Festivalissimo, the Ibero-Latin-American Film Festival of Montreal just ended the 16th edition, where its artistic programming was being highly praised by thousands of festival-goers. Originating from 12 different countries, the menu offered 27 feature-length films that were all premieres in their own right; 5 North American premieres, 12 Canadian premieres rounded out with 10 never before seen films in Quebec. As with all festivals, they do hand out awards. Here is the list for all the winners from this year’s edition.
Best Male Actor (ex æquo)
Marcelo Alonso – Post Mortem by Pablo Larraín, Chile
Jean Remy Gentil – Jean Gentil by Israel Cárdenas and Laura Amelia Guzmán, Mexico / Dominican Republic
A special mention goes to:
Alberto San Juan – La isla interior by Dunia Ayaso and Félix Sabroso, Spain
Best Female Actor (ex æquo)
Ofelia Medina – Las buenas hierbas by María Novaro, Mexico
Eva Bianco – Los labios by Iván Fund and Santiago Loza, Argentina
A special...
Best Male Actor (ex æquo)
Marcelo Alonso – Post Mortem by Pablo Larraín, Chile
Jean Remy Gentil – Jean Gentil by Israel Cárdenas and Laura Amelia Guzmán, Mexico / Dominican Republic
A special mention goes to:
Alberto San Juan – La isla interior by Dunia Ayaso and Félix Sabroso, Spain
Best Female Actor (ex æquo)
Ofelia Medina – Las buenas hierbas by María Novaro, Mexico
Eva Bianco – Los labios by Iván Fund and Santiago Loza, Argentina
A special...
- 6/8/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Today starts the 16th edition of Ibero-Latin-American Film Festival of Montreal, Festivalissimo, with the Canadian premiere of La Vida De Los Peces (The Life of Fish), by Chilean filmmaker Matías Bize, presented tonight, at Cinema Impérial (1430 de Bleury Street, Montreal).
Right after its opening ceremony, the 16th edition of Festivalissimo will be continuing at Nfb Cinema (1564 St-Denis) with the presentation of major movie premieres of films that have participated to the most important film festivals in the world, such as Cannes, Venice, Locarno, Berlin, Guadalajara and San Sebastián.
During the first days of its new edition, Festivalissimo will therefore host the Canadian premieres of La Mirada Invisible (The Invisible Eye) of Argentinean filmmaker Diego Lerman, presented in 2010 at the Directors Fortnight.
There will also be a screening of Post Mortem, by Pablo Larraín, sacred Best Latin American film at the 2011 Guadalajara Film Festival for its daring and terrifying replay Chilean...
Right after its opening ceremony, the 16th edition of Festivalissimo will be continuing at Nfb Cinema (1564 St-Denis) with the presentation of major movie premieres of films that have participated to the most important film festivals in the world, such as Cannes, Venice, Locarno, Berlin, Guadalajara and San Sebastián.
During the first days of its new edition, Festivalissimo will therefore host the Canadian premieres of La Mirada Invisible (The Invisible Eye) of Argentinean filmmaker Diego Lerman, presented in 2010 at the Directors Fortnight.
There will also be a screening of Post Mortem, by Pablo Larraín, sacred Best Latin American film at the 2011 Guadalajara Film Festival for its daring and terrifying replay Chilean...
- 5/18/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
The 17th Spanish and Latin American film festival was anything but celebratory in spirit, focusing instead on brutal realities
On a humid day in the María Feliz cinema bar in the Colombian city of Cartagena, I found myself transported deep into the violent Bogotá underworld by the film La Sangre y La Lluvia (Blood and Rain). A fortnight ago, I once again found myself immersed in Colombian film, this time in the less sunny climes of the Cornerhouse, Manchester, where the life and landscape of Latin America was conjured up by the ¡Viva! Spanish and Latin American film festival. By turns heartrending and hilarious, films from Colombia, Chile and Peru seared strong and provocative images into my memory.
Memory is in fact at the heart of many Viva films: how do individuals and societies convey often-traumatic memories of war-torn reality? It's an issue with which Latin America has, of course,...
On a humid day in the María Feliz cinema bar in the Colombian city of Cartagena, I found myself transported deep into the violent Bogotá underworld by the film La Sangre y La Lluvia (Blood and Rain). A fortnight ago, I once again found myself immersed in Colombian film, this time in the less sunny climes of the Cornerhouse, Manchester, where the life and landscape of Latin America was conjured up by the ¡Viva! Spanish and Latin American film festival. By turns heartrending and hilarious, films from Colombia, Chile and Peru seared strong and provocative images into my memory.
Memory is in fact at the heart of many Viva films: how do individuals and societies convey often-traumatic memories of war-torn reality? It's an issue with which Latin America has, of course,...
- 4/1/2011
- by Anita Sethi
- The Guardian - Film News
Pedro Almodovar wasn't invited to Karlovy Vary this year, but in many ways the Spanish master filmmaker's influence among fellow Spanish filmmakers is evident in Dunia Ayaso & Felix Sabroso's "La isla interior" (The Island Inside). Apart from the subject of sexuality, this film has Almodovar's fingerprints all over it: beginning with the colorful design of the frames, the score which comes awfully close to Alberto Iglesias' work and the female cast which uses former Pedro film thesps in Geraldine Chaplin, who appeared in "Talk to Her" and Candela Peña who had a small part in "All About my Mother" and a third actress, who is the spitting image of a 1980's Carmen Maura. - Pedro Almodovar wasn't invited to Karlovy Vary this year, but in many ways the Spanish master filmmaker's influence among fellow Spanish filmmakers is evident in Dunia Ayaso & Felix Sabroso's "La isla interior" (The Island Inside...
- 7/8/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Pedro Almodovar wasn't invited to Karlovy Vary this year, but in many ways the Spanish master filmmaker's influence among fellow Spanish filmmakers is evident in Dunia Ayaso & Felix Sabroso's "La isla interior" (The Island Inside). Apart from the subject of sexuality, this film has Almodovar's fingerprints all over it: beginning with the colorful design of the frames, the score which comes awfully close to Alberto Iglesias' work and the female cast which uses former Pedro film thesps in Geraldine Chaplin, who appeared in "Talk to Her" and Candela Peña who had a small part in "All About my Mother" and a third actress, who is the spitting image of a 1980's Carmen Maura. This tells the story of a family, where the patriarch is ill with schizophrenia, and the children are all afraid they'll inherit the disease. Trying to navigate through life is never easy, and when the...
- 7/7/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
In the Main Comp, there's a new film by Daniel Burman, often referred to as "Woody Allen from Argentina". Brother and Sister appears to continue the regular Burman thread of light, talkative dramas. There is also a new film by Jan Sverak, who is best known for his Oscar-winning Kolya. Sverak's Kooky seems to be a live-action version of Pixar's Toy Story. - 70 is the new 45. As of today, the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival is in it's 45th edition, that number would significantly be higher if the communist regime hadn't insisted on holding a film festival alternately in two locations: one year the fest was held in mother Russia, with the following year it took place in Czechoslovakia. After the iron curtain was lifted, the festival began holding its' birthday party in the same, current location. From the 2nd until the 10th, the festival will feature several programs of...
- 7/3/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
70 is the new 45. As of today, the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival is in it's 45th edition, that number would significantly be higher if the communist regime hadn't insisted on holding a film festival alternately in two locations: one year the fest was held in mother Russia, with the following year it took place in Czechoslovakia. After the iron curtain was lifted, the festival began holding its' birthday party in the same, current location. From the 2nd until the 10th, the festival will feature several programs of interest with the obvious highlight being the Main Competition section where I'll be reporting on a good number of the films...here some of the more anticipated titles. The festival's opening film is Scott Cooper's Crazy Heart, which is still lounging around the film festival circuit and the closing film is the Romain Duris starrer L'arnacoeur (Heartbreaker) – which constitutes as an odd...
- 7/2/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
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