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ANNIVERSARY SHORT FILMS SCREENINGS
MEL HOPPENHEIM SCHOOL OF CINEMA 35TH ANNIVERSARY,
FESTIVAL DU NOUVEAU CINÉMA DE MONTRÉAL 40TH ANNIVERSARY,
AND ESCUELA INTERNACIONAL DE CINE Y TV DE CUBA 25TH ANNIVERSARY

This year, three film institutions that have a long history of collaboration celebrate their anniversaries by presenting a sampling of their work produced and partnership. The programming includes MHSOC and EICTV alumni short films selected by Marielle Nitoslawska (Chair of MHSOC) and Tanya Valette (former Chair of EICTV), as well as the best of films by Concordia alumni featured at the Festival du nouveau cinéma, selected by Philippe Gajan, short films / FNC Lab programmer.

NOVEMBER 18, 2011 | 7 pm to 10:30 pm
De Sève Theatre | Concordia University (SGW campus)
J.W. McConnell Building (Library), LB-125
1400 de Maisonneuve West, Montreal (metro Guy-Concordia)
FREE ENTRANCE

The event is presented by the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, in collaboration with the Festival du nouveau cinéma de Montréal and the Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV de San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. Marielle Nitoslawska and Rosanna Maule (MHSOC), as well as Philippe Gajan (FNC), and some of the filmmakers will be in attendance.


PROGRAMMING:


MEL HOPPENHEIM SCHOOL OF CINEMA:
L’envie, Christian Duguay, 7’, 1978, 16mm
Fish Story, Arto Paragamian, 14’, 1987, 16mm
Comme hier matin, André Turpin, 11’, 1988, 35mm
Les Frissons d’Agathe, Guylaine Dionne, 13’, 1989, 16mm
Électrinité, Felix Lajeunesse, 10’, 2001, DVD
Post-Partum, Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre, 9’14”, 2004, DVD
930, Alexandre Larose, 10’, 2006, 16mm
Je viendrai te chercher, Sophie Dupuis, 11’29”, 2007, DVD
Le Pardon, Eleonore Goldberg, 4’, 2009, DVD
Entre deux Mondes, Myriam Magassouba, 8’28”, 2008, DVD

FESTIVAL DU NOUVEAU CINÉMA (Concordia alumni):
Mamori, Karl Lemieux, ONF, 8’, 2010, 35mm
Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis, Daïchi Saito, 10’, 2009, 35mm
On The Way to The Sea, Tao Gu, 20’, 2010, BetaCam Sp.
This is not an anchor, this boat is not an anchor, Marianna Milhorat, 11’, 2007, DvCam

ESCUELA INTERNACIONAL DE CINE Y TV DE CUBA:
Patria, Susana Barriga, 13’, 2007, DVD
Parihuela, Marcel Beltrán, 12’, 2010, DVD
Año del cerdo, Claudia Calderón, 10’, 2007, DVD
Vecino, Argenis Mills, 11’, 2010, DVD

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FESTIVAL DU NOUVEAU CINÉMA EN VSD (VOD) SUR ILLICO

19_10_2011

For the second year running, the Festival du nouveau cinéma, in partnership with Illico, presents a multiplatform version of its lineup. Most of these feature films and shorts in the virtual festival, are drawn from the 2010 and 2011 FNC lineups. The entire selection is available on Illico Cable, Illico Web and cellphones until next January 10. Rental costs are $4.99 for a feature and $0,99 for a short film.

FEATURE FILMS

L’ARBRE (The Tree) Julie Bertuccelli
Australie, France, 2010, 100 min
A widow and her children cope with their grief beneath a huge fig tree in the Australian countryside.

DE LA GUERRE (On War) Bertrand Bonello
France, 2009, 130 min
After spending a night trapped in a coffin, Bertrand plunges into a world of untold pleasures.

HARD CORE LOGO Bruce Mc Donald
Canada, 1996, 92 min
Mockumentary on the legendary punk band Hard Core Logo.

LAURENTIE Simon Lavoie
Canada, 2011, 120 min
An improbable encounter between a sex-obsessed AV technician and his cheerful, good-looking Anglo guy next door.

NATIONAL PARKS PROJECT
Louise Archambault | Keith Behrman | Daniel Cockburn | Hubert Davis | Sturla Gunnarsson | Zacharias Kunuk | Stéphane Lafleur | Peter Lynch | Cathrine Martin | Kevin McMahon | Scott Smith | Jamie Travis | John Walker
Québec/Canada, 2010, 127 min
Canada’s finest artists unite to capture their vision, in music and film, of the country’s national parks. The screening will be followed by a live performance by the project musicians over a remix of the films during the festival.

POUSSIÈRES D’AMÉRIQUE Arnaud Des Pallières
France, 2011, 100 min
“This film is an improvisation. A work diary. A rather lengthy poem consisting of excerpts from other films, along with phrases, snatches of music and all kinds of sounds. Written in the language of film.” – Arnaud Des Pallières

LE PREMIER RASTA Hélène Lee
France, 2011, 90 min
Hélène Lee portrays the eventful yet little-known life of Leonard Percival Howell, founder of the first Rasta community.

DANCING DREAMS Anne Linseln, Rainer Hoffmann
Allemagne, 2010, 92 min
A heartfelt tribute to the creative vision and passion of the grande dame of dance, Pina Bausch.

TOURNÉE (On Tour) Mathieu Amalric
France, 2010, 111 min
Amalric plays the lead in this idiosyncratic, melancholy drama about a down-at-heels producer and a troupe of visiting American strippers.

UN POISON VIOLENT Katell Quillévéré
France, 2009, 93 min
It’s a summer of change for Anna, starting with her father leaving the family home.

SHORTS

MOHKTAR Halima Ouardiri
Québec/Canada | 2010 | 15 min

PAPIER DE SOI FNC
Québec/Canada | 2010 | 10 min

LES JOURNAUX de Lipsett Thédore Ushev
Québec/Canada | 2010 | 14 min

SOPHIE LAVOIE Anne Émond
Québec/Canada | 2010 | 9 min

JONATHAN ET GABRIELLE Louis-Philippe Éno
Québec/Canada | 2010 | 9 min

SUR LA LIGNE VARIATION N.1 Mario  Calvé, Anne-Marie Turcotte
Québec/Canada | 2010 | 24 min

DOLORES Guillaume Fortin
Québec/Canada | 2010 | 15 min

CINÉMA DES AVEUGLES  Daniel Canty
Québec/Canada | 2010 | 20 min

LA FORMATION DES NUAGES Marie-Hélène Turcotte
Québec/Canada | 2010 | 10 min

M’OUVRIR Albéric Autenèche
Québec/Canada | 2010 | 19 min

 

NFB Playlist

8_10_2011

For the 40th anniversary of the Festival du nouveau cinéma, the NFB asked the Festival programmers to draw up a list of NFB films that have made an impression on them over the years. After much reflection, the team selected 10 films that you can watch on the NFB website, and a list of 40 works (most of them have previously been screened at the FNC).

“Naturally, it started out as a game, a demanding and complex game that involved agreeing on a history of these past 40 years. Placing all these films within the collective memory that cinematic works cultivate. Films that FNC has screened, or in some, many, instances would have liked to have screened… A history that spans filmmaking in Quebec and the world: the greats of direct cinema, the masters of animation. In the end, it really only reveals a tiny part of that history, since new stories are constantly added to the ongoing saga.”
Philippe Gajan, FNC programmers – short films/FNC Lab

To watch the 10 films and discover the 40 works selected by the team, click here

 

31 SHORTS FROM QUÉBÉC AND CANADA IN COMPETITION IN THE FOCUS SECTION

15_09_2011

This year, 31 shorts from Québéc and Canada will screen in competition in the Focus section. Among them are Ce n’est rien by Nicolas Roy, which screened at Cannes; La Ronde by Sophie Goyette, presented at Locarno; and Hope by Pedro Pires, who brought us the superlative Danse macabre in 2009.

Will also be presented:
A Film Portrait on Reconstructing 12 Possibilities That Preceded The Disappearance of Zoe Dean Drum, by Eduardo Menz
Anna, by Khoa Lê and Mathieu Verreault
At the Bottom of the Hill, by Vanya Rose
D’aléas, by Mathieu Tremblay
D’aurore, by Serge Clément
Demain j’irai dans les champs, by Serge Noël
Héligo, by Étienne de Massy
Il ne fait pas soleil, by Xavier Beauchesne-Rondeau
June, by Karim Haroun
La fleur de l’âge, by Pascal Plante
Le Tableau des Départs, by Daniel Canty
Les Dimanches, by Jean-Guillaume Bastien
Nature Morte, by Chloé Robichaud
No Contract, by Randall Lloyd Okita
Petite Mort, by Louise Archambault, André Turpin and Stéphane Crête
Place Carnot-Lyon, by Pierre Hébert
Steam is Steam, by Étienne Desrosiers
Sur la ligne Variation no 2, by Mario Calvé and Anne-Marie Turcotte
Surveillant, by Yan Giroux
Tabula rasa, by Matthew Rankin
Teatrinos: Homenaxe ao mineral do repolo, by Stephanie Dudley
The Captain and The Bear, by Chelsea Owen
The Man and The Mammoth, by Callum Paterson and Nathan Gilliss
Trains – Volcano – Fisherman, by Tokutaro Shimoda
Vacarme, by Daniel Karolewicz
Vent Solaire, by Ian Lagarde
Veronika, by Nancy Baric
Walter, by Sezen Türkmen

The Grand Prix Focus Short Film will be remitted to one of them, along with a $5000 grant from CTV’s Bravo!FACT Foundation to Assist Canadian Talent.

For its 40th edition, the FNC is pulling out all the stops to fulfil its mandate ― namely, to seek out original, largely unseen films by talented filmmakers and bring some of the country’s best works to the big screen!