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AT THE MONTREAL WORLD FILM FESTIVAL
from August 21 to September 1, 2014
A RICH SELECTION FROM 74 COUNTRIES
THE FUTURE OF CINEMA WITH 51 FIRST FEATURE FILMS
350 FEATURES AND SHORT FILMS
160 feature films
(100 world or international premieres and 32 North American premieres)
A jury presided over by Italian actor and director Serge Castellitto
Claude Lelouch will present «Salaud, on t’aime» as opening film
Hippolyte Girardot will present «Aimer, boire, chanter» as closing night film as a posthumous tribute to Alain Resnais
A tribute to Michael J. Werner, President of Fortissimo
The 38th Montreal World Film Festival is dedicated to Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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)
Tributes
Student Film Festival – National selection (short films)
Student Film Festival – International selection (short films)
THE OFFICIAL JURY
Sergio Castellito, President
Sergio Castellitto began his career in the theatre and made his film debut in the early 1980s. An actor whose versatility was apparent early on, Castellitto subsequently worked with some of the leading lights of Italian cinema: Mario Monicelli, Marco Ferreri, Francesca Archibugi, Giuseppe Tornatore, Ettore Scola, Gabriele Muccino, Marco Bellocchio, Paolo Virzì, Gianni Amelio. Castellitto’s talent was noticed by foreign directors as well and he appeared in such films as Luc Besson’s The Big Blue, Jacques Rivette’s Who Knows, Sandra Nettlebeck’s Mostly Martha, and Andrew Adamson’s The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. He made his directorial debut in 1999 with Libero Burro and confirmed his filmmaking talent, especially, in the critical and commercial hit Don’t Move (2004), starring Penelope Cruz from a story by his wife Margaret Mazzantini. He has since followed with two more films which he wrote, directed and starred in, Love & Slaps (2010) and Twice Born (2012).
Rachid Bouchareb
Rachid Bouchareb is a French film director of Algerian descent. From 1977 to 1983, he worked as an assistant director. He formed his own production company, 3B, with his associate Jean Bréhat in 1988. His featured film debut came in 1985 with Bâton Rouge. Since then his acclaimed films have included Poussières de vie (Dust of Life) (which competed in the 1994 MWFF before receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film); Little Senegal in 2001, as well as Two Men in Town in 2014, both shown in competition at the Berlin Film Festival; and Days of Glory, which received the Best Foreign Language Film nomination in 2006 and also won prizes at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. His film, Hors-la-loi, competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival and it was the Algerian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards and was one of the five final nominees.
Andréanne Bournival
In her career in program management of several television channels – Télé-Québec (acquisitions and co-productions), Radio-Canada, TV5 and Canal D – then at the French program of the National Film Board of Canada, Andréanne Bournival has always looked to maintain significant presence of the cinema, both from here and abroad, on the small screen. At Radio-Canada, for seven years she maintained the cinema magazine, À première vue, with Chantal Jolis and René Homier-Roy, with a special daily edition during the Montreal World Film Festival. Andréanne Bournival was President of the Quebec section of Academy of Cinema and Television. For her, the MWFF is a passport to the world, a reflection on the great and the small history of humanity, a way to live life intensely through the power of dreams, a connection to the sensitivity and creativity of filmmakers. She is representing the Festival’s public on this year’s Jury.
Fridrik Thor Fridriksson
Fridrik Thor Fridriksson began his filmmaking carrier in the early 1980s. In 1987, he founded The Icelandic Film Corporation, which has become Iceland's most important production company, producing Fridriksson’s films as well as working with other Icelandic directors and producers. Through Fridriksson's international reputation the company has built a network of internationally well-established co-production partner companies, including Lars von Triers Zentropa and Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope. As a director, Fridriksson gained international recognition and critical acclaim with his second feature, Children of Nature, which won best artistic contribution in the 1991 MWFF before being nominated for an Oscar as Best Foreign Language Film. Co-writing with two of Iceland's most acclaimed novelists and scriptwriters Einar Már Gudmundsson and Einar Kárason, Fridriksson has been acclaimed for the strong visual style of his films and his gift for stunning images.
Ana Torrent
Ana Torrent began her career as a child in what some consider to be the greatest of Spanish films, Victor Erice’s Spirit of the Beehive (1973) and she quickly confirmed her precocious talent in Carlos Saura’s masterful Cria Cuervos (1976) and Elisa vida mia (1976). She has since worked with many other Spanish directors, including Jaime Armiñan, Julio Medem, Helena Tabema and Alejandro Amenábar, whose Tesis garnered Torrent a Goya nomination and best actress notices at several festivals. Her role in Jaime de Armiñan’s El Nido (1980) earned her best actress at the MWFF. Torrent’s talent has attracted the interest of many foreign directors, including Klaus Kirschner (Misa en Si Minor), Gilo Pontecorvo (El Tunel), Peter Greenaway (The Tulse Lupper Suitcases I, II and III), Roland Joffé (There Be Dragons) and Justin Chadwick (The Other Boleyn Girl). She has also acted extensively on the small screen, for Spanish networks as well as the BBC and Italy’s RAI, and on stage, where this September she will play in the Spanish National Theatre’s production of Shakespeare’s Richard III.
Jane Zhang
Singer and actress Jane Zhang, who performs in Cantonese and Mandarin as well as English and Spanish, burst onto the scene in 2005 after her appearance on Super Voice Girl, the mega-popular Chinese singing competition, and her vocal talent quickly propelled her to Chinese superstardom, with frequent comparisons to Mariah Carey and Celine Dion. Her album, Reform, went double platinum within a month, a sales record to this day. Her talents were soon harnessed for the screen, where she contributed the theme song for Gordon Chan’s Painted Skin, and Only for Love for Feng Xiao Gang’s The Banquet. She made her acting debut in 2006 in McDull the Alumni and has since participated in several other productions for large and small screens, including Panda Express and Mulan. Zhang made her American television debut on the Oprah Winfrey Show and she was the first Chinese singer on the red carpet of the Grammys. She performed in a World Peace One concert with U2, Madonna, Pink Floyd and Green Day and appeared at the first New York China Film Festival in 2010
WORLD COMPETITION – FEATURE FILMS:
AMANET / THE LAST WISH / Namik Ajazi / Albania, Italy
Life in Albania in the 1980s has turned into a real hell and Enver Hoxha’s paranoia reaches its peak as he gets rid of his closest “friends” one after the other. One of them is Mentor, head of the Secret Service. Sensing the danger Mentor locks himself night after night in a secret room of his house and starts recording the events he was involved in from the beginning of the Communist regime. Before getting arrested he manages to give his son Martin the audio tapes, his testament, entrusting him with the terrible truth of so many crimes, that their publication would change the course of Albanian history…
DER LETZTE TANZ / THE LAST DANCE / Houchang Allahyari / Austria
Julia Ecker, a patient in the geriatic ward of the Viennese psychiatric clinic, develops a deep affection and sympathy, even love, for her new male nurse Karl who is doing his civilian service at this hospital. A sensitive young man in his twenties, Karl feels warmth and also pity for 87-year-old Julia, spends a lot of time with her during his working hours and finally gives in to Julia's tender erotic seduction. The head nurse of Frau Ecker's station is jealous of Karl's rapport with his patients and his success at helping them preserve their remaining intellectual and physical skills. Accused of having "sexually abused a helpless old woman", Karl is brought to trial.
LUCKY STIFF / Christopher Ashley / USA
A young down-and-out British shoe salesman named Harry Witherspoon takes his dead uncle to Monte Carlo for the best time of his life -- a week of fun, dancing, gambling and sun. If the young man fulfills his uncle's request to the letter, he will inherit the 6 million left to him. If he doesn’t, the money will go to the Universal Dog Home of Brooklyn. As Harry races from casino to nightclub to beach to bedroom with his dead uncle, he is chased by a desperate optometrist, an avaricious showgirl, a mysterious Italian playboy and a trigger-happy murderess, as well as a young woman dead set on getting that money for the dogs. Guns go off, champagne corks pop, nightmares come to life, romance blossoms, dogs bark, and everyone sings! A zany, frothy, colorful and fast-paced musical comedy with a very happy ending.
UN RAGAZZO D'ORO / Pupi Avati / Italy
Davide's father, Ettore, was a scriptwriter of B-grade movies based on bad jokes. Davide is an advertising copywriter whose dream is to write something of value. Father and son never understood each other. When Ettore dies in a suspicious car accident -- seemingly a suicide -- Davide’s life takes an unexpected turn. He leaves Milan, his job, his girlfriend Silvia, and moves in with his mother in Rome. In his mother's house his father’s presence, frustrations, secret dreams can still be felt. Ettore’s greatest dream: Ludovica, a beautiful, radiant woman, a publisher who was interested in publishing the autobiographical book Ettore wanted to write. Davide, intrigued by the idea of finally getting to know his father and, above all, being able to continue seeing Ludovica, decides to write the book himself.
MELODY / Bernard Bellefroid / Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Melody decides to rent out her body in order to get the money she needs to realize her dream: opening a hair-dressing salon…
DAS SOMMERHAUS / THE SUMMER HOUSE / Curtis Burz / Germany
Architect Markus Larsen hides his bisexual tendencies while his wife Christine is drowning with their 11-year-old daughter Elisabeth in unbearable loneliness. When Markus meets the 12-year-old son of his colleague, he feels an immediate affection for the boy. Slowly, Markus begins to approach Johannes and he initiates an intimacy which he cannot control…
PERRO GUARDIÁN / GUARD DOG / Bacha Caravedo, Chinón Higashionna / Peru
Lima, the Military Amnesty Law that pardoned those convicted of crimes against humanity during the country’s internal war against terrorism is on the verge of being overturned. Perro (Dog), a former member of a paramilitary group freed by said law, works as an assassin-for-hire for a certain sector of the militia. He lives alone in a dingy room that he leaves only to fulfill his assignments. One particular job leads him to the Church of the Soldiers of Christ. Amid prayers and cries for salvation, Perro meets Apóstol, the cult’s leader. During his visits to the congregation, Perro also meets Milagros, an adolescent for whom he begins to feel a strange sort of attraction. Perro continues to visit the chapel and silently watches out for Milagros. His increased involvement in her life transforms Perro from the cold, distant killer he once was into someone whose violent assignments begin to weigh on his conscience.
UN HOMME D'ÉTAT / THE STATESMAN / Pierre Courrège / France
Just a few weeks before elections, the outgoing President of the French Republic, Jean-François Vanier, is at his lowest in the polls. Leader of the most powerful right wing party, he is trying to find a popular figurehead who can save his campaign. He decides to court Robert Bergman, a left wing politician and an iconic figure of French politics, who has retired to a small village in Gers, a region in the southwest of France…
MAINTENANT OU JAMAIS / NOW OR NEVER / Serge Frydman / France
Housewives and mothers usually don't rob banks, as a rule. Unless there is an economic crisis, your husband has lost his job and the bank is about to foreclose on your home. Unless one evening destiny puts a thief right in your path, and you use him to learn how to go astray, where there is no turning back.
DAS ZIMMERMÄDCHEN LYNN / THE CHAMBERMAID LYNN / Ingo Haeb / Germany
Lynn Zapatek, a chambermaid in a large hotel is a contradiction: she has a deathly fear of human interaction yet she craves intimacy. She is a good worker. No other chambermaid in the hotel is as thorough as Lynn. Her universe revolves around cleaning. But her curiosity is unstoppable. In order to understand what motivates other people, she goes through the guests' belongings and lies underneath their beds at night to eavesdrop. That's how she gets to know call girl Chiara who works in the same hotel. Lynn slowly emerges from her cocoon...
LOST IN KARASTAN / Ben Hopkins / United Kingdom, Georgia
Film director Emil Forester is down on his luck and needs a change. When he receives an invitation to a film festival in the Autonomous Republic of Karastan to attend a retrospective of his 2½ films, he decides to go. Little does he know that this could be the start of something big. After a crazy few days during which the famous actor Xan Butler propositions him, beautiful festival representative Chulpan flirts with him, at least Emil is having fun. But he soons finds out the real reason for which he had been invited to Karastan: the President Aleluyev asks him to direct an epic telling the story of Karastani 14th century medieval hero and founder. In spite of some doubts Emil agrees…
TRAVELATOR / Dusan Milic / Serbia, Montenegro, USA
Slav, 19, an avid video gamer in Serbia, has a mother who needs medical care that she can't afford. A war refugee, born in Slovenia, so in the enviable position of not needing a valuable American visa, Slav accepts the assignment: a trip to Las Vegas, to gun down a criminal insider who is enrolled in the Serbian state witness protection program. A crack shooter in video games, he is now a hit man for the Serbian mob. Slav luxuriates in the artificial worlds of Las Vegas. He spots and tails the target and his two official bodyguards, carefully noting their habits and behaviour. He begins to realize that he is himself a product of the war and the social circumstances that followed, little more than detritus on the very bottom of the human barrel. He is once again a dedicated shooter, this time in real life, and he uses his skill to complete his new mission.
CAPE NOSTALGIA / Izuru Narushima / Japan
Etsuko Kashiwagi runs the Cape Café in a peaceful little town looking across the sea to distant Mt Fuji. It is the town's favourite meeting place, where farmers, fishermen, hospital workers, clergy, and even the occasional police officer, gather to taste Etsuko's special brew and trade gossip. The two most important things in Etsuko's life are her jack-of-all-trades nephew Koji and the spring water she brings every day from a small island nearby. In every cup Etsuko brews is a prayer for the well-being of her customers, and coffee at her café is an uplifting experience for all. Koji is 45, and devoted to Etsuko, who lives in a shack beside her café. He is hot-tempered, quick to jump to conclusions and a bit of a troublemaker. The winds of change have started to blow through the placid existence of the Cape Café.
THE LIGHT SHINES ONLY THERE / Mipo O / Japan
Tatsuo has given up working and is idling his life away. One day at a Pachinko parlour, he gets to know a coarse but friendly young man, Takuji. Tatsuo accepts Takuji's invitation and follows him home, which turns out to be a rundown, isolated house. It is here that Tatsuo meets Takuji's older sister, Chinatsu. They feel a quick mutual attraction and become close, but Chinatsu's life is difficult as she struggles to support her family. Even so, Tatsuo remains steadfast in his love for Chinatsu, and his unwavering feelings begin to sway her. Since finding a connection with Chinatsu, Tatsuo's reality quietly begins to regain its colour...
UNA STORIA SBAGLIATA / THE WRONG STORY / Gianluca Maria Tavarelli / Italy
In Gela, a town on the southern coast of Sicily, a soldier, Roberto, and a nurse, Stefania, are deeply in love. They decide to get married. Their life unfolds normally until Roberto dies from a bomb in Iraq. Devastated, Stefania decides to visits the site to figure out what really happened. She joins an association, Smile, a medical NGOs ministering to children in the country, and presents herself as a doctor. She is determined to find the man who murdered her husband. But in her personal quest, she discovers that the country is wracked with serious problems. Her vision of the world changes. So does her mission in life.
OBEDIENCIA PERFECTA / PERFECT OBEDIENCE / Luiz Urquiza Mondragon / Mexico
When 13-year-old seminarian Sacramento Santos joins a new order, Los Cruzados de Cristo, he hopes to rise through its three levels of obedience: 1. imperfect obedience, 2. imperfect obedience of the second degree, and finally 3. Perfect Obedience. But this progression proves to be more than just a spiritual journey. Sacramento is adopted by the order's founding father, Ángel de la Cruz, and over the course the year in which they live together, they fall in love and surrender to the most intense, blissful, and contradictory episode of their lives. Years later, older and wiser, Sacramento leaves the order regretting that episode, and he decides to seek justice from his old tutor.
DAS ENDE DER GEGULD / THE LIMITS OF PATIENCE / Christian Wagner / Germany
Corinna Kleist is a juvenile court judge who, after a leave of absence following the suicide of a convicted teenager, is appointed to a problem area in Berlin. She now tries harder than ever to change the system in order to prevent troubled kids from being turned into vicious criminals. In the case of 14-year-old Rafiq, she becomes emotionally involved and goes far beyond what her duty as a judge calls for -- the lonely and often hopeless struggle of a courageous woman trying to do the right thing...
DA GONG LAO BAN / FACTORY BOSS / Zhang Wei / China
For 20 years, Lin Dalin has operated a successful doll manufacturing business in Shenzhen, fighting tirelessly to compete in the international marketplace. Now, because of rising labour costs, China is losing some of its once-impressive manufacturing industry to cheaper Southeast Asian countries, and Lin's factory suffers with little work coming in to feed the assembly lines even while corners are cut on safety issues. Workers are not paid on time and they threaten to revolt. In a desperate attempt to avoid bankruptcy, Lin begrudgingly accepts a large order from a major international client, hoping that the insultingly thin profit margin will allow his company to survive another quarter. Meanwhile, Ai Jing, a young investigative journalist, goes undercover at Lin's factory to discover the truth about the working conditions in these "blood and sweat" factories.
SCAMMERHEAD / Dan Zukovic / Canada
Silas Breece, an unorthodox businessman and legendary hustler, travels the world seeking funds for his increasingly elaborate projects from eccentric investors, mobsters and shady government officials. When his plans begin to derail due to unforeseen circumstances, the scammer finds himself on the underworld's most wanted list. Down but not quite out, he decides his only hope is to ramp it up even further with his most outlandish project yet.
WORLD COMPETITION – SHORT FILMS:
La Ultima Cena / The Last Supper / Vanessa Quintanilla Cobo / Mexico
Romo / León Rechy / Mexico
Nunca Regreses / Never Come Back / Leonardo Diaz / Mexico
Derail / Xia Su / China
Hjonabandssaela / Chum / Jörundur Ragnarsson / Iceland
M 66: la route de la liberté /M 66 : On the Road to Freedom / Roger Otis / Canada
The Secret World of Foley / Daniel Jewel / United Kingdom
Today, I Did My Laundry / Zach Patton / Canada
Rabbit / Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre / France
A Boy's Life / Howard McCain / USA
Kemukujara / Akihito Nonowe, Isao Sano, Konoka Takashiro / Japan, Australia
Sibil Praeim / 11 Frame / Jiyeon Lee / South Korea
Bad Hunter / Sahim Omar Kalifa / Belgium
JURY OF THE FIRST FILMS COMPETITION
Noboru Hirose
Born in Tokyo. He studied history and musicology at Freie Universität Berlin. Since 2002 he writes for the Mainichi Newspapers (Japan) ca. 3000 articles and reports not only about movies, TV programs and classical music as feuilleton writer, but also about criminal cases as police reporter.
Bahman Maghsoudlou
Film scholar and critic Bahman Maghsoudlou received Iran’s Forough Farrokhzad literary award for a series of books about cinema and theatre, including the widely acclaimed Iranian Cinema. Maghsoudlou has served as a panelist, juror and lecturer at international film events. As a filmmaker he wrote, directed and produced the documentary film Ardeshir Mohasses and His Caricatures (1972), which was shown at the Leipzig Film Festival in 1996, Ahmad Mahmoud: a Noble Novelist (2004), and Iran Darroudi: the Painter of Ethereal Moments (2010). His latest two films, the fifth and sixth in the great Iranian artists series, are Ardeshir: The Rebellious Artist (2012), and AbbasKiarostami: A Report (2013), which premiered at Montreal World Film festival.
Donald Ranvaud
Anglo-Italian with 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, Cahiers du Cinema, 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 SCRIPT Fund. Since then he embarked on production full time, with directors and in countries before they became 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.
FIRST FILMS WORLD COMPETITION:
NACHTHELLE / BRIGHT NIGHT / Florian Gottschick / Germany
It's supposed to be an idyllic weekend -- Anna and Stefan, Bernd and Marc, two couples spending a few days in the countryside. The expanding open-pit coal mining operation which will soon be swallowing the town, woods and meadows, brings them back to their hometown. The four protagonists are enjoying their visit to the moribund village... when an old debt about to be cashed in begins invading Anna's mind. Returning to their hometown seems to have a nefarious effect on her. Anna and Bernd are haunted by nightmares; realities begin to shift. As well, Stefan is attracted by the polyamorous relationship of the two other men -- a fact used by Marc to play mind games with Anna. She feels her well-structured life beginning to crumble...
AYA ARCOS / Maximilian Moll / Germany, Brazil
In the grey and rainy old quarters of Rio de Janeiro, successful author Edu falls in love with a young hustler, Fabio, despite his fear of attracting HIV. Fabio reciprocates, fascinated by the older man's talent and his independence from the rest of the world. Fabio is socially engaging and wants Edu to open up and they try to work on Edu's anxieties but he is stuck in his lonesome routines and worries. Two very different characters collide and start to understand and accept each other's way of life. All by himself Edu can't help but to take an HIV test which turns out positive. There is nowhere for him to turn, only to Fabio…
HIGH PERFORMANCE / Johanna Moder / Austria
Rudi and Daniel are very different brothers. Rudi wears a suit and Daniel rides a bike. Very different and not always amicable. All of a sudden they get the opportunity to help each other. While doing so, they become interested in the same woman, but for distinctively different reasons – as Nora soon discovers. What starts as a harmless quid-pro-quo situation with the prospect of two brothers growing closer again, soon becomes a struggle for values and love, threatening family cohesion and professional lives.
L'ANNÉE PROCHAINE / NEXT YEAR / Vania Leturcq / Belgium, France
This is the story of two childhood friends, Clotilde and Aude, 18, best friends since forever and who come from a small provincial village that they never left. The film begins when they are about to finish school and have to decide what they will do next year. Clotilde never felt comfortable in her village and has always wanted to leave while her friend Aude feels good: she has friends, a boyfriend, she has no real desire to leave or even a specific ambition. Clotilde decides to enroll them both in school in Paris so as to leave the village…
SCHIMBARE / Álex Sampayo / Spain
Luis and Elvira travel to Romania on orders from an Eastern European criminal organization. As they near their destination, they receive a call that requires them to change their route. They must stop in Budapest and pick up a consignment. Everything seems simple until they discover that what they are supposed to pick up is an 8-year-old girl. This is a lot more than they bargained for. They will have to make the hardest decision of their lives. Stick to the plan or release the girl…
TODOS ESTAN MUERTOS / THEY ARE ALL DEAD / Beatriz Sanchis / Spain, Mexico, Germany
If you saw Lupe, 35, in her bathrobe and slippers, you would never imagine that back in the '80s she was a pop star. She and her brother Diego made up the band Groenlandia, whose first album was a huge hit. But Lupe has turned her back on the life of touring and concerts. She is wholly dependent on her mother Paquita and has a teenage son, Pancho, who hates her. Luckily, her mother, Paquita, a superstitious woman with a heart of gold, is there to do the shopping, to deal with her frequent crises and do what matters most: be a mother to Pancho. But Paquita is running out of time…
LA VIE PURE / PURE LIFE / Jérémy Banster / France
In 1949, a French explorer journalist, Raymond Maufrais, former resistance fighter, embarked on a solitary expedition in the Amazon forest, on foot in the Guyanese jungle towards the previously unknown Tumuc Humac mountains. Maufrais arrives in Cayenne to fulfill his dream: to link French Guyana to Brazil, then follow the Jari river down to the city of Belem. This will be his last trip: no one will ever see Raymond Maufrais again. In 1950, an aboriginal man stumbles upon some diaries on the banks of the Tamouri river. In these diaries Maufrais relates his daily adventures and encounters with the native people of the river. After his disappearance, his father, Edgar Maufrais, sets out to search for him. He launches 18 expeditions over 12 years and covering 12.000 kms but never found him...
NOMADIC CHILDHOODS / Christophe Boula / France
In the middle of breathtaking landscapes in Central Asia, children fill a hostile world with their wishes and their dreams. They all share the same destiny: like their own people, they arrive at major crossroads in their lives -- confronted by love, danger and death. Three amazing destinies: Amraa, the Mongolian teenager, who leaves to the city to meet his lover; Apo, the Siberian baby, lost in the snow; and Lhamo, the Tibetan child, who wishes to live with her yak.
NEW TERRITORIES / Fabianny Deschamps / France, Tunisia
Eve, a Frenchwoman, checks into her hotel and puts on her suit; she is there for business, to introduce a new process for the cremation of the dead, “aquamation”, to the Chinese market… A poor Chinese textile worker from a small village, Li Yu is meticulously planning her escape, along with her fiancé and the dowry meant to pay for their wedding, which will now pay for their illegal border crossing. She is excited and nervous about her search for a new and better life. But each time she begins her own tale of travelling in trains and the backs of trucks, something stops her, something’s wrong…Two women from opposite worlds… two paths that meet at the crossroads of belief and reality.
FEVER / Raphaël Neal / France
Damien and Pierre, two high school students from wealthy families decide to plan and carry out the murder of an unknown woman they have previously spotted on the street. The police are at a loss, confused by this murder without motive. Meanwhile, Zoé, an optician in the neighborhood, is feeling more and more moved by the event. When she encounters the teenage murderers she is overtaken by a growing and mysterious desire. Although scared -- she could have been the victim of Damien and Pierre -- Zoé is strangely attracted by the erotic power of the events…
A BERNI KÖVET / THE AMBASSADOR TO BERN / Attila Szász / Hungary
Attila Szász’s political thriller chronicles how on August 16, 1958, two Hungarian immigrants in Switzerland broke into the Hungarian embassy in Bern and took the Hungarian ambassador hostage. As the Swiss police surround the building and a group of Hungarian immigrants show up on the street to demonstrate, a tense, twist-filled hostage drama plays out behind the closed doors of the embassy. The screenplay by Norbert Köbli is based on a true story about the aftermath of the 1956 Hungarian rebellion that was brutally suppressed by Soviet tanks.
BA DIGARAN / WITH OTHERS / Nasser Zamiri / Iran
Arezoo and Amir-Hossein are a young couple who would like to start a family, but they can't; Arezoo can't conceive a child. There is just one solution: a surrogate mother. Tahareh, Arezoo's close friend and colleague is willing to open a new horizon in the young couple's life, but Iranian society is not. This is a traditional society and surrogate motherhood is not acceptable. When Yaghoub, Tahareh's ex-husband, is temporarily released from prison, things become even more complicated.
THE LESSON / Andris Gauja / Latviam Russia
Zane is a devoted teacher mentoring the senior class in a Latvian high school. She tries to live her life in the most meaningful way possible. She takes her mission as a teacher seriously and works hard to help her students develop their talents. Even so, as for many younger teachers, it's hard for Zane to keep her distance from her class -- the students soon become a sort of family for her. When she realizes she's falling in love with one of them, she faces a stark choice between her personal happiness and the pressures of society.
LOS BAÑISTAS / OPEN CAGE / Max Zunino / Mexico
The economy has collapsed: there is a shortage of labour, of will, of resources. The impoverishment of society is both moral and economic ― everyone looks after their own little comforts and survival. In this universe we find Flavia, a spoiled teenager with artistic aspirations that are somewhat frustrated when she is not accepted at the university. Her neighbour Martin, a mature man with rigid routines, is her antipode. In the street, outside the building, there is a camp of protesters: people who have lost their livelihood. In this group, though human values still govern conduct, its members have a serious problem: they need a shower…
GONZÁLEZ / Christian Díaz Pardo / Mexico
Gonzalez is without a job and he has to lie to his mother, who asks for her monthly check from him on the phone. His financial dire straits lead him right into the arms of an unnamed church in Mexico City with the charismatic Brazilian televangelist Pastor Elias. Gonzalez is assigned to work in the institution’s call centre, where the standard advice to any sort of woes from the calling customers is simple: if you give money to God through the church, God will eventually give back...
LA HORA AZUL / THE BLUE HOUR / Evelyne Pegot-Ogier / Peru
Adrian Ormache is a prosperous lawyer for whom wealth and success are the most important things. Until one day he discovers a secret from his father’s life. He was a marine officer, in charge of a barrack in Ayacucho, an area mostly controlled by the terrorists, during the years of civil unrest. During his command many people were tortured, raped, and murdered, people who were not always terrorists, and specially women. In one occasion, his father forgave the life of one of these women, and she became his lover, but she escaped from the headquarters as soon as she was able to. Apparently, his father was in love with her. When Adrian finds out about the existence of this mysterious woman, he sets out to look for her. She is the only witness of the atrocities committed by his father...
TALYN NAADAN / STEPPE GAMES / Bair Dyshenov / Russia
Three warriors, three horses, three songs and one steppe. Somewhere in the Great Steppes a young warrior dies of his wounds after a battle. After his death, the warrior's horse is taken on the road back to his home village, covering a great distance to bear the bad news. In the second story, Baatar, a Russian army recruit, returns home to the steppes, where he finds out that his girlfriend is getting married to another man. Baatar tries to talk to the girl, but her brothers prevent their meeting. The hero of the third story is Purbe, a veteran of the Chechen war who was a trooper and cannot find his place in the civilian world; he longs for his days in the army. The three stories are connected by three folk songs and the steppe where all of them take place.
DEKALA PURUDU KENEK / THE STRANGE FAMILIAR / Malith Hegoda / Sri Lanka
Dinithi tries very hard to communicate with her husband, but he ignores her presence. Relentlessly. The more she tries to reach him, the more profound his silence becomes. Their 8-year-old daughter watches them despondently. Dinithi's parents try to get involved but they receive the same treatment from him. When she leaves the house, it is only with her daughter and to run errands... always with the same taxi that he has arranged. Dinithi is attractive to men and she knows it. So does her husband. One day, the husband is involved in a road accident in which a pedestrian is killed. His wife rushes to his side, hoping to be of help. Now he needs her more than ever...
HORS CONCOURS / WORLD GREATS
MIKRA ANGLIA / LITTLE ENGLAND / Pantelis Voulgaris / Greece
PSIE POLE / FIELD OF DOGS / Lech Majewski / Poland
CHAGALL - MALEVICH / Alexandre Mitta / Russia
DER KREIS / THE CIRCLE / Stefan Haupt / Switzerland
BOKUTACHI NO KAZUKO / OUR FAMILY / Yuya Ishii / Japan
BUDO NO NAMIDA / A DROP OF THE GRAPEVINE / Yukiko Mishima / Japan
AIMER, BOIRE ET CHANTER / LIFE OF RILEY / Alain Resnais / France
WU REN QU / NO MAN'S LAND / Ning Hao / China
SALAUD, ON T'AIME / WE LOVE YOU, YOU BASTARD / Claude Lelouch / France
AU FIL D'ARIANE / ARIANE'S THREAD / Robert Guédiguian / France
AUF DAS LEBEN! / TO LIFE! / Uwe Janson / Germany
JACK STRONG / Wladyslaw Pasikowski / Poland
HEALING / Craig Monahan / Australia
CUI MIAN DA SHI / THE GREAT HYPNOTIST / Leste Chen / China
BAI RI YAN HUO / BLACK COAL, THIN ICE / Diao Yinan / China, Hong-Kong
HANAYOI DOCHU / A COURTESAN WITH FLOWERED SKIN / Keisuke Toyoshima / Japan
CIUDAD DELIRIO / Chus Gutiérrez / Colombia, Spain
FOCUS ON WORLD CINEMA – FEATURE FILMS
HEROI / THE HERO / Luan Kryeziu / Kosovo
CIUDAD SIN SOMBRA / GIRL WITH NO FEAR / Bernard Canizares Esguerra / Ecuador, Colombia
SILENCIO EN LA TIERRA DE LOS SUEÑOS / SILENCE IN DREAMLAND / Tito Molina / Ecuador, Germany
BIGANEH / STRANGER / Bahram Tavakoli / Iran
OF HORSES AND MEN / Benedikt Erlingsson / Iceland
TOBE DAKOTA / FLY, DAKOTA, FLY! / Seiji Aburatani / Japan
SAKURASAKU / BLOSSOM BLOOM / Mitsutoshi Tanaka / Japan
LA TIRISIA / PERPETUAL SADNESS / Jorge Pérez Solano / Mexico
FREE RANGE - BALLAAD MAAILMA HEAKSKIITMISEST / Veiko Ounpuu / Estonia
THE BOAR KING / Chen-Ti Kuo / Taiwan / China
APAKE KAKHAZARD / THE GLASS TRINKET / Nariné Mkrtchyan, Arsen Azatyan / Armenia
BARF / SNOW / Mehdi Rahmani / Iran
BING DU / ICE POISON / Midi Z / Taiwan / China, Myanmar
FIÈVRES / FEVERS / Hicham Ayouch / Morocco, France
THE ALGERIAN / Giovanni Zelko / USA, Algeria
MATEO / Maria Gamboa / Colombia, France
28 / Prasanna Jayakody / Sri Lanka
MARIA AND THE SPIDER / Maria Victoria Menis / Argentina, Ecuador, France
SANSAN / A SPARKLE OF LIFE / Bunji Satoyama / Japan
SANBUN NO ICHI / ONE THIRD / Hiroshi Shinagawa / Japan
EL BUMBÚN / Fernando Bermudez / Argentina
TAJRISH... AN UNFINISHED STORY / Pourya Azarbayjani / Iran
INFÂNCIA / CHILDHOOD / Domingos Oliveira / Brazil
COPENHAGEN / Mark Raso / USA, Canada, Denmark
CHOELE / Juan Sasiain / Argentina
WERE DENGÊ MIN / COME TO MY VOICE / Hüseyin Karabey / Turkey, France, Germany
MAGKAKABAUNG / THE COFFIN MAKER / Jason Paul Laxamana / Philippines
SILSILE / CONSEQUENCES / Ozan Aciktan / Turkey
TOKYO - THE CITY OF GLASS / Kazuhiro Teranishi / Japan
QUEEN OF CARTHAGE / Mardana Mayginnes / New Zealand, USA
TOMMY / Tarik Saleh / Sweden
ZIMNY PUT / WINTER JOURNEY / Sergei Taramajev / Liubov Lvova / Russia
RASTRES DE SÀNDAL / TRACES OF SANDALWOOD / Maria Ripoll / Spain, India
THE BRIDGE AT THE END OF THE WORLD / Branko Istvancic / Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, France
LA MEMORIA DE LOS OLIVOS / THE MEMORY OF THE OLIVE TREES / Raúl Romera Morilla / Spain
BETI AND AMARE / Andy Siege / Germany, Ethiopia
FAMILIENFIEBER / FAMILY FEVER / Nico Sommer / Germany
DAS HOTELZIMMER / THE HOTEL ROOM / Rudi Gaul / Germany
FOR THE LOVE OF POE / Nils Oliveto / Canada
WHEN THE OCEAN MET THE SKY / Lukas Huffman / Canada
MY EX-EX / Nathaniel Warsh / Canada
KAMKAM / GREED / Joel Lamangan / Philippines
BETWEEN YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW / Nilendra Deshapriya / Sri Lanka
4.48 / Jacky Katu / France
INVESTIGACIÓN POLICIAL / POLICE INVESTIGATION / Daniel Aguirre / Spain
PERARIYATHAVAR / NAMES UNKNOWN / Bijukumar Damodaran (Dr. Biju) / India
CLOSER TO THE MOON / Nae Caranfil / Romania, USA, Poland, Italy
APRÈS LA BATAILLE / AFTER THE BATTLE / Simon Leclère / France, Belgium
IS THAT YOU? / Dani Menkin / Israel, USA
TIR / Alberto Fasulo / Italy, Croatia
PERFIDIA / Bonifacio Angius / Italy
L'ULTIMA RUOTA DEL CARRO / THE FIFTH WHEEL / Giovanni Veronesi / Italy
SAM & AMIRA - Sean Mullin - USA
DR. PRAKASH BABA AMTE - THE REAL HERO / Samruoddhi Porey / India
INTHAR / THE SON OF THE LAKE / Yannick Borit / Myanmar
KURMANJAN DATKA / QUEEN OF THE MOUNTAINS / Sadyk Sher-Niyaz / Kyrgyzstan
CUDNA ŠUMA / STRANGE FOREST / Szabolcs Tolnai / Serbia, Hungary
SYN / THE SON / Arseny Gonchukov / Russia, USA
YELLOW RIVER ARIA - LAO QIANG / Gao Feng / China
KROK DO TMY / A STEP INTO THE DARK / Miroslav Luther / Slovakia
PRIMARY / Ross Fergusson / Canada
LA MAFIA UCCIDE SOLO D'ESTATE / THE MAFIA KILLS ONLY IN SUMMER / Pierfrancesco Diliberto aka Pif / Italy
E FU SERA E FU MATTINA / AND THERE WAS EVENING AND THERE WAS MORNING / Emanuele Caruso / Italy
MUERTE EN BUENOS AIRES / DEATH IN BUENOS AIRES / Natalia Meta / Argentina
NJINGA - QUEEN OF ANGOLA / Sergio Graciano / Angola
LAS VACAS CON GAFAS / COWS WEARING GLASSES / Alex Santiago Perez / Puerto Rico
LA SCULTURA / THE SCULPTURE / Mauro John Capece / Italy
CERTIFIÉE HALAL / CERTIFIED HALAL / Mahmoud Zemmouri / France, Algeria, Belgium
TOUS LES CHATS SONT GRIS / ALL CATS ARE GREY / Savina Dellicour / Belgium
KAJARYA / Madhureeta Anand / India
DE BEHANDELING / THE TREATMENT / Hans Herbots / Belgium
SWEEPING FORWARD / Patricia MacDowell / Canada
BEN'S AT HOME / Mars Horodyski / Canada
ELLA / SHE / Libia Stella Gomez / Colombia
ELEPHANT BLUES / Philippe Gautier / France
HEART OF LIGHTNESS / Jan Vardøen / Norway
OS FENÓMENOS / ACES / Alfonso Zarauza / Spain
FOCUS ON WORLD CINEMA – SHORT FILMS:
El modelo de Pickman / Pickman's Model / Pablo Ángeles / Mexico
El Olvido / The Omission / Fermin Rivera / Argentina
Padre / Father / Santiago Grasso / Argentina, France
Matabichos / Bug Killer / Gabriela Palacios / Mexico
Al morir la vie / Leaves to Live / Alex Argüelles / Mexico
No Return on Perishables / Takatsugu Naito / Japan
Taxistop / Marie Enthoven / Belgium
La Visite / Rocko Paolo / Canada
Sound of Tears / Dorothy A. Atabong / Canada
Together Alone / Guillaume Corde / France
The Jigsaw / Basil Al Safar / Portugal, United Kingdom
Fe-Male / Anka Schmid / Switzerland
Dragula / Frank Meli / USA
Tom in America / Flavio Alves / USA, Brazil
Manny Gets Censored / Graeme Robertson / Australia
I Know You / Colin Gerrard, Simone Gallorini / Netherlands, United Kingdom, Italy
A Job / Brendan Meyer / Canada
Prinzip Mensch / The Human Principle / Marco Gadge / Germany
Every Monday / Meelad Moaphi / Canada
A Spring Has Passed By / Eva Daoud / Bahrain
Central Market / Saleh Nass / Bahrain, U.A.E.
Au sol / Grounded / Alexis Michalik / France
Cadet / Kevin Meul / Belgium
The Phone Call / Matt Kirkby / United Kingdom
Vetrarmorgun / Winter Morning / Sakaris Stora / Faroe Islands
Rencontre / Alexandre Da Sylva / Canada
Le Plongeon / Dive / Delphine Le Courtois / France
All the Winters I Haven't Seen / Omid Khoshnazar / Iran
Pomegranate is the Fruit of Paradise / Teymour Ghaderi / Iran
L'Audition / The Audition / Jean-François Morin / Canada
Forêt / Samuel Feller / Belgium, France
Suicide Volonteers / Kenshow Onodera / Japan
Absolution / Jad Haber / Australia
C'est le pied / The Foot / Ricardo Filipe Costa / Canada
I Remember You / John Michael Kennedy / USA
Some Things Won't Sleep / Leah Johnston / Canada
Claire / Cate Smierciak / USA
When the Sun Falls / Yuji Kakizaki / Japan
Joy Burn / Jamie Zampini / Canada
La Contre-allée / Back Alley / Cécile Ducrocq / France
The Chicken / Una Gunjak / Croatia, Germany
The Goodbye Girl / Amber Ripley / Canada
Through the Pane / Pauline Egan / Canada
The Stomach / Ben Steiner / United Kingdom
Poussières / Dusts / Daniel Metge / France
Moul Lkelb / The Man With a Dog / Kamal Lazraq / France, Morocco
La Météo des plages / The Strand / Aude Léa Rapin / France
Itsy Bitsy Spiders / Bertrand Paré / USA
Trausla Sirds / All My Dead / Astra Zoldnere / Latvia
Severo / Harsh / Danilo Baracho / Brazil, Canada
Con buenas intenciones / With Good Intentions / Virginia Romeo / Spain, United Kingdom
Taweez - The Talisman Writer / Ali Hakim / Germany, Afghanistan
The Free Man / Sam Quah / Taiwan
Les frémissements du thé / The Way of Tea / Marc Fouchard / France
Hollygrove - The True Life Story of Monserrat / Carlos A. Hurtado / USA
The Clean Up / Jesse Allen / USA, Mexico
If You Leave Me Now / Maria Eriksson / Sweden
Check Please / Geoffrey James / USA
The Timekeeper / Scott Weber / Canada
C'est le ciel qui vous envoie! / Sent by Heaven! / Pierre Aboujaoude / France
Bikini / Oscar Bernacer / Spain
Onemoretime / José Gonzalez, Antonio Calabuig, Elisa Martinez / Spain
En août / In August / Jenna Hasse / Switzerland
Hirsiz var / There is a Thief / Ali Ihtiyar / Turkey
All He Knows Right / Akihito Nonowe, Isao Sano, Konoka Takashiro / Japan, Australia
Serena / Eric Lamhene / Luxembourg
Coral / Giacomo Martelli / Samoa, Italy, New Zealand
Techos Rotos / Brocken Ceilings / Yanillys Perez / Dominican Republic, France
Ginger in the Rye / Michael Mazzuca / Canada
HitchHikers / Joung Han / Canada
Trigger / Seungmi Lim / South Korea
The OceanMaker / Lucas Martell / USA
Café para llevar / Coffee to go / Patricia Font / Spain
12 Minutes About Peace / Joost Jansen, Reinout Swinnen, Bram Van Rompaey, Boris Sverlow, Gerrit Bekers, Britt Raes, Bert Van Haute, Thomas Ceulemans, Wendy Morris, Silvia Defrance, Marc James Roels, Emma De Swaef, Roman Klochkov, Joke Van Der Steen, Valérie Lommel, Michael Palmaers / Belgium
DOCUMENTARIES OF THE WORLD – FEATURE AND MEDIUM LENGTH FILMS:
COMO DIOS NOS TRAJO / LIKE GOD MADE US / Maury Marcano / Argentina, Venezuela
BERTRACCHI - THE ART OF FORGERY / Arne Birkenstock / Germany
BEYOND THE WALLS / Gayle Embrey / USA, Argentina
WATCHMEN IN THE WIND / Liang Bixin / China
COMPLICIT / Michael Ivan Schwartz / USA
L'HEUREUX NAUFRAGE / FORTUNATE SHIPWRECK / Guillaume Tremblay / Canada
CRUSTACEOS / CRUSTACEANS / Vicente Perez Herrero / Spain
LA TRACE / THE TRACE / Gabriel Tejedor, Enrico Pizzaleto / Switzerland
TELL ME OF THE SEAS / Reza Allamehzadeh / Netherlands
A RAS DEL CIELO / GRAZING THE SKY / Horacio Alcalá / Spain, Mexico, Portugal
AGNÈS LETESTU - A SHINING STAR / Marlène Ionesco / France
MAN vs TRASH / Martin Esposito / France
THE HIGHEST LEVEL / Christian Berger / Germany
NO LAND'S SONG / Ayat Najafi / Germany, France
I, AFRIKANER / Annalet Steenkamp / South Africa
OBAMA MAMA / Vivian Norris / USA, United Kingdom
SEX, FAME & MURDER: THE LUKA MAGNOTTA STORY / Naomi Hiltz / Canada
WE WERE REBELS / Katharina von Schroeder, Florian Schewe / Germany, Sudan
POTROSENI / CONSUMED / Borut Separovic / Croatia
JE VOUS ÉCRIS PAR-DELÀ LES MERS / HAITI,MY MOTHER'S LAND / Olivier Horn / France, Haiti
À L'OMBRE DU ROCHER / THE PERCÉ ROCK REDEMPTION / Martine Fortin, Guy Bonneau / Canada
PARCOURS D'AMOUR / Bettina Blümner / France, Germany
FELICE CHI È DIVERSO / HAPPY TO BE DIFFERENT / Gianni Amelio / Italy
DÉCEPTION DURABLE / SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT / Michelle Moore, William Ray / Canada
SUN-CHEON / SPLENDID BUT SAD DAYS / Hong-Ki Lee / South Korea
HASTA EL FIN DE LOS DÍAS / TO THE END OF RECKONING / Mauricio Bidault / Mexico
BIENVENUE CHEZ NOUS / WELCOME TO OUR HOME / Christine Doyon, Isabelle Darveau / Canada
DOCUMENTARIES OF THE WORLD – SHORT FILMS:
Bangladesher Ridoy / Saiful Wadud Helal / Bangladesh
Life After Manson / Olivia Klaus / USA
Scars of Cambodia / Alexandre Liebert / France
L'Être venu d'ailleurs / The Being From Elsewhere / Guy Bordin, Renaud De Putter / Belgium
Renée R. Lettres retrouvées / Lisa Reboulleau / France
The White House Overture / Steve Radley / USA
There is a Garden / Masoud Raouf / Canada
TRIBUTE TO MICHAEL J. WERNER
CUI MIAN DA SHI / THE GREAT HYPNOTIST / Leste Chen / China
BAI RI YAN HUO / BLACK COAL, THIN ICE / Diao Yinan / China, Hong-Kong
FAH TALAI JONE / TEARS OF THE BLACK TIGER / Wisit Sasanatieng / Thailand
NORUWEI NO MORI / NORWEGIAN WOOD / Tran Anh Hung / Japan
YI DAI ZONG SHI / THE GRANDMASTER / Wong Kar-Wai / Hong-Kong
STUDENT FILM FESTIVAL – CANADIAN SECTION:
Bed/Frame / Alysha Seriani, Jae Woo Kang, Jessica Johnson / Canada
Bromance / Florence Pelletier / Canada
Burned / Cole Northey / Canada
Copper or Plastic / Michael Gannon / Canada
Cultivator of the Way / Rheanna Toy / Canada
Debt Sentence / Travis Welowszky / Canada
Driftwood / Chris Barnard / Canada
Emma / Aerlan Barrett / Canada
Happy Endings / Hannes Thor Arason / Canada
Hard Card / Lucas Hrubizna / Canada
Inside Voice / Weiyuan Li / Canada
La Gardienne / Pier-Philippe Chevigny / Canada
Last Night's Party / Jacqueline Andrade, Mark Cira / Canada
Lifers / Joel Andrew Salaysay / Canada
My Buddy / Mark Moliterni / Canada
Naked Eye / Lilian Sepulveda Navarrete / Canada
Objective Love / Lucia Lozano / Canada
Pull Up Your Pants Up / Adrian Wallace / Canada
Razones / Milad Alamkhany / Canada
Ropes / Monica Cheema / Canada
Running By / Bryce Gamache / Canada
The Katherine Problem / Joseph Carney / Canada
'Til Death / Connor Gaston / Canada
Un après-midi avec Paolo / Anabelle Lavoie / Canada
Unordinary Journey in an Ordinary Day / Yoshino Aoki / Canada
Wake / Marc-Olivier Harvey / Canada
STUDENT FILM FESTIVAL – INTERNATIONAL SECTION:
Marea / Tides / Adam Breier / Cuba
17 anni / Age 17 / Filippo Demarchi / Switzerland
Ein Tag am Meer / A Day by the Sea / Aline Chukwuedo / Germany
Alice / Geoffroy Faugérolas / USA
Aussi loin / Franziska M. Hoenisch / France, Germany
Jetzt jetzt jetzt / Beat beat beat / Christin Freitag / Germany
Berlin Troika / Andrej Gontcharov / Germany
Blur Blue / Sonja Polligkeit / Germany
Bonne Espérance / Kaspar Schiltknecht / Switzerland
Burrow / Natalie Erika James / Australia
Canuck Black / Rebecca Archer / United Kingdom
Devil / Lisa Bierwirth / Germany
Door God / Yulin Liu / USA
Dreamers / Joseph Dwyer / USA
Elisabeth / Katharina Woll / Germany
Enquête familiale en pays limitrophe / Quentin Bernard / France
Espés / Tanit Fernandez, Isaac Rodriguez / Spain
I don't say goodbye, I say see you soon / Giuliana Monteiro / USA
Fliegen / Flying / Katharina Woll / Germany
Full-Windsor / Faraday Okoro / USA
Gabriel / Benjamin Chimoy / Germany, Spain
How to Avoid Annoying People / Ariel Nasser / USA
I've Been a Sweeper / Ciarán Dooley / Ireland
In Passing / Alan Miller / USA
Karaganda / Max Weissberg / USA
Un Sueño Recurrente / A Recurring Dream / Santiago Esteves / Argentina
Serori / Celery / Pedro Collantes / Netherlands
The Way Home / Ting Song / USA
Lehitmaser LeRega / Keep it Cool / Na'ama Keha / Israel
Le Doigt d'honneur / Malika Pellicioli / Switzerland
Load / Niv Shpigel, Robert Moreno / Israel
Love at Last Sight / Oscar Hernandez-Topete / USA
Mamis: A Family Portrait / Virginia Fuentes / United Kingdom
Maria's Episode / Sanja Zivkovic / Serbia/Montenegro
Has Anyone Seen Eyal Nurich? / Shira Porat / Israel
Michael S., re-collected / Steven Swirko / Austria
Morning / Yakie Ayalon / Israel
My Stuffed Granny / Effie Pappa / United Kingdom
Nadeshda / Anna Frances Ewert / Germany
Ni-Ni / Melissa Hickey / USA
Mein letztes Konzert / My Last Concert / Selcuk Zvi Cara / Germany
Oh! My Princess / Heewook Sa / South Korea
Paris Al Hamayim / Paris on the Water / Hadas Ayalon / Israel
Porzellan / Porcelain / Katinka Narjes / Germany
Rainbow / Marina Solovieva / Russia
Rendezvous / Sylvia Borges / Germany
Roughstock / Jessica Baclesse / USA
Erlösung / Salvation / Mark Gerstorfer / Austria
Scaremonger / Sasa Numic / USA
Shoes from Trieste / Gregor Božic / Germany
Si no se puede bailar, esta no es mi Revolución / Lillah Halla / Cuba
Smut / Tom Sveen / USA
The Life and Death of Tommy Chaos and Stacey Danger / Michael Lukk Litwak / USA
The Divide / Ashley Monti / USA
The Immaculate Reception / Charlotte Glynn / USA
Las Cieni / The Shadow Forest / Andrzej Cichocki / Poland
The Tour Guide / Amos Geva / Israel
The Wonderful / Erin Good / Australia
Tobacco Burn / Justin Liberman / USA
Woman in Fragments / Quan Zhou / USA
HOW TO SEE LOTS OF FILMS
AT THE WORLD FILM FESTIVAL
WITHOUT GOING BROKE
THE THEATRES
IMPÉRIAL THEATRE, 1430, de Bleury St. (Metro Place des Arts)
Sandra & Leo Kolber Pavilion, Salle Lucie et André Chagnon
QUARTIER LATIN CINEMA (9 theatres, 350 Emery St. (metro Berri-UQAM)
TICKETS
In its ongoing effort to make quality cinema accessible to as many people as possible, The Montreal World Film Festival has instituted a special quantity discount. The discount coupons are now available.
10 coupons are available for $70. representing a saving of 30% on individual tickets.
The coupons can be exchanged for tickets for specified showings beginning Saturday August 16 at the box offices of the Quartier Latin Cinema, the Imperial Cinema and the Place des Arts.
“Cinephile passes” are on sale for $250 each.
“Passports” are on sale for $100 each.
Purchase forms for “Cinephile passes” and “Passports” are available on the Festival's web site: www.ffm-montreal.org
Further information: (514) 848-3883
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