The Montreal World Film Festival is proud to announce the line-up of its World Competition as well as First Feature Competition. Members of both Juries are also public as of today. “Over the decades, the MWFF has achieved its cultural and an economic mission by offering audiences and professionals a multitude of films, of all genres and provenances,” stated Serge Losique who added “An institution recognized by cineastes the world over, this great cinematic institution has always worked hard to assure its perenniality. It has always been about bringing to Montreal screens the new and interesting films that constitute the best showcase of essential cinema culture.”
This year the number of entries to the MWFF sections has overtaken those of previous years : over 2000 feature and short films (in equal proportion) have been screened by the selection commitee not mentioning the other films viewed during festivals abroad. The number of countries within the selection highlights this increase as 86 countries will be representred during the 39th edition of the Festival. There are 36 World Premieres in those competitions.
The 39th Montreal World Film Festival and its International Film Market will take place from August 27th to September 7th 2015.
World Competition
26 Feature films from 31 countries will compete for the Grand Prize of the Americas.
2 Nights Till Morning by Mikko Kuparinen (Finland-Lithuania) 84 mins
A Havana Moment by Guillermo Ivàn Duenas (USA – Cuba - Mexico – Colombia)
A Matter of Courage by Roberto Gervitz (Brazil – Uruguay) 90 mins
Chucks by Sabine Hiebler, Gerhard Ertl (Austria) 93 mins
Demimonde by Attila Szàsz (Hungary) 88 mins
Gassoh by Tatsuo Kobayashi (Japan) 87 mins
Getaway of Love by Tonino Zangardi (Italy) 90 mins
Grey and Black by Luís Filipe Rocha (Portugal – Brazil)
Happy 140 by Gracia Querejeta (Spain) 98 mins
John Hron by Jon Pettersson (Sweden) 127 mins
L’Accabadora by Enrico Pau (Italy – Ireland) 97 mins
Mad Love by Philippe Ramos (France) 96 mins
Memories of the Wind by Özcan Alper (Turkey - Germany - France – Georgia) 140 mins
My Enemies by Stéphane Géhami (Canada) 106 mins
On the Road to Berlin by Sergei Popov (Russia) 82 mins
Outliving Emily by Eric Weber (USA) 88 mins
Rider Jack by This Lüscher (Switzerland) 90 mins
Secret by Selim Evci (Turkey) 102 mins
Seven Days by Xing Jian (China) 73 mins
Summer Solstice by Michal Rogalski (Poland – Germany) 95 mins
Taboo by Khosro Masoumi (Iran) 108 mins
The Invisible Artery by Pere Vilà Barcelo (Spain) 119 mins
The Midnight Orchestra by Jérôme Cohen Olivar (Morocco) 114 mins
The Petrov File by Georgi Balabanov (Bulgaria – Germany) 90 mins
The Soul of a Spy by Vladimir Bortko (Russia) 110 mins
The Visitor by Mehmet Erylimaz (Turkey) 127 mins
First Feature Competition
Beijing Carmen by Wang Fan (China) 95 mins
Closer by Mostafa Ahmadi (Iran) 90 mins
Crushed by Megan Riakos (Australia) 111 mins
Das Deckelbad by Kuno Bont (Switzerland) 97 mins
Dear Deer by Takeo Kikuchi (Japan) 107 mins
Fire Birds by Amir Wolf (Israel) 105 mins
Kagurame byYassuo Okuaki (Japan) 112 mins
Legacy by Nemanja Cipranic (Serbia – Montenegro) 90 mins
Live by Vlad Paunescu (Romania) 107 mins
Lost and found by Show Yanagisawa (Japan) 111 mins
Maresia by Marcos Guttmann (Brazil) 90 mins
Neboke by Norihito Iki (Japan) 115 mins
Our Everyday Life by Ines Tanovic (Bosnia-Hezegovine – Slovenia – Croatia)
Rainbow Without Colours by Tuyen Quang Nguyen (Vietnam) 93 mins
Rosa Chumbe by Jonatan Relayze Chiang (Peru) 75 mins
Orage by Fabrice Camoin (France) 80 mins
Stubborn Boy by Moritz Kramer (Germany) 82 mins
The Funeral by Qi Wang (China) 115 mins
The Plastic Cardboard Sonata by Enrico Falcone, Piero Persello (Italy) 80 mins
The Sum of Histories by Lukas Bossuyt (Belgium – Netherlands) 85 mins
The Thin Yellow Line by Celso Garcia (Mexique) 95 mins
Three Days in September by Darijan Pejovski (Macedonia – Kosovo) 90 mins
Under Heaven by Dalmira Tilepbergen (Khirgizistan) 88 mins
Vals by Anita Lakenberger (Austria) 120 mins
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 Laferrière and Richard Sadler, earning critical plaudits and several honours.He continued his novelistic output (Éroshima, L’Odeur du café, Le Cri des oiseaux fous…) even as he became a widely read and viewed journalist. He also penned several screenplays, made his directorial debut in 2004 with Comment conquérir l’amérique, and won the 2006 Governor-General’s Award for his youth album Je suis fou de Vava. Among the many honours his books have garnered are the Prix Médicis and Grand Prix du livre de Montréal in 2009, and the Grand Prix littéraire international Metropolis Bleu and the Prix des libraires in 2010. In 2013 he was named to the Académie française and in 2014 Officier de l'Ordre national du Québec.
TEA FALCO
Italian actress and photographer Tea Falco was born in Catania, Sicily in 1986. In 2011 she won one of the most prestigious Italian awards for contemporary art, the Basilio Cascella Award, and soon had her work exhibited, in Italy and abroad. but also in Greece and Los Angeles. She discovered her passion for acting in 2003, and trained at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, then at various professional workshops. In 2004 she made her stage debut and her cinema debut the following year in Un angelo per amico by Adriano Chiaramida; from then on she has continued both her theatrical and cinematographic careers. Her first starring role, bringing her to international attention, was in Bernardo Bertolucci’s Me and You, shown in Cannes in 2012. In the same year she also appeared in the fourth episode of Young Montalbano, a popular Italian TV series. Today she lives and works in Rome as an actress and photographer.
VENTURA PONS
One of Spain’s most prominent filmmakers, Catalan director Ventura Pons has made over two dozen features which are regularly shown on screens around the world. He has been the subject of more than 30 international tributes and retrospectives: at London’s ICA , New York’s Lincoln Center and in the world's foremost cinematheques. Pons has received “lifetime achievement awards” in Chicago, Galway, Piestany, Lima, Torino and Montpellier and in Spain he has received the Catalan National Film Award, the Spain Fine Arts Gold Medal, the Catalan Sant Jordi Cross, the Gaudi Honour Award among many others. In 2012 the University of Colorado at Denver held an academic conference on his cinema about which Vervuert has published a book: Ventura Pons: The Unconventional Gaze of Catalan Cinema. He has published his memoirs Mine (and the others) (2011), and a world tour diary, 54 days and a bit more (2012). His most recent film, Virus of Fear, is showing in this year’s MWFF.
PETER RAINER
Peter Rainer is the film critic for the Christian Science Monitor, president of the National Society of Film Critics, and a regular reviewer for "Film Week" on National Public Radio. In 1998 he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism. His most recent book is "Rainer on Film: Thirty Years of Film Writing in a Turbulent and Transformative Era." He has twice won the National Entertainment Journalism Award for Best Online Entertainment Critic. Prior to the Christian Science Monitor, Rainer served as film critic for New York magazine, the Los Angeles Times and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner. He has also written and co-produced two documentaries for the A&E Network, on Sidney Poitier and the Hustons. In 1995 he was a member of the main jury for the Venice Film Festival.
GERARDO SALCEDO
Gerardo Salcedo studied communication sciences at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM). In 1983, he worked as a film professor at UNAM and joined the Dirección de Cinematografia staff. Between 1992 and 2006, he was a programmer and deputy director at Cineteca Nacional. In 2007, he co-founded the film distribution company MVFilms, as well as working as a programmer for the Acapulco and Chihuahua film festivals and sitting on the pre-selection jury for the Expresión en Corto festival in Guanajuato. In 2010, he became deputy director of the Guadalajara Film Festival.
LUIS URQUIZA
Mexican filmmaker Luis Urquiza graduated from UAM (Autonomous Metropolitan University) in communications and complemented his studies with cinema and journalism classes. Since 1987 he has worked as a producer and a director, first for television and then for the large screen. In 2001 he co-founded Astillero Films with Lourdes García. In 2006, he produced and directed a short film, Mother’s Love, followed, in 2014, by Perfect Obedience, his first fiction feature, winner of the Grand Prize of the Americas and Glauber Rocha prize for best Latin American films at the 38th Montreal World Film Festival last year. Urquiza has also produced, among others: Who is Mr. Lopez? (2006) by Luis Mandoki, Teo’s Journey (2008), by Walter Doehner, Hidalgo, the Untold Story (2009) and Morelos (2012) by Antonio Serrano.
JURY OF THE FIRST FEATURE PRIZE
PIERRE-HENRI DELEAU
Pierre-Henri Deleau began his career as an assistant director to Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and Pierre Kast and then as a director in educational television. He directed a short, Virginie ou la double rupture, in 1969. He is the co-founder of the FILMOBLIC production house which produced or co-produced films by Hugo Santiago, Jean-Louis Comolli, Jean-François Dion, Claude Miller, Edouardo de Gregorio and Jean-Pierre Lefebvre. In 1969, he co-founded the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival and was its director for three decades. In 1996, he co-founded the Forum of European Cinema in Strasbourg, and in 1987 co-founded FIPA (Festival international des programmes audiovisuels) and directed the event in Cannes, Nice and Biarritz until 2009. That year he became member of the selection committee for first works at the European Film Academy. As director of the Cinéma and Littérature collection of Les Éditions Jean-Claude Lattès, he has published books on Michelangelo Antonioni, Groucho Marx, Andrezj Zulawski and Yilmäz Güney, among others.
DONALD RANVAUD
Anglo-Italian with a French name and a marked tendency toward the Brazilian, Donald Ranvaud taught at universities of Warwick and East Anglia, where he became chairman of the film department. He founded the independent film magazine Framework in 1975, which he edited until 1988 and freelanced for MFB, Sight and Sound, The Guardian, La Repubblica, Les Cahiers du Cinéma, American Film as well published books on Italian cinema. During this period he directed documentary items for Channel Four and RAI Uno, including portraits of Paul Schrader, Raul Ruiz, Cui Jian, Laurie Anderson and David Mamet as well as co-directed a feature, Visioni Private. In 1989 he helped start the European SCRIPTFund. Since then he embarked on production full time, with directors and in countries before they become fashionable, particularly China: 1989-1993 (especially Life on a String and including Farewell my Concubine); and Latin America, 1994 - today (Central do Brasil, Familia Rodante, Xango, Lavoura Arcaica, Babilonia 2000, Madame Sata, Cidade de Deus, nominated for four Oscars in 2004). Most recently he was executive producer on The Constant Gardener by Fernando Meirelles.
ANTOINE ZEIND
President of A-Z Films, over Antoine Zeind has worked in all facets of the motion picture industry, from the production and distribution of films to their exhibition. Along with an MBA from University of Quebec in Montreal, he holds a master’s degree in cinema from the University of Montreal. Over his career, he has held key posts with well-known organizations in the industry. From 1999 to 2001, he was the general manager of the “Grande Fête du Cinema Comique”. He also collaborated on screenings at the Montreal World Film Festival. As an exhibitor, he helped plan and coordinate the opening of the 18-plex Colossus in Laval that opened under the Famous Players banner in November of 2000. He also supervised operations of the IMAX theatre inside Montreal’s downtown Famous Players Paramount complex. With Christal Films, he held the post of director of booking and marketing. Zeind served as producer of the short film, Une blonde pour Anatole (1999), A-Z Films Productions, directed by Isabelle Raynauld and starring Andrée Lachapelle, which was broadcast on Radio-Canada.
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