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Serge Losique (born Srdjan Losic in 1931 in Yugoslavia) is the founder and president of the Montreal World Film Festival since its opening. He is the father of television host Anne-Marie Losique.
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Serge Losique (born Srdjan Losic in 1931 in Yugoslavia) is the founder and president of the Montreal World Film Festival since its opening. He is the father of television host Anne-Marie Losique.
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The Montreal World Film Festival, commonly abbreviated MWFF in English or FFM in French, was an annual film festival in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from 1977 to 2019. Founded and run throughout its lifetime by Serge Losique, it was the only competitive film festival in North America accredited by the FIAPF..
Festival International de Films de Montréal (FIFM), also known in English as the New Montreal FilmFest was a film festival held in Montreal in 2005 to focus on Francophone films. Originally intended as an annual event, the festival became mired in rivalry with two competing festivals—the Montreal World Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival—such that the New Montreal FilmFest was ultimately held only once.
La Job is a Canadian French-language comedy television series set in Montreal, Quebec. It is an adaptation of the British show The Office. Produced by Anne-Marie Losique's Image Diffusion International, it has been broadcast for a limited number of viewers on Bell Satellite TV satellite television, beginning on October 9, 2006. It was later seen by a wider audience on the public broadcaster Radio-Canada and specialty channel ARTV. It is the third official foreign adaptation of the concept, and the second in a language other than English.
Anne-Marie Losique is a television producer, television host and singer in Quebec, Canada. Together with Marc Trudeau she co-founded a production company Image Diffusion International. She is the daughter of Serge Losique, president and founder of the Montreal World Film Festival. She's the owner and current CEO of VanessaTV, the first French adult entertainment channel in Quebec.
DP75: Tartina City is a 2007 dramatic film by Chadian director Issa Serge Coelo, now at his second feature film. The film has won the Innovation Award at the 31st Montreal World Film Festival. While the country where the action is set remains unnamed, the context is that of Chadian history in the 1980s and 1990s. The name's title is taken from the "tartina", a mixture of bread and sheep's bowels served to the prisoners.
Youssouf Djaoro is a Chadian film actor.
The Alley Cat is a 1985 Canadian/French French-language drama film based on the novel of the same name by Yves Beauchemin.
The Quebec Contemporary Music Society, or Société de musique contemporaine du Québec in French (SMCQ), is a contemporary classical-music organization based in Montreal, Quebec. It was founded in 1966 by Montreal composers and musicians, including Wilfrid Pelletier, Jean Papineau-Couture, Hugh Davidson, Serge Garant, and Maryvonne Kendergian.
Claude Gagnon is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, and producer, who frequently works in both Canada and Japan. His most noted films include Keiko (1979), Kenny (1988), The Pianist (1991), Kamataki (2005), Karakara (2012) and Old Buddies (2020).
Love $ Greed is a 1991 romantic comedy directed by Bashar Shbib.
Step by Step or Un honnête commerçant is a 2002 Belgium comedy - thriller film directed by Philippe Blasband.
Diplomatic Immunity is a Canadian political thriller film, released in 1991. It marked the narrative feature film debut of Sturla Gunnarsson.
image+nation. LGBTQueer Montreal is an annual eleven-day film festival, which takes place in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Held in November each year, the festival is dedicated to sharing the stories and experiences of LGBTQ+ people and is the first festival of its kind in Canada.
Octav is a 2017 Romanian drama film directed by Serge Ioan Celebidachi, and produced by Adela Vrinceanu Celebidachi. The title refers to the film's main character. It was selected for the World Cinema section of the Montreal World Film Festival. Octav was the most successful domestic film at the Romanian box office in 2017.
Windigo is a Canadian dramatic film directed by Robert Morin and released in 1994. The screenplay was based, in part, on Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness.
Karakara is a Canadian drama film, directed by Claude Gagnon and released in 2012. The film stars Gabriel Arcand as Pierre, a professor from Quebec who is on sabbatical in Okinawa to reevaluate his life after the death of his friend, and is drawn into a love affair with Junko, a local woman fleeing an abusive husband who offers to be his tour guide.
The Central African Republic is one of the world's poorest countries and the film industry is correspondingly small. The first film made in CAR appears to have been Les enfants de la danse, a short French-made ethnographic documentary of 1945. Joseph Akouissone was the first Central African to make a film in the country, with his 1981 documentary Un homme est un homme; he was followed by the documentaries made in the 1980s by Léonie Yangba Zowe. Since then a series of ongoing conflicts and economic crises have severely limited the potential growth of film-making in the country. The first feature-length drama made in the country was Le silence de la forêt, a 2003 CAR-Gabon-Cameroon co-production about the Biaka people.
Night of the Flood is a Canadian drama film, directed by Bernar Hébert and released in 1996. An experiment in integrating dance and theatrical staging into cinema, the film tells the story of a child born in a flooded land; his mother was the sole survivor of the flood after floating to safety on a raft built by the child's deceased father and being cared for by a guardian angel. The film also prominently features the dance troupe O Vertigo, performing dances choreographed by Ginette Laurin.
Dehors Serge dehors is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Martin Fournier and Pier-Luc Latulippe and released in 2021. The film is a portrait of actor and comedian Serge Thériault, who has in recent years suffered from intense clinical depression and has barely left his home, as his friends and family try to lovingly guide him back out into the world.
Driven by Dreams is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Serge Giguère and released in 2006. The film profiles five senior citizens who are still driven by the passion to pursue hobbies and aspirations, including painting, singing and flying miniature airplanes.
