MWFF 2013: Opening Night

Montreal World Film Festival: 37th Edition

22 August-2 September 2013


This year's Montreal World Film presents a remarkable array of films, 432 in all in various categories:

Around the world in 432 films

218 feature films (113 world and international premieres)

14 medium length films (13 world and international premieres)

200 short films (147 world and international premieres)

World Competition : 20 feature films and 11 short films

First Films World Competition : 20 feature films

Hors Concours / World Greats : 13 feature films

Korean Cinema of Today : 8 feature films, 1 medium length, 9 short films

Focus on World Cinema : 105 feature films, 1 medium length, 110 short films

Documentaries of the World : 26 feature films, 12 medium length, 3 shorts films

INIS Productions : 10 short films (4 fiction films and 6 documentaries)

Canadian Student Film Festival : 1 feature film and 42 short films

Best Student Films of the World : 15 short films

Hommage : 1 feature film

Our Cinema – Review of a Year of Hits : 13 feature films

Cinema Under the Stars Loto-Québec : 12 feature films

The Film Festival's opening night was held at the Theatre Maisonneuve at Place-des-Arts. Unfortunately, because of the rain the usual red carpet walk across St.Catherine street was cancelled. The guests passed instead from the Complex-des-Jardins to Place-des-Arts through an underground passage.

The photo to the left shows dignitaries lining up before the red carpet walk, with Serge Losique - the founder and the President of the Montreal World Film Festival - in the front and in the centre of the photo.







To the right is Serge Losique with Festival's participants including members of the jury during the red carpet walk. 




Below are the members of the jury on the stage at the Maisonneuve Theatre at Place-des-Arts. The first from the left is Jiri Menzel, the president of the Montreal World Film Festival's jury this year.

To find out more about the festival and to see the program, visit the festival's website.

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All photos in this article by Nadia Slejskova.

© 2013 Nadia Slejskova

MWFF poster at the top courtesy MWFF.