesto Fundora Hernandez (Mexico)
The Letter / La Lettre – Kenneth Mercken (Belgium – Austria)
Merci mon chien – Julie Rembauville & Nicolas Bianco-Levrin (France – Canada)
Requiem for Romance / Requiem pour une romance – Jonathan Ng (Canada)
Runaways – Jordan Dodson (New Zealand)
B/W Foxes and the Cave of Light / Les Renards N/B et la Caverne de Lumière – Kiyoshi Endo (Japan)
Que puis-je te souhaiter avant le combat? / What Can I Wish You Before the Fight? – Safia Babluani (France)
Better People – Mark O'Brien (Canada)
If You Really Knew Me - G. Christianne Hirt Shaw (Canada)
April Doesn't Hurt Here – Matthew Yim (Canada)
Jack's Not Sick Anymore – Chloe Domont (USA)
Romkom – Zvonimir Rumboldt (Croatia)
Die Schaukel des Sargmachers / The Swing of the Coffin Maker - Elmar Imanov (Germany – Azerbaijan)
Ce Chemin devant moi / This Path Ahead – Mohamed Bourokba (France)
Frente al mar / Oceanfront – Adriana González-Vega (Porto Rico)
Two Hearts – Darren Thornton (Ireland)
Jestem OK / I Am OK – Tushar Prakash (Poland)
1937 – Svetozar Goloviev (Russia)
Odna minuta / Une minute / One Minute – Elena Galyanina (Russia)
Italia Me Kadjav / Je vais en Italie / I Am Going to Italy – Ivaylo Markov (Bulgaria)
Le Voile – Max Rheault (Canada)
Memo – Banu Kepenek (Germany)
Flamingo Pride – Tomer Eshed (Germany)
La Promotion / The Promotion – Manu Joucla (France)
Le Cri du homard / The Lobster's Cry – Nicolas Guiot (Belgium – France)
Die Klempner / Les Plombiers / The Plumbers – Dimitri Dietrich Limpert (Germany)
A Galinha que Burlou o Sistema / La Poule qui a triché / Tastes Like Chicken – Quico Meirelles (Brazil)
Einspruch VI / Protestation VI / Objection VI – Rolando Colla (Switzerland)
Strangeface – Lynne Vincent McCarthy (Australia)
Dotty – Mick Andrews & Brett O'Gorman (New Zealand)
Somebody – Doug Van Bebber (USA)
Bayonet – Gregory Horoupian (USA)
The Girl and the Graduate – George Retelas (USA)
Corvus – Darcy Van Poelgeest (Canada)
The Environmentalist – Jacob Bond (Canada)
La Belle Province – Frédéric Daoust (Canada)
Swim – Julia Patey (Canada)
Glue / Colle – Michal Lavi (Canada)
Erase-Replace / Efface tout… remplace tout - Michel Tintin Deslandes (Canada)
Baby Half Lie – Kimberly Miller-Pryce (Canada)
Blue Monday – Craig Boreham (Australia)
Grace – Liz Cooper (Australia)
One Night Stand – Michael Thai (USA – China)
De naam van de vader / Nom du père / Name of the Father – Timothy Josha Wennekes (Belgium)
Natasha – Roman Klochkov (Belgium)
Léone, Gérard et les autres / Leone, Gerard and the Rest of Them – Julie Roy (Canada)
Two Brothers – Lim Boyoung (South Korea)
DOCUMENTARIES OF THE WORLD – Feature length and medium length
AFRICA: THE BEAT – Samaki Wanne (Spain – Tanzania)
BEAUTY AND THE BREAST – Liliana Komorowska (Canada)
LA MUJER DEL ETERNAUTA / THE ETERNAUTA'S WIFE – Adán Aliaga (Spain – Argentina)
EL DIFICIL ARTE DEL PASEO / L'ART DIFICILE DE LA PROMENADE / ON HARD ART OF STROLLING – Ivan Garcia (Spain)
ENFANTS FORÇATS / CHILD SLAVE LABOURERS – Hubert Dubois (France)
HAZARIBAG, CUIR TOXIQUE – Élise Darblay & Éric de Lavarene (France – Bangladesh)
¿QUÉ SUEÑAN LAS CABRAS? / À QUOI RÊVENT LES CHÈVRES? / WHAT DO GOATS DREAM? - Jorge Prior (Mexico)
DE LEEGTE EN HET WOORD / LA DERNIÈRE FRONTIÈRE / THE LAST FRONTIER - Floris-Jan Van Luyn (Netherlands – Mongolia)
HIVER NOMADE / WINTER NOMADS – Manuel von Stürler (Switzerland)
WEITERLEBEN / CONTINUER / TO GO ON LIVING – Hans Haldimann (Switzerland)
DÉGAGE! – Mohamed Zran (Tunisia)
CONFESSIONS OF A SELF-HATING JEW - Phillip B. Roth (USA)
A GIRL LIKE HER / UNE FILLE COMME ELLE – Ann Fessler (USA)
FROM NOTHING, SOMETHING / DE RIEN, QUELQUE CHOSE – Tim Cawley (USA)
LA NUIT NOMADE – Marianne Chaud (France)
THE LABÈQUE WAY / LA MANIÈRE LABÈQUE – Félix Cábez (Spain)
SISTER – Brenda Davis (USA - Cambodia - Ethiopia – Haiti)
PAS DE PIQUERIE DANS MON QUARTIER - Jean-Laurence Seaborn, Jonathan Seaborn, Jean Guénette (Canada)
UNE BRIQUE À LA FOIS – Megan Durnford (Canada)
CHANGE YOUR NAME OUSAMA! / CHANGE DE NOM, OUSAMA! – Fuad Chowdhury (Canada)
MAN FOR A DAY / HOMME POUR UN JOUR – Katarina Peters (Germany - United Kingdom – Finland)
JANNAT' ALI / MON NOM N'EST PAS ALI / MY NAME IS NOT ALI – Viola Shafik (Egypt – Germany)
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO IRVING / LE MONDE SELON JOHN IRVING – André Schäfer (Germany)
SCHUMANN AT PIER2 – Christian Berger (Germany)
ECHOES - Sun-Kyung Yi (Canada)
NAÎTRE PÈRE / FATHER'S BIRTH - Delphine Lanson (France)
SHEN TI DE ZI WEI / LE GOÛT DU CORPS / TASTE OF BODY – Wang Fan (USA / China)
THE NEW GREAT GAME / LE NOUVEAU GRAND JEU – Alexandre Trudeau & Jonathan Pedneault (Canada)
ADDICTED TO FAME – David Giancola (USA)
DANSE LA DANSE – Alain Deymier (Spain)
DICTATURE AFFECTIVE – Karina Marceau &Louise Archambault (Canada)
MOHAMMED TO MAYA / DE MOHAMMED À MAYA – Jeff Roy (USA – Thailand)
BEAUTIFULLY BROKEN, THE LIFE & WORK OF RAFAEL GOLDCHAIN – Vladimir Kabelik (Canada)
DONAUSPITAL - SMZ OST / L'HÔPITAL DU DANUBE / DANUBE HOSPITAL – Nikolaus Geyrhalter (Austria)
LE SOMMEIL D'OR / GOLDEN SLUMBERS – Davy Chou (France – Cambodia)
POSLEDNATA LINEIKA NA SOFIA / LA DERNIÈRE AMBULANCE DE SOFIA / SOFIA'S LAST AMBULANCE – Ilian Metev (Bulgaria - Germany – Croatia_
ELECTORAL DYSFUNCTION – David Deschamps, Leslie D. Farrell, Bennett Singer (USA)
SWEET 16 – Dan Shannon (Canada)
IN THE SHADOW OF A MAN / DANS L'OMBRE D'UN HOMME – Hanan Abdalla (Egypt)
ROMAN POLANSKI: A FILM MEMOIR – Laurent Bouzereau (United Kingdom)
PHILÉMON CHANTE HABANA / PHILÉMON SINGS HABANA – Pedro Ruiz (Canada)
UNE JOURNÉE PARTICULIÈRE (Histoire(s) de Festival no. 4) – Gilles Jacob (France)
ICI ON NOIE LES ALGÉRIENS – Yasmina Adi (France)
DOCUMENTARIES OF THE WORLD – Short films
Patron ng Laging Saklolo / Le Patron du perpétuel secours / Patronage Politics – Seymour Barros Sanchez (Philippines)
Momentum – Virginia Abramovich (Canada)
The Resort – Galina Kalashnikova (USA)
Falgoosh / Blames & Flames – Mohammadreza Farzad (Iran)
Mimos – Haya Waseem (Canada)
Asparragos – Laura Zuallaert (Belgium)
Histoire sans visage – Meriem Achour Bouakkaz (Canada)
Lola – Ghazal Sotoudeh (Canada)
Ma boîte noire - Nicolas-Alexandre Tremblay (Canada)
Ma petite pinotte - Marie-France Laval (Canada)
Thank You for Calling - Régis Coussot (Canada)
Rose ou bleu? / Pink or Blue? – Barbara Bedont (Canada)
Courage in the Face of Hate Courage face à la haine – Matthew McLaughlin (Canada)
PROGRAMME OF DOCUMENTARIES FROM INIS STUDENTS
Lola – Ghazal Sotoudeh (Canada)
Histoire sans visage – Meriem Achour Bouakkaz (Canada)
Ma petite pinotte - Marie-France Laval (Canada)
Ma boîte noire - Nicolas-Alexandre Tremblay (Canada)
En attendant Oktay – Émilie Beaulieu-Guérette (Canada)
Thank You for Calling - Régis Coussot (Canada)
A TRIBUTE TO THE SAM SPIEGEL FILM & TV SCHOOL, JERUSALEM
Eich Ratsachti et Rabin / How I Killed Rabin – Michael Alalu (Israel)
Krav Einaym / Staring Match - Orit Fouks (Israel)
Tateh – Yaniv Linton (Israel)
Sichot Achronot / Last Calls – Ruthy Pribar (Israel)
Lori - Hila Shrem (Israel)
TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF FILM & TELEVISION STUDENT FILMS
Sachkan Safsal / Sur la touche / Benched – Gill Weinstein (Israel)
Resen / Dog-Leash - Eti Tsicko (Israel)
Kir El Kir / Mur à mur / Wall to Wall – Tal Haring (Israel)
When You Played – Itay Tal (Israel)
Migrash / Cour / Court – Dekel Nitzan (Israel)
THE 43rd CANADIAN STUDENT FILM FESTIVAL
108 Prayer Beads - Han Han Li (Université Concordia, Montréal)
8,75$ - Claudia Hébert (York University, Toronto)
A Hair on Your Heart – Young Cho (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver)
À l'Abordage – Alexandre Pelletier, Louis Roy (Cégep de Saint-Hyacinthe)
À la carte – Jocelyne Le Léannec (Université de Saint-Boniface, Winnipeg)
All of Us – Hesam – Hanafi (Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax)
An Unmarked Heart - Sara Ann Brown (Sheridan College, Oakville, Ontario)
Bad Movie – Trevor Chartrand (York University, Toronto)
Blue Moves – Andrew Gillingham (Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia)
Bread of Heaven – Nathan Douglas (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver)
By My Side – Kailey Spear, Sam Spear (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver)
Chloé - Marc-Olivier Comeau (Université Concordia, Montréal)
Chronoscope – Mario Daoust, Vincent Laurin, Étienne Marcoux, Dominic Remiro (UQAM, Montréal)
Continuité des parcs – Gabriel Arguello (Université de Montréal)
Daisy – Agathe Bray-Bourret (Université Concordia, Montréal)
Deadly Serious – Jody Higgins (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver)
Desert Dust – Christopher Lennox-Aasen (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver)
Discovery – Iryn Tushabe (University of Regina, Saskatchewan)
Dreaming in Colour – Sabrina Catalogna, Gabriela Warrior Renaud (Université Concordia, Montréal)
Ethan & Jenn – Nathan Meszaros (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver)
Fags After Dark – David Manuel (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver)
False Fiend – Kajetan Kwiatkowski (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver)
Feed Breakfast – Athena Han (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver)
Friend Request – Tyler Funk (University of British Columbia, Vancouver)
Graceland – Aaron May (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver)
Gray – Sepehr Samimi (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver)
Harvey's Dream – Quinn Spicker (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver)
Home – Matthew Kennedy (York University, Toronto)
Hotel Canada! – Aliaa Khachouk (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Intrusion - Amélie Hardy-Groleau (Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf, Montréal)
Jerk - Brendan Prost (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver)
Khachaturian Meets Dali - Kirill Fessenko (Université Concordia, Montréal)
La Surprise - Philippe Mayrand (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Little Castle - Daniel Marc Froidevaux (Ryerson University, Toronto)
Loss Together - Earl Oliveros (York University, Toronto)
A Place of Peace - Dejan Pavlovic (Université Concordia, Montréal)
My Uncle Terry - Paula McGlynn (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver)
No One's Watching - Justin Tomchuk (Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Halifax)
Plating - Jon Thomas (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver)
Reflections - David Kelso (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver)
Ride - Mackenzie Sheppard (University of British Columbia, Vancouver)
Set Apart - James Penco (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver)
Soft Cell - Sam Dewar (University of British Columbia, Vancouver)
Spiritualized - Wayne Robinson (University of British Columbia, Vancouver)
Spraynet - Florence Pelletier (Université Concordia, Montréal)
Stray Dogs - Eri Asai (York University, in Toronto)
Street Spirit - Wayne Robinson (University of British Columbia, Vancouver)
Suburban Front - Natasha When (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver)
Swift - H. Kristen Campbell (Emily Carr University of Art & Design, Vancouver)
Tengri – Alisi Telengut (Université Concordia, Montréal)
The Daily Special – Steffi Tupe (York University, Toronto)
The Meek, The Mad and The Misinformed – Andrew Miller (Ryerson University, Toronto)
The Rat – Graeme Achurch (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver)
The Worst Day Ever – Sophie Jarvis (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver)
Time – Peter Hostak (Dawson College, Montreal)
Utopia? – Brent Godfrey (Sheridan College, Oakville, Ontario)
Waiting on the Rain – Bernie Yao (Emily Carr University of Art & Design, Vancouver)
What the Fuck are Mormons? – Peter Mills (University of Regina, Saskatchewan)
Yes I Can – Wasim Baobaid (Algonquin College, Ottawa).
Youth and Tradition – John Palanca (York University, Toronto)
IN COLLABORATION WITH ÉLÉPHANT, THE QUEBEC CINEMA ARCHIVE, A PHILANTHROPIC PROJECT OF QUEBECOR
LÉOLO - Jean-Claude Lauzon (Canada)
LOTO-QUÉBEC MOVIES UNDER THE STARS (Free)
GERRY – Alain Desrochers (Canada)
STARBUCK – Ken Scott (Canada)
BATMAN BEGINS – Christopher Nolan (USA)
HASTA LA VISTA – Geoffrey Enthoven (Belgique / Belgium)
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE – Stanley Kubrick (Royaume-Uni / United Kingdom)
HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS – Zhang Yimou (Chine / China)
INCEPTION – Christopher Nolan (USA)
LE VIOLON ROUGE – François Girard (Canada)
BLACK SWAN / LE CYGNE NOIR – Darren Aronovsky (USA)
THE SHINING – Stanley Kubrick (USA)
HUGO – Martin Scorsese (USA)
THE ARTIST - Michel Hazanavicius (France)
OUR CINÉMA – REVIEW OF A YEAR OF HITS
Free admission at space Culturel G.E. Lapalme, Place des Arts
ANGLE MORT – Dominic James (Canada)
FRISSON DES COLLINES – Richard Roy (Canada)
LE SENS DE L'HUMOUR – Émile Gaudreault (Canada)
LA RUN – Damian Fuica (Canada)
SUR LE RYTHME - Charles-Olivier Michaud (Canada)
POUR L'AMOUR DE DIEU – Micheline Lanctôt (Canada)
CÔTEAU ROUGE – André Forcier (Canada)
GERRY – Alain Desrochers (Canada)
STARBUCK – Ken Scott (Canada)
MARÉCAGES – Guy Édoin (Canada)
CAFÉ DE FLORE - Jean-Marc Vallée (Canada)
MONSIEUR LAZHAR – Philippe Falardeau (Canada)
LE VENDEUR – Sébastien Pilote (Canada)
NUIT#1 – Anne Émond (Canada)
VOLKER SCHLÖNDORFF TO GIVE MASTER CLASS AT MWFF
The German director, Volker Schlöndorff, will give a master class at the upcoming Montreal World Film Festival. “Volker Schlöndorff is one of key members of the New German Cinema, that group of young filmmakers who, with talent, imagination and a daring choice of subjects, radically changed German cinema,” said MWFF President Serge Losique. “It is a great privilege to be hosting his master class in Montreal.”
Born in Germany in 1939, Volker Schlöndorff was educated at the Sorbonne and l'IDHEC in Paris and served his apprenticeship as assistant to Jean-Pierre Melville (Léon Morin, prêtre, 1961), Alain Resnais (Last Year at Marienbad, 1961) and Louis Malle (Le Feu follet, 1963). Returning to Germany, he made his own directorial debut in “Young Törless”, which won the critics' prize in Cannes in 1966 but it wasn't until “The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum” (1975, co-directed with his wife, Margarethe von Trotta), that he made his breakthrough at the German box office. Four years later The Tin Drum based on the Günter Grass novel, won the Palme d'or in Cannes and the Oscar for best foreign film.
Though considered to be part of the German New Cinema, Schlöndorff's work is singular within this movement for his choice of material and his independent style. An aspect of his films which sets them apart is their strong literary inspiration. Many of his films are adaptations of famous literary works: in addition to the Musil, Böll and Grass novels, works by Heinrich von Kleist (Michael Kohlhaas, 1969) Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman, 1985), Marcel Proust (Swann in Love, 1983), Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale, 1990), and others.
More recently Schlöndorff has turned to social and historical subjects in such films as The Legends of Rita (2000), The Ninth Day (2004) and Strike (2006). His latest film Calm at Sea (2011), deals with an incident during the German occupation of France in WWII, in which 150 young Frenchman are selected to be shot in retribution for the assassination of a German officer. “Calm at Sea” will be shown at this year's Montreal World film Festival, which runs from August 23 to September 3.
THE MWFF TO HONOUR MEL HOPPENHEIM
The 36th Montreal World Film Festival will honour Mel Hoppenheim with its Grand Prize of the Americas. "There are few men in our cinema with the Mel Hoppenheim's stature," declared MWFF president Serge Losique. "He is among the men most responsible for the development of Quebec and Canadian film industries. As a builder and entrepreneur but also as a generous philanthropist, Mel was a prime mover in the establishment of a true domestic film industry."
Mel Hoppenheim founded Panavision (Canada) in 1965 to provide cameras and other shooting equipment, to among others, such pioneers as Jean-Pierre Lefebvre and Roger Frappier. Before long Mel moved his company into the offices of Bellevue Pathé where Harold Greenberg became his mentor. A Toronto facility was established in 1972 and a Vancouver facility followed in 1977. Always committed to what he saw as Montreal's vast and largely untapped potential and possibility for the production industry, in 1988 Mel acquired the historic Expo Theatre in Cité du Havre. Building five state-of-the-art studios, he soon had created the most modern of facilities available to the Canadian film and television industry. Mel's Cité du Cinéma was born.
In 1997, Mel donated $1 million to Montreal's Concordia University, which was subsequently used to open the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. Mel and his partners have also helped in the development of the Institut national de l'image et du son (INIS), a school for the development of writers, directors and producers for film and television.
Together with his partner, Michel Trudel, Mel expanded the Cité du Cinéma's facilities with a second set of studios, enlarged again in 2002, which have attracted some of the biggest Hollywood films and other foreign productions to be shot in Montreal.
In 2010, Mel received an honorary Genie Award for his contribution to Canadian cinema. He is also the recipient of an honorary doctorate from Concordia University.
The Montreal World Film Festival will be held August 23 to September 3, 2012.
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