Cyron Melville Articles

Rigorberto Perezcano’s Northless was the top winner at the ninth edition of the Marrakech International Film Festival held earlier this month. Set in a small Mexican town, the film tells the story of a young man (Harold Torres) waiting for the right time to cross the barbed-wire-strewn border into the United States. The Jury Prize went to two films: Nabil Ben Yadir's Belgian "coming-of-age" drama [...]

2009 Montreal World Film Festival Awards 2009 Montreal World Film Festival (Montreal Festival des Films du Monde): Aug. 27-Sept. 7, 2009   Set in occupied France during World War II, Freedom follows a Gypsy family as they travel throughout the French countryside until legal maneuvers prevent them from continuing with their nomadic ways. Not long thereafter, they are arrested and placed in an internment camp. [...]