↧
Lucia Miranda on her film Carne Propia - clean meat docu showing at FFM
↧
Montreal FFM 40th showing "The circle" by Ruken Tekes - interview
Interview by Leopoldo Soto in Montreal
Shortfilm, describes the Kurdish kids discrimination, at school.
↧
↧
Montreal FFM 40th "Ariana forever" short by Katharina Rivilis
Interview by Leopoldo Soto
Kathtarina is a student in film, in Berlin at DFFB
↧
Montreal 40th FFM "DUST" by Godze Kural (Turkey)
by Leopoldo Soto
↧
Awards - 47th Montreal Student Film Festival 2016
AWARDS - 47th STUDENT FILM FESTIVAL 2016
NATIONAL COMPETITION (CANADA)
NORMAN McLAREN AWARD (Best Film) - 10,000 $
VOYEUR by Matthew Read (Humber College, Toronto, ON)
JURY AWARD:
Fantasy Guise by Matthew Fitzgibbon (BCIT: British Columbia Institute of Technology, Burnaby, BC)
BEST ANIMATION FILM:
AN ASTRONAUT'S TALE by Cesar Belocora (Dawson College, Montreal, QC)
BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM:
READERS OF THE HOLOCAUST by Chorong Kim (University of Victoria, BC)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM:
ALL THINGS WANTING by Craig Range (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC)
BEST FICTION FILM (ex-aequo):
VLOG 131by Emily Borhi (Humber College, Toronto, ON)
VANESSAby Tyler Ritchie (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC)
AWARDS - 47th STUDENT FILM FESTIVAL 2016
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
BEST FILM - 10,000 $
DonkeyXote by Otto Banovits (Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts, Sweden)
JURY AWARD
Lost in Hope by Aline Hochscheid (ifs - Internationale Filmschule Köln, Germany)
BEST ANIMATION FILM (ex-aequo):
CHÂTEAU DU SABLE byQuentin Deleau, Lucie Foncelle, Maxime Goudal, Julien Paris, Sylvain Robert (ESMA - École supérieure des métiers artistiques, Montpellier, France)
A LOVE STORY by Anushka Kishani Naanayakkara (National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield, UK)
BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM:
SCHWERELOS / ZERO-G by Jannis Lenz (Filmakademie Wien, Vienne, Austria)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM:
VENGEANCE by André Shannon (AFTRS - Australian Film Television and Radio School, Sydney)
BEST FICTION FILM:
LA PAREJA / THE COUPLE by Juan Sebastián Martínez Mora (Universidad Nacional de Colombia - Escuela de Cine y Televisión, Bogota)
↧
↧
FFM 40 concludes with Awards and Cash prizes...and a sad note of a jury friend passing away RIP Donald Ranvaud
AWARDS OF THE 40th WORLD FILM FESTIVAL, MONTREAL 2016 September 5
Jury
Pierre-Henri Deleau, film festival director, producer, France
Claude Gagnon, director, Canada
Goran Markovic, director, Serbia
Donald Ranvaud, producer, Italy / UK
Eliseo Subiela, director, Argentina
FEATURE FILMS
Grand Prize of the Americas (Best Film):
100,000$ - USTAV REPUBLIKE HRVATSKE / THE CONSTITUTION by Rajko Grlic (Croatia, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Macedonia)
Special Grand Prix of the jury:
50,000$ - HAUS OHNE DACH / HOUSE WITHOUT ROOF by Soleen Yusef (Germany, Kurdistan)
Best Director:
EVERYBODY HAPPY by Nic Balthazar (Belgium, Netherlands)
Best Actress:
Hannah Hoekstra for the film DE HELLEVEEG / THE FURY by André van Duren (Netherlands)
Best Actor:
Willem Dafoe for the film MY HINDU FRIEND by Hector Babenco (Brazil)
Best Screenplay:
RÜZGARDA SALINAN NILÜFER / SWAYING WATERLILY by Seren Yüce (Turkey)
Best Artistic Contribution:
TATARA SAMURAI by Yoshinari Nishikori (Japan)
Innovation Award:
EMBRASSE-MOI COMME TU M’AIMES by André Forcier (Canada)
SHORT FILMS:
1st prize:
5,000$-THE SESSION by Morgane Becerril (USA, France, Italy)
Jury Award:
5,000$- SILENCE by Dejan Mrkic (Australia)
ZENITHS FOR THE BEST FIRST FICTION FEATURE FILMS 2016:
Members of the jury of the First Fiction Films:
Maurie Alioff, film critic, writer, Canada
Mariangiola Castrovilli, journaliste, Italy
Pierre-Henri Deleau, film festival director, producer, France
Golden Zenith for the Best First Fiction Feature film:
50,000$ - ATANYM KEREEZI / A FATHER’S WILL by Bakyt Mukul and Dastan Zhapar uulu (Kyrgyzstan)
Silver Zenith for the First Fiction Feature Film:
40,000$ - EHO / ECHO by Dren Zherka (Germany, Kosovo)
Bronze Zenith for the First Fiction Feature Film (ex-aequo):
10,000$ - IF YOU WERE HERE by Yu Lan (China)
10,000$ - DUE EURO L’ORA / TWO EUROS PER HOUR by Andrea D’Ambrosio (Italy)
SPECIAL CHINESE FILM FESTIVAL
1st Prize:
60,000$ -YE KONG QUE / THE NIGHT PEACOCK by Dai Sijie (China, France)
2nd Prize:
30,000$ - WHEN LARRY MET MARY by Wen Zhang (China)
DOCUMENTARIES OF THE WORLD
Best Documentary Award (ex-aequo):
15,000$ - KEN SAN by Yuichi Hibi (Japan)
15,000$ - ALBERT ET ALMA EN SEIZE TEMPS / ALBERT AND ALMA IN 16 STRINGS by Philippe Frenette-Roy (Canada)
CANADIAN CINEMA
1st Prize: 60,000$
EMBRASSE-MOI COMME TU M’AIMES by André Forcier (Canada)
2nd Prize: 30,000$
MÁS ALLÁ DE LO QUE QUEDA / BEYOND WHAT REMAINS by Peter Tharos and Bassel Martin (Canada)
GLAUBER ROCHA AWARD FOR THE BEST FILM FROM LATIN AMERICA:
MIGAS DE PAN / BREADCRUMBS by Manane Rodríguez (Spain, Uruguay)
↧
So sad we lost our friend Donald Ranvaud, in jury duty at FFM 40, he was 62 and a great producer
A friend passed away...I remember when we were both 60 in Cannes having fun in front of Salle du 60ème...
I was so happy to see him in Montreal, (he arrived a bit late and missed the grand opening of the 40th edition of Serge Losique's Festival.
British film producer Donald Ranvaud, who was a jury member in the Montreal World Film Festival (WFF), died suddenly in his hotel room on Sunday night of a heart attack. He was 62.
Ranvaud was known for producing the film City of God, directed by Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund, which was nominated for an Oscar and won an award at the BAFTAs, the British film awards. He also produced The Constant Gardener, another film by Meirelles.
Besides his many films focusing on Brazil, Ranvaud also made documentaries, including one about the playwright, screenwriter and director David Mamet.
WFF president Serge Losique described him as "a friend, a writer, a producer, a movie buff and a journalist."
Organizers of the WFF held a minute of silence at the festival's closing ceremony on Monday night. The celebrations with the winners and finalists were cancelled.
↧
Montreal FFM Grand Prix of the Americas went to Rajko Grlic’s Constitution (FFM 2016)
Review by Dejan Nikolaj Kraljacic
The Constitution (Ustav Republike Hrvatske), Croatia, Czech Republic, UK, Slovenia, Macedonia
Directed by Rajko Grlic; written by Ante Tomic & Rajko Grlic; cast: Nebojsa Glogovac, Dejan Acimovic, Ksenija Marinkovic, Bozidar Smiljanic...
The Story: Four characters (or rather three and a half, since the father of the protagonist is tied up to a deathbed with amputated legs, hardly able to speak) live in the same building, yet separated by different social status, political and ideological affiliations, sexual orientation, and of course, their nationalities. The protagonist is a grumpy professor from a wealthy bourgeois family, far-right oriented patriot (his surname is Kralj - in English King), but also a homosexual and transvestite that lives with his father – an ustasha from NDH (WWII Croatian Nazi soldier), while in the small one-room apartment in the basement lives a poor married couple - a Serb employed as a police officer (who changed his name to a Croatian one and voluntarily fought in the war on the Croatian side in order to keep his job), and his Croat wife, a caring nurse. One evening, the professor dressed as his female alter ego Katarina, gets beaten by a group of young homophobes and ends up in the hospital during the shift of his attentive neighbor. She continues taking care of professor’s recovery in his apartment, starts helping his immobile father, while her concern whether her dyslexic husband is going to pass mandatory the Republic of Croatia Constitution exam begins to grow (literal translation of the film’s original title is The Constitution of Republic of Croatia). Scared that her husband might fail (and therefore lose his job), she asks the professor to help him, and he agrees. Is it possible to find some foundation for full-of-platitudes Constitution of one state in the harsh reality that still suffers from maladies of the past, eroded by intolerance and strong prejudices of all types?
In spite of all the difficulties that have struck the 40th anniversary edition of Montreal World Film Festival, the once worldwide very prestigious manifestation has ended with a superb award-winning piece, I would say the most well-deserved Grand Prix in the at least past 8 years since I started following this event.
This delicate, an extraordinary “love story about hate” (as the film promotional material suggests) is the work of renowned Croatian filmmaker Rajko Grlic, who started his professional career in the early 1970ies in former Yugoslavia. But, the credit for this outstanding movie goes to Ante Tomic as well, a successful Croatian writer with whom Grlic wrote his internationally most acknowledged films, the last three in a row (the other two are The Border Post / 2006 and Just Between Us /2010). It is simply inevitable to emphasize the importance of screenwriting here because the greatness of The Constitution owns so much to its extremely well-written script, that is to say, carefully structured story, tighten dialogue and, above all, well-developed, colorful characters. Namely, Grlic is a rare filmmaker from former Yugoslav countries who genuinely appreciate the process of screenwriting insisting on its long-term development, i.e. many drafts (not much common for European cinema, either). Built on such a solid foundation and with Grlic’s vast experience in filmmaking, exceptionality of the final result should come as no surprise.
The Constitution is meticulously crafted, with simple and elegant camera work and compelling performances, especially by famous Serbian actor Nebojsa Glogovac as the lead; his stellar, nuanced performance (with great depth and acuity) of such a complex character, is hard to expect to be seen soon from aforementioned region. This immensely bold and brutally honest top-notch melodrama produced on a modest scale, which contains Grlic’s trademarks as dramatic conflict explored with intense emotional investment, seasoned with a refined sense of humor, skillfully deals with once again increasing intolerance in Croatia, yet its intelligent, deeply profound and insightful multilayered texture goes far beyond local, addressing an urgent global problem. Grlic’s polished and subtle directing evokes the best pieces of Douglas Sirk or Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
According to Croatian media, Grlic’s Constitution has been announced as the most anticipated film of the year over there. And it absolutely should be, because this extremely important film, at the same time brutal and gentle, thoroughly human, healing movie is not only a peak of Grlic’s oeuvre (which is the most consistent, solid and durable in contemporary Croatiancinema) but, considering how hard it is to deliver this kind of achievement, also could stand at the very top of regional production in the last two and a half decades, or since Yugoslavia broke apart. Finally, perhaps the most appropriate comment on Grlic’s accomplishment is to borrow the title of his early, breakthrough movie: Bravo maestro!
↧
MONTREAL FFM 40o GLAUBER ROCHA AWARD "Fragmentos de amor" by Fernando Vallejo
The team of Fragmentos de Amor talks to Leopoldo Soto at the Montreal FFM after their festival win.
Fernando Vallejo, Director and Laura Duque Producer, at the Imperial R¡Theatre in Montreal.
About the movie:
In a city darkened by violence, faith unites Susana and Rodrigo. The lovers live a boundless passion cocooned in Susana’s apartment. Every night, Susana opens up and tells Rodrigo a story about her sexual encounters with past lovers. Reluctant to hear the stories at first, Rodrigo will soon let go and together they will relive each and every one of Susana’s sensual memories.
Country: Puerto Rico/ Colombia
Language: Spanish
Runtime: 100 Minutes
Director: Fernando Vallejo
Cast: Angelica Blandon, José Angel Bichir, Alfredo de Quesada
↧
↧
FESTIVAL MONTREAL 40o BLACK WIDOW BUSINESS by Yasuo Tsuruhashi
"Black Widoe Business" a japanese movie, by Yasuo Tsuruhashi produced by TOHO, is a dark comedie, that was one of the most celebrated by the audience in Montreal FFM 40. Mexican writer Cristina Boyles, montrealer since more than 30 years, talks about the film.
↧
Colombia director Juan Sebastian Martínez,
Colombia director Juan Sebastian Martínez, film student; screened La pareja, low budget film, with mainly two characters. Interesting exercise, as first feature film.
↧
Montreal FFM 40 Interview with Monica Wilczynska WHO AM I ? Shortfilm
Monica with Leopoldo Soto
↧