Montreal World Film Festival: Lineup
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- DirectorJulius SevcíkStarsKarel RodenHanns ZischlerOldrich KaiserA period in the life of diplomat and politician Jan Masaryk, who was the son of Czechoslovakia's founder, served as the Central-European country's minister of foreign affairs and has been brutally killed by Russian secret service in 1948.World Competition
- DirectorKaren ShakhnazarovStarsElizaveta BoyarskayaMariel ChledowskaKirill GrebenshchikovDuring Russian-Japanese War, the head of the hospital Sergey Karenin learns that the wounded officer Count Vronsky is the person who ruined his mother Anna Karenina.World Competition
- DirectorAngie WangStarsAnnie Q. RiegelFrancesca EastwoodPierson FodeIn 1984, the most powerful drug dealer on the west coast was a 19 year old coed. Based on actual events.World Competition
- DirectorYukiko MishimaStarsRena TanakaTadanobu AsanoMiu AraiA 40-year old man sees his life change when his wife gets pregnant. He already has a daughter from his first marriage whom he rarely sees and two step-daughters, from his wife's first marriage. The youngest of his step-daughters is looking forward to a baby brother or sister, but the oldest doesn't welcome the news and suddenly decides that she wants to live with her father. And as if that were not enough trouble, he is forced out of his good office job into an inferior position.World Competition
- DirectorFatmir KoçiStarsDritan KastratiAmos ZahariaErand HoxhaMickey, an illegal Albanian who used to live in London, is a part time Elvis Presley impersonator. He gets a job entertaining British peacekeeping troops in the 1999 Balkans wars. When backstage problems ensue, Mickey (dressed as Elvis Presley) flees - straight into the war zone. He meets and is captured by a group of children refugees caught up in the merciless war.World Competition
- DirectorDominic BachyStarsAnthony DelonLinda HardyDenis MaréchalFour couples, each at a different stage of their relationship, meet on Valentine's Day in Paris, the capital of love.World Competition
- DirectorDinu TãnaseStarsValer DellakezaDana DogaruAlexandra FasolaA story based on a real event, the tragic case of a family from an isolated village, in the Danube grinds. Ana, who lives abroad, returns to her native village in the Danube Delta, in order to take part in her grandfather Dumitru's funeral. Everything takes a sudden turn when Ana discovers the tragic events that her grandparents had gone through, caused by the traditions and mentalities of an archaic world.World Competition
- DirectorAtia Jbara Al-DarrajiStarsAsaad Abdul MajeedMohammad AtiaShahad AtiaFilm about a father who takes his 8 years old daughter from Basrah to Karbala searching a cure for cancerWorld Competition
- DirectorJan CvitkovicStarsPrimoz VrhovecIrena KovacevicMiha KosecMarko and Dunja are living good middle class life with perfect kids, before Marko is falsely accused of sexual harassment, and loses his teaching job. Then Dunja also is made redundant. No governmental support means desperation.World Competition
- DirectorHaofeng XuStarsQing XuJue HuangAoyue ZhangLatest film of Xu Haofeng, a new master of Chinese Wu Xia films, screenwriter of Wong Kar-wai's The Grandmaster. The new film tells a Chinese Wu Xia story happened in 1930s, but with a new presentation.World Competition
- DirectorXiaoyan XuStarsHuan HuangYi Tong LuJuncheng WuThe wife Su tries to live solitude in mountains with her paralyzed husband Mo. Soon she falls in love with the neighbor Ho, a young painter. Su and Ho meet and flamed by their desires. Mo somehow finds this. However, by peeping, it inspired his painting. Ho gradually tired of this relationship and starts seeking other women for his painting inspiring. As an abandoned woman with a strong controlling will, Su starts poisoning Ho with special foods, and eventually causes him impotence and paralyzed. Mo decides to kill them two. But when watching them dying he finds a shocking truth.World Competition
- DirectorLeonardo TiberiStarsAlessandro TersigniYari GugliucciDavide GiordanoThe year is 1918, Veneto, Italy. A member of the Italian-American Congress goes to the Italian pilot center to fight alongside the aviators aboard the new Caproni hunters. His name will remain in history: it's Fiorello La Guardia, future mayor of New York. But La Guardia is not the only immigrant of Italian origin to serve the front: beside him there are volunteers from all over the world to pay homage to their roots.World Competition
- DirectorDavid ChuangStarsRay ChangHan ChangJieh-Wen KingGuo Wen-han, Mayor of Wanhe City, was seeking re-election but being kidnapped a few days before polling day by a young man from the North Bank, a poor and seriously polluted area of the city. It was a scheme plotted by a local petrochemical enterprise, hoping to ensure Guo's victory in the election so that their expansion application could be approved afterwards. However, this false kidnap turns to be a real one after the plot went astray and everything was out of control.... The fiction story, based on a true social issue of Taiwan, depicts struggle of the unprivileged for environmental justice under a huge web of polico-business complex.World Competition
- DirectorCsaba VékesStarsGergely BánkiZoltán BezerédiGábor DióssiThis film examines the career of an unsuccessful actor who suddenly finds himself pulled from the wings to become the leading stage director in a theatre, where he struggles to achieve his own dreams and battles to keep the company together. Set in the world of modern theatrical life, this satire, due to its very nature, has a certain sense of the surreal.First Film World Competition
- DirectorOleg AgeychevStarsAndrey ChadovLiza ShorinaSofiya BarminaAn unusual baby, a girl named Dominica, was dumped off to a perspective architect Kostia. Every time Kostia gets angry - the baby grows up...First Film World Competition
- DirectorLiang SunStarsFuqiang AnXinming DaiYing LanFirst Film World Competition
- DirectorClaude AndrieuxStarsJohan AndrieuxGilles ArbonaRené de AngelisTwo men are getting off a ferry in Iceland. The younger one is a bass player and is here to audition for the singer Bjork. The older one is his driver. They have 497 miles (800 km) before they reach their destination.First Film World Competition
- DirectorDavid Vital-DurandRaphaël Vital-DurandStarsJulien BoisselierCaterina MurinoSerge Riaboukine"I m called Lancelot Rubinstein, my wife died that day, in this moment. She was called Irina. The more strange in this story is to discover the person with which we live once that she is dead. "First Film World Competition
- DirectorYusaku MatsumotoStarsUrara AnjoHiroshi FuseSuzu HyugaEight years have passed from the Akihabara massacre. A pop star whose mother was killed in the incident, a teenager who left her home to Akihabara, a delivery boy who turns his directionless anger to the city. This is a story about the characters striving to grasp the string of hope within the darkness surrounding the city, the incident, and the people.First Film World Competition
- DirectorRené FortunatoStarsAmauris PérezStephany LirianoReyna Acosta MedinaJuan Carlos returns to the Dominican Republic to reunite with his longtime fiancee, only to find her already married and pregnant. Sunk into despair and with nothing to do, he meets Patricia, who will change his life.First Film World Competition
- DirectorBen HeckingStarsCharlotte VegaChristian McKayHarry MacqueenJohn Finch has fled to his holiday home in the south of France to start a new way of life. Whilst waiting for his younger lover Sophia to join him, a seemingly chance encounter with a man called Peter will threaten to destroy everything.First Film World Competition
- DirectorRenzo CarboneraStarsMaria RoveranThierry ToscanJasmin Barbara MairhoferMale choir and female director. A family and a small community need bindings, in order to face the challenges of future.First Film World Competition
- DirectorMiki BenyaminiYoni BenyaminiStarsKai Adwoa-ThomasKate AgustinHany AttyaTen people go about their lives during a day in New York City. Coming from different backgrounds, across the five boroughs, their unique paths diverge, but the powers of the city affect one and all.First Film World Competition
- DirectorYixi SunStarsZitong WuFrederick SzkodaSteve EdwinTwo Chinese girls take a film transcription job at a heritage English countryside mansion. Discovering entangled family secrets about the Kunqu Opera star Susu, they find it almost impossible to escape, physically and emotionally.First Film World Competition
- DirectorDavid BlyStarsLeah RudickDavid BlyCasey BiggsThe relationship between an aspiring sculptor and a struggling chef in New York is tested when they become entangled with wealthy older benefactors, or "Sweet Parents", to further their careers.First Film World Competition
- DirectorJean-Philippe GaudStarsMadi BelemOuidad ElmaOlivier SitrukGrowing up in the Moroccan village of Tazzeka, Elias learned the secrets of traditional Moroccan cuisine from his grandmother who raised him. Years later, meeting a top Paris chef and a young woman named Salma inspires him to leave home.First Film World Competition
- DirectorRos HorinFour African Australia women, all former refugees and victims of sexual abuse and violence, take on the risky and difficult challenge of creating and performing their stories in a professional theatre production. This documentary charts their journeys over five years, from tentative and painful beginnings through to the eventual triumph of their theatre show in sold-out seasons across Sydney and London. Exploring the public revelations of their families and broader lives, this reveals the ways that these women have been empowered by the experience of speaking out.First Film World Competition
- DirectorChul HeoStarsSoo-Hyun SonKim Yu-seokA frame that says, 'Drink makgeolli (rice wine) here and the one you miss will return' is hung on the wall of a tavern titled The Return. The tavern's regulars miss their lost ones.First Film World Competition
- DirectorCarlos AlgaraAlejandro Martinez-BeltranStarsOlga SeguraArcelia RamírezSofía GarzaA female Psychologist who has stopped practicing medicine, decides to take the case of Veronica de la Serna, a young woman whose previous therapist has mysteriously disappeared.First Film World Competition
- DirectorTristan BarrMichael GosdenStarsTristan BarrChelsea Renee ZellerAaron WaltonIn a single afternoon a man comes to grips with the power of his past when his estranged family becomes tangled in its web.First Film World Competition