Wednesday, September 03, 2014

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 mentionRABBIT 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

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