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Montreal's Festival Du Nouveau Cinema (10.10 - 10.21) announced their line-up today for their 41st edition and among the smorgasbord of subtitle offerings dating...

Ken Jacobs' SEEKING THE MONKEY KING, Alexis Dos Santos' Random Strangers and the Cannes winning Nash Edgerton's BEAR are part of the shorts program which this year is comprised of 64 films selected from a whopping 7,675 submissions.

‘Taxi Driver’ for kids: Scorsese returns to form with a stirring 3D delight

Breaking out around the time where NYFF is on its last legs, Montreal's Festival du nouveau cinéma (October 12 to 23) kicks in with about four times the size in volume, and obviously more of an eclectic range. This year is the festival's big 40 - and for the occasion they've commissioned some of the names who've been a part of the festival to each contribute a short film in the context of what is being called the "Cartes Blanches" series. Denis Côté, Deco Dawson, Sophie Deraspe, Rodrigue Jean, Zacharias Kunuk, Marie Losier, Catherine Martin, Bruce McDonald, Théodore Ushev and Denis Villeneuve will each submit a four minute short.

With big names like Cronenberg and Polley already announced a couple of weeks ago, it came time this morning to announced the rest of the home team for the Toronto International Film Festival. This morning, they filled in some of the gaps in the Special Presentations, Vanguard, and Real to Reel sections, and at the same time presented the full line-ups for their Canada First! and Short Cuts programmes, the former highlighting feature debuts, and the latter comprised of a whopping 43 Canadian short films running anywhere from 4 to 28 minutes long.