Festival du Nouveau Cinéma 2011

This year will be the 40th aniversary of the Montreal's annual Film Festival du Nuveau Cinema always held during  the month of October. This year the festival will take place between October 12 - 23.


Although there are several categories in which the films will be presented, the most prestigious one is:


International Selection: Louve d'Or presented by Quebecore. There will be 19 contenders. These are the competing films:

Behold the Lamb, John Mcllduff (UK)
Black Blood, Miaoyan Zhang (China)

Blue Bird, Gust Van Den Berghe (Belgium)

Elena, Andrey Zvyagintsev (Russia)'

The Giants, Bouli Lanners (Belgium)

The Island, Kamen Kalev (Bulgaria)

The Last Christeros, Matias Meyer (Mexico)

Nuit #1, Anne Émond (Quebec/Canada)

OK Enough, Goodbye, Rania Attieh, Daniel Garcia (Lebanon/United Arab Emirates)

Oslo, August 31, Joachim Trier (Norway)

Play, Ruben Östlund (Sweden)

Shame, Steve McQueen (UK)

Toll Booth, Tolga Karacelik (Turkey)

Tomboy, Céline Sciamma (France)

Twilight Portrait, Angelina Nikonova (Russia)

Volcano, Runar Runarsson (Iceland/Denmark)

Wasted Youth, Argyris Papadimitropoulos (Greece)

White White World, Oleg Novkovic (Russia)

Without, Mark Jackson (US)

The prerequisite to participate in this category is that the film entered for the competition is the first, second or a third film the contender had ever made. The Grand Prize that the winner will receive will be a check in the amount of $15,000.

To find more about the festival and all the films it will feature, both in other competing categories, as well as the non-competing films, visit the festival's website.

You can download the festival's program in English here.