Montreal World Film Festival 2007 – First Films World Competition
Montreal World Film Festival 2007 – First Films World Competition
AI QING DE YA CHI (TEETH OF LOVE)
China / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 114 min / Dir.: Zhuang Yuxin, Cast : Yan Bingyan, Li Hongtao, Li Naiwen, Chi Jia, Wu Jiaojiao, Gao Yuan, Wan Haifeng
The story an average young Chinese woman who lives through the dramatic changes that China endured between 1977 to 1987. In these ten years, she experiences three men, three romances. And she has the scars to show it.
ALL THE DAYS BEFORE TOMORROW
U.S.A. – Canada / 2007 / 35 mm / Colour – B&W / 100 min / Dir.: François Dompierre, Cast : Alexandra Holden, Joey Kern, Richard Roundtree
A story of the unmistakable chemistry between two people who are right for each other, but at the wrong moment in time.
BAJO LAS ESTRELLAS (UNDER THE STARS)
Spain / 2007 / 35 mm / Colour / 108 min / Dir.: Félix Viscarret, Cast : Alberto San Juan, Emma Suárez, Julián Villagrán, Violeta Rodríguez, Luz Valdenebro, Amparo Valle
When would-be-jazzman Benito returns to his hometown for a few days, he immediately gets caught up in his brother’s impending marriage to a woman he once knew in his youth. He soon learns that doing good isn’t as easy as he expected.
BERSTEN (BURSTING)
Switzerland / 2007 / 35 mm / Colour / 84 min / Dir.: Michael Finger, Cast : Doro Müggler, Kenneth Huber, Sonja Grüntzig
On the same day, without knowing each other, Leachim, a young farmer, Biela, a physician, and Elena, a single mother, lose someone who is close to them. By a simple stoke of fate.
¿DONDE ESTÁN SUS HISTORIAS? (WHERE ARE THEIR STORIES?)
Canada – Mexico / 2007 / Video / Colour / 73 min / Dir.: Nicolás Pereda, Cast : Gabino Rodríguez, Teresa Sanchez, Clarisa Malheiros, Juana López, Refugio Alejo, Eufracia Zapoteco, Ciro López, Luis Pérez, Ana Gutierrez, José María de Tavira, José Manuel Rodríguez, Alberto Rodríguez, Michael Schuesler
When his uncles return from the United States and threaten to sell his grandmother’s land, a young farmer embarks on a quest for justice in Mexico City.
DONG SUN (BAMBOO SHOOTS)
China / 2007 / Video / Colour / 105 min / Dir.: Jian Yi, Cast : Wang Jianbao, Zhang Siyu , Zhou Jing, Ouyang Lanxiu , Gong Guozhen, Yang Guosheng, Li Pengfei, Xiao Qiping
A peasant try to save his village’s honour by retrieving a condom inadvertantly packaged with a gift to government officials. A rare satire on corruption in contemporary Chinese society.
EL NIÑO DE BARRO (THE MUD BOY)
Spain – Argentina / 2007 / 35 mm / Colour / 103 min / Dir.: Jorge Algora, Cast : Maribel Verdú, Daniel Freire, Chete Lera, Juan Ciancio, César Bordón, Abel Ayala, Rolly Serrano, Oscar Alegre, Sergio Boris
Buenos Aires in 1912 is experiencing a series of brutal murders and 10-year-old Mateo is having visions of the dead children. The police suspect the hallucinating young boy and his mother is desperate to find an explanation.
© Joerg Gruber
FATA MORGANA
Germany / 2007 / 35 mm / Colour / 88 min / Dir.: Simon Gross, Cast : Mathias Schweighöfer, Marie Zielcke, Jean-Hughes Anglade
Laura and Daniel, a young European couple, are traveling in the Moroccan desert when their car suddenly breaks down. A stranger comes to their aid, repairs the car and promises to take them back to civilization…
FINN’S GIRL
Canada / 2007 / 35 mm / Colour / 88 min / Dir.: Dominique Cardona, Laurie Colbert, Cast : Brooke Johnson, Yanna McIntosh, Maya Ritter, Gilles Lemaire, Andrew Chalmers, Gail Maurice, Richard Clarkin, Nathalie Toriel, Chantel Cole
Dr. Finn Jefferies, a thoroughly modern lesbian with a demanding career, finds her world turned upside down when her longtime partner dies and she is left to raise a rebellious 11-year-old on her own.
LA CAJA (THE WOODEN BOX)
Spain – Portugal / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 113 min / Dir.: Juan Carlos Falcón, Cast : Ángela Molina, Elvira Mínguez, Antonia San Juan, Vladimir Cruz, María Galiana, Manuel Manquiña, Joan Dalmau, Jordi Dauder, Mª Carmen Sánchez, Petite Lorena, Miguel Mota, Borja González
Don Lucio — a man everyone hated — dies unexpectedly and the neighbours attend his wake. While his widow does her best to overcome her grief, the inhabitants of the building file past the coffin to settle their scores with the deceased. May Don Lucio rest in peace, if he can…
LA LOGIQUE DU REMORDS (REMORSE)
Canada / 2007 / Video / Colour / 86 min / Dir.: Martin Laroche, Cast : Antoine Touchette, Denis Faucher, Julie Vachon
When his 5-year-old daughter is raped and murdered and his wife commits suicide as result, Marc is led to reconsider his personal proscription of revenge.
LASTOCHKI PRILETELI (THE SWALLOWS HAVE ARRIVED)
Russia / 2007 / 35 mm / Colour / 90 min / Dir.: Aslan Galazov, Cast : Irlan Khugaev, Arthur Hatagov, Vyacheslav Guriev, Soslan Tsallagov, Elina Zaharova, Leila Tebloeva, Marat Dzagurov, Soslan Makiev, Tigran Kaitmazov, Zemfira Galazova
A fortyish Ossetian college lecturer is addicted to drugs struggles to survive his dark night of the soul.
LES YEUX BANDÉS (BLINDFOLD)
Dir.: Thomas Lilti, Cast : Jonathan Zaccal, Guillaume Depardieu, Simon Abkarian
A man is accused of being a serial rapist.
MALOS HABITOS (BAD HABITS)
Mexico / 2007 / 35 mm / Colour / 98 min / Dir.: Simón Bross, Cast : Jimena Ayala, Elena de Haro, Marco Treviño, Elisa Vicedo, Aurora Cano, Milagros Vidal, Emilio Echevarría, Patricia Reyes Spindola
A nun convinced that faith — and fasting — can perform miracles. An anorexic mother ashamed of her daughter’s chubbiness. And her husband, a professor who lusts after a student with a healthy appetite. One family, three different eating disorders.
MATOK VE’MAR (BITTERSWEET)
Israel / 2007 / 35 mm / Colour / 101 min / Dir.: Doron Benvenisti, Cast : Eyal Schecter, Safrira Zachai, Tzufit Grant, Alon Newman, Michal Yahnai, Nathan Ravitz, Miki Leon, Sharon Elimelech, Maharetha Baruch, Eliran Kaspi, Sandra Sade
A quiet evening among friends in Tel Aviv is interrupted by the arrival of a fortune teller who has some surprising news for the guests about how many children they will have in their lives.
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Netherlands / 2006 / Video / Couleur / 80 min / Dir.: Jan-Willem van Ewijk, Cast : Jan-Willem van Ewijk, Matthijs Bourdrez, Lynsey Jane Rowe, Veroniek Vermeulen, Steve Novick
When the love of Jaap’s life is killed in a car accident, Jaap’s friend JP tries to get Jaap’s life back on track, by taking him on a road trip to France to unravel the mystery surrounding Rose’s death. He unravels more than he expected…
PUSINKY (DOLLS)
Czech Republic / 2007 / 35 mm / Colour / 99 min / Dir.: Karin Babinská, Cast : Marie Dolezalová, Sandra Nováková, Petra Nesvacilová, Oldrich Hajlich, Mario Kubas, Matej Ruppert, Filip Blazek, Lenka Vlasáková
Three recent high school graduates are on the verge of losing their adolescent freedom as they prepare to deal with the real world. Dreading to start their full-time jobs, the three young women decide to go off on one last road trip before growing up.
THE FALL OF NIGHT
United States / 2007 / Video / Colour / 86 min / Dir.: Derrick Warfel, Cast : Bruce Michael Hall, Persia White, Al Harrington, Grant Bowler, Tony Longo, Sera Bastian, Burke Roberts, Steve Heller, Frank Novak, Kevin ‘Repo’ Thomas
Joe Manning, a struggling rock musician, is forced to reexamine his whole life in the course of one night when he is stranded in the California high desert with an eccentric prophet who tells him he has one night left to live.
THE GRAY MAN
United States / 2007 / 35 mm / Colour / 97 min / Dir.: Scott Flynn, Cast : Patrick Bauchau, Jack Conley, Silas Weir Mitchell, John Aylward, Jillian Armenante, Mollie Milligan, Lexi Ainsworth, Vyto Rigins, Shaun Senter, Eric Parker, Ben Hall
The early-20th-century story of Albert Fish, seemingly a benevolent father and grandfather who raised his family on his own after his wife deserted them, but who turned out to be a serial child molester and murderer.
THE ORCHARD
China / 2007 / Video / Colour / 74 min / Dir.: Hu Ze, Cast : Qu Yang, Jia Fengrun, Yang Rong
When Bo’s mother is diagnosed with renal failure and uraemia, Bo and his best friend Xiaojian search desperately for funds to pay for her treatment. Their quest degenerates into a horrific nightmare…
VENT MAUVAIS (BEFORE THE STORM)
France / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 91 min / Dir.: Stéphane Allagnon, Cast : Jonathan Zaccaï, Aure Atika, Patrick Chesnais, Bernard Le Coq, Florence Thomassin
Sent to fix the computers of a supermarket in a town hit by a storm, a technician makes some unusual discoveries and is faced with difficult decisions.
WIND MAN
Russia / 2007 / 35 mm / Colour / 95 min / Dir.: Khuat Akhmetov, Cast : Igor Yasulovich, Kuandyk Kystykbaev, Ayanat Esmagambetova, Anuar Makzumov, Gulnara Dusmatova, Farkhod Abdullaev, Erzhan Tusupov, Erbolat Ospankulov, Farkhat Abdraimov
One day a strange being, an old man with broken wings, falls from the sky into a small, remote village. The inhabitants mostly ignore the old man, but a small boy gains a new friend…
YEO-REUMI GAGI JEONAE (BEFORE THE SUMMER PASSES AWAY)
South Korea / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 78 min / Dir.: Sung Ji-hae, Cast : Kim Bo-kyung, Lee Hyun-woo, Kwon Min
So-yeon, 29, takes a break from her studies in Paris to return to Seoul after a long absence. She longs to clear up the loose strands of her Parisian affair with divorced diplomat Min-hwan. In the meantime, there’s Hyun-jae, the “nice guy”, who waits patiently…
Montreal World Film Festival 2007 – World Competition Line-Up
Montreal World Film Festival Awards – 2007
Montreal World Film Festival 2007 – Out of Competition Line-Up
Claude Miller’s UN SECRET to Close 2007 Montreal World Film Festival
Toronto Film Festival 2007 Real to Reel Documentary Line-Up
A ROOM WITH A VIEW in New York City
Jury at the 2006 Montreal World Film Festival
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