Montreal Film Festival Articles

Hans Van Nuffel's Oxygen. The Montreal World Film Festival winners were announced on Sept. 7. FEATURE FILMS Grand prix des Americas: OXYGEN (ADEM) by Hans Van Nuffel (Belgium/Netherlands) Special Grand Prix of the jury : DALLA VITA IN POI (FROM THE WAIST ON) by Gianfrancesco Lazotti (Italy) Best Director ex-aequo: LIMBO by Maria Sødahl (Norway/Sweden/Denmark/Trinidad and Tobago) TÊTE DE TURC by Pascal Elbé (France) Best [...]

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. [...]

2008 Montreal World Film Festival Awards 2008 Montreal World Film Festival (Montreal Festival des Films du Monde): Aug. 21-Sept. 1, 2008   In Yojiro Takita's Departures — which beat well-received Canadian entry The Necessities of Life — a young (and indebted) Japanese cellist (Masahiro Motoki) returns to his family home to look for some real work. While there, he inadvertently — and more than a [...]

The world premiere of Claude Miller's Un Secret will close the 31st Montreal World Film Festival on September 3. . The director and lead actress Cécile De France — in my view, as charming an actress as can be — are expected to attend the screening. Adapted by Miller from Philippe Grimbert's novel, Un Secret follows the saga of a Jewish family after the end [...]