The 2022 edition of the Festival du nouveau cinéma, the 51st edition in the event's history, took place from October 5 to 16, 2022 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.T'Cha Dunlevy, "Montreal's Festival du nouveau cinéma jockeys for position in a changing world". Montreal Gazette, September 30, 2022. It was marked by a return to full in-theatre staging following the COVID-19 pandemic having forced the festival to proceed fully or partially online in 2020 and 2021.Justine Smith, "Festival du Nouveau Cinéma invites Montreal cinephiles to come out to play". Cult MTL, October 5, 2022.
The festival opened with Charlotte Le Bon's film Falcon Lake, and closed with Léa Mysius's The Five Devils (Les Cinq diables)."51e Festival du nouveau cinéma : dévoilement de la programmation complète". CTVM, September 21, 2022.
Awards Award winners were announced on October 15 at the conclusion of the festival.Charles-Henri Ramond, "(FNC) – Palmarès de l’édition 2022". Films du Québec, October 16, 2022.
Award Film Filmmaker National Competition, Grand Prize The Maiden Graham Foy National Competition, Honorable Mention Before I Change My Mind Trevor Anderson National Competition, Prix de la diffusion Québécor Late Night Walks (Promenades nocturnes) Ryan McKenna International Competition, Grand Prize Aftersun Charlotte Wells International Competition, Prix de l’innovation Daniel Langlois This House (Cette maison) Miryam Charles International Competition, Best Acting Performance Aftersun Paul Mescal International Competition, Best Acting Performance Honorable Mentions A Piece of Sky Elin Zgraggen Love According to Dalva Zelda Samson Aftersun Frankie Corio Stone Turtle Samara Kenzo The Worst Ones (Les Pires) Ensemble cast International Competition, FIPRESCI Prize How to Save a Dead Friend Marusya Syroechkovskaya New Alchemists Prize Super Natural Jorge Jácome Temps 0 Public Prize 2012/Through the Heart (2012/Dans le cœur) Rodrigue Jean, Arnaud Valade P'tits Loups Le Garçon et l'éléphant Sonia Gerbeaud P'tits Loups, Special Mention La Naissance des oasis Marion Jamault Ice Merchants João Gonzalez FNC Explore Panorama Prize 21–22 China Thierry Loa FNC Explore Horizon Prize From the Main Square Pedro Harres National Competition, Short Film Standardized Patient Program (Programme d'utilisation des patients standardisés) Yan Giroux National Competition, Short Film Honorable Mention Dhulpa Kunsang Kyirong National Competition, Short Film Public Prize Simo Aziz Zoromba International Competition, Short Film Will My Parents Come to See Me Mo Harawe International Competition, Short Film Honorable Mention Twin Lakes Haven Philbert Aimé Mbabazi Sharangabo New Alchemists, Animated Short Film Backflip Nikita Diakur New Alchemists, Animated Short Film Honorable Mention All My Scars Vanish in the Wind Angelica Restrepo, Carlos Velandia New Alchemists, National Dada Prize I Thought the World of You Kurt Walker New Alchemists, National Dada Prize Honorable Mention In the Heavens and on Earth (Dans les cieux et sur la terre) Erin Weisgerber New Alchemists, International Dada Prize The Sower of Stars Lois Patiño RPCÉ Grand Prize Going Back to Meet the World Santi Henderson RPCÉ Honorable Mention Bedroom People Vivien Forsans RCPÉ Jeune Loup Prize Avant de partir, repeins ma joue Cassandra Minisini, Marilou Labbé Pitch Première Oeuvre Ce qui hante Marlène Camille Trudel Pitch Première Oeuvre, Special Mention La Professeure Eva Kabuya, Catherine Boily, Rosalie Chicoine Perreault Nouveau Marché Demba Mamadou Dia
Official selections International Competition English title Original title Director(s) Production country Aftersun Charlotte Wells United Kingdom How to Save a Dead Friend Marusya Syroechkovskaya Sweden, Norway, France, Germany Love According to Dalva Dalva Emmanuelle Nicot Belgium, France Mutzenbacher Ruth Beckermann Austria A Piece of Sky Drii Winter Michael Koch Germany, Switzerland Stone Turtle Woo Ming Jin Malaysia, Indonesia This House Cette maison Miryam Charles Canada Will-o'-the-Wisp Fogo-Fátuo João Pedro Rodrigues Portugal, France The Worst Ones Les Pires Lise Akoka, Romane Gueret France
National Competition English title Original title Director(s) Production country Before I Change My Mind Trevor Anderson CanadaCoyote Le Coyote Katherine Jerkovic Diaspora Deco DawsonLate Night Walks Promenades nocturnes Ryan McKenna The Maiden Graham FoyNight Detour Détour de nuit Ariane Falardeau St-Amour, Paul Chotel Queens of the Qing Dynasty Ashley McKenzie So Much Tenderness Lina Rodriguez Soft Joseph Amenta
International Panorama English title Original title Director(s) Production country Alcarràs Carla Simón Spain, Italy Alma Viva Cristèle Alves Meira France, Portugal, Belgium Broadway Christos Massalas Greece, France, Romania Butterfly Vision Maksym Nakonechnyi Ukraine, Czech Republic, Croatia, Sweden Call of the Mountain La Montagne Thomas Salvador France Dos Estaciones Juan Pablo González Mexico, France Kite Zo A: Leave the Bones Kite Zo A: Laisse les os Kaveh Nabatian Haiti, Canada Klondike Maryna Er Gorbach Ukraine Leila's Brothers Barādarān-e Leilā Saeed Roustayi Iran Liturgy of Anti-Tank Obstacles Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk Ukraine, United States The Middle Ages La Edad Media Alejo Moguillansky, Luciana Acuña Argentina Pamfir Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk Ukraine, Poland, France, Luxembourg Plan 75 Chie Hayakawa Japan, Philippines, France Rule 34 Regra 34 Julia Murat Brazil, France Shall I Compare You to a Summer's Day? Bastaalak sa'at Mohammad Shawky Hassan Egypt, Germany, Lebanon Small, Slow But Steady Shô Miyake Japan, France The Strange Case of Jacky Caillou Jacky Caillou Lucas Delangle France
The New Alchemists (Les Nouveaux alchimistes) English title Original title Director(s) Production country Anyox Ryan Ermacora, Jessica Johnson Canada De Humani Corporis Fabrica Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Véréna Paravel France, Switzerland Human Flowers of Flesh Helena Wittmann France, Germany Killing the Eunuch Khan Abed Abest Iran Phi 1.618 Theodore Ushev Bulgaria, Canada Super Natural Jorge Jácome Portugal W Anna Eriksson Finland A Woman Escapes Sofia Bohdanowicz, Blake Williams, Burak Çevik Canada, Turkey
The Essentials (Les Incontournables) English title Original title Director(s) Production country The Banshees of Inisherin Martin McDonagh United Kingdom, Ireland, United States Coma Bertrand Bonello France Continental Drift (South) La dérive des continents (au sud) Lionel Baier France, Switzerland Decision to Leave Park Chan-wook South Korea EO Jerzy Skolimowski Poland, Italy No Bears Jafar Panahi Iran The Novelist's Film Soseolgaui Yeonghwa Hong Sang-soo South Korea Pacifiction Tourment sur les îles Albert Serra France, Spain, Germany, Portugal Petrov's Flu Petrovy v grippe Kirill Serebrennikov Russia, France, Switzerland, Germany, United States Rimini Ulrich Seidl Austria, France, Germany Sparta Ulrich Seidl Austria, France, Germany Tchaikovsky's Wife Zhena Chaikovskogo Kirill Serebrennikov Russia, France, Switzerland Tori and Lokita Tori et Lokita Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne Belgium, France White Noise Noah Baumbach United States Women Talking Sarah Polley United States
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English title Original title Director(s) Production country 2012/Through the Heart 2012/Dans le cœur Rodrigue Jean, Arnaud Valade Canada Dead for a Dollar Walter Hill United States Everything Will Be OK Rithy Panh France, Cambodia Extreme Prejudice Walter Hill United States Grand Paris Martin Jauvat France Harmony Céline Gailleurd, Olivier Bohler France Holy Spider Ankabut-e moqaddas Ali Abbasi Germany, Denmark, France, Sweden Inexorable Fabrice Du Welz France, Belgium Jerk Gisèle Vienne France Love Is a Dog from Hell Khavn De La Cruz Philippines, Germany Made in Ugana: The Very Special Seance Kenichi Ugana Japan Man Bites Dog C'est arrivé près de chez vous Rémy Belvaux, Benoît Poelvoorde, André Bonzel Belgium November Novembre Cédric Jimenez France Smoking Causes Coughing Fumer fait tousser Quentin Dupieux France Sticking Together En même temps Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern France Unicorn Wars Alberto Vázquez Spain, France The Warriors Walter Hill United States
Special Presentations English title Original title Director(s) Production country About Sasha Chair tendre Jérémy Mainguy, Yaël Langmann France Baby Driver Edgar Wright United States, United Kingdom Call Jane Phyllis Nagy United States Drive Nicolas Winding Refn United States The Driver Walter Hill United States Ever Deadly Tanya Tagaq, Chelsea McMullan Canada For the Sake of Peace Thomas Sametin, Christophe Castagne France Motel Paradis Sophie Deraspe Canada Reign Supreme Le Monde de demain Katell Quillévéré, Hélier Cisterne France Somewhere Boy Alex Winckler, Alexandra Brodski United Kingdom Tampopo Juzo Itami Japan Theodore Ushev: Unseen Connections Théodore Ushev: liens invisibles Borislav Kolev Bulgaria, Canada The Velvet Queen La panthère des neiges Marie Amiguet, Vincent Munier France
History of Cinema English title Original title Director(s) Production country Escape to the Silver Globe Ucieczka na srebrny glob Kuba Mikurda Poland Flickering Ghosts of Loves Gone By Et j'aime à la fureur André Bonzel France Italia, Fire and Ashes Italia. Il fuoco, la cenere Céline Gailleurd, Olivier Bohler France, Italy The Mother and the Whore La maman et la putain Jean Eustache France On the Silver Globe Na srebrnym globie Andrzej Żuławski Poland Samurai Wolf Hideo Gosha Japan The Sex of the Stars Le Sexe des étoiles Paule Baillargeon Canada Violent Streets Hideo Gosha Japan
Retrospective: Bruce LaBruce, Tender and Transgressive English title Original title Director(s) Production country The Affairs of Lidia Bruce La Bruce Canada Boy, Girl Bruce and Pepper Wayne Gacy's Home Movies Bruce La Bruce, Candy Parker Défense de fumer Bruce La Bruce Gerontophilia I Know What It's Like to Be Dead Interview with a Zombie Bruce La Bruce, Candy Parker It is Not the Pornographer That is Perverse... Bruce La Bruce United States, Germany L.A. Zombie The Misandrists Germany Pierrot Lunaire Canada, Germany Saint-Narcisse Canada Sexbombs Bruce La Bruce, Candy Parker Skin Flick Bruce La Bruce Slam! The Thing from the Lake Éric Falardeau Ulrike's Brain Bruce La Bruce Canada, Germany Valentin, Pierre and Catalina Spain
International Competition for Short Films English title Original title Director(s) Production country Airhostess-737 Thanasis Neofotistos Greece Anabase Benjamin Goubet Switzerland Big Bang Carlos Segundo France, Brazil Cherries Uogos Vytautas Katkus Lithuania Datsun Mark Albiston New Zealand Everything At Once Henryk Dyb Zwart Norway Fence Hilke Rönnfeldt Denmark, Germany Fire at the Lake Le feu au lac Pierre Menahem France Haulout Evgenia Arbugaeva, Maxim Arbugaev United Kingdom, Russia I Am Good at Karate Jess Dadds United Kingdom Insieme Insieme Bernardo Zanotta France, Netherlands Manta Ray Raie Manta Anton Bialas France On Xerxes' Throne Ston throno tou Xerxi Evi Kalogiropoulou Greece Poitiers Jérôme Reybaud France Tea and Time Le thé et le temps Salah El Amri Switzerland Trap Anastasia Veber Russia, Lithuania Twin Lakes Haven Philbert Aimé Mbabazi Sharangabo Rwanda Watch the Fire or Burn Inside It Il faut regarder le feu ou brûler dedans Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel France Will My Parents Come to See Me Mo Harawe Austria, Germany, Somalia Worth Your Weight in Gold O Teu Peso em Ouro Sandro Aguilar Portugal
National Competition for Short Films