2024 Festival du nouveau cinéma
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Film festival in Montreal, Canada
Opening filmUniversal Language (Une langue universelle) by Matthew Rankin
Closing filmMisericordia (Miséricorde) by Alain Guiraudie
Founded1971
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| Opening film | Universal Language (Une langue universelle) by Matthew Rankin |
|---|---|
| Closing film | Misericordia (Miséricorde) by Alain Guiraudie |
| Location | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Founded | 1971 |
| Festival date | October 9-20, 2024 |
| Website | nouveaucinema |
| Festival du nouveau cinéma | |
The 2024 edition of the Festival du nouveau cinéma, the 53rd edition in the event's history, took place from October 9 to 20, 2024 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.[1]
The festival's opening film was Universal Language (Une langue universelle) by Matthew Rankin,[2] and it closed with Misericordia (Miséricorde) by Alain Guiraudie.[3]
Overall, the festival screened over 200 feature and short films.[4]
The winners of the short film awards were announced on October 16, with the winners of feature film awards announced on October 20 at the festival's conclusion.[5]
| Award | Film | Filmmaker |
|---|---|---|
| National Competition, Grand Prize | Measures for a Funeral | Sofia Bohdanowicz |
| National Competition, Prix de la diffusion Québécor | Lázaro at Night (Lázaro de noche) | Nicolás Pereda |
| National Competition, Prix de la diffusion Québécor Honorable Mention | There, There | Heather Young |
| International Competition, Grand Prize | Toxic (Akiplėša) | Saulė Bliuvaitė |
| International Competition, Daniel Langlois Innovation Award | I'm Not Everything I Want to Be (Jeste nejsem, kým chci být) | Klára Tasovská |
| International Competition, Best Performance | Simon of the Mountain (Simon de la montaña) | Lorenzo Ferre |
| New Alchemists Prize | The Hyperboreans (Los hiperbóreos) | Cristobal León, Joaquín Cociña |
| New Alchemists Prize, Honorable Mention | Barrunto | Emilia Beatriz |
| Prix Temps 0 | Life's a Bitch (Chiennes de vies) | Xavier Seron |
| Prix Temps 0, Honorable Mention | We Are Aliens (みーんな、宇宙人) | Kenichi Ugana |
| Audience Award, Temps 0 | The Gesuidouz (ザ·ゲスイドウズ) | Kenichi Ugana |
| FIPRESCI International Critics' Award | Cu Li Never Cries (Cu Li Không Bao Gio Khóc) | Phạm Ngọc Lân |
| Prix Fierté Montréal | I'm Not Everything I Want to Be (Jeste nejsem, kým chci být) | Klára Tasovská |
| Audience Award, Panorama International | Flow (Straume) | Gints Zilbalodis |
| TV5 Audience Award | Ghosts of the Sea (Les Enfants du large) | Virginia Tangvald |
| National Competition, Short Film | perfectly a strangeness | Alison McAlpine |
| National Competition, Short Film Honorable Mention | Sleep Talking | Ethan Godel |
| National Competition, Short Film Public Prize | Gender Reveal | Mo Matton |
| International Competition, Short Film | Vox Humana | Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan |
| International Competition, Short Film Honorable Mention | The Colloquy of Dogs (Le Colloque des chiens) | Norman Nedellec |
| New Alchemists, Animated Short Film | Sans voix | Samuel Patthey |
| New Alchemists, National Dada Prize | Samaa | Ehsan Gharib |
| New Alchemists, International Dada Prize | Grandmamauntsistercat | Zuza Banasińska |
| RPCÉ Grand Prize | Pan & Syrinx | a. laurel lawrence |
| RPCÉ Grand Prize Honorable Mention | Voies de passage | Geneviève Tremblay, Milla Cummings |
| RPCÉ Coup de coeur Vidéographe | L'Eau coule sans demander pardon | Marie-Frédérique Lemieux |
| RPCÉ Coup de coeur Vidéographe Honorable Mention | Hogar | Olly Norambuena |
Official selections
International Competition
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cu Li Never Cries | Cu Li Không Bao Gio Khóc | Phạm Ngọc Lân | Vietnam, Singapore, France, Philippines, Norway |
| Formosa Beach | Praia Formosa | Julia De Simone | Brazil, Portugal |
| I'm Not Everything I Want to Be | Jeste nejsem, kým chci být | Klára Tasovská | Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria |
| On Becoming a Guinea Fowl | Rungano Nyoni | Zambia, United Kingdom, Ireland | |
| Pepe | Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias | Dominican Republic, Germany, France, Namibia | |
| Simon of the Mountain | Simon de la montaña | Federico Luis | Argentina, Chile, Uruguay |
| Toxic | Akiplėša | Saulė Bliuvaitė | Lithuania |
| Viet and Nam | Trong lòng đất | Minh Quý Trương | Philippines, Singapore, France, Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Vietnam |
| Who Do I Belong To | Mé el Aïn | Meryam Joobeur | Tunisia, France, Canada, Norway, Qatar, Saudi Arabia |
National Competition
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alberta Number One | Alexander Carson | Canada | |
| Cherub | Devin Shears | Canada | |
| Ghosts of the Sea | Les Enfants du large | Virginia Tangvald | Canada, France |
| Inedia | Liz Cairns | Canada | |
| Lázaro at Night | Lázaro de noche | Nicolás Pereda | Canada, Mexico |
| Matt and Mara | Kazik Radwanski | Canada | |
| Measures for a Funeral | Sofia Bohdanowicz | Canada | |
| There, There | Heather Young | Canada | |
| You Are Not Alone | Vous n'êtes pas seuls | Marie-Hélène Viens, Philippe Lupien | Canada |
International Panorama
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| All the Long Nights | Yoake no subete | Shô Miyake | Japan |
| bluish | Lilith Kraxner, Milena Czernovsky | Austria | |
| Disco's Revenge | Omar Majeed, Peter Mishara | Canada | |
| Favoriten | Ruth Beckermann | Austria | |
| Flow | Straume | Gints Zilbalodis | Latvia, France, Belgium |
| A History of Love and War | Una historia de amor y guerra | Santiago Mohar Volkow | Mexico |
| I Saw Three Black Lights | Yo vi tres luces negras | Santiago Lozano Álvarez | Colombia, Mexico, France, Germany |
| Kalak | Isabella Eklöf | Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Greenland | |
| Kyuka: Before Summer's End | Kostis Charamountanis | Greece, North Macedonia | |
| Most People Die on Sundays | Los domingos mueren más personas | Iair Said | Argentina, Italy, Spain |
| Patient No. 1 | Пациент №1 | Rezo Gigineishvili | Georgia |
| Realm of Satan | Scott Cummings | United States | |
| Shambhala | Min Bahadur Bham | Nepal, France, Norway, Turkey, Hong Kong, Taiwan, United States, Qatar | |
| Skin in Spring | La Piel en primavera | Yennifer Uribe Alzate | Colombia, Chile |
| Tendaberry | Haley Elizabeth Anderson | United States | |
| To a Land Unknown | Mahdi Fleifel | United Kingdom, France, Germany, Netherlands, Greece, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Palestine | |
The New Alchemists (Les Nouveaux alchimistes)
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barrunto | Emilia Beatriz | United Kingdom, Puerto Rico | |
| Bogancloch | Ben Rivers | United Kingdom, Germany, Iceland | |
| Do You Want to See Part Two? | cricri sora ren | Germany, Russia, China | |
| Eat the Night | Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel | France | |
| The Human Hibernation | Anna Cornudella Castro | Spain | |
| The Hyperboreans | Los hiperbóreos | Cristobal León, Joaquín Cociña | Chile |
| Reas | Lola Arias | Argentina, Germany, Switzerland | |
| Space Down | Dominic Gagnon | Canada | |
| Tale of Shepherds | Historia de pastores | Jaime Puertas Castillo | Spain |
| Through the Graves the Wind Is Blowing | Travis Wilkerson | United States | |
The Essentials (Les Incontournables)
Temps 0
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal | Animale | Emma Benestan | Belgium, France, Saudi Arabia |
| Being Blanche Houellebecq | Dans la peau de Blanche Houellebecq | Guillaume Nicloux | France |
| The Box Man | 箱男 | Gakuryū Ishii | Japan |
| Comme dans un vrai film | Zoé Rivemale | France | |
| The Crazy Family | Gyaku-funsha Kazoku | Gakuryū Ishii | Japan |
| Else | Thibault Emin | France, Belgium | |
| The Gesuidouz | ザ·ゲスイドウズ | Kenichi Ugana | Japan |
| Life's a Bitch | Chiennes de vies | Xavier Seron | Belgium |
| One-Way Ticket to the Other Side | Douglas Buck, Jen Gatien, Edgar Pêra, Buddy Giovinazzo, Martina Schöne-Radunski, David Gregory, Truman Kewley, Patrycja Planik, Guillaume Campanacci, Katsuki Kuroyanagi, Jerome Vandewattyne | Belgium, Germany | |
| Peaches Goes Bananas | Marie Losier | France | |
| Peau de cochon | Philippe Katerine | France | |
| Plastic Guns | Les pistolets en plastique | Jean-Christophe Meurisse | France |
| The Real Superstar | Cédric Dupire | France | |
| Sam & Lola | Sam et Lola | Mahaut Adam | France |
| Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust | Ishan Shukla | India, France, Germany | |
| School of the Holy Beast | Seijū gakuen | Norifumi Suzuki | Japan |
| The Second Act | Le deuxième acte | Quentin Dupieux | France |
| Striptease intégral | Jean Libon, Clémentine Bisiaux, Régine Dubois, Stéphanie De Smedt, Mathilde Blanc, Yves Hinant | France, Belgium | |
| We Are Aliens | みーんな、宇宙人。 | Kenichi Ugana | Japan |
Special Presentations
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Days of Happiness | Les jours heureux | Chloé Robichaud | Canada |
| Jaws | Steven Spielberg | United States | |
| Jaws 2 | Jeannot Szwarc | United States | |
| Jaws 3 | Joe Alves | United States | |
| Jaws: The Revenge | Joseph Sargent | United States | |
| Tampopo | タンポポ | Juzo Itami | Japan |
| Vibrant | Vivant | Yann Arthus-Bertrand | France |
| When Adam Changes | Adam change lentement | Joël Vaudreuil | Canada |
History of Cinema (Histoire(s) du cinéma)
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bona | Lino Brocka | Philippines | |
| Eight Postcards from Utopia | Opt ilustrate din lumea ideală | Radu Jude | Romania |
| Eldorado | Charles Binamé | Canada | |
| Holy Motors | Leos Carax | France | |
| It's Not Me | C'est pas moi | Leos Carax | France |
| Orders | Les Ordres | Michel Brault | Canada |
| Paris, Texas | Wim Wenders | Germany, France | |
| Sleep #2 | Radu Jude | Romania | |
International Competition for Short Films
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 102 Narra | Rafael Manuel, Tatjana Fanny | Netherlands | |
| Across the Waters | Viv Li | France | |
| At That Very Moment | En el mismísimo momento | Rita Pauls, Federico Luis | Argentina, Germany |
| Bad for a Moment | Mau por um momento | Daniel Soares | Portugal |
| The Colloquy of Dogs | Le Colloque des chiens | Norman Nedellec | France |
| Days Before the Death of Nicky | Jours avant la mort de Nicky | Denis Côté | Canada |
| The Distance Between Us | Qu'importe la distance | Léo Fontaine | France |
| Fragments of Summer | Youmin Kang, Soomin Kang | South Korea | |
| Leela | Tanmay Chowdhary | India | |
| looking she said I forget | Naomi Pacifique | Netherlands, Switzerland | |
| The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent | Čovjek koji nije mogao šutjeti | Nebojša Slijepčević | Croatia, France, Bulgaria, Slovenia |
| Masterpiece Mommy | Dorothy Sing Zhang | United Kingdom, China | |
| The Moon Also Rises | Wang Yuyan | France | |
| The Moving Garden | O Jardim em Movimento | Inês Lima | Portugal |
| My Senses Are All I Have to Offer | As minhas sensações são tudo o que tenho para oferecer | Isadora Neves Marques | Portugal |
| The Nature of Dogs | Pom Bunsermvicha | Thailand, United States, Singapore, Hong Kong | |
| Panadrilo | Marcela Heilbron | Panama | |
| Le reste n'a pas d'importance | Romain Dumont | France | |
| A Son and a Father | 1 Hijo & 1 padre | Andrés Ramírez Pulido | Colombia, France |
| That's How I Love You | Tako Te Volim | Mário Macedo | Croatia, Portugal |
| Vox Humana | Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan | Philippines, Singapore, United States | |
National Competition for Short Films
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Before They Joined Us | Arshile Khanjian Egoyan | Canada | |
| A Day Apart on the Seventeenth | Noel Pendawas | ||
| Fantas | Halima Elkhatabi | ||
| Gender Reveal | Mo Matton | ||
| Himalia | Juliette Lossky, Clara Milo | ||
| His Smell | Kalil Haddad | ||
| Julian and the Wind | Connor Jessup | ||
| The Lame Shall Sing | Kit Baronas | ||
| Mercenaire | Pier-Philippe Chevigny | ||
| A Night of Cambodian Opera | Nuit d'opéra cambodgien | Xu-Ming Lor | |
| On a Sunday at Eleven | Alicia K. Harris | ||
| One Day This Kid | Alexander Farah | ||
| perfectly a strangeness | Alison McAlpine | ||
| Place d'Armes | Drew Lint | ||
| The Sculptor: Birth of the Patavision | Joshua Banman | ||
| Serve the Country | Fabian Velasco, Milos Mitrovic | ||
| Sleep Talking | Ethan Godel | ||
| Two of Hearts | Mashie Alam | ||
| Uncle from Yugoslavia | L'Oncle de Yugoslavie | Jérémy Gagnon | |
| Whispering in the Leaves | Luvleen Hunjan | ||
| Who Loves the Sun | Arshia Shakiba | ||
Special Presentations Short Films
Short films from Wapikoni Mobile, a film training organization for emerging indigenous filmmakers in Quebec, in celebration of the organization's 20th anniversary.[6]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Among the Forest | Oqim Nicholas | Canada | |
| Batailles | Karen Pinette Fontaine | ||
| Démo Wapikoni | Louis Fontaine | ||
| I Created Memories | Je crée des souvenirs | Sammy Gadbois | |
| Innu-assit | Jonathan Grégoire | ||
| Inuktitut Dialects in the 21st Century | Ulivia Uviluk | ||
| It's Me, Landon | C'est moi, Landon | Landon Moise | |
| Life on the Move | Jack Belhumeur | ||
| Neka | Nemnemiss McKenzie | ||
| Nin Kamashitshet | André-Charles Ishpatao | ||
| We Are Not Speaking the Same Language | Danika St-Laurent | ||
The New Alchemists, Short Films
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Black Screen Too | Rhayne Vermette | Canada | |
| Adrift Potentials | Potenciais à deriva | Leonardo Pirondi | Brazil, United States |
| Dérailler | Marielle Dalpé | Canada | |
| Dreams About Putin | Nastia Korkia, Vlad Fishez | Belgium | |
| Dull Spots of Greenish Colours | Sasha Svirsky | Germany | |
| The Eggregores' Theory | Andrea Gatopoulos | Italy | |
| The Exploding Girl | La Fille qui explose | Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel | France |
| for here I am sitting in a tin can far above the world | Gala Hernández López | France | |
| Fort Garry Lions Pool | Ryan Steel | Canada | |
| Go Between | Chris Kennedy | Canada | |
| Grandmamauntsistercat | Zuza Banasińska | Netherlands, Poland | |
| The Great Thaw | Michaela Grill, Karl Lemieux | Canada, Austria | |
| Look on the Bright Side | Wang Yuyan | France, Italy | |
| The Masked Monster | 괴인의 정체 | Syeyoung Park | South Korea |
| Le Mirage des mains ultra réalistes | Guillaume Vallée | Canada | |
| Nemo 1 | Albéric Aurtenèche | Canada | |
| The Oasis I Deserve | Inès Sieulle | France | |
| Positive Transparencies | Marianne Thodas | Canada | |
| Renaissance Printanière à la source du Pêcher | Emma Roufs | Canada | |
| Revolving Rounds | Johann Lurf, Christina Jauernik | Austria | |
| Rituals Under a Scarlet Sky | Rituels sous un ciel écarlate | Samer Najari, Dominique Chila | Canada |
| Samaa | Ehsan Gharib | Canada | |
| Sans voix | Samuel Patthey | Switzerland | |
| Someplace in Your Mouth | Beatrice Gibson, Nick Gordon | Italy, United Kingdom | |
| The Sunset Special 2 | Nicolas Gebbe | Germany | |
| Transit | Sebastian Freudenschuss | Austria | |
| Volcelest | Éric Briche | France | |
| Wind | Mike Hoolboom | Canada | |
| The Wolf | Le Loup | Theodore Ushev | Canada |
RPCÉ Student Short Film Competition
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Province/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| À la dure | Daniel Cyr | Quebec | |
| After Blue | Dag Davidge | British Columbia | |
| Amanite tueuse d'Éclipse | Hugo Lamarre, Laurence Patenaude, Jérémy Burelle | Quebec | |
| Antipersonnelle | Léonie Savard | Quebec | |
| Aquaphobe | Élio Matias, Maëlle Sallée | Quebec | |
| Au bord des limbes | Maxime Mompérousse | Quebec | |
| Au-delà du regard | Arianna Bardesono | Quebec | |
| Broken Reflections | Jason Swallow | Quebec | |
| Donne-moi du love | Noah Zinck, Elizabeth Daigneault, Fabrice Leclerc | Quebec | |
| L'Eau coule sans demander pardon | Marie-Frédérique Lemieux | Quebec | |
| Écrire, vivre, déneiger | Laetitia Clareton | Quebec | |
| Face cachée | Nicolas Lecavalier | Quebec | |
| Un goût amer | Daniel Cyr | Quebec | |
| Le Gun | Louis Mercier | Quebec | |
| He's Not That Special | Nickiesha Flemmings | Quebec | |
| Hogar | Olly Norambuena | Quebec | |
| Iris | Bianca Delmar, Alyana Jandumon, Gladys Lou | Ontario | |
| Juste des robots | Maxime Mompérousse | Quebec | |
| Marée noire | Anthony Bouchard, Mélodie Poulin | Quebec | |
| Marie et moi | Diane Premi | Quebec | |
| Mes larmes sont vides | Philippe Scrive | Quebec | |
| Mirage | Jules Brulay | Quebec | |
| Mise à nu | Chloé Dauchez | Quebec | |
| Monsieur de Garie | Laura Marroquin-Éthier | Quebec | |
| Mother and Son | Con dại cái mang | Thu Uyen Dao | Vietnam |
| Our Time Together | Emiliano Aguayo | Alberta | |
| Pan & Syrinx | a. laurel lawrence | Nova Scotia | |
| Parenthèse | Ludivine Smeets | Quebec | |
| Retrace | Một cõi đi về | Thi Ha Trang Tran | Vietnam |
| Terrarium | Miguel Morin | Quebec | |
| Three Seasons | 三季 | Yuhan Yang | British Columbia |
| Tourterelle triste | Zachary Roberge | Quebec | |
| Turn the Other Cheek You Little Shit | Tristan Ramos | British Columbia | |
| Vérité augmentée | Édouard Lamarre | Quebec | |
| Voies de passage | Geneviève Tremblay, Milla Cummings | Quebec | |
| Wooden Fish Guitar | Đàn Cá Gỗ | Dat Nguyen | Vietnam |
| Les Yeux la couleur de la mer | Yann Reynolds | Quebec | |
P'tits loups
Short film program of animation for children.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ana Morphose | João Rodrigues | Portugal | |
| Bébert et l'omnibus | Yves Robert | France | |
| Beurk! | Loïc Espuche | France | |
| Carotte | Mathieu Labaye, Simon Médard | Belgium | |
| Los Carpinchos | Alfredo Soderguit | France, Chile, Uruguay | |
| Clawlolo (Gramophone) | Aleksey Alekseev | Cyprus | |
| Criss Cross | Nina Rybárová, Tomáš Rybár | Slovakia, Czech Republic | |
| Gilbert | Arturo Lacal, Alex Salu, Jordi Jiménez | Spain | |
| Gina Kamentsky's Pinocchio in 70MM | Gina Kamentsky | United States | |
| Le Grand party annuel des créatures de la lune | Francis Desharnais | Canada | |
| Jardin le lutin | Zahya Tétreault Bélanger | Canada | |
| Nube | Diego Alonso Sánchez de la Barquera Estrada, Christian Arredondo Narvaez | France, Hungary, Mexico | |
| Out for Ice Cream | Crème à glace | Rachel Samson | Canada |
| The Swineherd | Magnus Igland Møller, Peter Smith | Denmark | |
| Tête en l'air | Rémi Durin | France, Belgium | |
| Weeds | Pola Kazak | Czech Republic | |
Estival
The festival's separate summer program of free public screenings of older films.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Animal Kingdom | Le règne animal | Thomas Cailley | France |
| Dune: Part Two | Denis Villeneuve | United States | |
| Fallen Leaves | Kuolleet lehdet | Aki Kaurismäki | Finland, Germany |
| Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person | Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant | Ariane Louis-Seize | Canada |
References
- ↑ Justine Smith, "Montreal’s Festival du Nouveau Cinéma to screen some of this year’s best films from Oct. 9 to 20". Cult MTL, September 26, 2024.
- ↑ Charles Rioux, "Une langue universelle de Matthew Rankin en ouverture du FNC". Ici Radio-Canada, September 25, 2024.
- ↑ Manon Dumais, "Le FNC annonce sa programmation". La Presse, September 24, 2024.
- ↑ Maxime Demers, "Plus de 200 films au programme de la 53e édition du Festival du nouveau cinéma". Le Journal de Montréal, September 24, 2024.
- ↑ "Le FNC dévoile son palmarès". CTVM, October 21, 2024.
- ↑ "53e FNC: le meilleur du cinéma mondial en primeur à Montréal du 9 au 20 octobre 2024". CTVM, September 25, 2024.