Around the World: July 2018

31 JULY 2018

In addition to trips made around the world in July by actors and directors to represent French films, we can also report that three major awards were won by French fantasy and genre films this month: the Puchon Fantasy Film Festival in South Korea awarded its Puchon Choice Grand Prize to Revenge by Coralie Fargeat, while Climax by Gaspar Noé picked up the Narcisse Award for Best Film at the Neuchâtel International Fantasy Film Festival in Switzerland (award presented by David Cronenberg, see photo), and Just a Breath Away by Daniel Roby won the Cheval Noir for Best Film at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal.

FESTIVALS

South Africa

Durban International Film Festival (July 19-29)

Nicolas Champeaux and Gilles Porte for The State against Mandela and the Others

Germany

München Filmfest (Munich International Film Festival, June 28-July 7)

Yves Hinant for So Help Me God

Armenia

Golden Apricot—Yerevan International Film Festival (July 8-15)

Valérie Massadian for Milla
Jean Libon for So Help Me God

Australia

Queensland Film Festival (July 19-29)

Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani for Let the Corpses Tan and The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears

Canada

Fantasia Film Festival, Montreal (July 12-August 2)

Daniel Roby for Just a Breath Away, winner of the Cheval Noir Award for Best Film

South Korea

Puchon International Fantasy Film Festival (July 12-22)

Coralie Fargeat for Revenge, winner of the Puchon Choice Grand Prize

New Zealand

New Zealand International Film Festival (July 19-August 5)

Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani for Let the Corpses Tan and The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears

Czech Republic

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (June 29-July 7)

Mohamed Siam for Amal
Sergei Loznitsa for Donbass
Romain Gavras for The World is Yours
Stéphane Manchematin and Serge Steyer for In the Stillness of Sounds
Guillaume Brac for Treasure Island
Denis Côté for A Skin So Soft
Keren Ben Rafael for Virgins

Switzerland

Neuchâtel International Fantasy Film Festival (July 6-14)

Gaspar Noé for Climax, winner of the Narcisse Award for Best Film

Taiwan

Taipei International Film Festival (June 28-July 14)

F.J. Ossang and Elvire for 9 Fingers and a retrospective

Ukraine

Odesa International Film Festival (July 13-21)

Marianne Slot, Igor Minaiev, and Arnaud Des Pallières, members of the jury
Denis Lavant for The Night Eats the World
Jean Paul Civeyrac and Andranic Manet for A Paris Education

FILM RELEASES

United Kingdom

Vladimir De Fontenay was in London for the release of Mobile Homes from July 5-7

Belgium

Quentin Dupieux and Grégoire Ludig, for the release of Keep an Eye Out on July 9 (Distri7)
The crew from Break attended the film's preview screening in Brussels

Japan

Luc Jacquet, to promote the release of March of the Penguins 2 - The Call from June 30-July 5

Spain

Martin Provost, in Madrid for The Midwife from July 17-19

OTHER NEWS

Italy

Bertrand Mandico and Elina Löwensohn took part in the FilmIdee workshops and master classes between July 23 and 30

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Karlovy Vary International Film Festival - 2018

Feature film and short film festival

Czech Republic

from 29/06/2018
to 07/07/2018

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Karlovy Vary International Film Festival - 2018

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Distri7
Activities : Foreign distributor (feature film), Buyer (feature films)
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Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (Pifan)
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