Montreal World Film Festival 2007 – Out of Competition Line-Up
Montreal World Film Festival 2007 – Hors Concours (World Greats – Out of Competition Line-Up)
BEAUFORT
Israel / 2007 / 35 mm / Colour / 120 min / Dir.: Joseph Cedar, Cast : Oshri Cohen, Itay Tiran, Eli Etonyo, Ohad Knoller, Itay Tugerman, Alon Aboutboul, Arthur Faradjev, Itai Szor, Gal Friedman, Danny Zahavi
The crusader’s castle in southern Lebanon was Israel’s last outpost in the area before the political withdrawal in 2000. This is the story of the Israeli soldiers charged with defending it until the evacuation orders arrive…
BIZAN
Japan / 2007 / 35 mm / Colour / 120 min / Dir.: Isshin Inudo, Cast : Nanako Matsushima, Takao Osawa, Nobuko Miyamata, Aya Enjoji, Tatsuo Yamada, Manami Kurose, Toshiyuki Nagashima, Takeo Nakahara, Ken Kaneko
A Tokyo travel agent who returns to her hometown when her mother is hospitalized for cancer discovers that the father she never met is not dead as her mother always claimed. She sets out to find him and perhaps re-unite the family before it is too late.
BLUFF
Canada / 2007 / 35 mm / Colour / 90 min / Dir.: Marc-André Lavoie, Simon Olivier Fecteau, Cast : Emmanuel Bilodeau, Isabelle Blais, Raymond Bouchard, Nicolas Canuel, Ève Duranceau, Simon Olivier Fecteau, Rémy Girard, David La Haye, Pierre-François Legendre, Alexis Martin, Marc Messier, Marie-Laurence Moreau, Gilbert SIcotte, Julie Perreault, Jean-Philippe Pearson
When a worker preparing an old house for demolition opens a trapdoor on the top floor, he makes a macabre discovery testifying to the tragic end of one of the many people who lived there over the past fifteen years. Among them…
COBRADOR, IN GOD WE TRUST
Mexico – Argentina – Brazil – United States / 2006 / Video / Colour / 92 min / Dir.: Paul Leduc, Cast : Meter Fonda, Lázaro Ramos, Antonella Costa, Milton Gonzalvez, Isela Vega, Dolores Heredia
While a callous millionaire in Miami runs people down for sport in his SUV, a Brazilian miner returns the favour by travelling to New York with his female sidekick and embarking on a violent crime spree.
DEN NYA MÄNNISKAN (THE NEW MAN)
Sweden / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 105 min / Dir.: Klaus Härö, Cast : Julia Högberg, Maria Lundsqvist, Lo Kauppi, Ellen Mattson, Anna Litorin, Ann-Sofie Nurmi, Nadja Mirmiran, Christoffer Svenson, Tobias Aspelin
“Enforced sterilization, one of the almost forgotten scandals of modern Sweden, is given somber but captivating treatment in the drama THE NEW MAN… A tragic, human, emotional film.” — Gunnar Rehlin (Variety)
DIALOGUE AVEC MON JARDINIER (CONVERSATIONS WITH MY GARDENER)
France / 2007 / 35 mm / Colour / 105 min / Dir.: Jean Becker, Cast : Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Fanny Conttençon, Élodie Navarre, Alexia Barlier, Hiam Abbass, Roger Van Hool
A successful painter leaves Paris to return to the village in central France where he was born more than 50 years ago and is pleasantly surprised to find that the gardener he hires is an old friend from school.
DONGJING SHENPAN (TOKYO TRIAL)
China / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 120 min / Dir.: Gao Qunshu, Cast : Damian Lau, Chu Hsiao-tien, Kelly Lin, John Henry Cox, Daniel Ziskie, Akira Hoshino, Koji Koike, Shingo Hiramatsu, Sakae Koike, Yukimasa Natori
In May 1946, a panel of judges and prosecutors from eleven different nations gathered in Tokyo to preside over a series of trials held to determine the guilt or innocence of Japanese leaders and military personnel accused of war crimes during World War II.
EL CAMINO DE LOS INGLESES (SUMMER RAIN)
Spain / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 118 min / Dir.: Antonio Banderas, Cast : Alberto Amarilla, María Ruiz, Félix Gómez, Raúl Arévalo, Marta Nieto, Mario Casas, Fran Perea, Antonio Garrido, Victoria Abril, Lucio Romero
Over the course of the summer, Miguelito and his friends explore love, sex and friendship along the path to adulthood. But it’s a rough road and every summer has its rainy day.
FARSH-E TRAN (PERSIAN CARPET)
Iran / 2007 / 35 mm / Colour / 120 min / Dir.: .Behruz Afkhami, Rakhshan Bani Etemad, Bahram Beizai, Jafar Panahi, Kamal Tabrizi, Seifollah Daad, Mojtaba Raee, Nor-ol-Din Zarrin-Kelk, Khosro Sinaee, Bahman Farmanara, Abbas Kiarostami, Majid Majidi, Dariush Mehrjui, Reza Mir-Karimi, Mohammad Reza Honardmand, Cast : Hossein Eskandari, Mina Rasti, Melika Janesari, Hosseim Moqimin, Ramz-Ali Dadvar, Yunes Farzane, Bahram Shakeri, Reza Kianian
Fifteen Iranian filmmakers express themselves on the theme of the Persian carpet, an essential elemnt of Iranian art and culture.
IRINA PALM
Belgium – Germany – Luxembourg – United Kingdom – France / 2007 35 mm / Colour / 103 min / Dir.: Sam Garbarski, Cast : Marianne Faithfull, Miki Manojlovic, Kevin Bishop, Siobhán Hewlett, Dorka Gryllus, Jenny Agutter, Corey Burke, Meg Wynn-Owen, Susan Hitch, Flip Webster, Tony O’Brien
Marianne Faithfull is unforgettable as a middle-class, middle-aged frump who takes a job at a sex club in order to raise enough money for her grandson’s life-saving operation.
LA MASSERIA DELLE ALLODOLE (THE LARK FARM)
Italy – Bulgaria – Spain – France / 2007 / 35 mm / Colour / 122 min / Dir.: Paolo & Vittorio Taviani, Cast : Paz Vega, Moritz Bleibtreu, Alessandro Preziosi, Ángela Molina, Arsinée Khanjian, Mohammed Bakri, Tchéky Karyo, Marianno Rigillo, Hristo Shopov, André Dussollier, Enrica Maria Modugno, Elena Rainova, Maria Statoulova
Assadour Avakian, an an Armenian-Italian doctor, is preparing to visit his brother’s family in Turkey. But World War I is raging and the new government in Ankara has ordered the expulsion of the Armenian population from eastern Turkey.
LADY CHATTERLEY
France / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 138 min / Dir.: Pascale Ferran, Cast : Marina Hands, Jean-Louis Coulloc’h, Hippolyte Girardot, Hélène Alexandridis, Hélène Fillières, Bernard Verley, Sava Lolov, Jean-Baptiste Montagut, Michel Vincent, Christelle Hes
In the Chatterley country estate, monotonous days follow one after the other for Constance, trapped by her marriage and her sense of duty. During spring, deep in the heart of Wragby forest, she encounters Parkin, the estate’s gamekeeper…
LOS BORGIA (THE BORGIAS)
Spain – Italy / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 144 min / Dir.: Antonio Hernández, Cast : Paz Vega, Ángela Molina, María Valverde, Lluís Homar, Eloy Azorín, Eusebio Poncela, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Sergio Muñiz, Roberto Álvarez, Roberto Enríquez
The story of Spain’s — and, arguably, Europe’s — most infamous family, the late 15th century Borgias, is brought to screen in this sweeping but intimate historical drama. There are few families whose domestic troubles have had such profound effect on the fate of nations.
MEIN FÜHRER – DIE WIRKLICH WAHRSTE WAHRHEIT ÜBER ADOLF HITLER (MY FÜHRER – THE TRULY TRUEST TRUTH ABOUT ADOLF HITLER)
Germany / 2007 / 35 mm / Colour / 95 min / Dir.: Dani Levy, Cast : Helge Schneider, Ultich Mühe, Sylvester Groth, Adriana Altaras, Stefan Kurt, Ulrich Noethen
December 25, 1944, and Berlin lies in ruin and rubble. The Total War appears to be totally lost. And Hitler has lost all of his bravado and “charisma”. The only man who can help him now is the Jewish actor Adolf Grünbaum, who once taught Hitler how to act when he was beginning his political career…
MY DREAM
China / 2007 / 35 mm / Colour / 90 min / Dir.: Wang Honghai
The China Disabled People’s Performing Art Troupe has founded in 1987 when thirty teenagers with physical and mental handicaps participated in a festival in Beijing. It has since gone on to become the largest professional company of disabled artists in the world.
OBSLUHOVAL JSEM ANGLICKÉHO KRÁLE (I SERVED THE KING OF ENGLAND)
Czech Republic – Slovakia / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 118 min / Dir.: Jirí Menzel, Cast : Ivan Barney, Oldrich Kaiser, Julia Jentsch, Marián Labuda, Milan Lasica, Zuzana Fialová, Martin Huba, Josef Abrhám, Jirí Labus, Pavel Novy
Ambitious Czech waiter Jan Díte wants to become a millionaire and have his own hotel. And a little thing like Hitler occupying Czechoslovakia isn’t going to stop him. The Communists after the war are another story…
ÓPIUM – EGY ELMEBETEG NÖ NAPLÓJA (OPIUM – DIARY OF A MADWOMAN)
Hungary – Germany / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 108 min / Dir.: János Szász, Cast : Ulrich Thomsen, Kirsti Stubø, Zsolt Laszlo, Eniko Borcsok, Gyongyver Bognar, Roland Raba
Dr. Jozsef Brenner vs. Gizella Klein circa 1913: a Faustian episode in the life of one of Hungary’s most remarkable artists and scientists — a psychoanalyst, musicologist, writer (under the name of Geza Csath), journalist, philander, drug addict and, finally, madman and murderer.
PETHAINONTAS STIN ATHINA (DYING IN ATHENS)
Greece / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 102 min / Dir.: Nikos Panayotopoulos, Cast : Spyros Papadopoulos, Maria Nafpliotou, Maria Solomou, Vicky Papadopoulou, Stathis Livathinos, Faye Xyla
When Athens university professor Andreas is told that he has leukemia and only a few months to live, he decides that he will come clean to his wife and two mistresses. But they already know everything and play along to help him die… happy.
PRÊTE-MOI TA MAIN (I DO: HOW TO GET MARRIED AND STAY SINGLE)
France / 2007 / 35 mm / Colour / 90 min / Dir.: Eric Lartigau, Cast : Alain Chabat, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Bernadette Lafont, Wladimir Yordanoff, Grégoire Oestermann, Véronique Barrault, Marie Armelle Deguy, Katia Lewkowicz, Louise Monot, Luce Mouchel
A bachelor, pressured by his mother and five sisters to find a wife, hires a woman to impersonate the perfect fiancée and then break off the relationship. Things don’t go as planned.
PUFFBALL
United Kingdom – Canada / 2007 / 35 mm / Colour / 120 min / Dir.: Nicolas Roeg, Cast : Kelly Reilly, Miranda Richardson, Donald Sutherland, Rita Tushingham, WIlliam Houston, Oscar Pearce, Leona Igoe
A young architect moves to an isolated and mysterious Irish valley to build a house. Finding hersef pregnant, her plans are ruined when neighbours in the valley, who may be witches, turn against the unborn child. It’s her very survival that is threatened.
ROMAN DE GARE (CROSSED TRACKS)
France / 2007 / 35 mm / Colour / 103 min / Dir.: Claude Lelouch, Cast : Dominique Pinon, Fanny Ardant, Audrey Dana, Zinedine Soualem, Michèle Bernier, Myriam Boyer
Judith Ralitzer, femme fatale and popular writer, is seeking characters for her next best-seller. A serial killer has just escaped from the Santé prison. Huguette, a hairdresser in a top Parisian beauty salon, is going to change their destiny. Some encounters are more fatal than others…
RUSSKY TREUGOLNIK (THE RUSSIAN TRIANGLE)
Georgia / 2007 / 35 mm / Colour / 123 min / Dir.: Aleko Tsabadze, Cast : Anatoli Bartchouk, Inna Belikova, Mikhaïl Jonine, Konstantain Khabenski, Piotr Mironov, Ostap Stoupka, Artiom Tkatchenko
Nikolai, a law student doing an internship with the police, gets involved in the investigation of a murder committed by an enigmatic blind killer. His intuition leads him to a group of people who were affected by the war in Chechnya.
VETKA SIRENI (LILACS)
Russia – Spain / 2007 / 35 mm / Colour / 89 min / Dir.: Pavel Lounguine, Cast : Evgeni Tsyganov, Victoria Tolstoganova, Alexei Kortnev, Igor Chernevich, Oleg Andreev, Miriam Sekhon, Victoria Isakova, Evdokia Germanova, Alexei Petrenko, Lia Akhedzhakova
A portrait of Sergei Rachmaninoff, the great Russian composer, pianist and conductor, as told through his personal relationships, his aesthetic inspiration and his feelings for his Motherland.
VOUS ÊTES DE LA POLICE? (LAST INVESTIGATION)
France / 2007 / 35 mm / Colour / 94 min / Dir.: Romuald Beugnon, Cast : Jean-Pierre Cassel, Philippe Nahon, Jean-Claude Brialy, Micheline Presle, Yolande Moreau, Firmine Richard, Maryline Canto, Pol Deranne, Catherine Belkacem, Sylviane Ramboux
At a bucolic seniors’ home, a 70-year-old resident is involved in a fatal accident. But retired police officer Simon is convinced there has been foul play and he launches his own investigation.
¿Y TU QUIEN ERES? (AND WHO ARE YOU?)
Spain / 2007 / 35 mm / Colour / 90 min / Dir.: Antonio Mercero, Cast : Manuel Alexandre, Cristina Brondo, José Luis López-Vásquez, Álvaro de Luna
As the rest of Rivero family leave for the coast on vacation, daughter Ana is left behind in Madrid to study and keep her grandfather Ricardo company. Ricardo meanwhile, experiences the first signs of an onset of Alzheimer’s.
YUN SHUI YAO (THE KNOT)
China / 2007 / 35 mm / Colour / 117 min / Dir.: Yin Li, Cast : Chen Kun, Vivian Hsu, Li Bingbing, Chang Gua Ahleh, Chin Han, Yang Kuei-mei, Isabella Leong, Steven Cheung, Zhu Yin
An unrequited love affair is played out against tumultuous events in Chinese and Taiwanese history in this epic-scale historical drama set across six decades.
Montreal World Film Festival 2007 – World Competition Line-Up
Montreal World Film Festival 2007 – First Films World Competition
Claude Miller’s UN SECRET to Close 2007 Montreal World Film Festival
Toronto Film Festival 2007 Real to Reel Documentary Line-Up
Toronto Film Festival 2007 – Awards
Toronto Film Festival 2007 Award Winners – Article
Toronto Film Festival 2007 – Contemporary World Cinema
Toronto Film Festival 2007 – Gala Screenings, Masters, Special Presentations
Toronto Film Festival 2007 – Visions and Vanguard Sidebars
19th Image + Nation – Montreal’s Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
A ROOM WITH A VIEW in New York City
Jury at the 2006 Montreal World Film Festival
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