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RIDM announces opening and closing films

The Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) has announced the films that will open and close the festival’s 18th edition, taking place from November 12 to 22. Les Vaillants by Quebec director Pascal Sanchez will kick off the festivities with its world premiere, while Olmo and the Seagull by Brazilian director Petra Costa and Danish director …

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Interview with Karim B. Haroun, Director of ‘Mystic Mass’

The first character of the cinema was the mass: In La sortie des usines Lumière, credited as the first ever film, a crowd of factory workers leave a factory. While on repeated viewings you could begin to pick out the quirks and personalities of certain subjects, the real character was the group, the mass, the …

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RIDM 2012: ‘The Meaning of Robots’

Meaning of Robots Written and directed by Matt Lenski USA, 2011, imdb, RIDM My favourite film of Montreal’s International Documentary Film Festival, RIDM, so far is a poetic four minute film about an obscure New York film miniature builder and animator named Michael Sullivan. Sullivan’s New York city studio apartment looks like the before picture …

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Six Most Anticipated films at RIDM 2012

The Rencontres internationales du documentaires de Montreal (RIDM) was founded in 1998 and every year since has highlighted the very best documentaries from Canada and around the world. With a special focus on documentaries that really test boundary between fiction and reality, while presenting singular and personal perspectives that might change our view of the world around …

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