Benoit Jacquot's Sade, starring Daniel Auteuil, Claude Chabrol's Nightcap and Pupi Avati's Midsummer Night Dance are among the competition titles at the 24th Montreal World Film Festival (August 25-September 4). In addition, David Mamet's State And Main will make its world premiere at the event out of competition.
Also featuring in competition are French box office hit Le Gout Des Autres, directed by Agnes Jaoui, Paul Cox's Australian-Belgian title Innocence, which took the FIPRESCI prize at this year's Taormina Film Festival, and Canadian director Denis Villeneuve's Maelstrom which has also been selected to open the Perspectives Canada sidebar at this year's Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF),
In addition, the festival will honour several international film-makers and players including Italian auteur Francesco Rossi, Iran's Abbas Kiorostami and Chinese actress Gong Li, who stars in Chinese director Sun Zhou's competition entry Breaking The Silence.
Montreal Official Competition Line-up:
Le Gout Des Autres
Dir: Agnes Jaoui, France
Hochelaga
Dir: Michel Jette, Canada
Maelstrom
Dir: Denis Villeneuve, Canada
Protection
Dir: Bruce Spangler, Canada
The Invention Of Love
Dir: Claude Demers, Canada
Smell Of Camphor, Fragrance Of Jasmine
Dir: Bahman Farmanara, Iran
Breaking The Silence
Dir: Sun Zhou, China
Midsummer Night Dance
Dir: Pupi Avati, Italy
Colorful
Dir: Shun Nakahara, Japan
A Handful Of Grass
Dir: Roland Suso Richter, Germany
The Policewoman
Dir: Andreas Dresen, Germany
The Adventures Of God
Dir: Eliseo Subiela, Argentina
You Can Count On Me
Dir: Kenneth Lonergan, US
Ali Zaoua
Dir: Nabil Ayouch, France-Morocco-Belgium
Nightcap
Dir: Calude Chabrol, France-Switzerland
Sade
Dir: Benoit Jacquot, France
Coronation
Dir: Silvio Caiozzi, Chile
The Child And The Soldier
Dir: Seyyed Reza Mir-Karimi, Iran
Innocence
Dir: Paul Cox, Australia-Belgium
Combat D'Amour En Songe
Dir: Raul Ruiz, Chile-Portugal-France
Moon-Fish
Dir: Jose Alvaro Morais, Portugal-France
The Mechanism
Dir: Djordje Milosavljevic, Yugoslavia
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