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North of the Oscar land, Canada should be represented by Denis Villeneuve's gripping drama Polytechnique, while Latin America has some pretty solid contenders in Chile Sebastian Silva's The Maid (a multiple film festival award). Chile's neighbour to the North (Peru) has got a Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear winner in Claudia Llosa's The Milk of Sorrow (her first film Madeinusa got a nom couple of years back) and its neighbour to the East (Argentina) has a triple Berlin winner in Adrián Biniez's debut drama Gigante which won for Best Debut Film, Alfred Bauer Award and 2nd place - Silver Berlin Bear.

He'll be following last year's world premiere of his award-winning short film Next Floor, with a showing of his latest feature film in the prestigious la Quinzaine des réalisateurs/a.k.a Cannes' sidebar Director's Fortnight. According to Le Devoir who cite “European sources” and not the film's producers, Denis Villeneuve will be returning to the Croisette (a section that is already familiar to him) with the sobering, expertly detailed and handled Polytechnique, a portrait based on the events of the Montreal University massacre where a gunman executed over a dozen female students.

5,632 submissions were submitted this year with 96 short films making the cut including the impressive Next Floor from Denis Villeneuve (see pic).

Montreal-based Fake Studio’s director of visual effects maestro Marc Côté brought along examples of its collaborations in works from Denis Villeneuve’s exquisite short film/2008 Cannes winner Next Floor and a sampling of portions of renderings and footage from Jean Marc Vallée’s highly; anticipated The Young Victoria.

Among the hippest, most avant-garde film events on North America Film Festival circuit, the Montreal Festival of Nouveau Cinema begins today by showcasing a little homegrown talent with the world premiere of Olivier Asselin's A Sentimental Capitalism which will be paired tonight with Next Floor, a Cannes short film winner and possible early Oscar nom favorite from Denis Villeneuve.