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PRESS RELEASES
For immediate distribution - Tuesday, August 6th, 2002
26th WORLD FILM FESTIVAL
26th WORLD FILM FESTIVAL
WORLD GREATS
Montr�al, August 6th, 2002. The �prestige� section of the Festival, World Greats includes at once films by famous directors who prefer not to be in competition and films that have already been shown in other competitive festivals, therefore ineligible for competition at the MWFF.
EDEN / Poland / 2002 / 35 mm / Colour / 85 min / Dir. Andrzej Czeczot
Youzeck, the hero of Andrzej Czeczot's animation fanatsy, continues his peripatetic excursion through European and American culture, meeting the likes of Columbus, Napoleon and Elvis Presley.
HALBE TREPPE (GRILL POINT) Germany / 2001 / 35 mm / Colour / 105 min / Dir. Andreas Dresen
A wry comic portrait of two bored couples in a German border city who struggle to find their way out of the rut into which their marriages seem to have sunk.
FOOD OF LOVE (FOOD OF LOVE) Spain � Germany / 2001 / 35 mm / Colour / 105 min / Dir. Ventura Pons
Paul, an attractive young music student, has an affair with Richard Kennington, a famous concert pianist, after acting as his page-turner, but he quickly learns that life is no fairy tale.
8 FEMMES (8 WOMEN) France / 2001 / 35 mm / Colour / 103 min / Dir. Fran�ois Ozon
A family patriarch is mudered and eight women are suspects. An old-fashioned Agatha Christie-ish whodunit made over as high camp with songs and an all-star female cast.
CIDADE DE DEUS (CITY OF GOD) Brazil / 2002 / 35 mm / Colour / 135 min / Dir. Fernando Meirelles
An epic saga of social realism set over three decades in one of the violence-ridden slums of Rio de Janeiro.
BALZAC ET LA PETITE TAILLEUSE CHINOISE (BALZAC AND THE LITTLE CHINESE SEAMSTRESS) France / 2002 / 35 mm / Colour / 116 min / Dir. Dai Sijie
In China during the Cultural Revolution, two teenage boys from an intellectual milieu who are �sent down� to the country for re-education as peasants, find relief in Mozart, Balzac and the tailor's granddaughter.
K�S�RT�SEK(TEMPTATIONS) Hungary / 2002 / 35 mm / Colour / 90 min / Dir. Zolt�n Kamondi
A young university student is caught in a clash of values as he tries to make his way through a web of sentimental ties including an ambiguous relationship with a 12-year-old gypsy girl.
MORO NO BRASIL(SOUND OF BRAZIL) Germany - Brazil - Finland / 2002 / 35 mm / Colour 105 min / Dir. Mika Kaurism�ki
Finnish filmmaker Mika Kaurism�ki takes a journey across Brazil, showing us the rich musical heritage of his adopted country.
SUPLEMENT / Poland 2002 / 35 mm / Colour / 101 min / Dir. Krzysztof Zanussi
Two young people in love are worried about hwo to face up to life. He thinks about joining a monastery and she fears she may be an impediment to his self-fulfilment.
BEMANI / Iran / 2002 / 35 mm / Colour / 97 min / Dir. Dariush Mehrjui
Three young women in a remote Iranian village come up against the prejudices and cruelty of a conservative, patriarchical society.
DAS VERLANGEN (THE LONGING) Germany / 2002 / 35 mm / Colour / 90 min / Dir. Iain Dilthey
A dutiful min / Dir.ister's wife finds salvation from her dreary loveless marriage in the arms of the village mechanic but a secret threatens to cut short her newfound happiness.
KARU S�DA (THE HEART OF THE BEAR) Estonia - Germany - Russia - Czech Republic / 2001 / 35 mm / Colour / 124 min / Dir. Arvo Iho
A young European man goes to live in Siberia as a hunter and finds himself caught up in the mythical world of Siberian forest tribes.
VAJONT Italy � France / 2001 / 35 mm / Colour / 116 min / Dir. Renzo Martinelli
On October 9, 1963, a huge landslide from Mount Toc in Italy crashed into the Vajont reservoir below causing it to overflow the world's highest hydro-electric dam and bringing devastation and over 2000 deaths. This film recreates the drama behind the dam's construction in 1959 and its destruction four years later.
POTESTAD / Argentina 2002 / 35 mm / Colour / 89 min / Dir. Luis C�sar D'Angiolillo
Traumatized by the loss of his 10-year-old daughter, Eduardo finds that his reality is shattered into seemin / Dir.gly random pieces.
24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE / United Kingdom / 2002 / 35 mm / Colour / 112 min / Dir. Michael Winterbottom
A semi-fictionalized chronicle of 16 rollercoaster years in Manchester's club scene, from the Sex Pistols to the Happy Mondays, as seen through the eyes of their prime mover, record impresario Tony Wilson.
AIDA DEGLI - ALBERI / Italy - United Kingdom / 2001 / 35 mm / Colour / 75 min / Dir. Guido Manuli
EMBRASSEZ QUI VOUS VOUDREZ (SEE HOW THEY RUN) France / 2002 / 35 mm / Colour / 103 min / Dir.Michel Blanc
When a group of friends decide to vacation together in a seaside hotel in Normandy, the sexual permutations and combinations grow increasingly complicated.
AIME TON P�RE (HONOUR YOUR FATHER) France / 2002 / 35 mm / Colour / 100 min / Dir. Jacob Berger
Paul, an apparently stable 28-year-old, decides to kidnap his father, the famous author L�o Shepherd, as the man is travelling by motorcycle to accept a big literary prize in Stockholm.
L'IDOLE (THE IDOL) France / 2002 / 35 mm / Colour / 115 min / Dir. Samantha Lang
Sarah, understudy to the lead actress in a play, is having an affair with the lead actor, her husband. It doesn't go well and Sarah contemplates suicide. When her elderly neighbour offers food and comfort a subtle new relationship begins.
LUNDI MATIN (MONDAY MORNING) France � Italy / 2002 / 35 mm / Colour 120 min / Dir.Otar Iosseliani
Tired of his stifling daily routine, Vincent, a small-town welder, decides to see Venice. There he meets Carlo, a welder just like himelf, caught in a similar grind. He'll have to go home eventually, but for now Vincent will keep travelling.
KEDMA France - Israel / 2002 / 35 mm / Colour / 100 min / Dir. Amos Gita�
Seven days before the end of the British Mandate and the creation of the state of Israel, a boatload of Jewish refugees disembark in Palestine and are immediately confronted by the harsh realities of life in the �Promised Land�.
MONSIEUR BATIGNOLE / France / 2002 / 35 mm / Colour / 100 min / Dir. G�rard Jugnot
When a gentile Paris butcher during the German Occupation gets a chance at moving his family into a large flat just vacated by arrested Jews, he grabs it, but when he discovers one of the Jewish boys left behind, his moral conscience begins to act up.
KHANEH-YEE ROUYE AB (A HOUSE BUILT ON WATER) Iran / 2002 / 35 mm / Colour / 107 min / Dir. Bahman Farmanara
A doctor in Tehran is living a nightmare. He wife and children are abroad, his father is in an institution and while driving drunk he thinks he's run over an angel.
SOPHIIIIE! SOPHIIIIE! SOPHIIIIE! / Germany / 2002 / 35 mm / Colour / 103 min / Dir. Michael Hofmann
The night before she's scheduled to have an abortion, Sophie steals the key to her boyfriend's motorcycle and races around town trying to find herself. When she wants the wild ride to stop, the brakes fail.
CITY BY THE SEA / United-States / 2002 / 35 mm / Colour / 104 min / Dir. Michael Caton-Jones
New York City Homicide detective Vincent LaMarca has forge a long and distinguable career in law enforcement, making a name for himself as a man intensely committed to his work. But on his latest case, the stakes are high for Vincent � the suspect he's investigating is his own son.
CORTO MALTESE / France / 2002 / 35 mm / Colour / 92 mm / Dir. Pascal Morelli
Corto Maltese and his pall Rasputin set to find a fabulous treasure. To find it they'll have to face incredible dangers.
AU PLUS PR�S DU PARADIS (NEAREST TO HEAVEN) France - Canada / 2002 / 35 mm / Colour / 105 min / R�al.Tonie Marshall
Fascinated by a man that she once loved, Fanette finds herself seeing his image everywhere. Then she gets a mysterious letter inviting her to a meeting at the top of the Empire State Building.
INVINCIBLE / United-Kingdom � Germany / 2002 / 131 min / Dir. Werner Herzog
Based on true events in 1932 Germany, this is the story of a naive Jewish circus-style strongman who is hired as an entertainer by a fanatically pro-Nazi hypnotist-showman.
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