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Despite not being what it used to be in the 1990s, the Montreal World Film Festival - which will be held from August 26 to September 6 - is trying to make a name for itself. In fact, yesterday, it has revealed its line up of Canadian feature films.

World Competition

First Films World Competition

* Route 132 (opening film) - Directed by Louis Bélanger.

* Trois temps après la mort d'Anna - Directed by Catherine Martin.

First Films World Competition

* The Neighbor (Hamseyeh) – Naghmeh Shirkhan (coproduction with USA).

Focus on World Cinema

* I Heart Regina - N/A

* I Was Once Told – Directed by Aliaa Khachouck

* Mary - Directed by Andrey Petrusha

* New Year - Directed by Phil Borg

Documentaries of the World

* Turning 32 (Avoir 32 ans) – Robbie Hart and Luc Côté.

* Corpus – Connie Diletti.

* Children of Soldiers (Enfants de soldats) – Claire Corriveau.

* Funeral Season (La saison des funérailles) – Matthew Lancit (coproduction with Cameroun...

Leading light in the emergence of French Canadian cinema

After years of neglect and discrimination by the dominant Anglophone culture, a distinctive French Canadian cinema emerged in the 1960s with the victory of René Lévesque's Liberal party in Quebec and the sponsorship of the National Film Board of Canada and the Quebec Film Commission. Among the beneficiaries was a group of young directors headed by Claude Jutra, Denys Arcand and Gilles Carle, who has died aged 80.

Carle, the most senior, was always an anti-elitist, independent figure, a social satirist whose films sought to expose "the secret order of things". Eroticism and violence are dominant themes in his critiques of middle-class rectitude, corruption and religious hypocrisy. He once described his movies as "social fables, allegorical tales rather than films of social protest".

At the heart of most of Carle's films is a beautiful, commanding, impulsive and defiant woman. The role...