MWFF 2018: Closing Night Photo Highlights

Montreal World Film Festival 2018 Award Winners

Montreal World Film Festival 2018
September 3, 2018

Red Carpet Closing Night

Award Ceremony

  
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For more information on the festival visit the Montreal World Film Festival's website.

MWFF 2018: 49th Student Films Awards

The Montreal World Film festival once again presented this year the Student Film Competition as those two previously independent film festivals had joined forces in the past. Here are the winners:

AWARDS: 49TH STUDENT FILM FESTIVAL

Monday, September 3, 2018

NATIONAL COMPETITION (CANADA)

NORMAN McLAREN AWARD (Best Film):

MY THESIS FILM: a thesis film by Erik Anderson by Erik Anderson (York University, Toronto, Ontario)

BEST ANIMATION FILM:

Salmiak by Aurélia Morin-Clarke (Cégep de vieux-Montréal, Montreal, Quebec)

BEST FICTION FILM (ex-aequo) :

The Canadian Carver by MacKenzie Brown, Canada

Insert Your Title by Ji Won Jeong, Canada (Dawson College, Montreal, Quebec)

  

CHINESE STUDENT FILM FESTIVAL AT THE MONTREAL WORLD FILM FESTIVAL

BEST FILM:

Spring Flowerby Tong Hua, China (California Film Academy, USA)

BEST ANIMATION FILM:

Harryby Zhou Haoran (Tongji University, Shanghai, China)

BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM:

The Water Bird and Manby Gao Yang & Zhou Pu (Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province, China)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM:

Brainby Ma Chunxin (Zhejiang University of Media and Communications, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, Chine)

BEST FICTION FILM:

Oasis by Lin Qinqin ((Beijing Normal University International College of Hong Kong Baptist University, China) 

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

BEST FILM:

MEET ME IN THE WOODS by Isa Micklitza (University for Television and Film Munich, Germany)

BEST ANIMATION FILM:

Achoo by Lucas Boutrot, Elise Carret, Maoris Creantor, Pierre Hubert, Camille Lacroix, Charlotte Perroux (ESMA, Montpellier, France)

BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM:

Nomadic Doctor by Mart Bira (University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Royaume-Uni)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM:

THE RITA G, AFFAIR / SPRAWA RITY G by Daria Kopiec (The Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw, Poland)

BEST FICTION FILM:

The Word / Slovo by Yhor Vysnevskyi ( Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Televisin University, Kiev, Ukraine)

For more information visit the Montreal World Film Festival's website.

MWFF 2018: Awards

42ND MONTREAL'S WORLD FILM FESTIVAL AWARDS

Monday, September 3, 2018

WORLD COMPETITON

FEATURE FILMS

Grand Prize of the Americas (Best Film):

CURTIZ by Tamas Yvan Topolánszky, Hungary

Special Grand Prix of the Jury (ex-aequo):

SAMURAI'S PROMISE / CHIRITSUBAKI by Daisaku Kimura, Japan

THE ETRUSCAN SMILE by Mihal Brezis, Oded  Binnun, Switzerland - Germany - United States – United Kingdom

Best Director:

Attila Szász for ETERNAL WINTER / ÖRÖK TÉL by Attila Szász, Hungary

Best Actress:

Maya Szopa in STRANGERS OF PATIENCE / STRANNIKI TERPENIYA by Vladimir Alenikov, Russia

Best Actor:

Hiroshi Tachi in LIFE IN OVERTIME / OWATTA HITO by Hideo Nakata, Japan

Best Screenplay (ex-aequo):

Jianv Han, Wei Zhong and Muye Wen for DYING TO SURVIVEbyMuye Wen, China

Mirko Locatelli and Giuditta Tarantelli for ISABELLEbyMirko Locatelli, Italy – France

Best Artistic Contribution:

THE LORD EAGLE / TOYON KYYL by Eduard Novikov, Russia

Innovation Award:

MOCKING OF CHRIST / RUGANJE SO HRISTOS by Jani Bojadzi, Republic of Macedonia

WORLD COMPETITON

SHORT FILMS

  

1st prize

Vagabonds by Amartei Armar, Ghana

Jury Award

All My Guardian Angels / Todos mis padres by Bernabé Rico, Spain

FIRST FICTION FILMS COMPETITION

Golden Zenith

THE GAZELLE'S DANCE / EL BAILE DE LA GACELA  by Iván Porras Meléndez, Costa Rica – Mexico

Silver Zenith

KILL ME TODAY, TOMORROW I`M SICK! by Joachim Schroeder and Tobias Streck, Germany

Bronze Zenith

HAVE YOUR NAME CARVED by Lei Xu, China

Special mention for quality

JIM SHOE by Peter Sutton, United States

  

CHINESE FILM FESTIVAL

1st Prize

DESTINIESby Zhang Pu, China

2nd Prize

FATHER TO SON / VAN PAO TE by Ya-Chuan Hsiao, Taiwan

3rd Prize

SNOW FALL / XUE ZANG by Gao Chenggang, China

DOCUMENTARIES OF THE WORLD

1st Prize

DYING TO TELL / MORIR PARA CONTAR by Hernán Zin, Spain

2nd Prize

ICELANDER by Nils Oliveto, Canada

3rd Prize

FAHAVALO, MADAGASCAR 1947 / FAHAVALO by Marie Clémence Andriamonta Paes, France - Madagascar - Belgium - Cape Verde - Qatar

For more information on the festival visit the Montreal World Film Festival's website.

MWFF 2018: Curtis

CURTIZ

WORLD COMPETITION

Montreal World Film Festival / FFM

Hungary / 2018 / black & white  / 93 min.

This film won the Grand Prize of the Americas (Best Film) at the Montreal World Film festival 2018 Closing Ceremony. See all the winners here.

Those interested in the history of cinema, and especially in the production of the iconic American classic CASABLANCA, will especially appreciate this Hungarian production about the famous director MIchael Curtiz, an eccentric and talented director and a winner of an Oscar. The film is largely inspired by his life. It details all the intriguing twists and turns in the creation of CASABLANCA, all political, Warld War II implications and intrigues that affect the production of the film, as well as his personal life and his relationship with his daughter Kitty.

When he leaves Europe for America, Michael Curtiz leaves his family behind in Budapest. He worries about his sister and tries to get her to the USA by all means, but there are many obstacles. In Hollywood, Curtiz is powerful, arrogant and preparing to shoot CASABLANCA with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. But it is 1942, and the United States is getting ready for World War II. While the director is struggling with production problems, his abandoned daughter Kitty appears on the set and confronts him. The meeting with his daughter and the conflicts that arise directly influence Curtiz's creative resolution of CASABLANCA's ending, thus gelling together his great iconic masterpiece.

In CURTIZ, Rick's famous cafe and the piano featured in CASABLANCA film were faithfully reproduced for the filming purposes.

SYNOPSES

1942. America is on the edge of war. Hungarian-born film director Michael Curtiz, under government pressure, gets a chance to influence public opinion about war, thus gaining international recognition by directing a new propaganda film: Casablanca. It does not comeat the best time though. Curtiz is working on helping his Jewish sister emigrate from Hungary before the Nazis get to her also, his daughter appears on set with the purpose of getting answers why Curtiz had abandoned her as a child. Can Curtiz overcome his famously arrogant and cynical personality? What sacrifices make a man a patriot in a foreign country, a good brother and an honest father at the same time? What should his main character, Rick, choose in the end of Casablanca?

Left to right: actress Evelin Dobos (Kitty), screenwriter Zsuzanna Bak,
producers Judit Romwalter and Claudia Sumeghuy, and actress Lili Bordan

PRODUCTION TEAM

Director: Tamas Yvan Topolánszky.

Script: Zsuzsanna Bak, Tamás Yvan Topolánszky.

Photography: Zoltán Dévényu.

Editor: Eszter Bodoky.

Music: Gábor Subicz.

Cast: Ferenc Lengyel, Evelin Dobos, Declan Hannigan, Yan Feldman, Rafael Feldman, Lili Bordan, Caroline Boulton, Scott Alexander Young.

Producers: Claudia Süneghy, Halluci-Nation Ltd., Budapest (Hongrie), cell.: +36 302 488 239, sumeghy.claudiabernadett@gmail.com / SPARK, Camera and Lighting Ltd., Budapest (Hongrie), judit@sparks.hu.

For more information on the festival visit the Montreal World Film Festival's website.