MWFF 2014: Awards

AWARDS -THE MONTREAL WORLD FILM FESTIVAL 2014

Jury

President : SERGIO CASTELLITTO, director and actor (Italy)

RACHID BOUCHAREB, director (France-Algeria)

ANDRÉANNE BOURNIVAL, cinéma professional (Canada)

FRIDRIK THOR FRIDRIKSSON, director and producer (Iceland)

ANA TORRENT, actress (Spain)

JANE ZHANG, singer and actress (China)

FEATURE FILMS

Grand prix des Americas:

OBEDIENCIA PERFECTA (PERFECT OBEDIENCE) by Luiz Urquiza Mondragon (Mexico)

Special Grand Prix of the jury:

FUSHIGI NA MISAKI NO MONOGATARI (CAPE NOSTALGIA) by Izuru Narushima (Japan)

Best Director:

SOKONOMINITE HIKARI KAGAYAKU (THE LIGHT SHINES ONLY THERE) by Mipo O (Japan)

Best Actress:

RACHAEL BLAKE and LUCIE DEBAY for the film MELODY by Bernard Bellefroid (Belgium-France-Luxembourg)

Best Actor:

YAO ANLIAN for the film DA GONG LAO BAN (FACTORY BOSS) by Zhang Wei (China)

Best Screenplay:

UN RAGAZZO D’ORO by Pupi Avati, screenplay by Pupi Avati (Italy)

Best Artistic Contribution:

DAS ZIMMERMÄDCHEN LYNN (THE CHAMBERMAID LYNN) by Ingo Haeb (Germany)

Innovation Award:

TRAVELATOR by Dusan Milic (Serbia-Montenegro)

SHORT FILMS:

1st prize: HJONABANDSSAELA (CHUM) by Jörundur Ragnarsson (Iceland)

Jury Award: BAD HUNTER by Sahim Omar Kalifa (Belgium)

Special mention: RABBIT by Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre (France)

ZENITHS FOR THE BEST FIRST FICTION FEATURE FILMS 2014:

Members of the jury of the First Fiction Films:

Noboru Hirose (Japon)

Bahman Maghsoudlou (Iran-USA)

Martin Malina (Canada)

Golden Zenith for the Best First Fiction Feature film:

GONZALEZ by Christian Diaz Pardo (Mexico)

Silver Zenith for the First Fiction Feature Film: 

L’ANNÉE PROCHAINE (NEXT YEAR) by Vania Leturcq (Belgium-France)

Bronze Zenith for the First Fiction Feature Film: 

A BERNI KÖVET (THE AMBASSADOR TO BERN) by Attila Szasz (Hungary)

PUBLIC AWARDS

The public was invited to vote for the most popular films in different categories:

Public Awards for the most popular film of the Festival:

RASTRES DEL SANDAL (TRACES OF SANDALWOOD) by Maria Ripoll (Spain)

Public Award for the most popular Canadian Feature Film:

SWEEPING FORWARD by Patricia MacDowell (Canada)

Glauber Rocha Award for the Best Latin American Film:

OBEDIENCIA PERFECTA (PERFECT OBEDIENCE) by Luiz Urquiza Mondragon (Mexico)

Award for Best documentary:

NO LAND’S SONG by Ayat Najafi (Germany-France)

Award for Best Canadian Short Film:

TODAY, I DID MY LAUNDRY by Zach Patton (Canada)

FIPRESCI PRIZES

FIPRESCI Prize for a film in the World Competition:

DAS ZIMMERMÄDCHEN LYNN (THE CHAMBERMAID LYNN) by Ingo Haeb (Germany)

FIPRESCI Prize for a film in the First Films Competition:

LOS BAÑISTAS (OPEN CAGE) by Max Zunino (Mexico)

ECUMENICAL PRIZES

FUSHIGI NA MISAKI NO MONOGATARI (CAPE NOSTALGIA) by Izuru Narushima (Japan)

Special mention of the Ecumenical jury:

MELODY by Bernard Bellefroid (Belgium-France-Luxembourg)

OTHER AWARDS:

Special awards for their exceptional contribution to the cinematographic art:

CLAUDE LELOUCH

MICHAEL J. WERNER

ALAIN RESNAIS (posthumous)

Festival information courtesy MWFF.

Photo at the top © 2014 Nadia Slejskova

MWFF 2014: Cape Nostalgia - Prizes

Cape Nostalgia
Awards

Ecumenical Prize

Japanese film Cape Nostalgia won two prestigious prizes at the Montreal World Film Festival 2014. In the afternoon of the festival's last day, the film was awarded the Ecumenical Prize.  Three members of the film's production team accepted the price, as seen on the picture below.

Special Grand Prix of the Jury

In the evening of the same day, at the MMFA Closing Ceremony, the film was awarded the Special Grand prize of the Jury. The prize was accepted by the two lead actors Sayuri Yoshinaga and Hiroshi Abe.

Each actor delivered a short thank you message.

At the end of the Award Presentation Ceremonies, Cape Nostalgia lead actors posed for a group photo with all those who won special recognition and received a prize at the Montreal World Film Festival 2014 closing night.

Before the Closing Ceremonies, the film's lead actors posed for the photo-taking session on the red carpet in front of the the Imperial Theatre as they arrived for the Awards Winning Ceremony.

Earlier that day, they briefly appeared at the pre-award closing night reception on the open terrace at the Montreal's Hyatt Hotel. 

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Cape Nostalgia has truly merited awards it received. Read more about this film here.

You can also read about the Special Event the Cape Nostalgia Production Team hosted at the MWFF 2014 festival here.

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All photos in this article by Nadia Slejskova.

©2014 Nadia Slejskova