Greek director Theo Angelopoulos will give a master class at the Montreal World Film Festival.

He will attend the festival to support the North American premiere of his new film The Dust Of Time, starring Willem Dafoe, Bruno Ganz, Michel Piccoli and Irene Jacob. Dust Of Time is a Greece-Italy-Russia-Germany co-production.

The former film critic and director of films such as Alexander The Great and Ulysses Gaze previously served as jury president at MWFF in 2005.

MWFF runs August 27-September 7.