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Making its world premiere at Paris’ NewImages Festival ahead of an October berth at Montreal’s Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, the Canadian-French production “The Passengers: Her and Him” presents an interactive, location-based VR piece that covers a chance encounter from two different perspectives – and still only tells half the story.

This work-in-progress, written by French screenwriter Nicolas Peufaillit (“A Prophet”) and directed by Quebecois multi-hyphenate Ziad Touma (“Saved by the Belles”), will eventually offer an interactive multi-user experience consisting of four chapters, synchronized to be experienced by four viewers simultaneously.

Set in the cabin of a moving train, the interactive experience will exist as four interlocking and interacting films, each one fixed to a different passenger’s perspective.

“The version that we’re showing features a woman and a man [named Her and Him],” explains Touma. “At the same time, we’re finishing production on the other two parts, featuring an older Lady and young Child.

Ricardo Trogi’s 1991 was the top prize winner at 2019 Gala Quebec Cinema Awards. Winning Best Film, Best Director and Best Supporting Actress (Sandrine Bisson), the film edged out Une colonie picked up a pair of awards in Best Supporting Actor (Robin Aubert) and Best Newcomer (Émilie Bierre) and Yan Giroux who won Best First Feature, Best Actor and Best Screenplay for À tous ceux qui ne me lisent pas. Here are the noms and winners:

Best Film

1991 – Go Films – Nicole Robert – Winner

À tous ceux qui ne me lisent pas – micro_scope – Luc Déry, Élaine Hébert, Kim McCraw

La Bolduc – Caramel Films – Valérie d’Auteuil, André Rouleau

Genèse – L’Unité centrale – Galilé Marion-Gauvin

La grande noirceur – Metafilms – Sylvain Corbeil

Répertoire des villes disparues – Couzin Films – Ziad Touma

Une colonie – Colonelle films – Fanny Drew, Sarah Mannering

Best Director

Denis Côté – Répertoire des villes disparues

Geneviève Dulude-De Celles – Une colonie

Maxime Giroux...

Documentary champions ground-breaking work of four major female architects.

Paris-based documentary specialist Wide House has picked up international rights to Joseph Hillel’s City Dreamers, exploring the work of female architects Phyllis Lambert, Denise Scott Brown, Blanche Lemco van Ginkel and Cornelia Hahn Oberlander.

The timely film coincides with the reappraisal worldwide of the contribution made by women to architecture in the 20th Century and earlier periods in history. It is a process that is also taking place in fields such as science, art and literature.

“Showing strong women is essential and given Wide House’s passion for culture, City...

Documentary champions ground-breaking work of four major female architects.

Paris-based documentary specialist Wide House has picked up international rights to Joseph Hillel’s City Dreamers, exploring the work of female architects Phyllis Lambert, Denise Scott Brown, Blanche Lemco van Ginkel and Cornelia Hahn Oberlander.

The timely film coincides with the reappraisal worldwide of the contribution made by women to architecture in the 20th Century and earlier periods in history. It is a process that is also taking place in fields such as science, art and literature.

“Showing strong women is essential and given Wide House’s passion for culture, City...

Film is latest from Vic + Flo Saw A Bear director Cote.

Screen can unveil the first trailer for Denis Cote’s Ghost Town Anthology, which has its world premiere In Competition at next month’s Berlin Film Festival.

The film is set in a small and isolated town. When Simon Dubé dies in a car accident, the stunned townspeople are reluctant to discuss the circumstances of the tragedy. From that point on time seems to lose all meaning, and the days stretch on without end.

Ziad Touma produced the feature. Writer/director Cote’s previous credits include 2013 Berlin Competition title Vic + Flo Saw A Bear.

Ghost Town Anthology (Repertoire des villes disparues)

For his eleventh feature film, French-Canadian auteur Denis Côté adapts the first novel by Laurence Olivier Repertoire de villes disparues as Ghost Town Anthology. Starring Robert Naylor (of Wim Wenders’ 2015 film Everything Will Be Fine) alongside a supporting cast of Josée Deschênes, Jean-Michel Anctil, Larissa Corriveau, Diane Lavallée and Rémi Goulet, the project was produced by Ziad Touma of Couzin films and was part of the Frontieres Buyers Showcase in Cannes 2018. Locarno provided Côté with his first major platform, where he won an award for 2005’s Drifting States, returning in 2007 with Our Private Lives and winning Best Director for 2008’s All That She Wants and another Best Director win for 2010’s Curling.…...

Second year of the event will see 16 titles presented at the Marché du Film.

A total of 16 projects have been selected to take part in the Frontières Platform at this year’s Cannes Marché du Film, with the second edition of the genre event set to run from May 12-13.

The Frontières Proof Of Concept Presentation on May 12 will include 10 projects in advanced financing stages, presenting completed teaser trailers to prospective partners. Among the 10 are Whitaker directed by Casey Walker, with the Rook Films team of Andy Starke, Pete Tombs and Ben Wheatley producing. It was previously one of the...