Montreal International Documentary Festival Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montreal | |
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Genre | Documentary film |
Location(s) | Montreal, Quebec |
Country | Canada |
Inaugurated | 1998 |
Website | https://ridm.ca/en |
The Montreal International Documentary Festival (French : Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montreal) is a Canadian documentary film festival, staged annually in Montreal, Quebec. [1]
In English, the festival now goes by the name Montreal International Documentary Festival, while retaining the French-language abbreviation RIDM. [2]
The RIDM was founded in 1998 by documentary filmmakers who wanted to create a platform for new perspectives and innovative practices in documentary film. The program, organized around social, political and environmental themes, features distinctive films chosen for their unique perspective and artistic strengths. Workshops and panel discussions welcome audiences, professionals and partners alike. [3]
Formerly known as “Doc Circuit Montréal”, the RIDM is also home to "Forum RIDM" Quebec's foremost documentary marketplace, established in 2004, to support and stimulate independent documentary production in Quebec and to bring filmmakers, craftspeople, producers, distributors and programmers of every kind together. [4]
Award | Documentary | Director | Country |
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Prix Caméra-Stylo | I Wish I Knew | Jia Zhang-Ke | China, Netherlands |
Prix Caméra au poing | 108 Cuchillo de Palo | Renate Costa | Spain, Paraguay |
Prix Première Caméra | |||
Prix ÉcoCaméra | The Ailing Queen (La Reine malade) | Pascal Sanchez | Quebec/Canada |
Prix DocTape | Katka | Helena Třeštíková | Czech Republic |
Best Editing | Jakub Hejna | ||
Best Cinematography (Prix Image) | The Woman with the Five Elephants | Niels Bolbrinker, Stéphane Kuthy | Switzerland, Germany |
Prix meilleur espoir Québec/Canada | The Heart that Beats (Ce cœur qui bat) | Philippe Lesage | Quebec/Canada |
Prix de la Cinémathèque québécoise | |||
Prix du public | Chercher le courant | Nicolas Boisclair, Alexis de Gheldere | Quebec/Canada |
Award | Documentary | Director | Country | Ref |
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Grand Prize, International Feature | Lost Land (Territoire perdu) | Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd | Belgium | [5] |
Honorable Mention, International Feature | The Tiniest Place (El lugar más pequeño) | Tatiana Huezo | Mexico | |
Grand Prize, National Feature | Notes on a Road Less Taken (Carnets d'un grand détour) | Catherine Hébert | Quebec/Canada | |
Best New Talent From Quebec/Canada | The Vanishing Spring Light | Xun Yu | Quebec/Canada, China | |
Best International Medium-Length Film | Hula and Natan | Robby Elmaliah | Israel | |
Honorable Mention, International Medium-Length Film | Out of Reach (Poza zasiegiem) | Jakub Stozek | Poland | |
Best International Short Film | Flying Anne (Anne Vliegt) | Catherine van Campen | Netherlands | |
People's Choice Award | Bouton | Res Balzli | Switzerland | |
Critic's Choice Award | United States of Africa (Les États-Unis d’Afrique) | Yanick Létourneau | Canada/Quebec | |
Critic's Choice Award, Honorable Mention | Wiebo's War | David York | Canada | |
Women Inmates' Jury | The Tiniest Place (El lugar más pequeño) | Tatiana Huezo | Mexico | |
Best Editing in an International Feature | Lost Land (Territoire perdu) | Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd | Belgium | |
Best Cinematography in an International Feature | The Night Watchman (El Velador) | Natalia Almada | Mexico |
Award | Documentary | Director | Country |
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Grand Prize, International Feature | Matthew's Laws | Marc Schmidt | Netherlands |
Special mention: The Search for Emak Bakia | Oskar Alegria | Spain | |
Grand Prize, National Feature | My Real Life (Ma vie réelle) | Magnus Isacsson | Quebec/Canada |
Special mention: L'état du monde | Hubert Caron-Guay, Rodrigue Jean | Quebec/Canada | |
Best New Talent From Quebec/Canada | The Patron Saints | Melanie Shatzky, Brian M. Cassidy | Canada, United States |
Best International Medium-Length Film | Argentinian Lessons | Wojciech Staroń | Poland |
Special mention: Un été avec Anton | Jasna Krajinovic | Belgium | |
Best International Short Film | Dusty Night | Ali Hazara | France, Afghanistan |
Special mention: River Rites | Ben Russell | United States, Suriname | |
People's Choice Award | 5 Broken Cameras | Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi | Palestine, Israel, France |
Magnus Isacsson Award | Herman's House | Angad Singh Bhalla | Canada |
Special mention: Le prix des mots | Julien Fréchette | Quebec/Canada | |
Women Inmate Jury Award | 5 Broken Cameras | Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi | Palestine, Israel, France |
Special mention: Les poings de la fierté | Hélène Choquette | Quebec/Canada | |
Best Editing in an International Feature | Matthew's Laws | Marc Schmidt | Netherlands |
Best Cinematography in an International Feature | Leviathan | Véréna Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor | France, United Kingdom, United States |
Award [6] | Documentary | Director | Country |
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Grand Prize, International Feature | What Now? Remind Me (E agora? Lembra-me) | Joaquim Pinto | Portugal |
Grand Prize, National Feature | Hoax Canular | Dominic Gagnon | Quebec/Canada |
Special mention: Night Labor | Ashley Sabin, David Redmon | Canada, United States | |
Best New Talent From Quebec/Canada | Grandma (Bà nôi) | Khoa Lê | Quebec/Canada |
Best International Medium-Length Film | A New Product | Harun Farocki | Germany |
Special mention: The Art of Disappearing | Bartek Konopka, Piotr Rosolowski | Poland | |
Best International Short Film | Da Vinci | Yuri Ancarani | Italy |
Special mention: A Story for the Modlins | Sergio Oksman | Spain | |
People's Choice Award | The Square | Jehane Noujaim | Egypt, United States |
Magnus Isacsson Award | Québékoisie | Mélanie Carrier, Olivier Higgins | Quebec/Canada |
Special mention: À jamais, pour toujours | Alexandra Sicotte-Levesque | Quebec/Canada | |
Women Inmate Jury Award | Expedition to the End of the World | Daniel Dencik | Denmark |
Special mention: Salma | Kim Longinotto | India, United Kingdom | |
Best Editing in an International Feature | Let the Fire Burn | Jason Osder | United States |
Best Cinematography in an International Feature | Tzvetanka | Youlian Tabakov | Bulgaria, Sweden |
Award [7] | Documentary | Director | Country |
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Grand Prize, International Feature | Once Upon a Time | Kazim Öz | Turkey |
Special mention: National Diploma (Examen d'état) | Dieudo Hamadi | Democratic Republic of the Congo, France | |
Grand Prize, National Feature | Sol | Marie-Hélène Cousineau, Susan Avingaq | Quebec/Canada |
Special mention: Guidelines (La marche à suivre) | Jean-François Caissy | Quebec/Canada | |
Best New Talent From Quebec/Canada | Everything Will Be | Julia Kwan | Canada |
Special mention: Juanicas | Karina Garcia Casanova | Quebec/Canada | |
Best International Medium-Length Film | Metaphor or Sadness Inside Out | Catarina Vasconcelos | Portugal, United Kingdom |
Best International Short Film | Atlantis | Ben Russell | Malta, United States |
People's Choice Award | Citizenfour | Laura Poitras | Germany, United States |
Magnus Isacsson Award | The Secret Trial 5 | Amar Wala | Canada |
Special mention: From Prisons to Prisons (De prisons en prisons) | Steve Patry | Quebec/Canada | |
Student Jury Award | L’œuvre des jours | Bruno Baillargeon | Quebec/Canada |
Special mention: Juanicas | Karina Garcia Casanova | Quebec/Canada | |
Women Inmate Jury Award | National Diploma (Examen d'état) | Dieudo Hamadi | Democratic Republic of the Congo, France |
Best Editing in an International Feature | Letters to Max | Éric Baudelaire | France |
Best Cinematography in an International Feature | Les Tourmentes | Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd | Belgium, France |
Award [8] | Documentary | Director | Country |
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Grand Prize, International Feature | Homeland (Iraq Year Zero) | Abbas Fahdel | France, Iraq |
Special mention: Snakeskin | Daniel Hui | Portugal, Singapore | |
Grand Prize, National Feature | A Summer Love (Un amour d'été) | Jean-François Lesage | Quebec/Canada |
Special mention: Pinocchio | André-Line Beauparlant | Quebec/Canada | |
Best New Talent From Quebec/Canada | Welcome to F.L. (Bienvenue à F.L.) | Geneviève Dulude-De Celles | Quebec/Canada |
Best International Medium-Length Film | Field Niggas | Khalik Allah | United States |
Special mention: Business Club | Chloé Mahieu, Lila Pinell | France | |
Best International Short Film | Among Us | Guido Hendrikx | Netherlands |
Special mention: Elle pis son char | Loïc Darses | Quebec/Canada | |
People's Choice Award | Homeland (Iraq Year Zero) | Abbas Fahdel | France, Iraq |
Magnus Isacsson Award | Retour aux sources | Jean-Sébastien Francoeur, Andrew Marchand-Boddy | Quebec/Canada, Cambodia |
Special mention: Manor (Manoir) | Martin Fournier, Pier-Luc Latulippe | Quebec/Canada | |
Student Jury Award | P.S. Jerusalem | Danae Elon | Canada |
Women Inmate Jury Award | Retour aux sources | Jean-Sébastien Francoeur, Andrew Marchand-Boddy | Quebec/Canada, Cambodia |
Best Editing in an International Feature | Je suis le peuple | Saskia Berthod, Chantal Piquet (director Anna Roussillon) | France |
Best Cinematography in an International Feature | The Other Side | Diego Romero Suarez-Llanos (director Roberto Minervini) | France, Italy |
Award [9] | Documentary | Director | Country |
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Grand Prize, International Feature | Another Year | Shengze Zhu | China |
Special mention: Tempestad | Tatiana Huezo | Mexico | |
Grand Prize, National Feature | Resurrecting Hassan (La résurrection d’Hassan) | Carlo Guillermo Proto | Quebec/Canada |
Special mention: Tales of Two Who Dreamt | Andrea Bussmann, Nicolás Pereda | Canada, Mexico | |
Best New Talent From Quebec/Canada | Gulîstan, Land of Roses (Gulîstan, terre de roses) | Zaynê Akyol | Canada, Germany |
Best International Short or Medium-Length Film | Isabella Morra | Isabel Pagliai | France |
Special mention: Long Story Short | Natalie Bookchin | United States | |
Special mention: He Who Eats Children | Ben Russell | United States | |
Best National Short or Medium-Length Film | The Botanist | Maude Plante-Husaruk, Maxime Lacoste-Lebuis | Quebec/Canada, Tajikistan |
People's Choice Award | Le goût d’un pays | Francis Legault | Quebec/Canada |
Magnus Isacsson Award | Angry Inuk | Alethea Arnaquq-Baril | Quebec/Canada |
Special mention: The Stairs | Hugh Gibson | Canada | |
Student Jury Award | Resurrecting Hassan (La résurrection d’Hassan) | Carlo Guillermo Proto | Quebec/Canada |
Special mention: The Stairs | Hugh Gibson | Canada | |
Women Inmate Jury Award | Angry Inuk | Alethea Arnaquq-Baril | Quebec/Canada |
Special mention: Mr. Gaga | Tomer Heymann | Israel, Sweden, Germany, Netherlands | |
Best Editing in an International Feature | Havarie | Philip Scheffner | Germany |
Best Cinematography in an International Feature | Brothers of the Night | Patric Chiha | Norway |
Award [10] | Documentary | Director | Country |
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Grand Prize, International Feature | Room for a Man | Anthony Chidiac | Lebanon, United States |
Special Jury Prize, International Feature | Taste of Cement | Ziad Kalthoum | Germany, Lebanon, Syria, United Arab Emirates |
Grand Prize, National Feature | Taming the Horse | Tao Gu | Quebec/Canada, China |
Special mention: Primas | Laura Bari | Quebec/Canada, Argentina | |
Special Jury Prize, National Feature | The Hidden River (La rivière cachée) | Jean-François Lesage | Quebec/Canada |
Best New Talent From Quebec/Canada | The Other Rio (L'Autre Rio) | Emilie B. Guérette | Quebec/Canada |
Best International Short or Medium-Length Film | Nyo Vweta Nafta | Ico Costa | Portugal |
Best National Short or Medium-Length Film | In the Waves | Jacquelyn Mills | Quebec/Canada |
People's Choice Award | Ouvrir la voix | Amandine Gay | France |
Magnus Isacsson Award | State of Exception | Jason O’Hara | Brazil, Canada |
Student Jury Award | Birth of a Family | Tasha Hubbard | Canada |
Women Inmate Jury Award | Baggage (Bagages) | Paul Tom | Quebec/Canada |
Award [11] | Documentary | Director | Country |
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Grand Prize, International Feature | Hale County This Morning, This Evening | RaMell Ross | United States |
Special Jury Prize, International Feature | Extinction (Extinção) | Salomé Lamas | Portugal, Germany |
Grand Prize, National Feature | Dark Suns (Soleils noirs) | Julien Élie | Quebec/Canada |
Special Jury Prize, National Feature | Symphony in Aquamarine | Dan Popa | Quebec/Canada |
Best New Talent From Quebec/Canada | Symphony in Aquamarine | Dan Popa | Quebec/Canada |
Best International Short or Medium-Length Film | The Disappearance of Goya | Toni Geitani | Lebanon |
Special mention: Gulyabani | Gürcan Keltek | Netherlands, Turkey | |
Best National Short or Medium-Length Film | Zagros | Ariane Lorrain, Shahab Mihandoust | Quebec/Canada |
People's Choice Award | Memory is Our Homeland | Jonathan Durand | Quebec/Canada, Portugal |
Magnus Isacsson Award | Avec un sourire, la révolution | Alexandre Chartrand | Quebec/Canada |
Student Jury Award | 20-22 OMEGA | Thierry Loa | Quebec/Canada |
Women Inmate Jury Award | Point d’équilibre | Christine Chevarie-Lessard | Quebec/Canada |
Award [12] | Documentary | Director | Country |
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Grand Prize, International Feature | Present.Perfect. | Shengze Zhu | United States, Hong Kong |
Special Jury Prize, International Feature | Heimat Is a Space in Time | Thomas Heise | Germany, Austria |
Special mention: 143 rue du désert | Hassen Ferhani | Algeria, France, Qatar | |
Grand Prize, National Feature | A Woman, My Mother (Une femme, ma mère) | Claude Demers | Quebec/Canada |
Special Jury Prize, National Feature | Wilcox | Denis Côté | Quebec/Canada |
New Vision Award | Don't Worry, the Doors Will Open | Oksana Karpovych | Quebec/Canada, Ukraine |
Best International Short or Medium-Length Film | Faire-part | Rob Jacobs, Anne Reijniers, Nizar Saleh, Paul Shemisi | Belgium, Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Best National Short or Medium-Length Film | Homeport (Port d'attache) | Laurence Lévesque | Quebec/Canada |
People's Choice Award | Kenbe La, Until We Win (Kenbe La, jusqu’à la victoire) | Will Prosper | Quebec/Canada |
Magnus Isacsson Award | Nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up | Tasha Hubbard | Canada |
Student Jury Award | Nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up | Tasha Hubbard | Canada |
Women Inmate Jury Award | Nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up | Tasha Hubbard | Canada |
Award [13] | Documentary | Director | Country |
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Grand Prize, International Feature | Aswang | Alyx Ayn Arumpac | Philippines, Denmark, France, Germany |
Special Jury Prize, International Feature | IWOW: I Walk on Water | Khalik Allah | United States |
Grand Prize, National Feature | Inconvenient Indian | Michelle Latimer | Canada |
Special mention: The Forbidden Reel | Ariel Nasr | Quebec/Canada | |
Special Jury Prize, National Feature | Prayer for a Lost Mitten (Prière pour une mitaine perdue) | Jean-François Lesage | Quebec/Canada |
New Vision Award | No Ordinary Man | Aisling Chin-Yee, Chase Joynt | Quebec/Canada |
Best International Short or Medium-Length Film | Clean With Me (After Dark) | Gabrielle Stemmer | France |
Best National Short or Medium-Length Film | Goodnight Goodnight | Mackenzie Reid Rostad | Quebec/Canada |
People's Choice Award | Little Girl (Petite fille) | Sébastien Lifshitz | France |
Magnus Isacsson Award | Inconvenient Indian | Michelle Latimer | Canada |
Special mention: No Ordinary Man | Aisling Chin-Yee, Chase Joynt | Quebec/Canada |
Award [14] | Documentary | Director | Country |
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Grand Prize, International Feature | Looking for Horses | Stefan Pavlovic | Netherlands, Bosnia and Herzegovina, France |
Special Jury Prize, International Feature | A Night of Knowing Nothing | Payal Kapadia | France, India |
Grand Prize, National Feature | Zo Reken | Emanuel Licha | Quebec/Canada |
Special Jury Prize, National Feature | Animal Macula | Sylvain L'Espérance | Quebec/Canada |
Special mention: Dropstones | Caitlin Durlak | Canada | |
New Vision Award | Far Beyond the Pasturelands (Au-delà des hautes vallées) | Maude Plante-Husaruk, Maxime Lacoste-Lebuis | Quebec/Canada |
Best International Short or Medium-Length Film | If You See Her, Say Hello | Hee Young Pyun et Jiajun (Oscar) Zhang | China |
Special mention: All of Your Stars are but Dust on my Shoes | Haig Aivazian | Lebanon | |
Best National Short or Medium-Length Film | The Truss Arch | Sonya Stefan | Canada |
People's Choice Award | Dear Audrey | Jeremiah Hayes | Quebec/Canada |
Magnus Isacsson Award | Dear Jackie | Henri Pardo | Quebec/Canada |
Special mention: Zo Reken | Emanuel Licha | Quebec/Canada | |
Student Jury Award | Zo Reken | Emanuel Licha | Quebec/Canada |
Award [15] | Documentary | Director | Country |
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Grand Prize, International Feature | One Take Grace | Lindiwe Matshikiza | South Africa |
Special mention: Anhell69 | Theo Montoya | Colombia, Romania, France, Germany | |
Special Jury Prize, International Feature | Dry Ground Burning | Adirley Queirós, Joana Pimenta | Portugal, Brazil |
Grand Prize, National Feature | The Dependents | Sofía Brockenshire | Canada, Argentina |
Special Jury Prize, National Feature | Self-Portrait | Joële Walinga | Canada |
New Vision Award | Veranada | Dominique Chaumont | Canada |
Best International Short or Medium-Length Film | Fuku Nashi | Julie Sando | Switzerland, Japan |
Special mention: No Star | Tana Gilbert Fernández | Chile | |
Best National Short or Medium-Length Film | Landscape Suspended | Naghmeh Abbasi | Canada, Iran |
Special mention: Mecánicos piratas de Lima | Carlos Ferrand | Canada, Peru | |
Special Jury Prize, National Short or Medium-Length Film | Infinite Distances | Pablo Alvarez Mesa | Quebec/Canada |
People's Choice Award | Big Fight in Little Chinatown | Karen Cho | Canada |
Magnus Isacsson Award | The Myth of the Black Woman | Ayana O'Shun | Quebec/Canada |
Special mention: Wochiigii lo: End of the Peace | Heather Hatch | Canada | |
Student Jury Award | Geographies of Solitude | Jacquelyn Mills | Canada |
Women Inmate Jury Award | Big Fight in Little Chinatown | Karen Cho | Canada |
Award | Documentary | Director | Country |
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Grand Prize, International Feature | Knit's Island | Guilhem Causse, Ekiem Barbier, Quentin L'Helgoualc'h | France |
Special Jury Prize, International Feature | Crowrã | João Salaviza, Renée Nader Messora | Brazil, Portugal |
Special mention: This Woman | Alan Zhang | China, Malaysia | |
Grand Prize, National Feature | While the Green Grass Grows | Peter Mettler | Canada |
Special Jury Prize, National Feature | Mother Saigon (Má Sài Gòn) | Khoa Lê | Quebec/Canada |
New Visions Award | Meezan | Shahab Mihandoust | Quebec/Canada, Iran |
Best International Short or Medium-Length Film | Ever Since, I Have Been Flying | Aylin Gökmen | Switzerland |
Special mention: Aqueronte | Manuel Muñoz Rivas | Spain | |
Best National Short or Medium-Length Film | Jill, Uncredited | Anthony Ing | Canada, United Kingdom |
Special Jury Prize, National Short or Medium-Length Film | Holiday Native Land | Nicolas Renaud, Brian Virostek | Quebec/Canada |
People's Choice Award | Eviction (Éviction) | Mathilde Capone | Quebec/Canada |
Magnus Isacsson Award | The White Guard | Julien Élie | Quebec/Canada |
Student Jury Award | |||
Women Inmate Jury Award | Mother Saigon (Má Sài Gòn) | Khoa Lê | Quebec/Canada |
Soirée de la Relève Radio-Canada | Where Motion Has Not Yet Ceased | Juliette Balthazard | Canada, Czech Republic |
Award | Documentary | Director | Country |
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Grand Prize, International Feature | Republic | Jiang Jin | Singapore, China |
Special Jury Prize, International Feature | To Our Friends | Adrián Orr | Spain, Portugal |
Grand Prize, National Feature | Intercepted | Oksana Karpovych | Canada, France, Ukraine |
Special Jury Prize, National Feature | Archeology of Light (Archéologie de la lumière) | Sylvain L’Espérance | Canada |
New Visions Award | The Undergrowth | Macu Machín | Spain |
Up the River with Acid | Harald Hutter | Canada | |
Best International Short or Medium-Length Film | Razeh-del | Maryam Tafakory | Iran, Italy, United Kingdom |
Honorable mention: Break no. 1 & Break no.2 | Lei Lei | China | |
Best National Short or Medium-Length Film | A Stone's Throw | Razan AlSalah | Canada, Lebanon, Palestine |
Special Jury Prize, National Short or Medium-Length Film | Sous le soleil exactement | Noa Blanche Beschorner | Canada, Germany |
Archipelago of Earthen Bones — To Bunya | Malena Szlam | Canada, Chile, Australia | |
People's Choice Award | No Other Land | Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor | Palestine, Norway |
Magnus Isacsson Award | Ninan Auassat: We, the Children | Kim O'Bomsawin | Canada |
Koutkekout | Joseph Hillel | Canada, Haiti | |
Student Jury Award | Billy | Lawrence Côté-Collins | Canada |
Women Inmate Jury Award | Wilfred Buck | Lisa Jackson | Canada |
Soirée de la Relève Radio-Canada | Emboiter leurs pas | Manuel Orhy Pirón | Canada |
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