The 47th edition of the Festival du Nouveau Cinema (FNC) will be held in various Montreal theatres (Cinema Impérial, du Musée, du Parc, Quartier Latin, Theatre Maisonneuve, Cinémathèque Québecoise, etc.) from October 3 to 14, 2018. In their own words, this festival is a gathering to “celebrate our shared passion for film, (…) for cinema of all types, from offbeat, one-of-a-kind niche works to crowd-pleasers to daringly innovative big events”.  It is “resolutely forward-looking, has long been the unfailing advocate of new technologies“ making it “the best place around to preview the cinema of tomorrow”!

This year, it will offers over three-hundred movies including ten from Japan (click on the links for details & schedule):

• Abnormal Family (変態家族兄貴の嫁さん / Hentai kazoku: Aniki no yomesan) : Japan, 1984, 63 mins; Dir.: Masayuki Suo. [Temps ∅] Pink film [IMDb / Wikipedia]
• Gushing Prayer (噴出祈願　１５歳の売春婦 / Funshutsu kigan: 15-sai no baishunfu) : Japan, 1971, 74 mins; Dir.: Masao Adachi. [Temps ∅] Pink film [IMDb]
• Inflatable Sex Doll of the Wastelands (荒野のダッチワイフ / Kōya no Datchi Waifu) : Japan, 1967, 76 mins; Dir.: Atsushi Yamatoya. [Temps ∅] [IMDb / Wikipedia]
• Killing (斬、/ Zan) : Japan, 2018, 80 mins; Dir.: Shinya Tsukamoto. [Temps ∅] [AsianWiki / IMDb / Wikipedia]
• Mirai (未来のミライ / Mirai no Mirai) : Japan, 2018, 98 mins; Dir.: Mamoru Hosoda. [P’tits Loups] Anime [ANN / IMDb / Wikipedia]
• Shoplifters (万引き家族 / Manbiki Kazoku) : Japan, 2018, 121 mins; Dir.: Hirokazu Kore-Eda [Les Incontournables]. Winner of the 2018 Palme d’or at Cannes [AsianWiki / IMDb / Wikipedia]
• Sukita: The Shoot Must Go On (SUKITA　刻まれたアーティストたちの一瞬 / SUKITA kizama reta ātisuto-tachi no isshun): Japan, 2018, 115 mins; Dir.: Hiromasa Aihara. [Histoire(s) du Cinéma] Documentary [Colorbird / IMDb / Official / Youtube]
• Star Ferry : Hong Kong/Japan/USA, 2018, 8 mins; Dir.: Simon Liu. [Les Nouveaux Alchimistes] Short film [IMDb / Official]
• Tourism : Japan/Singapore, 2018, 77 mins; Dir.: Daisuke Miyazaki. [Panorama International] [IMDb]
• Vision (ビジョン) : Japan, 2018, 109 mins; Dir.: Naomi Kawase. [Les Incontournables] With Juliette Binoche [AsianWiki / IMDb]

Press review:

• Our coverage from previous years
• Google
• Coverage from La Presse
• Coverage from Le Devoir
• Le 47e FNC dévoile ses premiers titres (Le Devoir, 2018/08/17)
• Au Festival du nouveau cinéma comme à Cannes! (La Presse, 2018/08/18)
• FNC: des films et des gens à voir (La Presse, 2018/09/29)
• Place au 47e FNC (Le Devoir, 2018/10/03)
• Festival du nouveau cinéma: La Presse a vu… (La Presse, 2018/10/10)

• FNCM 2018 : Deux Japonais, une Japonaise, et leur temps (Claude R. Blouin, Shomingeki)

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