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The European Fantastic Film Festivals Federation launches online platform for European genre film

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The European Fantastic Film Festivals Federation is pleased to announce the launch of its new website and online database melies.org. The new site focuses on promoting European genre films and the Federation’s network of 22 festivals, covering 15 countries. With a combined audience of more than 450 000 worldwide, the Federation is a key economic and cultural player in the genre film industry.

The melies.org website covers the Méliès d’Or and Méliès d’Argent competitions of 22 prominent genre film festivals and houses a comprehensive database of innovative European genre cinema, thereby providing filmmakers, festivals, distributors, production companies and sales agents with a new resource tool.

“The idea is to continue to build on this platform and create a genuine European genre film archive, and to promote genre film in general", says Christian Hallman, Creative Project Manager and Coordinator of the European Fantastic Film Festivals Federation.

The new website and database were built in collaboration with Black Market Online, a film industry content management platform (www.blackmarketonline.eu), developed by Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival.

"We're extremely excited about our long-term collaboration with the Méliès network to build a prime resource for genre films. BMO's combining of specific film-industry features of secure content management and streaming with fine-tuned usability definitely paves the way for the platform to flourish in future", adds Sten Saluveer, Head of Development at BMO and Industry Director of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival.
 


II.Europe-Latin America Co-production Forum at San Sebastian Festival

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This second edition of the Forum will run for 3 days-23, 24 and 25 September- to coincide with Films in Progress, dates on which San Sebastian will celebrate an enormous coming together between members of the audiovisual industry.

16 projects in development from 15 countries will participate in the II Forum. The 16 projects have been selected from among the total of 160 submitted from 24 countries, mostly in Latin America. The Selection Committee made specific mention of the high standard of quality of the projects presented. The final selection includes projects by directors and producers with long-standing artistic and personal experience and other interesting works by new directors starting out on their careers in the world of feature films.

Another important new feature is the participation of a selected project in the Workshop to develop film projects from Central America and the Caribbean organized by the Ibermedia Programme. This initiative aims to consolidate the relationship already existing between the Festival and the aforementioned programme as indispensable support for audiovisual co-production between most countries in Latin America, Portugal and Spain.

The Europe-Latin America Co-production Forum Award 2013 to the Best Project, carrying EUR10,000 granted by Egeda, will also go to one of the projects presented.

As a continuation of the San Sebastian Forum and under its collaboration with the Marché du Film at the Festival de Cannes and with the I.N.C.A.A. (Argentine Film and Audiovisual Arts Institute), a number of these projects will be able to continue on their international way by participating in the Ventana Sur market and in the coming edition of the Cannes Producers Network as a decisive contribution to boosting their international projection.

For 3 days, the project heads will present their works to international industry professionals as they go about an intense agenda of meetings. The object of their presence at the Forum will be to contact potential co-producers and sales agents in order that they may join the projects to guarantee their production and international distribution.

Selected projects:

1. A la sombra de los árboles

Director: Matías Rojas Valencia
Production Company: Don Quijote Films
Country: Chile

2. Camino a la paz

Director: Francisco Varone
Production Company: Gema Films
Country: Argentina-Bolivia

3. Demonios tus ojos

Director: Pedro Aguilera Londaiz
Production Company: Pedro Aguilera P.C.
Country: Colombia-Spain

4. Do outro lado da lua

Director: André Gevaerd
Production Company: CineramaBC
Country: Argentina-Brazil

5. Donde sueñan los salvajes

Director: Adrián Saba
Production Company: Flamingo Films
Country: Peru

6. El acompañante

Director: Pavel Giroud
Production Company: Tu Vas Voir
Country: Cuba-France

7. La noche oscura del alma

Director: Augusto Sandino
Production Company: Altiplano Cinematográfica-Schweizen Media group S.A.S.
Country: Colombia

8. La puerta del amor

Director: Ana Díez
Production Company: Shangri-la PC S.L.
Country: Spain

9. La tierra y la sombra

Director: César Augusto Acevedo
Production Company: Burning Blue
Country: Colombia-France

10. Las toninas van al este

Directors: Gonzalo Delgado and Verónica Perrotta
Production Company: Gonzalo Delgado-Verónica Perrotta
Country: Argentina-Uruguay

11. Niño nadie

Director: Fernando Guzzoni
Production Company: Solita Producciones LTDA
Country: Chile-France

12. Operación Concha

Director: Antonio Cuadri
Production Company: Abra Prod, S.L.
Country: Spain

13. Pozo de aire

Director: Milagros Mumenthaler
Production Company: Ruda Cine
Country: Argentina-Switzerland

14. Sin muertos no hay carnaval

Director: Sebastián Cordero Espinosa
Production Company: Carnaval Cine
Country: Argentina-Ecuador

15. Virgen Exótica

Director: Mario Esteban Castaño Solano
Production Company: Castaño Producciones
Country: Colombia-Norway

IBERMEDIA PROJECT

16. Tamara y la Catarina (not eligible for the Award)

Director: Lucía Carreras
Production Company: Filmadora Producciones
Country: Guatemala-Mexico

 

Locarno opens today August 7th on the Piazza Grande at 21:30 with 2 Guns: Demandez le programme!

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Piazza Grande Events 7 August 2013
The opening ceremony will take place Wednesday 7 August on the Piazza Grande at 21:30. 
- Presentation of the official juries of the three competitions 
- Preview screening of extracts from films in the Concorso internazionale
- Presentation of the Excellence Award Moët & Chandon to Sir Christopher Lee
- International premiere screening of 2 Guns introduced by director Baltasar Kormákur

2Guns by Baltasar Kormákur

Two operatives from competing bureaus are forced on the run together. Their problem: neither knows that the other is an undercover federal agent. For the past twelve months, DEA agent Bobby Trench and U.S. Naval Intelligence officer Marcus Stigman have been reluctantly attached at the hip. Working undercover as members of a narcotics syndicate, each man distrusts his partner as much as the criminals they have both been tasked to take down. When their attempt to infiltrate a Mexican drug cartel and recover millions goes haywire, Trench and Stigman are suddenly disavowed by their superiors. Now that everyone wants them in jail or in the ground, they can only count on each other. But when good guys spend years pretending to be bad, they pick up a few tricks along the way.


Special Events / Conversations with guests
Conversation with Andrea Segre, Vinicio Capossela and the audience of the Festival at 14:00 at La Magnolia (Spazio RSI) hosted by Carlo Chatrian and Marco Zucchi.

 

At 15:45 at Auditorium FEVI, Andrea Segre will be introducing the World Premiere screening of his new film Indebito, starring the italian musician Vinicio Capossela. The documentariy accompanies the Cantautore through the greek crisis, and will be followed by a concert with Vinicio Capossela and five greek musicians Manolis Pappos, Ntinos Chatziiordanou, Vassilis Massalas, Angelos Polychronou and Glauco Zuppiroli, who will be playing songs from Rebetiko Gymnastasa, the last album by the Italian artist.

 


Press Screenings (Teatro Kursaal)
7 August 2013, 13:00, Piazza Grande
2 Guns, by Baltasar Kormákur

7 August 2013, 16:00, Concorso internazionale
El Mudo, by Daniel Vega and Diego Vega

7 August 2013, 18:00, Concorso Cineasti del presente
The Dirties, by Matt Johnson

7 August 2013, 19:30, Concorso Cineasti del presente
Sai nam tid shoer, by Nontawat Numbenchapol

7 August 2013, 21:00, Piazza Grande
Vijay and I, by Sam Garbarski

 

Press Conferences (Palazzo Morettini)
7 August 2013, 13:00, Piazza Grande
2 Guns, by Baltasar Kormákur 

with Baltasar Kormákur (director), Randall Emmett (producer), Brandon Grimes (coproducer)


Parallel Events

Foto Garbani in collaboration with Animazione Centro Pax Muralto launches a Photo Contest on Locarno 66: Lo Scatto del Pardo.

 

Six titles added to the San Sebastian Official Selection

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Yet another year, important filmmakers from all over the world will compete for the Golden Shell at the new edition of the San Sebastian Festival, to take place from 20-28 September.

François Dupeyron, Fernando Eimbcke, Roger Michell, Mariana Rondón, Bertrand Tavernier and Jonathan Teplitzky among the directors to compete in the Official Selection at the 61st San Sebastian Festival.

Club Sándwich - Fernando Eimbcke (México)

Mon âme par toi guérie - François Dupeyron (Fra)

Pelo Malo - Mariana Rondón (Venezuela)

Quai d'Orsay - Bertrand Tavernier (Fra)

The Railway Man (Un largo viaje) - Jonathan Teplitzky (UK-Australia)

Le Week-end - Roger Michell (UK)

 

We add these films to the Spanish already announced in the Official Selection,

Caníbal - Manuel Martín Cuenca

Vivir es fácil - David Trueba

Enemy - Denis Villeneuve

La herida - Fernando Franco

 

The other titles making up the Official Selection will be announced in the coming weeks.

Submit to the North Hollywood CineFest today!

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Submit today to the hottest new festival in Los Angeles!  Making its debut next April in a state of the art digital theater in the heart of the NoHo Arts District, the North Hollywood CineFest will boast a great run of independent films as well as provide an entertaining atmosphere and a fantastic networking opportunity with people in the biz.  Numerous notable film professionals will be present in this 4-day event.  The festival will prioritize great stories first and foremost.  You don't need celebrities in your film to be accepted.  Just a great story!  So don't wait.  Submit now!

Tribute to Kathleen Turner at Montreal Worldfest

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The celebrated American star of screen and stage Kathleen Turner will be honoured by the Montreal World Film Festival it was announced. Ms Turner will receive a Special Grand Prize of the Americas.
 

The honour includes a prestigious Award presentation preceded by an onstage interview covering her illustrious career. Screenings of several films of hers will also be presented during the course of the Festival. "We are very pleased to welcome Kathleen Turner to Montreal,” said Serge Losique, president of the MWFF. “Her presence here honours us and reflects the Festival’s reputation in the international film community.”

Turner made her television debut in the NBC daytime soap The Doctors in 1977 and her film debut in 1981 as the ruthless Matty Walker in Lawrence Kasdan’s erotic thriller, Body Heat, a role that brought her to international prominence. Empire Magazine cited the film in 1995 when it named her one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in Film History. The New York Times wrote in 2005 that, propelled by her “jaw-dropping movie debut [in] Body Heat... she built a career on adventurousness and frank sexuality borne of robust physicality.”

Three years later Turner co-starred in Romancing the Stone with Michael Douglas and Danny DeVito. Film critic Pauline Kael wrote of her performance as writer Joan Wilder, “Turner knows how to use her dimples amusingly and how to dance like a woman who didn’t know she could; her star performance is exhilarating.” And her performance in Francis Ford Coppola’s  Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) earned her an Oscar nomination. Turner had quickly become one of the top box office draws, and most sought-after actresses, of the 1980s and 1990s.

Turner also works actively in the theatre, on and off Broadway, and has been nominated for the Tony Award twice for her roles as Maggie in Cat On a Hot Tin Roof  (1990) and as Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (2005).

At the Cannes Film Festival in 1994 she presented Quentin Tarantino with the Palme d’or for Pulp Fiction. At the 2004 Cannes Festival she served as a member of jury.

The 2013 Montreal World Film Festival will be held August 22 to September 2.

Around the world in 432 films at Montreal World Fest - The full line up

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The World is Yours!  Around the world in 432 films

The press conference in a full house August 6, 2013

 THE WORLD FILM FESTIVAL

August 22 – Septembre 2, 2013

The World is Yours!

 

 

 

218 feature films (113 world and international premieres)

14 medium length films (13 world and international premieres)

200 short films (147 world and international premieres)

 

 

World Competition : 20 feature films and 11 short films

 

First Films World Competition : 20 feature films

 

Hors Concours / World Greats : 13 feature films

 

Korean Cinema of Today : 8 feature films, 1 medium length, 9 short films

 

Focus on World Cinema : 105 feature films, 1 medium length, 110 short films

 

Documentaries of the World : 26 feature films, 12 medium length, 3 shorts films

 

INIS Productions : 10 short films (4 fiction films and 6 documentaries)

 

Canadian Student Film Festival : 1 feature film and 42 short films

 

Best Student Films of the World : 15 short films

 

Hommage : 1 feature film

 

Our Cinema – Review of a Year of Hits : 13 feature films

 

Cinema Under the Stars Loto-Québec : 12 feature films

 

The slogan of the World Film Festival this year is "The world is yours." With its legendary openness to the world, the Festival offers a tantalizing and diverse menu of 432 films (218 feature films, 14 medium-length films and 200 short films).


The principal way for an international festival to distinguish itself is to present premieres. Besides its renowned openness, one of the important features of the Montreal World Film Festival is its hosting of a large number of world and international premieres. This year, of the 218 feature films programmed, 113 will be presented as world or international premieres, along with 39 North American premieres and 41 Canadian premieres.


Our new all-digital environment, which has become the norm in 2013, has relegated 35mm prints to antiques shops and has completely changed the selection process of films. Not a single 35mm print was submitted to us this year. During the selection process, we were sent a large number of "links" that allowed us to view, under excellent conditions, films for which we had no physical media. And if we were slow to screen a film, because in the profusion of submissions it happened that some had to wait a few weeks to be seen, we would receive frantic follow-ups from producers or directors who had noticed that their works hadn’t yet been viewed...


The dematerialization of audiovisual works has many advantages, especially during the process of creation and filming, making possible more low-budget productions and giving documentaries a spontaneity that would have been difficult to achieve with bulkier equipment. However, this dematerialization also poses a serious problem for creators because it encourages piracy which has become the bane of cinema artists and businessmen. Intellectual property, which creators have long fought to have regulated and protected, might be rendered obsolete. If the profitability of films is in doubt, who would want to invest in the cinema? More than ever it has become important to combat this scourge, and this can only be achieved by a transnational effort to eliminate pirates who profit at the expense of artists and creators.

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE WORLD COMPETITION

 

If there is a dominant theme in the films of the competition this year, it is that of human beings caught a changing world, facing new realities.

 

In SPIELTRIEB (Gaming Instinct) by Gregor Schnitzler (Germany), Ada, an intelligent but fiercely independent 14-year-old, has trouble adjusting to her school environment. Then she meets Alev and recognizes a kindred soul. Their friendship sets off sparks.

 

WESTEN (West) by Christian Schwochow (Germany). We are in  East Berlin, 1978. It’s summer, three years after Wassilly’s death. Nelly’s boyfriend and Alexei’s father died in a car accident in Russia. Since he is dead, Nelly wants to leave too. Away from the GDR, to leave the grief and the memories behind. To get a fresh start. That should be possible in the West, or so Nelly believes.

 

HET VONNIS (The Verdict) by Jan Verheyen (Belgium). When his wife's murderer is released due to a procedural error, Luc Segers will do everything in his power to stop it from happening. Devastated by grief, Luc becomes obsessed with seeking justice. He neglects his work and starts following the man who ruined his life. He also begins collecting information on the Internet regarding miscarriages of justice and revenge killings. But this is going to be about more than revenge; it will be Luc Segers vs. the state.

 

LA MAISON DU PÊCHEUR by Alain Chartrand (Canada).In the summer of 1969, Bernard Lortie,19, a Gaspé fisherman’s son, arrives in Percé to find work. He meets Paul, Jacques and Francis, Quebec separatist activists who have come to open the “Fisherman’s House”. They aim to offer lodgings to young travellers and politicize them during their stay. Won over by the trio's ideas, Bernard gets increasingly involved in their project, even participating in the occupation of a local radio station to defend Gaspé fishermen. Relations between the activists and local authorities degenerate and the "Fisherman's House" is attacked by the town's fire truck. Bernard and his new friends return to Montreal where, the following year, they join the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) and play a pivotal role in the October Crisis.

 

L’AUTRE MAISON (Another House) by Mathieu Roy (Canada). Henri, 86 (Marcel Sabourin), has begun to suffer from dementia and keeps wandering away from his country house to find a more "comfortable" one. His two sons, Gabriel (Roy Dupuis), a star reporter who travels around the world covering wars and political hotspots, and Eric (Émile Proulx-Cloutier), a pilot-in-training, disagree about what to do with their increasingly erratic and forgetful father. But they eventually realize that they must overcome their differences so that they are together when they accompany their father to the enigmatic place that he keeps seeking, the place he calls "the other home".

 

THE FERRY by Shi Wei (China). Deep in the Enshi mountains, the Tian family live near an old ferry. To keep a commitment made by their forebears, the Tian family have helped people cross the river without collecting a penny for the ride. A widower in his 60s, his son away outside the village, Tian Huai’en is the third generation of the family to work the ferry. When his son returns for a visit, he begins questioning his father’s commitment. It will take him a summer of filling for his ailing dad for the son to appreciate what is at stake.

 

FEED ME by Yazhou Yang and Bo Yang (China). On an old barge moored close to a small village inhabited by old people and children, live young Wang Wang and his grandfather. Wang Wang attends the local school, but, in the absence of maternal authority, with great reluctance. Then, one night, a young pregnant woman is discovered hiding on the boat, ready to give birth. With the arrival of her little baby girl, the young mother, already used to her river accommodations, opts to stay with them. Life on the barge will never be the same.

 

HITAC (One Shot) by Robert Orhel (Croatia). One accidental gun shot links the destinies of two young women – Anita, an inspector who gets along very well in her professional life and quite well in her private life as well, and Petra, a young woman whose everyday life would surely be simpler if she did not have to take care of her alcoholic mother. The investigation of the accidental shot will bring them together at crucial turning points in their lives.

 

THE MIRACLE by Simon Staho (Denmark). When Jakob returns for the first time in years to his childhood village to attend his mother's funeral, he discovers that the love of his youth still lives there, trapped in an unhappy marriage with the town priest. Johanna loved dancing but she wanted desperately to win the regional dance competition and Jakob was an inept partner. Now she is confined to a wheelchair and her pastor husband is praying for a miracle. Can dancing provide what God can't?

 

JAPPELOUP by Christian Duguay (France - Canada). At the start of the 1980s, Pierre Durand abandons a promising legal career and throws himself into his true passion, show jumping. With his father's backing, he gambles everything on a young horse in whom no one else had any faith: Jappeloup. Too small, too stubborn, too impetuous, he has many faults, but also a remarkable jumping ability. From competition to competition, the pair improve and begin to make their mark on the showjumping world. But the Los Angeles Olympic Games are a disaster for them. Can the rider-horse partnership be repaired in time for the next Olympics?

 

LANDES by François-Xavier Vives (France). The 1920s, in Landes, in south-western France. In the middle of an immense forest a social crisis is brewing. Liéna, just 35, just widowed, has inherited her husband's his vast properties and his crazy dream to have electricity throughout his lands. Liéna wants to make this electrical dream come true, no matter the cost. But no one else seems to be interested, neither her family nor her associates, nor even the unions. So she fights, ever more stubborn and determined, only to finally understand that another dream exists, a social and emotional realm beyond the country's stalled and suffocating reality.

 

THE WEDLOCK by Rouhollah Hejazi (Iran). The Mahmoudis live in an old large house. They are a traditional couple with traditional values and beliefs. When they decide to renovate the building they call on the architect husband of Mrs. Mahmoudi's niece. But when the architect arrives it quickly becomes apparent that not everyone is on the same page regarding the renovations. Conflicts arise about the house and about related matters. Indeed, even unrelated matters. Slowly we begin to understand that the people in the house, residents and guests, are all torn between modern and traditional lifestyles.

 

CHA CHA CHA by Marco Risi (Italy). Outside a Rome nightclub, a teenage boy dies in a car accident. Nothing suggests that this is anything more than a simple collision, but Corso, a former cop turned private detective, is convinced otherwise. Michelle, the mother of the young man and Corso's former mistress, is now the partner of Argento, a powerful and well-connected lawyer. During the investigation a body is discovered, that of an engineer who was apparently close to the lawyer. Bribery, wiretapping, espionage, a mob settling of accounts; Corso’s plate is full.

 

ITAKER – ITALIANS NOT ALLOWED by Toni Trupia (Italy).The tale of a journey from Italy to Germany, in 1962. It's the peculiar journey of Pietro, a 9-year-old whose mother has died and who sets out on a quest to find his long lost father who disappeared after migrating to another country. He is accompanied by a self-described friend of his father's, Benito, a young man with a dubious past who is looking for personal redemption and is willing to do anything to get it.

 

ASK THIS OF RIKYU by Mitsutoshi Tanaka (Japan). As thunder crashes and rain pours down, 3000 soldiers surround the home of tea master Rikyu. Chancellor Toyotomi Hideyoshi has ordered him to commit suicide. As he sits and contemplates his death, his wife So-on speaks to him: "There is one who is always in your thoughts." Old memories are revived...

 

A THOUSAND TIMES GOODNIGHT by Erik Poppe (Norway). Rebecca is one of the world's top war photographers. On assignment while photographing a female suicide bomber group, she gets too near and is badly hurt in an explosion. Back home in Norway, another bomb drops. Her husband and daughters can no longer bear the thought of her dying on assignment in some faraway land. She is given an ultimatum: choose between your work or your family. The choice seems obvious...

 

LIFE FEELS GOOD by Maciej Pieprzyca (Poland). Mateusz has cerebral palsy. In addition to his obvious physical handicap, he was diagnosed at a very early age as a mentally disabled person with no communicative ability. After twenty five years, however, it turned out that apart from his physical problems, he was a perfectly normal, even quite intelligent person. We get to know Mateusz now, at 30, institutionalized, about to be examined by a committee which will decide whether he is normal or not…

 

IVAN, SON OF AMIR by Maksim Paniflov (Russia). A Russian woman from Sevastopol flees with her two children during the Second World War. Amir, an Uzbek with two wives, gives her shelter in a remote village. The Uzbek has not gone to the front to fight, because he, as he explains, he does not like to kill people. Nevertheless, Amir believes that he is "defending the motherland" by looking after and feeding his own family along with the Russian, now his third wife, her two children and little Ivan, his new son from the Russian woman. When the war ends, the woman's husband, who was assumed to be dead, shows up looking for his wife and children. He finds them and returns with them to Sevastopol. But he has difficulty accepting that his wife was third wife of a Muslim man who wouldn't fight in the war and the product of their union, Ivan, who is named after him, is now playing host to Amir's visiting family.

 

MONICA Z (Waltz for Monica) by Per Fly (Sweden).Monica Zetterlund, a young, rebellious small town girl is determined to make it as a singer in the vibrant jazz clubs of Stockholm, and even New York City, in the Sixties. She embarks on the singing career of her dreams, and an exquisite singer and actress evolves in the golden era of jazz. But behind all the glamour, Monica struggles to face the dark side of fame and success. As late nights of working and partying keep playing a bigger part in her life, the walls around her begin to shrink and shake. With a string of broken love affairs, a father she can never please, and a daughter to whom she’ll never be the perfect mother, Monica finds herself feeling more lost than ever…

 

THE RED ROBIN by Michael Wechsler (USA). Dr. Nathaniel Shellner, 75, has led an extraordinary life as a psychiatrist working with traumatized patients fleeing war zones in refugee camps, earning a Nobel Prize for his work. After having one child, Leonard, with his wife, Lillian, the Shellners adopt the remainder of their family from the camps where Dr. Shellner worked. Ultimately the Shellners incorporated children from all over the world into their family: Tommy, Julie, Harry. As Dr. Shellner succumbs to cancer on a frigid, icy day, the family convenes at the house where the couple raised the children for a final, bittersweet farewell. Or, that’s the idea until all hell breaks loose after Tommy arrives and accuses his father of adopting his children not out of concern for their future well-being, but to use them for some warped psychological experiment…

 

 

 

 

 

 

FIRST FILMS WORLD COMPETITION

 

For its 2013 edition, the Montreal World Film Festival selected a total of 71 first features, including 20 first fiction features that will compete in the FIRST FILMS WORLD COMPETITION. When these are added to the 67 short films made by students (the Canadian Student Film Festival, the INIS productions and the Best Student Films of the World), it becomes manifest that the Montreal World Film Festival is not only open to the world, it is a veritable nursery for new world talent.

 

Among the 20 films competing in this section:

 

ANTON’S FEST (PARTY OF EIGHT) by John Kolya Reichart (Germany). Eight people come together on a farm in the middle of nowhere. All of them are related by blood, friendship or love to Anton, who escaped his old life and disappeared some years ago and who has now reappeared and invited them to celebrate his 30th birthday. Anticipating the reunion, they put old grievances and injuries aside at first. However, as time passes without Anton showing up, frustration and anger begin to surface among the impatient guests. With old conflicts rising from the past at every turn, the eagerly awaited party turns into a ferocious family feud...

 

FINSTERWORLD by Frauke Finsterwalder (Germany). Pedicurist Claude Petersdorf harbours a special fondness for the feet of his female clients and reveals himself to Ms. Sandberg who lives in an old people's home. Documentary filmmaker Franziska Feldenhoven wants to make a film about the realities of German council housing. She is so focused on her project that she completely overlooks her partner, policeman Tom, and his fascinating secret. During a school trip to the memorial site of a concentration camp, popular student Maximilian humiliates outsiders Dominik and Natalie and sets up a cruel trap for his teacher, Mr. Nickel...

 

FROM TWO WORLDS AS A KEEPSAKE (YERKU ASHKHARHIC I HISHATAK) by Nika Shek. (Armenia).1988, a multi-ethnic town in Soviet Azerbaijan. Eight-year-old Ashen's parents, both Armenian, are divorced, live in different parts of town and are forever in a tug-of-war over the girl. Ashen's father has remarried and his new Russian wife has become a second mother for Ashen. In fact everyone is kind to the girl. But when the conflict breaks out between Armenia and Azerbaijan, where Ashen lives becomes a far more serious matter. Ashen's mother has to give her over to her father to keep her safe…

 

82 DAYS IN APRIL (82 DAGEN IN APRIL) by Bart Van den Bempt (Belgium). A Belgian man and a woman, Herman and Marie, arrive in Istanbul. They don’t seem to be the usual tourists on a holiday trip. A bitter task awaits them: to retrieve the backpack of their deceased son. When they go through his belongings, the remainders of a lost life, they discover some undeveloped film rolls and a detailed notebook of their son’s last trip. This discovery gives Herman an idea. Although the original goal of their trip to Istanbul had been accomplished, he can’t let go. He is determined to reconstruct his son’s last journey, to see what his son has seen… Each of the conversations they have with the people they encounter, is a possible fitting puzzle piece in their shattered world, bringing them closer to their son and their acceptance of the frailty of life.

 

YAM DAM by Vivian Goffette (Belgium). Christian lives a largely featureless life as a country veterinarian. He and his wife have set up a small aid-to-Africa organization and he serves as its president. But that isn't enough to fill the monotony of his existence. So Christian spends his idle hours surfing the web. On the Internet he invents a second persona and flirts with a young African woman in search of a better life. Just idle flirting. Then, one day, Faustine, a 26-year-old from Burkina Faso, shows up at his office. "I have no papers," she tells him. "But you promised to marry me."

 

LA FILLE DU MARTIN (THE MARTIN GIRL) by Samuel Thivierge (Canada). Sara works at her mother's pet supplies store in Montreal. She is finally going spend a fishing weekend with her dad in Lac-St-Jean. That's when the phone rings at the pet shop; her dad's cancer took a sudden turn for the worse and he died in a hospital. She is determined to go fishing in his memory. That's when Sara runs into an old elementary school classmate, Dan, a surly young man who works with his brother at their father's fishing lodge. A romance is kindled. A perilous adventure, too. There are poachers at the lodge and they play for keeps...

 

RESSAC (RIPTIDE) by Pascale Ferland (Canada). After searching in vain for a job in the small seaside town where he was born, Édouard is forced to head off to the big city. He reluctantly leaves behind his mother-in-law, his wife Gemma and his beloved daughter Chloé. The weight of his absence is felt by all three women. Soon the news arrives of his unexplained death. Beyond the confusion, guilt and anger that accompany such an event, there is the love, hope and idealism of youth, unfulfilled desires and the dreams they share of a better future. When Gemma discovers the unusual legacy left by her late husband, she thinks she’s finally found the key to happiness…

 

THE FALLING FEATHER by Wang Yi (China). When internationally acclaimed artist Mo Ke announces that he is selling his prized painting, "The Falling Feather", and that he will donate all the proceeds from its sale to a small Yunnan town, everyone in the art world is puzzled and intrigued. Why is he doing this? To answer this question we are transported 20 years into the past, to when a young unknown painter visited Yunnan and was captivated and inspired not only by the beauty of the location, but by a young woman... with a feather in her hair.

 

PUERTO PADRE (PORT FATHER) by Gustavo Fallas (Costa Rica – Mexico). Daniel, 16, an orphan, lives with his grandmother on Chira Island, in Costa Rica. Seeing no future in this poor and isolated place and curious about his origins, Daniel decides to find his godfather, Miguel Angel, in Puntarenas, the country's main city. Daniel begins his quest at the hotel where his mother used to work, but he is received coldly by the owner of the place, Chico, who informs him that his godfather had died a while back. After an initial refusal, Chico offers Daniel a job along with strict marching orders. At the hotel, Daniel meets Soledad, a 17-year-old single mother who maintains the hotel's kitchen, and before long the two have begun a relationship.

 

SOMOS GENTE HONRADA (HERE'S THE DEAL) by Alejandro Marzoa (Spain). Portly Suso, a newspaper vendor fallen on hard times, now depends on loans from his father-in-law, and is largely supported by his long-suffering spouse Carmen. Out fishing one evening with his friend, widowed, struggling real estate salesman Manuel, the pair find a substantial stash of cocaine bobbing in the waves. Manuel recruits a corrupt young cop to help him cash in on the bonanza…

 

TAJ MAHAL by Danesh Eghba Shavi (Iran). On several occasions, on instructions from the shipbuilding company where he works, Hossein Moradi, a 60-year-old clerk from Abadan, has had to fire some of his colleagues. When he gets his latest downsizing order, however, Hossein tries to make the process fairer. He decides to have the workers themselves pick who is to be laid off by drawing lots. But one of the workers objects and gets into a fight with Hossein…

 

SNAILS IN THE RAIN (SHABLULIM BA'GESHEM) by Yariv Mozer (Israël). Boaz, 25, is a handsome linguistics student. Nearly every day he comes to the post office to find out about his scholarship. But instead he receives anonymous love letters. Their author is a deeply closeted homosexual. The persistent letters make Boaz uncomfortable. Every man is a potential suspect — but it is his own heterosexuality that Boaz really doubts. He’s now haunted by memories from his past... In his next letter, the secret admirer gives Boaz an ultimatum…

 

L'AMORE È IMPERFETTO (LOVE IS NOT PERFECT) by Francesca Muci (Italy). Elena,35, a reader and part-time editor in a publishing company, lives on her own. Seven years earlier, she found out her partner Marco, a dashingly handsome young photographer,. was having a relationship with a man. Elena had no wish to understand or even to try and salvage the relationship. She had no desire either for Marco or the baby she was expecting. Marco, however, implored her not to get rid of the child. She agreed to have the baby only on condition that she would never see the two of them again. However the psychological wound remained unhealed. Now, years later, Elena meets Adriana, an 18-year-old girl who is unpredictable and passionate, and Ettore, a fascinating 60-year-old who works in music production…

 

THE WHIRLPOOL (VIR) by Bojan Vuk Kosovcevic (Serbia). As former Yugoslavia was falling apart, the economic and social stability of Serbia was collapsing as well. Social extremes were apparent everywhere, especially among the youth. War, inflation, physical isolation and sanctions all contributed to Serbia becoming a kind of closed society. The film follows the three main characters in three separate but interlinked stories: Bogdan, leader of a skinhead group; Kale, last living member of a famous gangster clan; and Count, a graffiti artist who left fine arts school to join the army and ended up with a serious trauma

 

IN TEN DAYS I'LL BE DEAD (IN ZEHN TAGEN BIN ICH TOT) by Aurelio Galfetti. (Switzerland).Raoul is sentenced to death. However, he has not given up hope, as his clemency petition is pending. Contact with the outside world consists only of two people who have remained loyal to him over the years.  Then word arrives that Raoul's clemency petition has been rejected. Preparations for his execution begin. Raoul tries to live his last days in dignity. Faced with imminent death, he wants to be fair with his main caregiver. Ten more days to remain alive. But he must cooperate. So that his execution will proceed without incident. There are formalities. The menu of his last meal and whatever final words he would like to set down in writing...

 

LEFT FOOT RIGHT FOOT by Germinal Roaux (Switzerland – France). Marie, 19, is drawn to the glitter of nightclubs, she trusts an ill-intentioned former friend and is hired as a hostess. Before long, lured by the glamour as much as the easy money, she has slipped into prostitution. But she doesn't dare admit it to her boyfriend Vincent, a carefree 21-year-old skateboarder who owes everyone money and has more trouble adjusting to adulthood than Marie. Mika, the autistic and mute brother in Vincent's care, witnesses their secrets and lies and eventually he too gets caught up in their problems.

 

THE LONG WAY HOME (EVE DÖNÜS SARIKAMIS 1915) by Alphan Eseli (Turkey). The Battle of Sarikamis was an engagement between the Russian and Ottoman empires during World War I. It took place from December 22, 1914 to January 17, 1915 as part of the Caucasus Campaign. The outcome was a Russian victory with the Ottomans losing territory and over 90,000 soldiers. A disparate group of people are seeking to escape the war zone and find a safe path back home. All seven converge on an abandoned Armenian village in the face of a particularly harsh winter. Food is scarce and as days pass and the conditions get worse, conflicts escalate within the group. This is the other face of war, neither the glory of battle nor its horror, but the struggle of civilians to survive its consequences, the indomitable human will to survive.

 

TIME OF THE LAKE (GÖL ZAMANI) by Cafer Özgül (Turkey). Turkey in 1930. The entire country is in a state of transition following the Atatürk reforms. Two close friends, Ahmet and Refik, recent medical school graduates, decide to explore Anatolia, emulating the romantics of the 19th century. They arrive at a small town and are lodged by Mr. Hasim who is an old member of the Party of Union and Progress. His daughter Elif is a shy and a melancholy girl. One night, she and Refik meet by the lakeside and a romance between them is kindled. Ahmet also is smitten by Elif. His attraction unrequited, Ahmet remains in the town just to be near her. As the years go by, Elif continues to wait for Refik.

 

AT MIDDLETON by Adam Rodgers (USA). It's not only teenagers who find themselves when they go off to college. Disillusioned Edith meets stick-in-the-mud George while they are taking their children to visit the campus of prestigious Middleton College. Edith's daughter Audrey is aggravated by her mom's jokes. George's son Conrad would rather be somewhere else. Annoyed with their kids, Edith and George end up abandoning the official tour to explore the campus on their own. During the course of the day, they get to know each other and rediscover their inner children, embracing the sunshine and a moment in time where they are freed from their normal lives.

 

LA DISTANCIA MAS LARGA (THE LONGEST DISTANCE) by Claudia Pinto Emperador. (Venezuela – Spain). Two faces of the same country: a chaotic and violent city and a rural paradise containing some of the oldest mountains on the planet. Sixtyish Martina arrives from Spain toLa Gran Sabana in southeastern Venezuela: she intends to die atop Mount Roraima. These plans are interrupted by the unexpected arrival of her 12-year-old grandson Lucas. Destiny will bond them. Without knowing it, they are part of an unbreakable family circle.

 

 

 

 

FESTIVAL DES FILMS DU MONDE - 22 août au 2 septembre 2013

WORLD FILM FESTIVAL – August 22 to September 2, 2013

 

 

COMPÉTITION MONDIALE – Longs métrages

WORLD COMPETITION – Feature films

 

 SPIELTRIEB / L'INSTINCT DU JEU / GAMING INSTINCT - Gregor Schnitzler. (Allemagne / Germany)

 WESTEN / OUEST / WEST - Christian Schwochow. Allemagne / Germany)

 HET VONNIS / LE VERDICT / THE VERDICT - Jan Verheyen. (Belgique / Belgium)

 LA MAISON DU PÊCHEUR/ SUMMER CRISIS – Chartrand (Canada)

 L'AUTRE MAISON / ANOTHER HOUSE - Mathieu Roy (Canada)

 THE FERRY / LE FERRY - Shi Wei (Chine / China)

 FEED ME / NOURRIS-MOI - Yazhou Yang, Bo Yang (Chine / China)

 HITAC / ONE SHOT - Robert Orhel (Croatie / Croatia)

 MIRAKLET / LE MIRACLE / THE MIRACLE - Simon Staho (Danemark - Irlande / Denmark – Ireland)

 LANDES -  François-Xavier Vives (France - Belgique / France – Belgium)

 JAPPELOUP - Christian Duguay (France – Canada)

 THE WEDLOCK /LES LIENS DU MARIAGE - Rouhollah Hejazi (Iran)

 CHA CHA CHA - Marco Risi ( Italie - France / Italy – France)

 ITAKER - VIETATO AGLI ITALIANI / ITAKER - INTERDIT AUX ITALIENS / ITAKER - ITALIANS NOT ALLOWED - Toni Trupia (Italie / Italy)

 RIKYU NI TAZUNEYO / DEMANDE À RIKYU / ASK THIS OF RIKYU - Mitsutoshi Tanaka (Japon / Japan)

 A THOUSAND TIMES GOODNIGHT / MILLE FOIS BONNE NUIT / A THOUSAND TIMES GOODNIGHT - Erik Poppe (Norvège / Norway)

 CHCE SIE ZYC /LA VIE EST BELLE/ LIFE FEELS GOOD - Maciej Pieprzyca (Pologne / Poland)

 IVAN SYN AMIRA / IVAN/ FILS D'AMIR / IVAN SON OF AMIR - Maksim Panfilov (Russie / Russia)

 MONICA Z / VALSE POUR MONICA / WALTZ FOR MONICA - Per Fly (Suède / Sweden)

 THE RED ROBIN / LE ROUGE-GORGE / THE RED ROBIN - Michael Z. Wechsler (USA)

 

 

COMPÉTITION MONDIALE – Courts métrages

WORLD COMPETITION – Short films

 

 Wolfsmelk / Lait de loup / Wolf's Milk - Hans Vercauter (Belgique / Belgium)

 Panic / Panique - Miz Monday (Canada)

 Rue de l'inspecteur / Inspector Street - Emmanuelle Loslier (Canada)

 Animal - Joon-sang Lee (Corée du Sud / South Korea)

 L'Aurore boréale / Northern Lights - Keren Ben Rafael (France)

 Help!  Jean Marboeuf (France)

 Blink - Conor Maloney.(Irlande / Ireland)

 Drone - Daniel Jewel (Royaume-Uni / United Kingdom)

 Color Separation - Yoav Parish (Suisse / Switzerland)

 Mirage at Zabul Province -  Nathan Bettisworth (USA)

 For the Birds / Pour les oiseaux - Tara Atashgah (USA)

 

 

COMPÉTITION MONDIALES DES PREMIÈRES ŒUVRES – Longs métrages

FIRST FILMS WORLD COMPETITION – Feature films

 

 ANTONS FEST /LA FÊTE D'ANTON/ PARTY OF EIGHT - John Kolya Reichart (Allemagne / Germany)

 FINSTERWORLD - Frauke Finsterwalder (Allemagne / Germany)

 YERKU ASHKHARHIC I HISHATAK / FROM TWO WORLDS AS A KEEPSAKE - Nika Shek. (Arménie / Armenia)

 82 DAGEN IN APRIL / 82 JOURS EN AVRIL / 82 DAYS IN APRIL - Bart Van den Bempt (Belgique / Belgium)

 YAM DAM - Vivian Goffette (Belgique / Belgium)

 LA FILLE DU MARTIN/ THE MARTIN GIRL - Samuel Thivierge (Canada)

 RESSAC / RIPTIDE - Pascale Ferland (Canada)

 THE FALLING FEATHER /LA PLUME QUI TOMBE- Wang Yi (Chine / China)

 PUERTO PADRE / PORT FATHER - Gustavo Fallas (Costa Rica - Mexique / Costa Rica – Mexico)

 SOMOS GENTE HONRADA / HERE'S THE DEAL - Alejandro Marzoa (Espagne / Spain)

 TAJ MAHAL - Danesh Eghba Shavi (Iran)

 SHABLULIM BA'GESHEM / LE JARDIN DES ARBRES MORTS / SNAILS IN THE RAIN - Yariv Mozer (Israël)

 L'AMORE È IMPERFETTO / L'AMOUR EST IMPARFAIT / LOVE IS NOT PERFECT - Francesca Muci (Italie / Italy)

 VIR / TOURBILLON / THE WHIRLPOOL - Bojan Vuk Kosovcevic (Serbie / Serbia)

 IN ZEHN TAGEN BIN ICH TOT / DANS DIX JOURS/ JE SERAI MORT / IN TEN DAYS I'LL BE DEAD - Aurelio Galfetti. (Suisse / Switzerland)

 LEFT FOOT RIGHT FOOT - Germinal Roaux (Suisse - France / Switzerland – France)

 EVE DÖNÜS SARIKAMIS 1915 / LE LONG CHEMIN VERS LA MAISON / THE LONG WAY HOME - Alphan Eseli (Turquie / Turkey)

 GÖL ZAMANI / LE TEMPS DU LAC / TIME OF THE LAKE - Cafer Özgül (Turquie / Turkey)

 AT MIDDLETON - Adam Rodgers (USA)

 LA DISTANCIA MAS LARGA/ LE CHEMIN LE PLUS LONG / THE LONGEST DISTANCE - Claudia Pinto Emperador. (Venezuela - Espagne / Venezuela – Spain)

 

 

HORS CONCOURS – Longs métrages

WORLD GREATS – Feature films

 

 LUDWIG II - Peter Sehr & Marie Noelle. (Allemagne / Germany)

 MARINA - Stijn Coninx (Belgique / Belgium)

 FALL OF MING /LA CHUTE DE LADYNASTIE MING - Wang Jing (Chine / China)

 AVALOKITESVARA - Zhang Xin. (Chine / China)

 CI YE /LA BALLE FATALE/ THE DEADLY BULLET - Ren Pengyuan (Chine / China)

 ADORE - Anne Fontaine (France - Australie / France – Australia)

 LA RELIGIEUSE / THE NUN - Guillaume Nicloux (France - Allemagne - Belgique / France - Germany – Belgium)

 CAMILLE CLAUDEL 1915 - Bruno Dumont (France)

 KIYOSU KAIGI /LA CONFÉRENCE DE KIYOSU/ THE KIYOSU CONFERENCE - Koki Mitani (Japon / Japan)

 UROKI GARMONII / LEÇONS D'HARMONIE / HARMONY LESSONS - Emir Baigazin (Kazakhstan - Allemagne / Kazakhstan – Germany)

 DARK BLOOD - George Sluizer (Pays-Bas / Netherlands)

 3x3D - Peter Greenaway, Jean-Luc Godard, Edgar Pêra (Portugal)

 DONŠAJNI / DON JUAN / THE DON JUANS - Jirí Menzel (République tchèque / Czech Republic)

 

 

CINÉMA CORÉEN D’AUJOURD.HUI – Longs métrages

KOREAN CINEMA OF TODAY – Feature films

 

 MAI RATIMA - Ji-Tae Yoo. (Corée du Sud / South Korea)

 BUN-NO-UI YUL-LI-HAK / UNE LEÇON D'ÉTHIQUE / AN ETHICS LESSON - Myung-rang Park (Corée du Sud / South Korea)

 JISEUL - O Muel (Corée du Sud / South Korea)

 NUNA / A BOY'S SISTER - Won-sik Lee (Corée du Sud / South Korea)

 NAMYEONG-DONG 1985 / SÉCURITÉ NATIONALE / NATIONAL SECURITY - Ji-young Chung (Corée du Sud / South Korea)

 KASHI-GGOT / FATAL - Don-ku Lee (Corée du Sud / South Korea)

 DON KUERAI MAMI / NE PLEURE PAS/ MAMAN / DON'T CRY/ MOMMY - Yong-han Kim (Corée du Sud / South Korea)

 SUM-BA-GGOK-JIL / CACHE-CACHE / HIDE N SEEK - Han-uk Lee (Corée du Sud / South Korea)

 MY PAPAROTTI - Jong-chan Yoon (Corée du Sud / South Korea)

 Jury - Dong-ho Kim (Corée du Sud / South Korea)

 

 

CINÉMA CORÉEN D’AUJOURD.HUI – Courts métrages

KOREAN CINEMA OF TODAY – Short films

 

 Suddenly Last Summer - Hee-il Leesong (Corée du Sud / South Korea)

 Sa-rang-eui Myo-yak / Love Potion - Hyun-kyu Kim (Corée du Sud / South Korea)

 It's Okay! Kyi-il Hwang (Corée du Sud / South Korea)

 Oneul-ui-jeon-yeok / Dinner - Hyun-seok Shim (Corée du Sud / South Korea)

 Creative Masturbation - Jung-soo Kang (Corée du Sud / South Korea)

 Choongshim/ Soso - Jung-in Kim (Corée du Sud / South Korea)

 Big Daddy - Sang-hyun Moon (Corée du Sud / South Korea)

 Toh-ki Ga-Bang / A Rabbit Bag - Jae-ick So (Corée du Sud / South Korea)

 

 

REGARDS SUR LES CINÉMAS DU MONDE – Longs métrages

FOCUS ON WORLD CINEMA – Feature films

 

 WAJMA/ AN AFGHAN LOVE STORY - Barmak Akram (Afghanistan - France / Afghanistan – France)

 ADIEU PARIS - Franziska Buch (Allemagne - Luxembourg - France / Germany - Luxembourg – France)

 45 MINUTES TO RAMALLAH / 45 MINUTES POUR RAMALLAH - Ali Samadi Ahadi (Allemagne / Germany)

 FRÄULEIN ELSE / ELSE - Anna Martinetz (Allemagne - Autriche - Inde / Germany - Austria – India)

 LOVE STEAKS - Jakob Lass (Allemagne / Germany)

 HANNAS REISE / LE VOYAGE D'HANNA / HANNA'S JOURNEY - Julia von Heinz (Allemagne - Israël / Germany – Israel)

 MEINE SCHWESTERN / MES SOEURS / MY SISTERS - Lars Kraume (Allemagne / Germany)

 NORA - Curtis Burz (Allemagne / Germany)

 NORDSTRAND - Florian Eichinger (Allemagne / Germany)

 SILVI - MAYBE LOVE - Nico Sommer (Allemagne / Germany)

 UMMAH - UNTER FREUNDEN / UMMAH - ENTRE AMIS / UMMAH - AMONG FRIENDS - Cüneyt Kaya (Allemagne / Germany)

 STAUDAMM / LE BARRAGE / THE DAM - Thomas Sieben (Allemagne / Germany

 WOYZECK / THE TRAGEDY OF A SIMPLE MAN - Nuran David Calis (Allemagne / Germany)

 WAKOLDA - Lucía Puenzo (Argentine / Argentina)

 LOS DUEÑOS / LES PROPRIÉTAIRES / THE OWNERS - Agustin Toscano, Ezequiel Radusky(Argentine / Argentina)

 LA BOMBA / LA BOMBE / THE BOMB - Sergio Bizzio (Argentine / Argentina)

 SOLA CONTIGO / SEULE AVEC TOI / ALONE WITH YOU - Alberto Lecchi (Argentine - Espagne / Argentina – Spain)

 BRASSERIE ROMANTIEK / BRASSERIE ROMANTIQUE - Joël Vanhoebrouck (Belgique / Belgium)

 A MEMORIA QUE ME CONTAM / A MEMORIA QUE ME CONTAM / MEMORIES THEY TOLD ME - Lucia Murat (Brésil - Chili - Argentine / Brazil - Chile – Argentina)

 MUNDO INVISÍVEL / LE MONDE INVISIBLE / INVISIBLE WORLD - Theo Angelopoulos, Guy Maddin, Marco Bechis, Manoel de Oliveira, Laís Bodanzky, Gian Vittorio Baldi, Maria de Medeiros, Beto Brant, Cisco Vásquez, Jerzy Stuhr, Wim Wenders, Atom Egoyan (Brésil / Brazil)

 LA VOIX DE L'OMBRE/ THE VOICE OF THE SHADOW - Annie Molin Vasseur (Canada)

 A FISH STORY / ENTRE DEUX EAUX - Matt Birman (Canada)

 TWICE / DEUX FOIS - Simon Winterson (Canada)

 A GUN & A RING / UN PISTOLET ET UNE BAGUE - Lenin M. Sivam (Canada - Sri Lanka)

 LONG GONE DAY - Jon Dietcher (Canada)

 RÉDEMPTION - Joel Gauthier (Canada)

 ALGONQUIN - Jonathan Hayes (Canada)

 SOLO - Isaac Cravit (Canada)

 L'EFFET - Jocelyn Langlois (Canada)

 LOOKING IS THE ORIGINAL SIN - Gail Harvey (Canada)

 STANDSTILL / IMPASSE - Majdi El-Omari (Canada)

 LA PASIÓN DE MICHELANGELO/ THE PASSION OF MICHELANGELO - Esteban Larrain (Chili / Chile)

 DEAD SIGN /LA MAUDITE DE MORT- Hui Liu (Chine / China)

 HUSHED ROAR - Xiao Feng (Chine / China)

 THE BLINDING SUNLIGHT / L'ÉBLOUISSEMENT DU SOLEIL - Yu Lui (Chine / China)

 A LIFE FULL OF LOVE / UNE VIE D'AMOUR - ZhanJun An (Chine / China)

 PHILOMIRROPHOBIA II - Yuke Qin (Chine / China)

 FALLEN CITY - Huang Hong (Chine / China)

 ROA - Andrés Baiz (Colombie - Argentine / Colombia – Argentina)

 EL EFECTO K. EL MONTADOR DE STALIN / L'EFFET K. LE MONTEUR DE STALINE / THE K EFFECT. STALIN'S EDITOR - Valenti Figueres (Espagne / Spain)

 15 AÑOS Y UN DIA / 15 ANS + 1 JOUR / 15 YEARS + 1 DAY - Gracia Querejeta (Espagne / Spain)

 DIAMANTES NEGROS / DIAMANTS NOIRS / BLACK DIAMONDS - Miguel Alcantud (Espagne - Portugal - Mali / Spain - Portugal – Mali)

 STOCKHOLM - Rodrigo Sorogoyen (Espagne / Spain)

 FILL DE CAIN / FILS DE CAÏN / SON OF CAIN - Jesus Monllao Plana (Espagne / Spain)

 FÉNIX 11.23 - Joel Joan, Sergi Lara (Espagne / Spain)

 TODAS LA MUJERES / TOUTES LES FEMMES / ALL THE WOMEN - Mariano Barroso (Espagne / Spain)

 LÄRJUNGEN / LE DISCIPLE / THE DISCIPLE - Ulrika Bengts (Finlande / Finland)

 12 ANS D'ÂGE / 60 GOING ON 12 - Frédéric Proust (France)

 L'ÉTOILE DU JOUR / MORNING STAR - Sophie Blondy (France)

 LA BRACONNE - Samuel Rondiere (France)

 LA VIE DOMESTIQUE/ DOMESTIC LIFE - Isabelle Czajka (France)

 LE BONHEUR / HAPPINESS - Fabrice Grange (France)

 EN RETARD POUR L'ENTERREMENT DE MA MÈRE / LATE FOR MY MOTHER'S FUNERAL - Penny Allen (France - Algérie / France – Algeria)

 JEUNESSE / YOUTH - Justine Malle (France)

 LE SENS DE L'HUMOUR / SENSE OF HUMOUR - Marilyne Canto (France)

 COMA / BESPREDEL / DÉSORDRE / DISORDER - Archil Kavtaradze (Géorgie / Georgia)

 TO DENTRO KAI I KOUNIA / L'ARBRE ET LA BALANÇOIRE / THE TREE AND THE SWING - Maria Douza( Grèce - Serbie / Greece – Serbia)

 O EHTHROS MOU / L'ENNEMI INTÉRIEUR / THE ENEMY WITHIN - Yorgos Tsemberopoulos )Grèce / Greece)

 PAPILIO BUDDHA / BOUDDHA PAPILIO - Jayan Cherian (Inde - USA / India – USA)

 FILMISTAN - Nitin Kakkar (Inde / India)

 CHITTAGONG - Bedabrata Pain (Inde / India)

 MONSOON SHOOTOUT - Amit Kumar (Inde / India)

 SOMETHING IN THE WAY - Teddy Soeriaatmadja (Indonésie / Indonesia)

 BARG RIZAN / FALLING LEAVES / FALLING LEAVES - Ali Jaberansari (Iran - Royaume-Uni / Iran - United Kingdom)

 INJA HAME CHIZ KHOOB AST/ ICI TOUT EST BON / EVERYTHING IS FINE HERE - Pourya Azarbayjan (Iran)

 AZ TEHRAN TA BEHESHT / DE TÉHÉRAN AU CIEL / FROM TEHRAN TO HEAVEN - Abolfazl Saffary (Iran - Allemagne / Iran – Germany)

 RUN & JUMP - Steph Green (Irlande - Allemagne / Ireland – Germany)

 PLASTALINA / FRAGILE / FRAGILE - Vidi Bilu (Israël)

 PANTER LAVAN / PANTHÈRE BLANCHE / WHITE PANTHER - Danni Reisfeld (Israël)

 

 ELA CHIAMANO ESTATE/ AND THEY CALL IT SUMMER - Paolo Franchi (Italie / Italy)

 AMOREODIO / LOVEHATE - Cristian Scardigno (Italie / Italy)

 ANGELO BIANCO - IL RAGIONIERE DELLA MAFIA / LES MESSIEURS / THE MAFIA ACCOUNTANT - Federico Rizzo (Italie / Italy)

 BIANCA COME IL LATTE/ ROSSA COME IL SANGUE / BLANCHE COMME LE LAIT/ ROUGE COMME LE SANG / AS WHITE AS MILK/ AS RED AS BLOOD - Giacomo Campiotti (Italie / Italy)

 CI VEDIAMO DOMANI / ON SE VOIT DEMAIN / SEE YOU TOMORROW - Andrea Zaccariello (Italie / Italy)

 LOST IN LAOS - Alessandro Zunino (Italie / Italy)

 VIAGGIO SOLA / A FIVE STAR LIFE - Maria Sole Tognazzi (Italie / Italy)

 UN GIORNO DEVI ANDARE / UN JOUR VIENDRA / THERE WILL COME A DAY - Giorgio Diritti (Italie / Italy)

 BOTCHAN / BOZO - Tatsushi Omori (Japon / Japan)

 HAKO IRI MUSUKO NO KOI / L'AMOUR AVEUGLE / BLINDLY IN LOVE - Masahide Ichii (Japon / Japan)

 JUDAS - Izumi Ohtomi (Japon / Japan)

 CASE OF KYOKO CASE OF SHUICHI / KYOKO SHUICHI: DEUX HISTOIRES - Eiji Okuda (Japon / Japan)

 SHANIDAR NO HANA /LA FLEUR DE SHANIDAR/ THE FLOWER OF SHANIDAR - Gakuryu Ishii (Japon / Japan)

 KYOAKU /LA VOIE DU DIABLE/ THE DEVIL'S PATH - Kazuya Shiraishi (Japon / Japan)

 SHIJUKUNICHI NO RECIPE / RECETTE DE DEUIL / MOURNING RECIPE - Yuki Tanada (Japon / Japan)

 ASFOURI - Fouad Alaywan (Liban - UAE / Lebanon – UAE)

 APASIONADO PANCHO VILLA / PASSIONNÉ PANCHO VILLA / AMOROUS PANCHO VILLA - Juan Andres Bueno, Lourdes Deschamps (Mexique / Mexico)

 WORKERS - José Luis Valle (Mexique - Allemagne / Mexico – Germany)

 INERCIA / INERTIE - Isabel Muñoz Cota Callejas (Mexique / Mexico)

 LEVANTAMUERTOS / DEBOUT LES MORTS / DEATH STROKES - Miguel Nuñez (Mexique / Mexico)

 NOSOTROS LOS NOBLES / NOUS LES NOBLES / THE NOBLE FAMILY - Gaz Alazraki (Mexique / Mexico)

 EVENTYRLAND / IT'S ONLY MAKE BELIEVE - Arild Østin Ommundsen (Norvège / Norway)

 NUWEBE / TERMITARIA - Joseph Israel Laban (Philippines)

 GABRIEL - Mikolaj Haremski (Pologne / Poland)

 QUARTA DIVISAO / FOURTH PRECINCT - Joaquim Leitão (Portugal)

 LE WEEKEND / DIRTY WEEKEND - Christopher Granier-Deferre (Royaume-Uni - France / United Kingdom – France)

 SOMMARSTÄLLET /LA MAISON D'ÉTÉ/ THE SUMMER HOUSE - Marcus Werner Hed (Suède - Royaume-Uni / Sweden - United Kingdom)

 DEN SOM SÖKER / CRESTFALLEN - Johan Lundh (Suède / Sweden)

 SHÉHÉRAZADE - Nacer Khemir (Tunisie)

 SOGUK / FROID / COLD - Ugur Yücel (Turquie / Turkey)

 ACLIGA DOYMAK / FULL OF HUNGER - Zubeyr Sasmaz (Turquie / Turkey)

 LUBY MENE / SEV BENI / AIME-MOI / LOVE ME - Maryna Er Gorbach, Mehmet Bahadir Er (Ukraine - Turquie / Ukraine – Turkey)

 TANTA AGUA / TANT D'EAU / SO MUCH WATER - Ana Guevara, Leticia Jorge (Uruguay - Mexique - Allemagne - Pays-Bas / Uruguay - Mexico - Germany – Netherlands)

 STAND CLEAR OF THE CLOSING DOORS - Sam Fleischner (USA)

 LILY - Matt Creed (USA)

 AZUL Y NO TAN ROSA / BLUE AND NOT SO PINK - Miguel Ferrari (Venezuela - Espagne / Venezuela – Spain)

 

 

REGARDS SUR LES CINÉMAS DU MONDE – Courts métrages

FOCUS ON WORLD CINEMA – Short films

 

 Die Toteninsel - La Isla de los muertos / L'Ile des morts / Isle of the Dead - Vuk Jevremovic (Allemagne - Espagne / Germany – Spain)

 The Little Red Paper Ship - Aleksandra Zareba (Allemagne - Pologne / Germany – Poland)

 Hiob - Marco Gadge (Allemagne / Germany)

 Sein Kampf - Jakob Zapf (Allemagne / Germany)

 Bahar im Wunderland / Bahar au pays des merveilles / Bahar in Wonderland - Behrooz Karamizade (Allemagne / Germany)

 The Firebird/ L'Oiseau de feu - Antonis Tsonis (Australie / Australia)

 Pablo's Villa / La Villa de Pablo - Matthew Salleh (Australie / Australia)

 Tau Seru / Petit champ jaune / Small Yellow Field - Rodd Rathjen (Australie - Inde / Australia – India)

 Norman - Robbe Vervaeke (Belgique / Belgium)

 Perfect Drug - Toon Aerts (Belgique / Belgium)

 Xe tai cua bo / Le Camion de mon père / My Father's Truck - Mauricio Osaki (Brésil - Vietnam  / Brazil – Vietnam)

 Hold My Breath / Retiens mon souffle - Alexandre Da Sylva (Canada)

 Lemon / Citron - Mark Korven (Canada)

 The Last Round - Ted Atherton (Canada)

 Béatrice Coron's Daily Battles - James Stewart (Canada)

 Foxed! James Stewart (Canada)

 Ruta 66 - Roger Otis (Canada)

 Little Brother - Cyrus Saidi, Gautam Pinto (Canada)

 Another Man - Leah Johnston (Canada)

 XircaNoX - Iriz Pääbo (Canada)

 Cinephile - Mark Wihak (Canada)

 Kimchi Fried Dumplings - Jason Karman (Canada)

 Home - Paul Hasick (Canada)

 Every Door, Every Floor - Stash Capar (Canada)

 9 Types of Ice - Simon Winterson, Michael Ripley (Canada)

 Jason's Dad / Le Père de Jason - Matthew Campea (Canada)

 House of the Gathering - James Anthony Usas (Canada)

 Il fait beau aujourd'hui / It's Beautiful Today - Junna Chif (Canada)

 30-Love - RichardStark. (Canada)

 The Marvelous Girl - Johnny Vong (Canada)

 Mr. Spontaneous / Monsieur Spontané - Steven Cerritos (Canada)

 Side Effects - Roberto Pires (Canada)

 Momsters Playground - Stephen Roscoe (Canada_

 Bar None /  /  / Clé Bennett. / Canada

 Cell From Hell episode 1 One Helluva Night - Tristan Tondino, Joséanne Brunelle (Canada)

 Truths and Liars - Anne Kmetyko (Canada)

 Norma Jeane & the Tropic of Cancer - Joshua Demers (Canada)

 Brunch Bitch - Hannah Cheesman (Canada)

 Leave Us Alone - Nicholas Treeshin (Canada)

 Gingerbread House - Mathieu Charest (Canada)

 Ondek - Louis-Martin Charest (Canada)

 Elevator - Kim Barr (Canada)

 Soup of the Day / La soupe du jour - Lynn Smith (Canada)

 The Count's Mabel - Dale Wolfe (Canada)

 Honeymoon Suite / Suite lune de miel - Zao Wang (Chine / China)

 Ljepotan / Prettyboy - Sasa Ban (Croatie / Croatia)

 I Love YU - Irena Skoric (Croatie / Croatia)

 Though I Know the River is Dry - Omar Robert Hamilton (Égypte - Territoires palestiniens - Qatar / Egypt - Palestinian Territories – Qatar)

 Pequeño bloque de cemento con pelo alborotado conteniendo el mar / Petit bloc de ciment avec cheveux ébouriffés contenant la mer / Little Block of Cement With Disheveled Hair Containing the Sea - Jorge López Navarrete (Espagne - Équateur / Spain – Ecuador)

 You Are A Terrorist - Antoni Solé (Espagne / Spain)

 El Paraguas de colores / Le Parapluie arc-en-ciel / The Colored Umbrella - Edu Cardoso (Espagne / Spain)

 Aniversari / Anniversaire / Anniversary - Anna Petrus (Espagne / Spain)

 Au-delà de l'hiver / After the Winter - Jow Zhi Wei (France - Singapour - Taïwan / France - Singapore – Taiwan)

 En Équipe / As a Team - Steve Achiepo (France)

 Entre lui et moi / Betweem Him and I - Olivier Dujols (France)

 À pas de loup / On Tiptoe - Vanessa Santullo (France)

 37°4 S - Adriano Valerio (France)

 Suzanne - Wilfried Méance (France)

 Ceteris Paribus - Jean-Baptiste Dusséaux (France)

 Last Call - Camille Delamarre (France)

 Trois petits dés / Three Small Dice - Quentin Montant (France)

 La Lampe au beurre de yak / Butter Lamp - Hu Wei (France - Chine / France – China)

 Le Maillot de bain / The Swimming Trunks - Mathilde Bayle (France)

 Újratervezés / Mon guide / My Guide - Barnabás Tóth (Hongrie / Hungary)

 Shri Hanuman Chalisa / Forty Hymns of Faith - Charuvi Agrawal (Inde / India)

 Bishtar az do saat / Plus de deux heures / More Than Two Hours - Ali Asgari (Iran)

 Hvalfjörður / Le Fjorddes baleines / Whale Valley - Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson (Islande - Danemark / Iceland – Denmark)

 Ein Rehov Kaze / Cette rue n'existe pas / No Such Street - Yonatan Peretz (Israël)

 Rhizome - Masahiro Ohsuka (Japon / Japan)

 Horizon - Zain Duraie (Jordanie / Jordan)

 Le Projectionniste - Najat Jellab ( Maroc - Canada / Morocco – Canada)

 Hermanas / Soeurs / Sisters - Cristina Kotz Cornejo (Mexique - USA / Mexico – USA)

 Electrodoméstico / Home Appliance - Erik de Luna (Mexique / Mexico)

 Blankets - Louise Leitch (Nouvelle-Zélande / New Zealand)

 Planète rouge / Red Planet - Carlos Ciurlizza (Pérou - USA / Peru – USA)

 Pagpag / The Refuse - John Paul Su (Philippines – USA)

 The Big Leap - Kristoffer Rus (Pologne - Suède / Poland – Sweden)

 Mi Corazón - Marielle Woods (Porto Rico - USA / Puerto Rico – USA)

 Tuns Ras si Frezat / À demi-rasé / Half Shaved - Bogdan Muresanu (Roumanie / Romania)

 The Equestrian / Le Cavalier - Sybil H. Mair (Royaume-Uni / United Kingdom)

 Cold Warrior - Emily Greenwood (Royaume-Uni / United Kingdom)

 Penelope - Dan Susman (Royaume-Uni / United Kingdom)

 Are You Proud of Me? Shadab Omar (Royaume-Uni / United Kingdom)

 The Other Man -David Raymond (Royaume-Uni - USA / United Kingdom – USA)

 Say Nothing - Roland Kennedy (Royaume-Uni / United Kingdom)

 I Missed My Mother's Funeral - Ben Quinn (Royaume-Uni - Australie - Nouvelle-Zélande / United Kingdom - Australia - New Zealand)

 Detour - Michael Kam (Singapour / Singapore)

 Spel / Jeux / Gaming - Ylva Forner (Suède / Sweden)

 Hunters - Michaël Rué (Suisse / Switzerland)

 The Smortlybacks - Ted Sieger, Wouter Dierickx (Suisse - Chine / Switzerland – China)

 Un Sospiro Enchanted - Kris Wang (Taïwan)

 Pepûk - Özkan Küçük (Turquie / Turkey)

 Mobile Homes - Vladimir de Fontenay (USA)

 Common - Nicholas Ryan Campbell (USA)

 The Pick Up - Isa Totah (USA)

 Alaska is a Drag - Shaz Bennett (USA)

 Let It Ring - Aleksandra Szczepanowska. Jean Luc Ormieres (USA)

 Neitzsche Ate Here - Matt Starr (USA)

 Ouverture - Bracey Smith (USA)

 Love and Skin - Virginia Cassavetes (USA)

 Red Light & Green Wine - Vasco Xu (USA - Chine / USA – China)

 The Prisoner - Mahmoud Shoolizadeh (USA)

 The Painter - Kevin Cooper (USA)

 In the Shadow of the Water Tower - Lewis Smithingham (USA – Canada)

 Riddle of the Black Cat - Jonathan Rinzler (USA)

 Ta - Kunlakan Mamber (USA - Thaïlande / USA – Thailand)

 Ash / Cendre - Yasmina Hatem (USA - Liban / USA – Lebanon)

 Disgrace - J. Casey Modderno (USA)

 Tempo Adagio - Alcione Guerrero (Venezuela)

 Flamingo - Carl Zitelmann (Venezuela)

 

DOCUMENTAIRES DU MONDE (longs et moyens métrages)

DOCUMENTARIES OF THE WORLD (feature and medium-length films)

 

 OUTSIDER - Sean Drummond (Afrique du Sud  / South Africa)

 LIGHT AND DARK - Paulene Abrey (Afrique du Sud  / South Africa)

 CAFÉ TA'AMON, KING-GEORGE-STREET, JERUSALEM - Michael Teutsch (Allemagne / Germany)

 DIE FAMILIE / LA FAMILLE / THE FAMILY - Stefan Weinert (Allemagne / Germany)

 WAGNERWAHN /LA FOLIE WAGNER/ THE WAGNER FILES - Ralf Pleger (Allemagne / Germany)

 DER COLÓN RING - WAGNER IN BUENOS AIRES / LE THÉÂTRE COLÓN - WAGNER À BUENOS AIRES / THE COLÓN RING - WAGNER IN BUENOS AIRES - Hans Christoph von Bock. (Allemagne - Autriche - Argentine / Germany - Austria – Argentina)

 DER BAUER UN SEIN PRINZ / LE PAYSAN ET SON PRINCE / THE FARMER AND HIS PRINCE - Bertram Verhaag. (Allemagne / Germany)

 MEIN WEG NACH OLYMPIA / MEIN WEG NACH OLYMPIA / MY WAY TO OLYMPIA - Niko von Glasow (Allemagne / Germany)

 SEX - MADE IN GERMANY - Sonia Kennebeck. Tina Soliman (Allemagne / Germany)

 ZUM SCHWEIGEN GEBRACHT - GEORGI MARKOV UND DER REGENSCHIRM-MORD / SILENCED - GEORGI MARKOV AND THE UMBRELLA MURDER - Klaus Dexel. (Allemagne - Bulgarie / Germany – Bulgaria)

 HAPPY EVERYDAY: PARK LIFE IN CHINA - Peter O'Donoghue (Australie - Chine / Australia – China)

 KINSHASA MBOKA TÉ / KINSHASA, SACRÉ PAYS / KINSHASA, WICKED LAND - Douglas Ntimasiemi (Belgique - République démocratique du Congo / Belgium - Democratic Republic of Congo)

 CIDADE CINZA /LA CITÉ GRISE/ GREY CITY - Marcelo Mesquita, Guilherme Valiengo (Brésil / Brazil)

 MABINA MABOKO -LA DANSE DES MAINS/ MABINA MABOKO - DANCE OF HANDS - André St-Pierre (Canada - République démocratique du Congo / Canada - Democratic Republic of Congo)

 YIDDISH: A TALE OF SURVIVAL / YIDDISH/ UNE HISTOIRE DE SURVIE - Abigail Hirsch (Canada)

 WHATEVER YOU WISH - Siu Ta (Canada)

 ABSENCES - Carole Laganière (Canada)

 LA LANGUE À TERRE - Jean-Pierre Roy, Michel Breton (Canada)

 THE TALE OF AN PHUC HOUSE - Ivan Tankushev (Canada - Vietnam  / Canada – Vietnam)

 CITIZEN MARC - Roger Evan Larry (Canada)

 AN YAHOUD MASR / LES JUIFS D'ÉGYPTE / JEWS OF EGYPT - Amir Ramses (Égypte / Egypt)

 BAJARI, GYPSY BARCELONA - Eva Vila Puntí (Espagne / Spain)

 A COMMON ENEMY / UN ENNEMI COMMUN - Jaime Otero (Espagne - Tunisie / Spain – Tunisia)

 LA JEUNESSE A-T-ELLE UNE HISTOIRE? Jacques Royer (France)

 ENFANTS DE SOURDS / CHILDREN OF THE DEAF - Marie-Eve Nadeau (France)

 DE CHAIR ET DE LAIT / MEAT AND MILK - BernardBloch (France)

 STOP ÀLA GRÈCE EN SLIP- Brigitte Roüan (France)

 L'EXCELLENCE ET LE DOUTE / EXCELLENCE AND DOUBT - Paule Muxel, Bertrand de Solliers (France)

 AKHARIN KOUCH /LA DERNIÈRE MIGRATION/ THE LAST MIGRATION - Fereydoun Najafi (Iran)

 CELLO TALES - Anne Schiltz (Luxembourg)

 BAJO TORTURA / SOUS LA TORTURE / UNDER TORTURE - Cristina Juárez Zepeda (Mexique / Mexico)

 THE SPIRIT O

VIFF Pacific Meridian line up

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VIFF Pacific Meridian. See the list of the official selection for the International Competition 2013:


SHOPPING directed by Mark Albinston, Louis Sutherland (2013, New Zealand, 98 min)

LA JAULA DE ORO directed by Diego Quemada-Diez (2013, Mexico, 102 min)

DOG FLESH directed by Fernando Guzzoni (2012, Chile, 81 min)

ILO ILO directed by Antonhy Chen (2013, Singapore, 99 min)

THE CLEANER directed by Adrian Saba (2012, Peru, 95 min)

LOW TIDE directed by Roberto Minervini (2012, USA/Belgium/Italy, 92 min)

ALL APOLOGIES directed by Emily Tang (2012, China, 88 min)

SLEEPLESS NIGHT directed by Jang Kun-Jae (2012, South Korea, 65 min)

SHAME directed by Yusup Razykov (2013, Russia, 90 min)

THE MAJOR directed by Yuri Bykov (2013, Russia, 94 min)

THE NORM OF LIFE directed by Yevgeni Bialo (2013, Russia, 22 min)

LA LAMPE AU BEURRE DE YAK directed by Hu Wei (2013, China/France, 16 min)

SMALL YELLOW FIELD (Tau Seru) directed by Rodd Rathjen (2013, Australia, 8 min)

AFTER THE WINTER directed by Jow Zhi Wei (2012, Singapore/Taiwan/France, 19 min)

DAYBREAK directed by Ian Lagarde (2013, Canada, 10 min)

KILLING PHILLIP directed by Adum Gunser (2013, New Zealand, 12 min)

BREATHE ME directed by Eun-young Han (2013, South Korea, 20 min)

THE WAY BACK directed by Kim Halla (2013, South Korea, 23 min)

THE COMPANION directed by Alvaro Delgado Aparcio (2012, Peru, 19 min)

THE BLESSED directed by Mauricio Lopez Fernandez (2012, Chile, 14 min)


Madeira Film Festival

3rd ANNUAL GUAM - USA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES OFFICIAL SELECTIONS

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HAGATÑA, GUAM, USA (August 10, 2013) – The Guam International Film Festival (GIFF) is scheduled to run its 3rd annual event starting fromTuesday, September 24, 2013, through Sunday, September 29, 2013 at the Agaña Center Stadium Theatres. For 2013, GIFF stretches its festival duration from 3 days to 6 days and will showcase over 45 films, including films from the 2013 Festival de Cannes and from Japan Short Shorts Film Festival. 

“Along with some riveting local films, we'll be showcasing award winners from this year's Sundance and ECU (European Independent Film Festival). Even filmmakers that have been showcased in Cannes earlier this year have reached out to us, so it's very gratifying to know that GIFF is gaining global recognition for its knowledge and appreciation of independent cinema; even if we are all the way out here on Guam. I think that's what makes it special,” says Festival Programmer and Co-founder Kel Muña.

This year, the GIFF call for entries brought in nearly 300 submissions from over 30 countries, exceeding the numbers from GIFF 2012. Among the films to be showcased will be 5 Guam-related films, 12 World Premiers, 8 U.S. Premieres, 18 Pacific-Asia Premieres and 2 Guam Premieres. GIFF 2013 will also feature ‘The Illness and the Odyssey’ as its centerpiece film and ‘Alagway (Breakaway)’ as its closing night film. 

GIFF 2013 will be bringing 15 delegates from around the world: Porter Franklin Ersiman, director of ‘Crocodile in the Yangtze’; Director O Muel of ‘Jisuel’; Ian Dean Lorenos, Rommel Sales and Marjorie Jovita Darunday of ‘Alagwa (Breakaway)’; Ian Thomas Ash of ‘A2’; Berry Minott, director of ‘The Illness and the Odyssey’; Seong-hyeok MOON and Jang-eun CHO of ‘SHE (GeuNyeo)’. Also joining the list of delegates and teaching GIFF 2013’s master class is Raymond Red, one of the pioneers of modern Filipino independent and alternative cinema and the first Filipino to be awarded the Cannes Palme d’Or Award.

This year, GIFF will also see the return of delegate Tom Brislin, Ph.D. who is heading the 2013 GIFF Grand Jury Panel and has played a vital role in materializing the Festival’s community and educational outreach through his highly-attended industry workshops during the past GIFF Festivals. Alongside Brislin on the Grand Jury Panel are Gabrielle Kelley, Associate Professor of Arts at the New York University, Tisch Asia School of the Arts and Co-Founder of the International Alliance of Women Cinematographers; Baltazar Aguon, who received degrees at the University of Guam and the American Film Institute’s Center for Advanced Film and Television Studies and is one of Guam’s established artists and educators; and Daniel Ferranti who has studied film at New York University and theater at University of Massachusetts Boston, and is a consultant for Warner Bros. Digital Distribution.

Taking their eco-friendly efforts to another level, GIFF is also pleased to announce the launch of the GIFF App for iPhones and Android phones sponsored by FestPro. With the app, festival patrons will be able to view the schedule and read synopses for the featured films and purchase tickets. This app adds to the festival’s green incentive, alongside GIFF’s paperless online submissions. 

GIFF 2013 and its special events, including award ceremonies, is made possible by the following sponsors: Cars Plus, United Airlines and Tango Theatres. For more information including the complete film listing and show times, please visit the festival website at www.guamfilmfestival.org.

 

GIFF 2013 SELECTIONS:

NARRATIVE FEATURE FILMS:

  • BREAKAWAY (ALAGWA) (Philippines, Dir: Ian Lorenos)
  • GIRL SHAPED LOVE DRUG (United Kingdom, Dir: Simon Powell)
  • JISEUL (Korea, Dir: O Muel)
  • MANILA SKIES (Philippines, Dir: Raymond Red)

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILMS:

  • A2-B-C (Japan, Dir: Ian Thomas Ash)
  • CROCODILE IN THE YANGTZE (China, Dir: Porter Erisman)
  • FLEX IS KINGS (United States, Dirs: Deidre Schoo and Michael Beach Nichols)
  • THE ILLNESS AND THE ODYSSEY (Guam, US, Dir: Berry Minot)
  • LIVING ALONG THE FENCELINE (Guam, Puerto Rico, Japan, Philippines, South Korea, Dir: Lina Hoshino)
  • E HAKU INOA (TO WEAVE A NAME) (US, Dir: Christen Hepuakoamana'a Marquez)

NARRATIVE SHORT FILMS:

  • ADONIS (US, Dir: David Dibble)
  • AMERICAN CAPITALISM, A SELF PORTRAIT (France, Thibault Le Texier)
    Thibault Le Texier
  • BABY BOX (India, Dir: Jayaprakash P. Koroth)
  • BACHELORETTE (Germany, Dir: Anna Linke)
  • THE BLANK PAGE (US, Dir: Andrew Nelson)
  • BUMPY NIGHT (Germany, Dir: Julie Kreuzer)
  • FICTION (Guam, Dir: James Davis)
  • GIRLY (US, Dir: Kira Bursky)
  • HATCH (Austria, Dir: Christoph Kuschnig)
  • HEAD IN A BOX (United Kingdom, Dir: Joshua Kerr)
  • HEART (US, Dir: Stephanie Hough)
  • IN YOUR HEAD (Japan, Dirs: Kevin Foster and Steven LeFever)
  • KORE (US, Dir: Eric Dinkian)
  • LEGEND OF FAMILY (Japan, Dir: Toshiyuki Teruya)
  • LITTLE KYOTA NEON HOOD (Japan, Dir: Satsuki Okawa)
  • MO IKKAI (Japan, Dir: Atsuko Hirayanagi)
  • MOTHER OF THE GROOM (Japan, Dir: Tsukasa Kishimoto)
  • PIZZA BOY (Guam, Dirs: Niel Romero and Justin Baldovino)
  • THE RIDICULE (US, Dir: Mete Sozer)
  • SHE (GEUNYEO) (Korea, Dir: Seong-hyeok Moon)
  • SYNCHRONICITY (Australia, Dir: Tony Ferrieri)
  • THROUGH MOSCOW (Russia, Dir: Ruslan Lagutin)
  • TIME WARP (PARA PODER PARAR O TEMPO) (Brazil, Dir: Marcel Lee)
  • ZORI (Marshall Islands, Dirs: Jack Niedenthal and Suzanne Chutaro)

DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILMS:

  • BRAINERD (US, Dirs: Josiah Bultema and Kyle Gilbertson)
  • CAVEDIGGER (US, Dir: Jeffrey Karoff)
  • MY JOURNEY AS BASKETBALL MAN (US, Dir: Timothy Wynn)
  • STRAIGHT WITH YOU (Netherlands, Dir: Daan Bol)

ANIMATION FEATURE FILMS:

  • FROM UP ON POPPY HILL (Japan, Dir: Goro Miyazaki)

ANIMATION SHORT FILMS

  • HOME (Australia, Dir: Jessica Harris)
  • HSU JI BEHIND THE SCREEN (France, Dir: Thomas Rio)
  • HUMANEXUS (US, Dir: Ying-Fang Shen)
  • LOOK BOX (US, Josiah Patrow)

MUSIC VIDEOS:

  • PUTIN LIGHTS UP THE FIRES - PUSSY RIOT (US, Dir: Erik Boccio)

TO BE DETERMINED:

  • SHORT FILMS FROM GIFF MASTER CLASS: FEATURING RAYMOND RED

Call for Entries 9th annual CULTURES COLLIDE Community Film Festival

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American Theatre of Harlem is currently accepting submissions for its 9th Annual CULTURES COLLIDE Community Film Festival. This year's festival runs from October 17 to October 20, 2013.

CULTURES COLLIDE celebrates the efforts of multicultural films and filmmakers and features an industry panel.  Each night concludes with an Audience Choice presentation, where the audience selects its favorite film.

CULTURES COLLIDE Community Film Festival screens in the arts community of Fort Greene, Brooklyn and culminates in the presentation of the Community Treasure award.

The submission deadline is September 15, 2013. For questions, submissions, and sponsorship info contact: culturescollide@americantheatreofharlem.org

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Locarno Festival proved to be a meeting-place for and dialogue between master filmmakers from the past, present and future

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Saturday 17 August saw the announcement on the Piazza Grande, to an audience of 5’700, of the winners of the 66th edition of the Festival del film Locarno. The 2013 edition, the first under Artistic Director Carlo Chatrian, was a resounding success and was crowned with the award of the Pardo d’oro to Historia de la meva mort by Albert Serra.



Festival President Marco Solari officially closed the 66th edition, saying that “on behalf of the Board of Directors I thank the two first-time directors Carlo Chatrian and Mario Timbal and the commitment of their respective teams for having strengthened the Locarno Festival, in operational and artistic terms, in the difficult and competitive film festival world”.

Carlo Chatrian commented that he was very satisfied with his first edition as Artistic Director, adding: “for eleven days Locarno has seen a celebration of cinema in which the films were center-stage. We are delighted that the Festival proved to be a meeting-place for and dialogue between master filmmakers from the past, present and future and enabled the audience to be part of this exchange”.

COO Mario Timbal announced initial figures for the event: “in terms of audience numbers we have seen a consolidation of what has been achieved in recent years with a slight increase:162.919 admissions (2012: 161.680) over the eleven days. The number of delegate accreditations also increased, to a total of 4.114 (2012: 3.950). A larger number of press attended the Festival, with 929 journalists and photographers (2012: 900). The increase in industry accreditations – to 1.013 (2012:970) – is largely due to a greater number of buyers attending”.

The list of Locarno 2013’s prize-winning films, as well as articles, photo gallery and recordings of various Festival guests’ open conversations with the audience, are available on www.pardo.ch.

 

The 67th Festival del film Locarno will take place 6-16 August 2014

Mexico: GIFF 2013, Creative Expansion

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The Guanajuato International Film Festival, formerly known as Expresion en Corto was held from July 19-28 in San Miguel de Allende and Guanajuato and presented in its 16th edition new avenues of original growth rarely observed at other festivals.  It certainly shares with other major international film festivals a constant increase of its programs and its audience.  For the 2013 fest 3,395 productions were submitted from 111 countries.  More than 400 were selected for an audience surpassing 90,000, an amazing feat since GIFF is an under staffed festival relying primarily on public funding and provides free access to virtually all of its screening and related events, such as concerts and seminars. The festival menu included a focus on the Columbian film industry, and several tributes to actors and directors, such as Fernando Lujan, Danny Boyle and Darren Aronofsky who also ran workshops.  Festival sections  included first features , fiction films, the customary large selection of short films in all genres, animated productions, documentaries, special sections  on   films made by women, and  on ‘Documentaries with an Impact’ (curated by the author).

After extending the festival in 2001 to the state capital Guanajuato s because of the limitations of San Miguel’s small screening venues and changing the festival name in 2010 to Guanajuato International Film Festival to attract more feature films, GIFF set a milestone in 2013 by establishing an industry oriented knowledge base focusing on new digital tools to foster the growth of the Mexican and international film productions and developing advanced educational programs.

The festival schedule was programmed live on GIFF TV video streaming full days of events from San Miguel and Guanajuato.  This included the professional workshops aimed at the industry   on topics such as crowd funding, screen writing, new digital delivery platforms, workshops which will also be available on line throughout the year on GIIF’s internet channel.  Other programs will be shared in the future as developed by GIFF. The festival continued its Incubator meetings, featuring private consultation for aspiring Mexican, and international film makers, the long established International Pitching Market, and the national film script context.  These seminars  and meetings were run in collaboration with a large number of international experts drawn from Sundance, the  Cannes film foundation, Torino film labs, the US  Under The Milky Way company, Lionsgate, the Goethe Institute, and the Mexican Incine, to name but a few.

Apart from the festival going on line, it has secured funding for setting up a long term year round project   the San Miguel based LA FABRICA GIFF: Center for Cinematographic Development and Production,  which will also serve as a space for the  performing arts. It includes Epicentro, a research and development center on new technologies applied to digital platforms and gadgets, a facility supported by a high speed fiber optic network. LA FABRICA will contain a cinemateque with 500 seats, a digital library and conference facilities. Construction of this major film production and distribution center will be finished within two years with public and private funding apparently secured. Part of the project is the GIFF residence a three month independent study program for young creative talent providing intensive training in theory and production techniques during fall and spring sessions.  The program will be run by national and international film professionals.  Though on a minor scale, but most unusual for a film festival, GIFF is already involved in film productions. GIFF is making documentaries for the festival’s Identity and Belonging competition as well as the 48-Hour Collegiate Production Rally films.

Keeping the history of the festival in mind, its progress over the last 15 years is amazing. If all plans work out LA FABRICA GIFF will certainly make significant contribution to enhancing noteworthy film productions in Mexico and strengthen San Miguel de Allende as a center for arts and culture.

 

Claus Mueller

filmexchange@gmail.com

If you love independent film do not miss the Salento International Film Festival !

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If you love independent film do not miss the  Salento International Film Festival!! Dedicated to  independent productions  from around the world. And if you want to take a break from watching film, spend some time on the brilliant  beaches that the area offers!

The 10th annual Salento International Film Festival will run from Saturday, September 7th through  Sunday, September 15th, with a lineup of 9 narrative features in competition and 4 out of competition, 10 documentaries, 19 shorts and other special events.

SIFF opened in 2004 in Tricase, Salento, the "Door to the East": a land that has always represented a melting pot of cultures and traditions from the East to the West, thanks to the different civilisations  that have lived and left an influence in the culture of this region. The history and the natural beauty of Tricase and of Salento, create the wonderful frame to an event that speaks of far away worlds. All screenings will take place in the Courtyard and the Throne Room of the Prince Gallone's Palace, the most sumptuous monument in Tricase and its cultural center.

The tenth edition will get under way on Saturday September 7th, with a Pre-Opening Day dedicated to the Algerian Director Rachid Benhadj  with a showcase of 3 of its movies: "Dialogues between different Cultures and Religions". The showcase will start at 5pm with the movie " The tree of suspended destinies" (1997), followed by "Mirka" (2000) at 7pm,  and closing at 9:15pm with the movie "The naked bread" (2005). Rachid Benhadj will meet the public after the screening ",

The 9 features in competition will be screened between the 8th and the 14th September.

 

On Sunday September 8th , the competition will officially start off  and we will also celebrate the 134th anniversary of "the Centaur of the North", Francisco (Pancho) Villa's birth, with the screening of the Mexican movie "Amorous Pancho Villa"  which opens the tenth SIFF edition at 9.30pm  The movie directed by Maria de Lourdes Deschamps and Andres Bueno is based on the novel "Itinerary of a  Passion" and tells the love stories of General Pancho Villa, his 19 marriages and his revolutionary actions in defense of his country.


SIFF tenth anniversary celebration will close on Saturaday Semptember 14th  at 9.30pm with the screening of the Spanish movie "Muertos de Amor" (Italian premiere), debut film of Mikel Aguirresarobe. It's a tragic comedy where the complications of a love triangle are untangled through the irony of life. The film is based on Charles Caneque's novel "Muertos de Amor, and it's a story of love and heartbreak, cheat and pain, jealousy and above all a light humorous analysis of the unhealthy sense of possession that some men developed towards their companions.

 

 

DOK Leipzig boasts 2,150 films entries from 110 countries

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Pressing issues of the day – worldwide

Some 2,150 films from 110 countries have been submitted for this year’s 56th edition of the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film. “We are pleased that DOK Leipzig is continuing to attract films and filmmakers from around the world this year,” says festival director Claas Danielsen. “The scope and internationality of the entries show that documentary filmmakers are dealing with the pressing issues of the day. Their artistic representation needs a forum like DOK Leipzig, which offers the audience emotional access to the conflicts of our time and encourages the free formation of opinions.”

 

Approx. 1,750 documentaries, 330 animated films and 70 animated documentaries will be considered by the festival’s two selection committees in the coming weeks. Overall, the number of entries has declined considerably (previous year: 2,850), as the organizers have had to charge a modest submission fee for the first time. “We have no choice but to keep up with the digitization of cinemas and the service expectations of our guests. We must therefore invest in the full digitization of the festival, as well as in a new, user-friendly ticket system,” Danielsen explains.

 

The 56th edition of DOK Leipzig will take place from 28 October to 3 November 2013. Around 85 films will be selected from among the entries to compete for the Golden Doves, the main awards at the festival, in the five competition sections. For the first time this year, a Golden Dove will be awarded for the best animated documentary. In 1997, DOK Leipzig was the first film festival in the world to introduce a programme with films from this innovative subgenre. In all, DOK Leipzig will showcase around 200 documentaries and 150 short animated films. The festival will also feature a number of special programmes and tributes. “STORM! Through the Short 20th Century in Eight Mass Movements” is the title of the retrospective dedicated to the aesthetics of resistance in documentary and animated films. The traditional country focus will be on Brazil – a country in profound upheaval. The programme will have a clear connection to 2012's focus with films from Spanish-speaking Latin America.

 

Last year the festival, which was founded in 1955, welcomed a record 37,600 attendees. In addition, with more than 1,500 international industry guests, DOK Leipzig has become one of the industry’s most important gatherings in Europe.


Summer International Film Festival 2013 Grand Opening at The Hong Kong International Film Festival Society (HKIFFS

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The Hong Kong International Film Festival Society (HKIFFS) held the Opening Ceremony of Summer International Film Festival (SIFF) 2013 at The Grand Cinema on 13 August. The SIFF opened with Hong Kong film Unbeatable, with its star-studded cast in attendance for the premiere.

The film’s director Dante LAM, and stars Nick CHEUNG, Eddie PENG and Crystal LEE were joined at the premiere by many celebrities from the local industry including Jacky Cheung, Helena Law Lan, John Shum, Daniel Wu, Fala Chen, Nansun Shih, head of Bona Film Group Yu Dong, and producers Jeffrey Chan and Candy Leung.



HKIFF Cine Fan Sep/Oct Programmes

The full Sep/Oct programmes of HKIFF Cine Fan have been announced on our website and booking folder.

The full Cine Fan Sep/Oct programmes can be viewed at http://www.cinefan.com.hk. Tickets are now available at www.urbtix.hk online and URBTIX outlets.

 

51st New York Film Festival Official Lineup

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By Maria Esteves – August 19, 2013

The 51st New York Film Festival (NYFF51) presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center will be held at Lincoln Center September 27 - October 13, 2013. The festival will showcase 35 feature films from around the world.

NYFF51 Opening, Centerpiece, and Closing Premieres are CAPTAIN PHILLIPS, directed by Paul Greengrass, Friday, September 27, in theaters October 11, 2013; The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, directed by Ben Stiller, Saturday, October 5, in theaters December 25, 2013; andHER, directed by Spike Jonze, Sunday, October 13, in theaters December 18, 2013. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit: http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff2013.

2013 NYFF Official Lineup of films

2014 Taiwan International Children’s Film Festival (TICFF) video calling for entries

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A biennial film festival, TICFF brings young children and adults to enjoy the works in this international exhibition, which will take place in April 2014. Public Television Service (PTS), the festival organizer of this event, is now signing up entries to attract some of the finest filmmakers around the world with the lure of USD 28,000 in prize money. Except for showing outstanding dramas, documentaries, animations, and television programs, the festival also includes a new feature: a special Taiwan prize which will be awarded to the best work which represents Taiwan and exemplified the highest standards in the industry. We believe this new category will inspire more film and video producers in Taiwan.

Click and submit! Use the on-line entry system to upload the materials and save the mailing time and expense!

http://www.ticff.org.tw/competitions_...

For the further and detailed information, please visit the official website of TICFF www.ticff.org.tw/index_e.htm

Contact us: ticff@mail.pts.org.tw or ticff2014@gmail.com

Find us on twitter: http://twitter.com/TICFF2014

 

The 2nd Finnish Film Affair celebrates success stories and broadens its guest list

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Moomins on the Riviera

 

Following up on its successful first edition, the second Finnish Film Affair (Sept 24-26) showcases new homegrown films and works-in-progress. The second edition includes the launch of an online screening room and celebrates several titles that were works-in-progress last year and went on to enjoy international breakthroughs.

As a result, increased interest in the Finnish Film Affair has led to an expanded guest list, which includes sales agents, buyers, and programmers. These include representatives from ZDF/Arte, Celluloid Dreams, Wild Bunch, Hanway, Tribeca, Palm Springs, Rotterdam and Locarno.

“The first edition introduced the Finnish Film Affair to international decision makers,” comments Sara Norberg, executive director of the Helsinki International Film Festival – Love & Anarchy, which launched the event. “We’re very proud that the success of last year’s works-in-progress and the positive buzz around the event has attracted even more interest from the international industry.”

 

 

Line up of projects now published on the website

  

 

Concrete Night by Pirjo Honkasalo

  

 

A total of almost 30 new films will be screened, including two Toronto-bound films: last year’s work-in-progress CONCRETE NIGHT by one of Finland’s foremost veteran filmmakers, Pirjo Honkasalo and HEART OF A LION by Dome Karukoski. Other festival hits include the documentaries FINNISH BLOOD, SWEDISH HEART by Mika Ronkainen, recently selected by Variety as One of Ten Euro Directors To Watch (Karlovy Vary) and ALCAN HIGHWAY by Aleksi Salmenperä (Hot Docs).

This year’s works-in-progress include a wide range of genres, from the latest offering of Finland’s most successful animation franchise, MOOMINS ON THE RIVIERA to the youth drama KORSO (Best Pitch Holland Film Meeting 2012) and the doc WIND CATCHERS (IDFA Forum 2011) about street artists in a Brazilian favela who start to get attention from the European art world.

The Finnish Film Affair programme and line up is now published on the new online platform (www.finnishfilmaffair.fi), where registered guests will also have an access to the new online screening library.

 

 

Programme includes a panel on coproductions with Russia

Moderated by the Hollywood Reporter’s Moscow-based correspondent Nick Holdsworth, the panel on September 26 "Rare Exports: Opportunities for Finnish-Russian Coproductions” will explore the opportunities for collaborations with neighbouring Russia. The discussion will focus on the current state of co-production in Russia, explaining significant recent changes in public financing; it will also explore opportunities to tap private funding and how distribution works in Europe's fourth biggest movie market.

 

 

Accreditation now open and programme schedule published

The programme of the event is now online. The screening schedule will be announced in the beginning of September. To request accreditation to the event, fill in the accreditation form. The early bird accreditation is ongoing until August 31st but it is possible to register up to the start of the event.

 

festiwelt presented 1. LANGE NACHT DER FILMFESTIVALS in Berlin

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Saturday, August 17 2013

@ Ostkreuz / Berlin

80 Films, live bands, Djs outdoors & Indoors



Great sunny day in Berlin to attend the well organized event in the upcoming neighborhood, Ostkreuz.

For almost 12 hours straight, doors opened at 3 pm to view films and listen to music, in a very artistic environment.

From short films to full length features, representing countries and cultures worldwide, the festival had a lot to offer.

For more information visit: http://www.festiwelt-Berlin.de/events

And watch out for the next event: Die Berlinale Party February 13

 

 

 

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