The 39th Montreal World Film Festival taking place from August 27th to September 7th 2015, announced the line-up of its World Competition as well as First Feature Competition. Members of both Juries are also public as of today. “Over the decades, the MWFF has achieved its cultural and an economic mission by offering audiences and professionals a multitude of films, of all genres and provenances,” stated Serge Losique who added “An institution recognized by cineastes the world over, this great cinematic institution has always worked hard to assure its perenniality. It has always been about bringing to Montreal screens the new and interesting films that constitute the best showcase of essential cinema culture.”
This year the number of entries to the MWFF sections has overtaken those of previous years : over 2000 feature and short films (in equal proportion) have been screened by the selection committee not mentioning the other films viewed during festivals abroad. The number of countries within the selection highlights this increase as 86 countries will be represented during the 39th edition of the Festival. There are 36 World Premieres in those competitions
World Competition
26 Feature films will compete for the Grand Prize of the Americas.
2 Nights Till Morning by Mikko Kuparinen (Finland-Lithuania) 84 mins
A Havana Moment by Guillermo Ivàn Duenas (USA – Cuba – Mexico – Colombia)
A Matter of Courage by Roberto Gervitz (Brazil – Uruguay) 90 mins
Chucks by Sabine Hiebler, Gerhard Ertl (Austria) 93 mins
Demimonde by Attila Szàsz (Hungary) 88 mins
Gassoh by Tatsuo Kobayashi (Japan) 87 mins
Getaway of Love by Tonino Zangardi (Italy) 90 mins
Grey and Black by Luís Filipe Rocha (Portugal – Brazil)
Happy 140 by Gracia Querejeta (Spain) 98 mins
John Hron by Jon Pettersson (Sweden) 127 mins
L’Accabadora by Enrico Pau (Italy – Ireland) 97 mins
Mad Love by Philippe Ramos (France) 96 mins
Memories of the Wind by Özcan Alper (Turkey – Germany – France – Georgia) 140 mins
My Enemies by Stéphane Géhami (Canada) 106 mins
On the Road to Berlin by Sergei Popov (Russia) 82 mins
Outliving Emily by Eric Weber (USA) 88 mins
Rider Jack by This Lüscher (Switzerland) 90 mins
Secret by Selim Evci (Turkey) 102 mins
Seven Days by Xing Jian (China) 73 mins
Summer Solstice by Michal Rogalski (Poland – Germany) 95 mins
Taboo by Khosro Masoumi (Iran) 108 mins
The Invisible Artery by Pere Vilà Barcelo (Spain) 119 mins
The Midnight Orchestra by Jérôme Cohen Olivar (Morocco) 114 mins
The Petrov File by Georgi Balabanov (Bulgaria – Germany) 90 mins
The Soul of a Spy by Vladimir Bortko (Russia) 110 mins
The Visitor by Mehmet Erylimaz (Turkey) 127 mins
First Feature Competition
Beijing Carmen by Wang Fan (China) 95 mins
Closer by Mostafa Ahmadi (Iran) 90 mins
Crushed by Megan Riakos (Australia) 111 mins
Das Deckelbad by Kuno Bont (Switzerland) 97 mins
Dear Deer by Takeo Kikuchi (Japan) 107 mins
Fire Birds by Amir Wolf (Israel) 105 mins
Kagurame by Yassuo Okuaki (Japan) 112 mins
Legacy by Nemanja Cipranic (Serbia – Montenegro) 90 mins
Live by Vlad Paunescu (Romania) 107 mins
Lost and found by Show Yanagisawa (Japan) 111 mins
Maresia by Marcos Guttmann (Brazil) 90 mins
Neboke by Norihito Iki (Japan) 115 mins
Our Everyday Life by Ines Tanovic (Bosnia-Hezegovine – Slovenia – Croatia) (pictured above)
Rainbow Without Colours by Tuyen Quang Nguyen (Vietnam) 93 mins
Rosa Chumbe by Jonatan Relayze Chiang (Peru) 75 mins
Orage by Fabrice Camoin (France) 80 mins
Stubborn Boy by Moritz Kramer (Germany) 82 mins
The Funeral by Qi Wang (China) 115 mins
The Plastic Cardboard Sonata by Enrico Falcone, Piero Persello (Italy) 80 mins
The Sum of Histories by Lukas Bossuyt (Belgium – Netherlands) 85 mins
The Thin Yellow Line by Celso Garcia (Mexique) 95 mins
Three Days in September by Darijan Pejovski (Macedonia – Kosovo) 90 mins
Under Heaven by Dalmira Tilepbergen (Khirgizistan) 88 mins
Vals by Anita Lakenberger (Austria) 120 mins