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Title: I’m So Excited (Los amantes pasajeros) Sony Pictures Classics Director: Pedro Almadóvar Screenwriter: Pedro Almadóvar Cast: Antonio Banderas, Penélope Cruz, Coté Soler, Antonio de la Torre, Hugo Silva, Javier Cámara, Guillermo Toledo, José Luis Torrijo, Lola Dueñes, Cecilia Roth, Blanca Suárez Screened at: Sony, NYC, 5/7/13 Opens: June 28, 2013 If Generalissimo Francisco Franco, who led a fascist government in Spain from 1936 to 1975, saw “I’m So Excited,” he would be so astonished at its innocuousness that he might never have ordered sexual repression on the movie screen. So unfunny is this latest from the great Pedro Almadóvar—heretofore known for such terrific movies as “Talk to Her” (two [ Read More ]

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Hans Van Nuffel's Oxygen. The Montreal World Film Festival winners were announced on Sept. 7. Feature Films Grand prix des Americas: Oxygen (Adem) by Hans Van Nuffel (Belgium/Netherlands) Special Grand Prix of the jury : Dalla Vita In Poi (From The Waist On) by Gianfrancesco Lazotti (Italy) Best Director ex-aequo: Limbo by Maria Sødahl (Norway/Sweden/Denmark/Trinidad and Tobago) TÊTE De Turc by Pascal Elbé (France) Best Actress : Eri Fukatsu for the film Akunin (Villain) by Lee Sang-Il (Japan) Best Actor : FRANÇOIS Papineau for the film Route 132 by Louis Bélanger (Canada) Best Screenplay: De La Infancia (From Childhood) by Carlos Carrera, screenplay by Silvia Pasternac, Fernando Leon, Carlos Carrera (Mexico) Best Artistic Contribution : Venice (Wenecja) by Jan Jakub Kolski (Poland) Innovation Award: Tromper Le Silence (Silence Lies) by Julie Hivon (Canada)   Short Films : 1st prize : El Vendedor Del AÑO (Salesman Of The...

Updated Sept. 7 at 10:03 pm Beijing time

Toronto -- The audience award at the Montreal World Film Festival was shared by Spanish director Emilio Aragon's "Paper Birds" and "The Day I Was Not Born," by German director Florian Cossen.

Cossen's debut feature about a young German woman who comes upon a painful family secret while passing through Argentina also earned the Fipresci critics prize and shared the Ecumenical Prize with the juried Grand Prix of the Americas winner, Hans Van Nuffel's "Oxygen."

It's been a busy 10 days for Van Nuffel. The Belgian director was in Montreal last week to debut his first-feature in Montreal, before jumping a plane to open the Film Festival of Ostend back home on Sept. 3 with "Oxygen."

Then Monday night, Van Nuffel was expected back in Montreal to receive the festival's top jury prize ahead of a Belgian theatrical release on Sept. 8 for his...