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Yesterday, Montreal’s Festival du nouveau cinéma was revealing the complete programming of
its 40th edition, which will be held October 12 to 23, 2011.
This year’s edition features over 292 carefully selected,
cream-of-the- crop films
— including 11
world premieres, 23 North American premieres and 10 Canadian
premieres —
from 45 countries. As always, the FNC celebrates
established filmmakers and emerging talent without distinction.
It’s a party for everyone!
As of today, get the PASS
FNC (access to all films except opening and closing
film) at a
reduced rate on La Vitrine
website.
CARTES
BLANCHES
For its 40th anniversary, the Festival asked 10 filmmakers whose
work has been screened at previous editions over the past 40 years,
to each direct a short film on the subject of their choice. The
only limit on this creative exercise: each film had to last a
maximum of four minutes. The filmmakers who enthusiastically signed
up for the Cartes Blanches experience are: Denis Côté, Deco Dawson,
Sophie Deraspe, Rodrigue Jean, Zacharias Kunuk, Marie Losier,
Catherine Martin, Bruce McDonald, Théodore Ushev and Denis Villeneuve.
We’re in for a real treat!
The shorts will be presented one by one, in random order,
throughout the 11 days of the Festival and can also be viewed
online at the Festival website.
OPENING
AND CLOSING
The 40th edition of the FNC kicks off on October 12, with Declaration of War by Valérie Donzelli
(France), with the
director and her producer Edouard Weil in attendance.
On October 22, Monsieur
Lazhar (Quebec/Canada) by Philippe Falardeau
will close the Festival, with
the director in attendance.
Both films were selected to represent their country at the Oscars
for Best Foreign Language Film.
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INTERNATIONAL
SELECTION
The
International Selection is an opportunity for relative unknowns to
make their mark. This year, 19 films will be presented in
competition for the Louve d’Or ($15,000 cash remitted by
Quebecor): Behold
the Lamb,
John Mcilduff (United-Kingdom); Black Blood, Miaoyan Zhang
(China); Blue
Bird,
Gust Van Den Berghe (France/Belgium); Elena, Andrey Zvyagintsev
(Russia); The
Giants, Bouli
Lanners (France/Belgium/Luxembourg); The Island, Kamen Kalev (Bulgaria/Sweden);
The Last
Christeros,
Matias Meyer (Mexico/Netherlands); Nuit #1, Anne Emond
(Québec/Canada); Ok,
Enough, Goodbye,
Rania Attieh & Daniel Garcia (Lebanon/United
Arab Emirates); Oslo,
August 31st, Joachim
Trier (Norway); Play, Ruban Östlund
(Sweden/France/Denmark); Shame, Steve McQueen (United-Kingdom);
Toll Booth, Tolga Karacelik (Turkey);
Tomboy, Céline Sciamma (France);
Twilight Portrait,
Angelina
Nikonova (Russia); Volcano, Runar Runarsson
(Island/Denmark); Wasted
Youth,
Argyris Papadimitropoulos and Jan Vogel (Greece);
White White
World,
Oleg Novkovic (Serbia); Without, Mark Jackson
(United-States).
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SPECIAL
PRESENTATION
Twenty-five films by established filmmakers will be screened in
this year’s Special Presentation section, which features strong,
committed works that reflect their creators’ bold vision: 30 tableaux, Paule Baillargeon
(Québec/Canada);
Les Amants, Nicolas
Klotz & Elisabeth Perceval (France); An Organisation of Dreams
– Part 2 – Dangerous People, Ken McMullen (United-Kingdom);
L’Apollonide
(Souvenirs de la maison close), and De la guerre, Bertrand Bonello
(France); Stopped
on Track, Andrea
Dresen (Germany); Norwegian Wood, Trân Anh Hùng
(Japan); De bon
matin,
Jean-Marc Moutout (France/Belgium); Décharge, Benoît Pilon
(Québec/Canada); Faust, Alexandre Sokourov
(Russia); La
Folie Almayer, Chantal
Akerman (France/Belgium); U2 - From the Sky Down,
Davis
Guggenheim (United States); Hanezu, Naomi Kawaze (Japan);
Hard Core Logo
II, Bruce
McDonald (Canada); Hors Satan, Bruno Dumont (France);
Il se peut que
la beauté ait renforcé notre résolution – Masao Adachi, Philippe Grandieux
(France); Louis
Martin, journaliste, Louis Bélanger (Québec/Canada);
Melancholia,
Lars Von
Trier (Denemark/Sweden/France/Germany); My Paris Movie,
Jonas Mekas (United
States); Once
Upon a Time in Anatolia, Nuri Bilge Ceylan
(Turkey); The
Skin I Live In, Pedro
Almodóvar (Spain); Pina, Wim Wenders
(Germany/France); Take
This Waltz, Sarah
Polley (Canada);
The Turin Horse, Béla
Tarr (Hongria);
A Separation,
Asghar Farhadi (Iran).
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INTERNATIONAL PANORAMA
Festivalgoers can tour the world, exploring countless new realities
through a wide array of works, including comedies, documentaries,
road movies and dramas. The 27 films in this year’s International
Panorama section are: Abderrahmane
Sissako (Une fenêtre sur le monde), Charles Castella
(France); Absolutely
Tame Is a Horse (Asb Heyvan-e Najibist), Abdolreza Kahani (Iran); Acorazado, Alvaro Curiel de Icaza (Mexico);
Avé, Konstantin Bojanov
(Bulgaria); Chico
& Rita,
Javier Mariscal, Fernando Trueba (Spain); Cultures of Resistance,
Iara Lee
(United States); Do
me love,
Jacky Katu, Lou Viger (France); End of the Night, Daisuke Miyazaki
(Japan); Flying
Home,
Tobias Wyss (Switzerland); La Génération de Pio (La
Generacion de Pio), Juan Rodrigo, Pedro Rodrigo (Spain);
Goodnight Nobody, Jacqueline Zünd
(Switzerland, Germany); The
Furious Force of Rhymes, Joshua Atesh Litle
(France); Land
of Oblivion,
Michale Boganim (France/Germany/Poland/Ukraine); Last Road to the Beach (A
Última estrada da praia), Fabiano De Souza (Brasil);
Melting Away, Doron Eran
(Israel/Canada); Mike, Lars Blumers
(France); Mondo
Lux – The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter, Elfi Mikesch
(Germany); Nos
ancêtres les
gauloises,
Christian Zerbib (France); Le Policier (Hashoter), Nadav Lapid
(Israel); Le
Premier Rasta, Hélène
Lee (France); Searching
for Hassan,
Edouard Beau (France); The Terrorists (Poo Kor Karn Rai),
Thunska
Pansittivorakul (Thailand/Germany); Three and a Half
(Seh-O-Nim), Naghi
Nemati (Iran); Une
vie de ballets, Marlène
Ionesco (France); Vie et mort de Celso Junior, Panayotis Evangelidis (Greece);
Vinyl (Tales
from the Vienna Underground), Andrew C. Standen-Razlrish
(Austria/United-Kingdom) and Y’a
pire ailleurs,
Jean-Henri Meunier (France).
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FOCUS
Turning the spotlight on homegrown talent, the Focus section
presents 9 films in competition for the Grand Prix
Focus/Cinémathèque québécoise with a $5,000 prize: Surviving Progress,
by Mathieu
Roy and Harold Crooks (Canada) will open the
section on October 13, Amy
George, Yonah
Lewis, Calvin Thomas (Canada); The Girl in the White Coat, Darrell Wasyk (Canada);
Fortunate Son, Tony Asimakopoulos
(Québec/Canada);
I am
a good person / I am a bad person, Ingrid Veninger
(Canada); Laurentie,
Simon
Lavoie, Mathieu Denis (Québec/Canada), Marginal road, Yassaman Ameri
(Québec/Canada/Portugal); Peace
Park,
David Bouthillier (Québec/Canada); Romeo onze, Ivan Grbovic (Québec/Canada).
10 non-competing films will also be presented: Alejandro Jodorowski,
rectum de l’Université de Foulosophie, François Gourd, Matthieu
Bouchard (Québec/Canada); Another Silence,
Santiago
Amigorena (Québec/Canada/France/Argentina); National Parks Project, Louise Archambault, Keith
Behrman, Daniel Cockburn, Hubert Davis, Sturla Gunnarsson,
Zacharias Kunuk, Stéphane Lafleur, Peter Lynch, Catherine Martin,
Kevin McMahon, Scott Smith, Jamie Travis, John Walker (Québec/Canada);
Le Pays des âmes,
Olivier
Godin (Québec/Canada); Planet Yoga, Carlos Ferrand (Québec/Canada);
Dust. A
Sculptor’s Journey, Jeanne Pope (Québec/Canada); Rasta, A Soul’s Journey, Donisha Prendergast
(Canada); République:
un abécédaire populaire, Hugo Latulippe
(Québec/Canada); Les
Tickets : l’arme de la répression, Eric « Roach » Denis
(Québec/Canada) and Touch
the Sky,
Adrian Wills (Québec/Canada).
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TEMPS Ø
As always, Temps Ø shakes things up, breaks new ground and makes a
statement. The section opens with the North American premiere of Guilty of Romance by Sion Sono (Japan),
with the actress
Megumi Kagurazaka in attendance. Other big
names on the program: Takahi
Miike with Hara-Kiri
: Death of a Samurai, Shinya Tsukamoto with Kotoko, Romain Gavras,
with Notre jour
viendra. Will also be presented Sleeping Beauty,
Julia Leigh;
Snowtown,
Justin
Kruzel; Assassin’s
Creed Embers, UbiSoft
studios new film; The
Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye, Marie Losier;
Take Shelter, Jeff Nichols (which
won the Critics’ Week Grand Prix at Cannes), Last Fast Ride: The Love,
Life and Death of a Punk Goddess, Lilly Ayers;
Gandu,
Quashiq
Mukherjee; Shirome, Koji Shiraishi;
Saturday Killer, Yuthlert Sippapak,
Tatsumi,
Eric Khoo;
and 3D, Sex and
Zen : Extreme Ecstasy, Christopher Sun Lap Key.
You’ve been forewarned...
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SHORT FILMS
In competition for the Loup argenté, 35 films from across the
globe. Organized into six programs (Pour l'amour du genre, Fantômes, Voyage,
Mystère, Magie and
Liberté), 35 standout films that show the full appeal
of new cinema (Harmony
Korine, Spike Jonze, the Brothers Quay) and those
worth getting to know, along with gems from here (Mathieu Tremblay, Nicolas
Roy, Pedro Pires, Serge Clément) and those from
abroad (Walerian
Borowczyk). Often defying classification, these
films are a taste of things to come. Did I say “bizarre”? How
bizarre!
In competition for the Focus award, 31 Quebec and Canadian films
shatter our accepted beliefs. In addition to the films already
mentioned, three programs showcase today’s distinctive voices.
Festival regulars (Vanya
Rose, André Turpin, who is co-directing a film with
Louise
Archambault and Stéphane Crète, and Nancy Baric),
and promising newcomers (Sophie
Goyette, Chloé
Robichaud, and Daniel Karolewicz) come
together in a joyful cacophony.
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TRIBUTES /
RETROSPECTIVES
This
year, the Festival is paying a tribute to Amos Gitaï with
a series in three parts including a retrospective, the video
installation Traces
and a master class with
the Israeli director in attendance; Emmanuelle Demoris
with Mafrouza,
a monumental five-part documentary shot during the two years she
spent in the Egyptian shantytown (round-table discussion with the director in
attendance, as well as Isabelle
Lavigne and Richard Brouillette); Asghar Farhadi, with A Separation (Special
Presentation), Beautiful
City (2004), La
fête du feu (2006) and À propos d'Elly (2009); the Association coopérative de
productions audio-visuelles (ACPAV), as part of its
40th anniversary, with Bulldozer,
by Pierre Harel (1974); Peter
Wintonick, with
The New Cinema shot during the Festival’s 1982
edition; Raúl
Ruiz with Time
Regained (1999); Michel
Boujut with Pina
by Wim Wenders, and a Cinéma,
Cinémas episod (Lettre
d’un cinéaste - Raul Ruiz); Peter Falk
with Husbands
(1970) by John Cassavetes; Georges
Lévesque and Michael Sarrazin, with The Skin I Live In
by Pedro Almodovar, and They
Shoot Horses, Don’t They? by Sidney Pollack; and George Kuchar
with It Came
from Kuchar by Jennifer Kroot, and The Ballad of Genesis and
Lady Jaye by Marie Losier.
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WEE WOLVES
In the Wee Wolves section, new cinema for kids just gets more
exciting with a wide-ranging lineup of fascinating films to feed
your imagination! Don’t miss our three programs of short films for
the whole family, real gems from all over the world. After Le ballon vert, Porte
bonheur and
Papier de soi, this year the Wee Wolves film camp
presents Rencontre
du 3e âge, a film about intergenerational
dialogue. The project is a collective effort by Dr. Julien’s
children at risk, backed by a team of professionals. Also on the
lineup is the feature Émilie
Jolie by Francis Nielsen and Philippe Chatel
(France), based on the eponymous musical penned by Chatel, with
original songs performed by Françoise Hardy, Georges Brassens,
Julien Clerc and many more. For young English-speaking movie buffs,
we have The
Flying Machine by Martin Clapp, Geoff Lindsey and
Marek Skrobecki (Poland/UK), in which a flying machine leads us on
the trail of famous virtuoso Frédéric Chopin. The fantastic Tomboy by
Céline Sciamma (France) is essential viewing, a sensitive film
about the complex issues of childhood, starring a cast of
exceptional young actors.
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FNC LAB
FNC
Lab is a section for exploring the interactions between image and
sound through different platforms:
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INTERACTIVE WORKS/WEB PROJECTS: Épopée (Rodrigue
Jean), Blabla (Vincent
Morisset), The Johnny Cash Project (Chris
Milk) and Robot
Heart Stories will be presented in competitive
selection.
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LECTURES: Check out the editorial cycle Rinse, Repeat, Restore:
at a time when audiovisual archiving is in a state of flux, the FNC
takes stock of this complex and wide-ranging issue through films (Bill Morrison)
and a lecture at Concordia University by Mark Toscano
and Gustav
Deutsch.
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INSTALLATIONS/PERFORMANCES: discover Full Moon,
an unusual interactive work by Iregular (with graphic design
and illustration by Baillat
Cardell & fils) — a gigantic moon on the
promenade des Artistes in the Quartier des spectacles. In our
performances, Jürgen
Reble and
Thomas Köner (Germany) present Materia Obscura,
a dreamlike journey made up of 16-mm “chemograms”; Zapruder Filmmakersgroup
(Italy) bring us SPELL,
a performance in two parts: The
Hypnotist Dog (3D film) and Suite (a hyperamplified concert
for ping-pong table); and Optical
Machines (Netherlands) a Dutch duo playing a
mechanical audiovisual instrument.
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FILMS: a selection of avant-garde experimental
shorts and features will be shown on the big screen, with the world
premiere of Seis
Mil Antennas by Johnny Ranger, a 360-degree
film screened at the Société des Arts Technologiques (SAT)
Satosphère.
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FNC PRO
Where
professionals converge
FNC Pro has been distilled into three consecutive days (October 17, 18 and 19)
at the Agora
Hydro-Québec in UQÀM’s Cœur des sciences for a more
concentrated event conducive to discussions and meetings among
professionals from all areas of film and media. FNC Pro includes
lectures, round tables, panels, case studies, workshops, pitches
and networking cocktail parties.
Daily
themes:
- October 17:
TV/Theatre/Web: Areas of Convergence
- October 18:
Social Screens: Are Collaboration and Interactivity Viable
Possibilities? (in partnership with MC2)
- October 19:
Transmedia Storytelling: Developing New Tools and Technologies
To download
the program, click here.
To watch the promotional video, click here.
To register,
click here.
Learn more [+]
EVENTS
Once again this year, Festival headquarters will host some very
festive events every night. On Friday, October 12, at 10:30 p.m.,
the 40th anniversary celebrations will kick off with a first night
in the realm of the wolf. Music by Why Alex, Why? and Vincent Lemieux will
get festivalgoers in the spirit of things and set the tone for ten
nights of special events. On October 13, we’re launching the
sophomore album In
a Fung Day T by the band Duchess Says,
and on the 14th, a group of First Nations kids invites us to check
out their first films during the major international launch of Wapikoni mobile.
Saturday the 15th, there will be a screening of shorts by the kids
from the LOVE
Project, followed by the first edition of Inside Brain,
a groundbreaking film series on the theme of mental illness,
accompanied by an excerpt from Maudite
folle!, the first novel by Varda Étienne, read by
Bénédicte Décary. Later in the evening, we present a film by
director Khoa
Lê inspired by the imagination of designer Denis Gagnon.
The evening concludes with a special event presented by Écorce Atelier créatif:
the Wolf Cubs
party with Mike
Simonetti, who heads up the Italians Do It Better
label.
The events continue throughout the week with the Montreal premiere
of the Jay
Reatard documentary Better Than Something; the 13th
edition of Sprint
For Your Script; an evening in the wilderness with
the National
Parks Project, featuring 52 artists who composed
and recorded pieces in parks across Canada; and the wonderful Nuit #1 by
director Anne Émond, screened during an evening set to music by
the group Claass,
which includes two members of We Are Wolves. And on Saturday,
October 22, we present the premiere of the feature Monsieur Lazhar
by Quebec filmmaker Philippe Falardeau. DJs Archibald Singleton,
Alix, Panton and Matteo Grondini will take
turns on the decks till late into the night to wrap up the ten nights
of the Festival.
Plus, a very special event will be held on October 13. Making
history of dance film, Ora
by Philippe Baylaucq uses 3D-Thermal imaging photography to merge
contemporary dance and daring cinematography. A unique sensory
experience that takes dance to a new level, Ora will screen as the
first part of a double bill with Wim Wenders’ Pina. Both Philippe Baylaucq and
Wim Wenders will be attendance.
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BOX
OFFICE INFORMATION
Presale
at La Vitrine - reduced rate
September
27 to October 5, via La Vitrine, get
the passe::FNC
(access to all films, except opening and closing films) at reduced rate:
- Adults:
$100 + taxes (instead of $125)
- Seniors
& students : $80 + taxes (instead of $100)
Learn more [+]
Presale at
the Headquarters - regular price
As of
October 8, get tickets at the regular price:
*at the Main
Box Office (single
tickets,
booklets and passes::FNC and FNC Pro):
Headquarters (Agora Hydro- Québec du Cœur des sciences de l’UQÀM)
175, Président-Kennedy Ave. (corner Jeanne-Mance, Place-des-Arts
Metro station, bus 80)
- October 8 to 11: noon to 8 pm
- October 12 to 23: 10 am to 6 pm
* by phone (single
tickets,
booklets):
514
844-2172 / 1 866 844-2172
* via Réseau Admission (single
tickets):
514 790-1245 / 1 800 361-4595
* on line (single
tickets):
www.nouveaucinema.ca
Learn more [+]
To
read the
press release, click here.
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The 40th
Festival du nouveau cinéma will take place from October 12 to 23, 2011.
The Festival du nouveau cinéma is presented by Quebecor
in partnership with the Daniel
Langlois Foundation.
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