2021 Festival du nouveau cinémaOpening film | Bootlegger by Caroline Monnet |
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Closing film | Archipelago (Archipel) by Félix Dufour-Laperrière |
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Location | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
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Founded | 1971 |
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Festival date | October 6–17, 2021 |
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Website | nouveaucinema.ca/en |
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The 2021 edition of the Festival du nouveau cinéma, the 50th edition in the event's history, took place from October 6 to 17, 2021 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.[1] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Quebec, it was staged as a hybrid event, with a mixture of in-person and online screenings; although the festival officially concluded on October 17, the online platform remained open until October 31.[2]
The festival opened with the film Bootlegger by Caroline Monnet, and closed with Félix Dufour-Laperrière's film Archipelago (Archipel).[3] Marking the 50th anniversary of the festival, Bootlegger was also paired with 50 temps, a short documentary film about the festival by Luc Bourdon.[4]
Awards
Award winners were announced on October 18 at the conclusion of the festival.[2]
Award | Film | Filmmaker |
National Competition, Grand Prize | Night Raiders | Danis Goulet |
National Competition, Prix de la diffusion Québécor | The Noise of Engines (Le Bruit des moteurs) | Philippe Grégoire |
National Competition, Prix de la diffusion Québécor Honorable Mention | The White Fortress (Tabija) | Igor Drljaca |
International Competition, Grand Prize | Great Freedom (Große Freiheit) | Sebastian Meise [de] |
International Competition, Prix de l’innovation Daniel Langlois | The Crossing (La Traversée) | Florence Miailhe |
International Competition, Prix de l’innovation Daniel Langlois Honorable Mention | Taste (Vi) | Lê Bào |
International Competition, Best Acting Performance | Moon, 66 Questions (Selini, 66 erotiseis) | Sofia Kokkali |
FIPRESCI International Critics Prize | Damascus Dreams | Émilie Serri |
Eurimages Audentia Award | The Crossing (La Traversée) | Florence Miailhe |
New Alchemists Prize | Esqui | Manque La Banca |
New Alchemists Prize Honorable Mention | The Child of Plomo (El Niño del Plomo) | Daniel Dávila |
Panorama Prize | Gallant Indies (Les Indes Galantes) | Philippe Béziat |
Temps 0 Public Prize | Some Like It Rare (Barbaque) | Fabrice Éboué |
Vortex | Gaspar Noé |
P'tits Loups | Dans la nature | Marcel Barelli |
FNC Explore Panorama Prize | In the Mist | Chou Tung-Yen |
FNC Explore Horizon Prize | Marco and Polo Go Round | Benjamin Steiger Levine |
FNC Explore Horizon Prize Honorable Mention | Goliath: Playing with Reality | Barry Gene Murphy, May Abdalla |
National Competition, Short Film | In the Jam Jar | Colin Nixon |
National Competition, Short Film Public Prize |
International Competition, Short Film | A Present Light (Luz de Presença) | Diogo Costa Amarante |
International Competition, Short Film Honorable Mention | My Uncle Tudor (Nanu Tudor) | Olga Lucovnicova |
New Alchemists, Animated Short Film | Love, Dad (Mily tati) | Diana Cam Van Nguyen |
New Alchemists, National Dada Prize | Boobs (Lolos) | Marie Valade |
New Alchemists, International Dada Prize | Happy Valley | Simon Liu |
RPCÉ Grand Prize | Roots Home | Audrey Rainville |
RCPÉ Honorable Mentions | Project Human Revival | Yuqian Zhang |
Université de Sisyphe | Étienne Pouy |
Pitch Première Oeuvre | Adieu Minette | Sarra El Abed |
Pitch Première Oeuvre Special Mention | Home of the Flying Moons | Victoria Catherine Chan |
Nouveau Marché | Bells of Kabul | Chabname Zariab |
Nouveau Marché Special Mentions | Mexico 1986 | César Diaz |
Motherhood | Meryam Joobeur |
Jury Prize, Virtual Reality | Fight Back VR | Céline Tricart |
Future Rites | Sandra Rodriguez, Alexander Whitley |
Official selections
International Competition
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
The Crossing | La Traversée | Florence Miailhe | France, Germany, Czech Republic |
District Terminal | Bardia Yadegari, Ehsan Mirhosseini | Iran, Germany |
Great Freedom | Große Freiheit | Sebastian Meise [de] | Austria, Germany |
In the Mirror | Spogulis | Laila Pakalnina | Latvia, Lithuania |
Miguel's War | Eliane Raheb | Germany, Lebanon, Spain |
Moon, 66 Questions | Selini, 66 erotiseis | Jacqueline Lentzou | France, Greece |
Passion | Maja Borg | Sweden, Spain |
The Pink Cloud | A Nuvem Rosa | Iuli Gerbase | Brazil |
Taste | VỊ | Lê Bảo | Vietnam, Singapore, France, Thailand, Germany, Taiwan |
What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? | Alexandre Koberidze | Germany, Georgia |
National Competition
International Panorama
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
1970 | Tomasz Wolski | Poland |
Bliss | Glück | Henrika Kull | Germany |
Celts | Kelti | Milica Tomović | Serbia |
Compartment No. 6 | Hytti nro 6 | Juho Kuosmanen | Finland, Estonia, Germany, Russia |
The Fam | La Mif | Fred Baillif | Switzerland |
Faya Dayi | Jessica Beshir | United States, Ethiopia, Qatar |
Gagarine | Gagarin | Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh | France |
Gallant Indies | Les Indes Galantes | Philippe Béziat | France |
The Girl and the Spider | Das Mädchen und die Spinne | Ramon Zürcher, Silvan Zürcher | Switzerland |
Hit the Road | Jadde Khaki | Panah Panahi | Iran |
Mr. Bachmann and His Class | Herr Bachmann und Seine Classe | Maria Speth | Germany |
Unclenching the Fists | Razzhimaya kulaki | Kira Kovalenko | Russia |
The Velvet Queen | La Panthère des neiges | Marie Amiguet, Vincent Munier | France |
Venus by Water | Shui Bian Wei Na Si | Lin Wang | China |
Wood and Water | Jonas Bak | Germany, France |
The New Alchemists (Les Nouveaux alchimistes)
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
The Child of Plomo | El Niño del Plomo | Daniel Dávila | Chile |
Come Here | Anocha Suwichakornpong | Thailand |
The Edge of Daybreak | Phayasohk phiyohkyam | Taiki Sakpisit | Thailand, Australia |
The Fisherman's Daughter | Tzarevna Scaling | Uldus Bakhtiozina | Russia |
Letters to a Young Traveller | Lettres à un jeune voyageur | Federico Hidalgo | Canada |
The Penultimate | Den Næstsidste | Jonas Kærup Hjort | Denmark |
Ski | Esquí | Manque La Banca | Argentina, Brazil |
Ste. Anne | Rhayne Vermette | Canada |
Virgin Blue | Bu yao zai jian a, Yu hua tang | Niu Xiaoyu | China |
The Essentials (Les Incontournables)
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
Ahed's Knee | Haberek | Nadav Lapid | Israel, France, Germany |
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn | Babardeală cu bucluc sau porno balamuc | Radu Jude | Romania |
Days | Rìzi | Tsai Ming-Liang | Taiwan |
Dune | Denis Villeneuve | United States |
Earwig | Lucile Hadžihalilović | United Kingdom, Belgium, France |
The Hand of God | È stata la mano di Dio | Paolo Sorrentino | Italy |
A Hero | Qahremaan | Asghar Farhadi | Iran, France |
In Front of Your Face | dangsin eolgul ap-eseo | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea |
Introduction | Inteurodeoksyeon | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea |
Memoria | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Thailand |
Parallel Mothers | Madres paralelas | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
Paris, 13th District | Les Olympiades | Jacques Audiard | France |
The Power of the Dog | Jane Campion | New Zealand, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia |
Red Rocket | Sean Baker | United States |
Reflection | Vidblysk | Valentyn Vasyanovych | Ukraine |
The Star | Nadav Lapid | Israel, United States |
Tralala | Arnaud Larrieu, Jean-Marie Larrieu | France |
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy | Gūzen to Sōzō | Ryusuke Hamaguchi | Japan |
The Worst Person in the World | Verdens verste menneske | Joachim Trier | Norway, France, Denmark, Sweden |
Temps 0
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
After Blue | Paradis sale | Bertrand Mandico | France |
The Amusement Park | George A. Romero | United States |
Asmodeus | Éric Falardeau | Canada |
Bloody Oranges | Oranges sanguines | Jean-Christophe Meurisse | France |
Bound | Jean-Armand Bougrelle | Japan |
Dead Flash | Bertrand Mandico | France |
Extraneous Matter | Kenichi Ugana | Japan |
For a Fistful of Fries | Poulet frites | Yves Hinant, Jean Libon | France, Belgium |
Fou de Bassan | Yann Gonzalez | France |
Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr. | Philipp Reichenheim | Germany, United States |
Hiruko the Goblin | Yōkai Hantā: Hiruko | Shinya Tsukamoto | Japan |
Irréversible | Gaspar Noé | France |
The Last Temptation of the Belgians | La Dernière tentation des Belges | Jan Bucquoy | Belgium |
Lux Æterna | Gaspar Noé | France |
Music Hole | David Mutzenmacher, Gaetan Liekens | Belgium |
North Shinjuku 2055 | Daisuke Miyazaki | Japan |
Saloum | Jean Luc Herbulot | Senegal, France |
Some Like It Rare | Barbaque | Fabrice Éboué | France |
Taxidermize Me | Taxidermisez-moi | Marie Losier | France |
Those Who Care | Debout les femmes ! | François Ruffin, Gilles Perret | France |
Vortex | Gaspar Noé | France |
Zeria | Harry Cleven | Belgium |
Special Presentations
International Competition for Short Films
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
After a Room | Naomi Pacifique | United Kingdom, Netherlands, Switzerland |
Atér | Marie Fages | France |
Dihya | Lucia Martinez Garcia | Switzerland |
Fata Morgana | Nitzan Rozen | Israel |
Hotel Royal | Salomé Lamas | Portugal |
How to Die Young in Manila | Petersen Vargas | Philippines |
Inherent | Nicolai G.H. Johansen | France |
Jesus Egon Christus | Saša Vajda, David Vajda | Germany |
Lemongrass Girl | Pom Bunsermvicha | Thailand |
Let's Do This Again Sometime | Petrus van Staden | South Africa, Spain |
The Men Who Wait | Les Attendants | Truong Minh Quý | France, Singapore |
Motorcyclist’s Happiness Won’t Fit Into His Suit | Al motociclista no le cabe la felicidad en el traje | Gabriel Herrera | Mexico |
My Uncle Tudor | Nanu Tudor | Olga Lucovnicova | Belgium, Hungary, Portugal, Moldova |
Neon Phantom | Fantasma Neon | Leonardo Martinelli | Brazil |
New Abnormal | Pid Pokati Mai | Sorayos Prapapan | Thailand, South Korea, Singapore |
On Solid Ground | Über Wasser | Jela Hasler | Switzerland |
The Parents' Room | Diego Marcon | Italy |
Potted Palm Trees | Topfpalmen | Rosa Friedrich | Germany |
A Present Light | Luz de Presença | Diogo Costa Amarante | Portugal |
Sandstorm | Mulaqat | Seemab Gul | Pakistan, United Kingdom |
Sunrise in My Mind | Tngaireah knong chet | Danech San | Cambodia |
Sycorax | Lois Patiño, Matías Piñeiro | Spain, Portugal |
Techno, Mama | Saulius Baradinskas | Lithuania |
Widow & Orphan | Hurenkind und Schusterjunge | Niklas Pollmann | Austria |
National Competition for Short Films
Special Presentations Short Films
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
Ataguttaaluk: A Life to Live | Carol Kunnuk | Canada |
Auto Portrait / Self Portrait Post Partum | Louise Bourque | Canada |
Barcelona Burning | Barcelona de Foc | Theodore Ushev | Canada |
Benjamin, Benny, Ben | Paul Shkordoff | Canada |
A Blue Room | Une chambre bleue | Tomasz Siwinski | France |
La Cage | Marc Paradis | Canada |
Délivre-nous du mal | Marc Paradis | Canada |
Foam | Écume | Omar Elhamy | Canada |
From Roots to Leaves | Melissa Simon | Canada |
Hitchhiking | Frank Vitale | Canada |
L'Incident Jones | Marc Paradis | Canada |
Inuktitut Dialects in the 21st Century | Ulivia Uviluk | Canada |
Islands | Les Îles | Yann Gonzalez | France |
Kuujjuaq | Sammy Gadbois | Canada |
Letter to a Lover | Lettre à un amant | Marc Paradis | Canada |
Little Brother | Petit frère | Rémi St-Michel | Canada |
Oh What a Wonderful Feeling | François Jaros | Canada |
Réminiscences Carnivores | Marc Paradis | Canada |
Selva | Sofía Quirós Ubeda | Costa Rica, Argentina, Chile |
Shooting Star | Comme une comète | Ariane Louis-Seize | Canada |
Le soleil brille pour tout le monde mais les hommes préfèrent les blondes | Sylvie Laliberté | Canada |
Système des beaux-arts | Daniel Dion | Canada |
The Tesla World Light | Matthew Rankin | Canada |
Vice, vertu et vice-versa | Manon Labrecque | Canada |
A Way of Life | Dorothy Mesher | Canada |
The New Alchemists, Short Films
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
3XShapes of Home | Elisabeth Brun | Norway |
An Accumulation of Our Aftermaths | Solomon Nagler | Canada |
Anxious Body | Yoriko Mizushiri | Japan |
Anthologie 2020 | Michael Yaroshevsky, Glauco Bermudez, Erin Weisgerber, Olivier Godin, Simran Dewan, Isabelle Stachtchenko, Matthew Wolkow, Miryam Charles, Jessica Lee Gagné, Van Royko | Canada |
Boobs | Lolos | Marie Valade | Canada |
The Capacity for Adequate Anger | Vika Kirchenbauer | Germany |
The Coast | Sohrab Hura | India |
Constrain | Contraindre | Antoine Fontaine, Galdric Fleury | France |
The Detection of Faint Companions | Sandro Aguilar | Portugal |
Dust Bath | Seth A. Smith | Canada |
earthearthearth | Daïchi Saïto | Canada |
Eidolon | Mike Rollo | Canada |
First Time (The Time for All But Sunset: Violet) | Nicolaas Schmidt | Germany |
Fleeting: Here & There | Gilnaz Arzpeyma | Canada |
The Guy on the Bed | Mike Hoolboom | Canada |
The Hangman at Home | Le Bourreau chez lui | Michelle Kranot, Uri Kranot | Denmark, France, Canada |
Happy Valley | Simon Liu | Hong Kong |
Heat | Peter Kutin, Florian Kindlinger | Austria |
Los Huesos | Cristóbal León, Joaquín Cociña | Chile |
I Am Not | Julien Bouthillier | Canada |
I Gotta Look Good for the Apocalypse | Ayce Kartal | France |
A Lack of Clarity | Stefan Kruse Jørgensen | Denmark |
Love, Dad | Mily tati | Diana Cam Van Nguyen | France |
Moon River | Misha Horacek | Canada |
Notes from the Periphery | Tulapop Saenjaroen | Thailand, United Kingdom |
One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean | Yuyan Wang | France |
Portage Place Mall (With Love) | Ryan Steel | Canada |
Scum Mutation | Ov . | France |
Skinned | Mike Hoolboom | Canada |
Sometimes a Little Sin Is Good for the Soul | Alex Beriault | Canada, Germany |
Song for the New World | Chanson pour le nouveau monde | Miryam Charles | Canada |
The Sunset Special | Nicolas Gebbe | Germany |
There Is, Indeed, the Unspeakable | Es gibt allerdings Unaussprechliches | Marzieh Emadi, Sina Sadaat | Austria |
They Dance With Their Heads | Ils dansent avec leurs têtes | Thomas Corriveau | Canada |
Thinner Than Two Ten-Thousandths of a Millimetre | Dünner als zwei Zehntausendstel eines Millimeters | Gregor Eldarb | Austria |
Train Again | Peter Tscherkassky | Austria |
Tunable Mimoid | Vladimir Todorovic | Australia |
Vadim on a Walk | Sasha Svirsky | Russia |
La Vie Heureuse | Amélie Hardy | Canada |
We'll Find You When the Sun Goes Black | Anouk De Clercq | Belgium, Norway |
RPCÉ Canadian Student Short Film Competition
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Province |
All I Am Is Now | Patrick Custo-Blanch | Quebec |
The Architect | L'Architecte | Mathieu Lorain Dignard | Quebec |
The Awakening of the Ape | L'Éveil du singe | Philippe Besner | Quebec |
A Chaos Filled with Poetry | Un chaos rempli de poésie | Daphné Cambronne | Quebec |
Dors-tu? | Nadia Louis-Desmarchais | Quebec |
Father Like Son | Anna Kuelken | Alberta |
Life on the Move | La Vie sur la route | Jack Belhumeur | Alberta |
Lifetime Loser | Perdant à vie | Yan Olivier | Quebec |
The Morlock | A.P. Bergeron | Quebec |
Nature morte | Julia Martel | Quebec |
Paris, Ontario | Arnaud Weissenburger | Ontario |
Project Human Revival | Yuqian Zhang | British Columbia |
Roots Home | Audrey Rainville | Quebec |
Souvenirs fragmentés | David Bianchetti | Quebec |
Starting Out | Bruno Vompean | Ontario |
The Static in My Skin | Emily Pickering | Alberta |
L'Université de Sisyphe | Étienne Pouy | Quebec |
Utopia | Jean-Félix Rioux | Quebec |
La Ville fantôme | Marc-André Côté | Quebec |
Student Short Films Not in Competition
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Province |
20:12 | Kevin Champagne-Lessard | Canada |
La Cour des mirages | Zoé Pelchat | Canada |
Cousins | Michal Haggiag | Israel |
Empty Spaces | Ben Ziv | Israel |
La Femme nue | Francis Lacelle | Canada |
Le Froid | Natalia Duguay | Canada |
Her Dance | Bar Cohen | Israel |
Motel Paradise | Virgina Tangvald | Canada |
Ouverture | Philippe Rioux | Canada |
Wood | Max Dufaud | Canada |
P'tits loups
Short film program of animation for children.
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
Altaï | François Lagorce, Jean Lagorce | France |
Bemol | Oana Lacroix | Switzerland |
Cat and Bird | Saka sy vorona | Franka Sachse | Germany |
Colin Pané | Paul Bouchart, Stéphanie Hu, Clément Opinel, Juliette Danesi, Camille Fruit | France |
Colza | Victor Chagniot, Camille Broutin, Matthieu Daures, Victoria de Millo Gregory, Maxime Jouniot, Jade Khoo | France |
Comment j'ai vaincu ma peur des humains | Hélène Ducrocq | France |
Croc Marmottes | Benjamin Botella | France |
The Displeasure | La Grogne | Alisi Telengut | Canada |
Épreuves du matin | Masa Avramovic | France |
The Finger of Death | Le Doigt de la mort | Mazarine Miloudi, Mélanie Levaux, Pauline Mahieu, Oriane Gros, Sébastien Pagès | France |
The Frolic | Jhao Yi Han | Taiwan |
House of Memory | Sofia Rosales Arreola | Mexico |
Humanatee | Sea Jin Park | South Korea, United States |
I Am a Pebble | Je suis un caillou | Melanie Berteraut Platon, Yasmine Bresson, Leo Coulombier, Nicolas Grondin, Maxime Le Chapelain, Louise Massé | France |
In Nature | Dans la nature | Marcel Barelli | Switzerland |
Itchy the Camel: Tennis Ball | Anders Beer, Pierre-Hughes Dallaire | Canada |
Jean-Michel et les histoire interdites | Mathieu Auvray | France |
Just for the Record | Vojin Vasovic | Canada, Serbia |
Kiko and the Animals | Kiko et les animaux | Yawen Zheng | France, Switzerland |
Lazare fait bien les choses | Thomas Appelman | France |
Marguerite | Jasmine Dubé | Canada |
Mega Mega Mega Mega Fête | Collective | Belgium |
Mum Is Pouring Rain | Maman pleut des cordes | Hugo de Faucompret | France |
Orgiastic Hyper-Plastic | Paul Bush | Denmark, United Kingdom |
Patouille and the Parachute Seeds | Patouille, des graines en parachute | Inès Bernard-Espina, Mélody Boulissière, Clémentine Campos | France |
Le Rire | Capucine Gougelet | France |
A Splash in a Mud | Temps de cochon | Emmanuelle Gorgiard | France |
A Stone in the Shoe | Un caillou dans la chaussure | Éric Montchaud | France, Switzerland |
Trona Pinnacles | Mathilde Parquet | France |
Vanille | Guillaume Lorin | France |
FNC Explore
Virtual reality projects.
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
Bystanding: The Feingold Syndrome | Nim Shapira, Roi Lev | Israel, Canada, Germany |
End of Night | David Adler | Denmark, France |
Far Away from Far Away | Bruce Alcock, Jeremy Mendes | Canada |
Goliath: Playing with Reality | May Abdalla, Barry Gene Murphy | United Kingdom, France |
Icarus | Michel Lemieux | Canada |
In the Mist | Chou Tung-Yen | Taiwan |
Marco & Polo Go Round | Benjamin Steiger Levine | Canada, Belgium |
Madrid Noir | James A. Castillo | France, United Kingdom |
Mindfield | Vincent Ladouceur | Canada |
Myriad, Where We Connect | Michael Grotenhoff, Christian Zipfel | Germany, Austria |
Once Upon a Sea | Adi Lavy | Israel, Canada |
Otherly | Jessica Murwin, Grace An, Joanne Lam, Mirusha Yogarajah | Canada |
Our Common Home | Notre habitat commun | Daniel Iregui | Canada |
The Sick Rose | Huang Yun-Hsien, Tang Zhi-Zhong | Taiwan |
References
- ^ Marc Cassivi, "Contre vents et marées". La Presse, October 1, 2021.
- ^ a b "Le 50e Festival du nouveau cinéma dévoile son palmarès et se poursuit en ligne jusqu’au 31 octobre 2021". CTVM, October 18, 2021.
- ^ Léa Carrier, "Bootlegger et Archipel en ouverture et clôture". La Presse, August 23, 2021.
- ^ Gabriel Sigler, "FNC 2021 lineup: The Power of the Dog, Freakscene – The Story of Dinosaur Jr., Red Rocket, Night Raiders". Bad Feeling, September 28, 2021.