COLOGNE, Germany -- Quinceanera, a teen pregnancy drama with a gay twist from directors Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer, will head to Berlin after its premiere in Sundance, it was announced Thursday. Quinceanera was chosen as one of nine features for the Berlin International Film Festival's teen sidebar 14plus, which will open with You and Me, from Chinese director Ma Li Wen. Other highlights of the section include Finnish romance Beauty and the Bastard from Dome Karukoski; Dutch comedy Schnitzel Paradise from Martin Koolhoven; and Kamataki, a Japanese-Canadian co-production from director Claude Gagnon.
- 1/12/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
MONTREAL -- Off Screen, a co-production between the Netherlands and Belgium directed by Pieter Kuijpers, picked up the top Grand Prix of Americas prize Monday at the 29th Montreal World Film Festival (MWFF), while Quebec director Claude Gagnon was a five-time winner. Gagnon won best director for his Canada-Japan co-production, Kamataki, along with the Air Canada's People Choice Award or audience award, Most Popular Canadian Film prize, the Prix de la Federation Internationale de la Presse Cinematographique (the international critics' FIPRESCI prize) and the fete's Ecumenical Prize. Other prizes handed out Monday night at the close of the festival included the Special Jury Prize that was shared by Japanese director Akira Ogata's The Milkwoman and German director Hans W. Geissenderfer's Snowland, while the best screenplay went to Jose Corbacho and Juan Cruz, the co-writers of the Spanish film Tapas.
- So, you've seen the list of the films shown at the Montreal World Film Festival this year and you weren't particularly impressed with them? It's true that most of the films, except a very few, were made by directors virtually unknown in Montreal cinephiles, but who knows, maybe we'll have some pleasant surprises! In this piece I'll go over some key attractions of the 2005 selection. First, despite what people will tell you, the line-up does include works by established directors, among them Marta Meszaros with The Unburied Man (Hungary), Roots by Pavel Lounguine (Russia), Harry's Daughters by Richard Hobert (Sweden), La última luna by Miguel Littin (Chile) and many more. Amongst those other films, I'll highlight a few here. Canadian writer/director Larry Kent will present his latest film at the festival. The Hamster Cage relates the story Lucy and Paul who return to their childhood home for a
- 8/26/2005
- IONCINEMA.com
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