“This indelible character study of a girl who becomes a woman before our eyes in the midst of harrowing war gives words to the unspeakable. Riveting, heartbreaking, vivid, and eloquent, the movie balances scenes of crazy enemy hatred with moments of luminous private love,” commented the jury.

Also, the film’s star, Rachel Mwanza, won the Best Actress in a Narrative Feature Film award, along with $2,500.

Jury Comments: “A nonprofessional actress, this remarkable young woman—barely a teenager when the movie was shot—so fully inhabits her role that there are no borders to her stunning performance, no distance at all between the actress and the unforgettable character Komona.”

The full list of winners is available on the TribecaFilm website.

(ADDED 04/27/12):

We just received this from Prospector Films:

“One of our Prospector Films projects just won the Tribeca All Access Creative Promise Award! Jeff Barnaby‘s Rhymes for Young Ghouls beat out 700 scripts from across North and South America to win a 10K prize. His is the first Canadian script to ever do so, and Jeff is certainly the first Native American filmmaker to do so.

Robert De Niro introduced the awards ceremony and Prospector Films’ producers, John Christou and Aisling Chin-Yee, were presented the award by Gabourey Sidibe (Precious). It was quite the thrill, according to the two of them!

The jury that chose the winner was comprised of Cuba Gooding Jr., Rosario Dawson, and Gabourey Sidibe, amongst others.

RFYG is being co-produced by the Canadian Film Centre’s CFC Features program.”

Here is the Cannes lineup as announced this morning:

OFFICIAL COMPETITION

Opening Film: Moonrise Kingdom - Wes Anderson

Cosmopolis - David Cronenberg
De Rouille et d’os – Jacques Audiard
Holy Motors – Leo Carax
The Paperboy – Lee Daniels
Vous n’avez encore rien vu – Alain Resnais
Killing them Softly – Andrew Dominik
Reality – Matteo Garrone
Amour – Michael Haneke
Lawless – Johan Hillcoat
The Taste of Money – Im Sang Soo
The Angels Share – Ken Loach
In Another Country – Hong Sangsoo
Après la bataille – Yousri Nassrallah
Mud – Jeff Nichols
Post Tenebra Lux – Carlos Reygadas
On the Road – Walter Salles
Like Someone in Love – Abbas Kiarostami
The Hunt – Thomas Vinterberg
Paradies Liebe – Ulrich Seidel
Beyond the Hills – Cristian Mungiu
Dans la brume de Serguei Loznitsa

Closing Film (out of competition): Thérèse Desqueyroux – Claude Miller

UN CERTAIN REGARD

Les chevaux de Dieu – Nabil Ayouch
La Playa – Juan Andrés Arango
Trois Mondes – Catherine Corsini
Aimer à perdre la raison – Joachim Lafosse
Despues de Lucia – Michael Franco
Laurence Anyways – Xavier Dolan
Le Grand soir – Benoît Délépine & Gustave Kervern
La pirogue – Moussa Touré
Villegas – Gonzalo Tabal
Student – Darezhan Omirbayev
Elefante Blanco – Pablo Trapatero
11h25: The Day He Choose His Own Fate – Koji Wakamatsu
Antiviral – Brandon Cronenberg
Miss Lovely – Ashim Ahluwalia
Confession d’un enfant du siècle – Sylvie Verheyde
Mystery – Lou Ye
7 jours à la Havane – Benicio Del Toro, Pablo Trapero, Julio Medem, Elia Suleiman, Juan Carlos Tabio, Gaspard Noé & Laurent Cantet

www.festival-cannes.fr

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Grand Prize
OPALKA – ONE LIFE, ONE OEUVRE
Andrzej Sapija (Poland)

Jury Award
W.A.R. WOMEN ART REVOLUTION
Lynn Hershmann Leeson (United States)

Award for Best Educational Film
LA SPIRA
Gérald Caillat (France, Italy)

Award for Creativity
SOUNDBREAKER
Kimmo Koskela (Finland, Germany)

Award for Best Canadian Film
DÉSERT VENT FEU / BONE WIND FIRE
Jill Sharpe (Canada)

Award for Best Essay
VOYAGE AU BOUT DE CÉLINE
Jean-Baptiste Péretié (France)

Award for Best Portrait
TINGUELY
Thomas Thümena (Switzerland)

Award for Best Reportage
UNFINISHED SPACES
Alysa Nahmias, Benjamin Murray (United States)

Award for Best Film for Television
AI WEIWEI: WITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOUR
Matthew Springford (United Kingdom)

Liliane Stewart Award for Design Arts
COLOURING LIGHT: BRIAN CLARKE – AN ARTIST APART
Mark Kidel (United Kingdom, The Netherlands)

ARTV Springboard to the World Award
AUX LIMITES DE LA SCÈNE
Guillaume Paquin (Canada)

ARTV People’s Choice Award
FRÉDÉRIC BACK : GRANDEUR NATURE
Phil Comeau (Canada)

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As expected, Oscar nominee and Genie winner Monsieur Lazhar won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, etc. In case you still haven’t seen this wonderful film, it’s still playing in some theatres… And it will be released on DVD and Blu-ray this Tuesday, March 13. Good timing!

The winners:

Best Picture: Monsieur Lazhar, Luc Déry et Kim McCraw (micro_scope)

Best Director: Philippe Falardeau - Monsieur Lazhar

Best Actress: Vanessa Paradis - Café de Flore

Best Actor: Gilbert Sicotte - Le Vendeur

Best Supporting Actress: Sophie Nélisse - Monsieur Lazhar

Best Supporting Actor: Émilien Néron - Monsieur Lazhar

Best Screenplay: Philippe Falardeau - Monsieur Lazhar

Best Cinematography: Pierre Cottereau - Café De Flore

Best Editing: Élisabeth Tremblay - Snow and Ashes

Best Art Direction: Patrice Vermette - Café de Flore

Best Original Music: Martin Léon - Monsieur Lazhar

Best Sound:  Pierre Bertrand, Mathieu Beaudin, Sylvain Bellemare, Bernard Gariépy Strobl - Monsieur Lazhar

Best Costumes: François Barbeau - Pour l’amour de Dieu

Best Makeup: Julie Casault - Gerry

Best Hair: Denis Parent -  Gerry

Best Documentary: Ce Coeur qui bat de Philippe Lesage

Best Short Film: Trotteur de Francis Leclerc et Arnaud Brisebois

Best Animated Film: Dimanche de Patrick Doyon

Most successful film outside Quebec: Incendies de Denis Villeneuve

Prix Jutra-Hommage: Paule Baillargeon

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Here is the full list of winners:

Best Motion Picture: Monsieur Lazhar - Luc Déry, Kim McCraw

Achievement In Direction: Philippe Falardeau - Monsieur Lazhar

Performance By An Actor In A Leading Role: Fellag - Monsieur Lazhar

Performance By An Actor In A Supporting Role: Viggo Mortensen - A Dangerous Method

Performance By An Actress In A Leading Role: Vanessa Paradis - Café De Flore

Performance By An Actress In A Supporting Role:  Sophie Nélisse – Monsieur Lazhar

Achievement In Art Direction/Production Design:  James McAteer - A Dangerous Method

Achievement In Cinematography:  Jean-François Lord - Snow & Ashes

Achievement In Costume Design:   Marie-Chantale Vaillancourt – Funkytown

Achievement In Editing:  Stéphane Lafleur – Monsieur Lazhar

Achievement In Make-Up: Christiane Fattori, Frédéric Marin - Café De Flore

Achievement In Music – Original Score: Howard Shore - A Dangerous Method

Achievement In Music – Original Song: Carole Facal - Starbuck - Quelque part

Achievement In Overall Sound: Orest Sushko, Christian Cooke - A Dangerous Method

Achievement In Sound Editing: Wayne Griffin, Rob Bertola, Tony Currie, Andy Malcolm, Michael O’Farrell – A Dangerous Method

Original Screenplay: Ken Scott, Martin Petit – Starbuck

Adapted Screenplay: Philippe Falardeau - Monsieur Lazhar

Achievement In Visual Effects: Cynthia Mourou, Eric Normandin, Martin Pensa, Luc Sanfaçon, Sylvain Théroux, Nathalie Tremblay – Café De Flore

Best Feature Length Documentary: La Nuit, Elles Dansent / At Night, They Dance - Isabelle Lavigne, Stéphane Thibault, Lucie Lambert

Best Short Documentary: Sirmilik - Zacharias Kunuk, Joel Mcconvey, Kristina Mclaughlin, Kevin Mcmahon, Michael Mcmahon, Geoff Morrison, Ryan J. Noth

Best Live Action Short Drama: Doubles With Slight Pepper – Ian Harnarine

Best Animated Short: Romance - Georges Schwizgebel, René Chénier, Marc Bertrand

Claude-Jutra Award (Best First Film):  Nuit #1 – Anne Émond

Golden Reel (biggest boxoffice hit): Starbuck - André Rouleau

www.genieawards.ca

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Canadian nominee Monsieur Lazhar from Philippe Falardeau didn’t win in the Best Foreign Language Film category; neither did NFB productions Dimanche and Wild Life in the Best Animated Short one. We’re sure they’re still honoured to have been nominated!

Complete list of winners:

Best Picture - The Artist

Best Director - Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist

Best Actor – Jean Dujardin, The Artist

Best Actress – Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady

Best Supporting Actor – Christopher Plummer, Beginners

Best Supporting Actress – Octavia Spencer, The Help

Best Writing – Original Screenplay – Midnight in Paris

Best Writing – Adapted Screenplay – The Descendants

Best Cinematography – Hugo

Best Film Editing – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Best Art Direction – Hugo

Best Original Score- The Artist

Best Original Song – “Man or Muppet” from The Muppets

Best Sound Editing- Hugo

Best Sound Mixing- Hugo

Best Makeup - The Iron Lady

Best Costume Design - The Artist

Best Visual Effects – Hugo

Best Foreign Language Film – A Separation

Best Animated Feature – Rango

Best Documentary – Feature – Undefeated

Best Documentary – Short Subject – Saving Face

Best Live Action Short Film – The Shore

Best Animated Short Film - The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore

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Here are the winners:

PRIX GILLES-CARLE (best first or second feature) – Sébastien Pilote for Le vendeur

PRIX SUPER ÉCRAN (best first or second screenplay) - Stéphane Lafleur for En terrains connus

PRIX PIERRE-ET-YOLANDE-PERRAULT (best first or second documentary) - Bill Stone for Work in Progress

PRIX DU PUBLIC TÉLÉ-QUÉBEC (audience award, best documentary) - Fernand Dansereau for Le vieil âge et le rire

PRIX À LA CRÉATION ARTISTIQUE DU CONSEIL DES ARTS ET DES LETTRES DU QUÉBEC (best experimental film) - Serge Clément for D’aurore

PRIX SIMPLEX (best short film) - Sophie Goyette for La Ronde

PRIX À L’INNOVATION ONF (most formally innovative short) - Matthew Rankin for Tabula Rasa

PRIX COOP VIDÉO (favourite short of the Coop jury) - Alexis Fortier-Gauthier for Dans la neige

PRIX VOX (best student film) - Émilie Rosas for Les bons termes selon Dewey

PRIX TV5 (best Franco-Canadian film) - Pamela Gallant for Petites vues de chez nous : Port-au-Port

PRIX LOJIQ/RVCQ (best student critic) - Bénédicte Filippi

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Helga Stephenson, Interim CEO, ACCT: “The Academy is thrilled to present cinéaste Anne Émond with the Claude Jutra Award for Nuit #1 which is a very daring and accomplished debut feature.”

At the 32nd Annual Genie Awards on March 8th, Nuit #1 will also be in the running for the Best Original Screenplay (Anne Émond) and Best Actress (Catherine De Léan) awards.

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The 9th annual Prends ça court! awards ceremony takes place this Friday night, 8 p.m. at the Cinémathèque’s Bistro SAQ, as part of Les Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois.

Actor Louis-David Morasse will host and Monogrenade, Alexandre Désilets and DJ Why Alex Why will perform.

As always, Danny Lennon has gathered many, many prizes for the winners in the various categories, with the help of the following organizations: Vision Globale, Video MTL, Umen Digital, UDA, Téléfilm Canada, Télé-Québec, Spirafilm, SODEC, SHED, Prix des médias (La Presse, VOIR, HOUR, Le Devoir, CIBL, Cinoche), Post Moderne, PHI FILMS, Parce Que Films, P.R.I.M, ACIC \ ONF, McAuslan, Les Productions du 8e Art, Les Films Séville, L’INIS, Frame, Département Caméra, Cinépool, Canal +, Audio Z, ARRQ, AQTIS, AQCC, APFTQ, Air Canada \ Spafax.

Be there or be somewhere else!

Here is the full list of shorts in competition:

12 hommes en tabarnak, Jean-François Leblanc
Alone with Mr. Carter, Jean-Pierre Bergeron
Au bas de la pente, Vanya Rose
Blanche Fraise, Frédérick Tremblay
Bout, Malcolm Sutherland
Ce n’est rien, Nicolas Roy
D’Aléas, Mathieu Tremblay
Dans la neige, Alexis Fortier-Gauthier
Demain j’irai dans les champs, Serge Noël
Dimanche, Patrick Doyon
Gräns, Jessica Louisé
Henry, Yan England
Hope, Pedro Pires
Kvistur, Alexandre Roy
L’arbre au coeur qui bat, Alexandre Desjardins
L’enfant aux six hot-dogs, Joël Vaudreuil
La fleur de l’âge, Pascal Plante
La Fleur de peau, Louis-Alexandre Martin
La Ronde, Sophie Goyette
Le bleu des confettis, Sophia Belahmer
Le poids du vide, Alain Fournier
Le Trio, Louis-Philippe Eno
Les bons termes selon Dewey, Emilie Rosas
Les dimanches, Jean-Guillaume Bastien
Mardi, Chloé Robichaud
Mauser, Marc-André Girard
Mulvar is correct candidate, Patrick Désilets
Nature morte, Chloé Robichaud
Ne pas reculer, Dominique Laurence
Nostradamos, Maxence Bradley, Alexandre Lampron, Elisabeth Olga Tremblay
Ora, Philippe Baylaucq
Overcast / Nuageux, Velislav Kazakov
Paparmane, Joëlle Desjardins Paquette
Plus rien ne vouloir, Anne Émond
Reign of Terror, David Uloth
Romance, Mathieu Handfield
Sang Froid, Martin Thibaudeau
Score, Lawrence Côté-Collins
Sorry, Rabbi, Mark Slutsky
Steam is steam, Etienne Desrosiers
Surveillant, Yan Giroux
T is for Turbo, Roadkill Superstar
Tabula Rasa, Mathew Rankin
Tale (Conte), Ragnar Keil
The life and death of Yul Brynner, Jean-Marc E. Roy
The washing machine, Danny Lynch
Ti-Minou Gros-Minet, Mathieu Cyr
Trotteur, Arnaud Brisebois & Francis Leclerc
Un fusil sur la tempe, Jérôme Boucher
Un monde à découvrir, Renaud Plante & Mathieu Goyer
Une nuit avec toi, Jeanne Leblanc
Vacarme, Daniel Karolewicz
Vent solaire, Ian Lagarde

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Anne Lagacé Dowson: “FIFA is a jewel among the many Montreal festivals. A success that we can all be proud of!”

Franco Nuovo: “To be there at the birth of a festival and celebrate its 30th birthday—now that’s worth celebrating! A festival can’t last for three decades without being accessible. The diversity and quality of this year’s 232 films are there to prove it.”

René Rozon: “How lucky we are to be supported in our 30th anniversary by two spokespersons with such impressive communicative skills. With their usual verve, Anne Lagacé Dowson and Franco Nuovo will certainly help to raise FIFA’s profile. I’m sure that with their professionalism they will convey the importance and quality of this 30th-anniversary edition.”

www.artfifa.com

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