Montreal International Documentary Festival Explained
| Montreal International Documentary Festival |
| Native Name: | Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montreal |
| Native Name Lang: | French |
| Genre: | Documentary film |
| Location: | Montreal, Quebec |
| Country: | Canada |
| First: | 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]
History
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]
Forum RIDM
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 winners
13th edition (2010)
| Award | Documentary | Director | Country |
|---|
| Prix Caméra-Stylo | I Wish I Knew | Jia Zhang-Ke | China, Netherlands |
| Prix Caméra au poing | About 108 (Cuchillo de palo) | Renate Costa | Spain |
| 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 | |
14th edition (2011)
| Award | Documentary | Director | Country |
|---|
| Grand Prize, International Feature | | | |
| 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 | | | |
| Best International Short Film | | | |
| People's Choice Award | | | |
| Women Inmates' Jury | Bouton | Res Balzli | Switzerland |
| Best Editing in an International Feature | Territoire perdu | Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd | Belgium |
| Best Cinematography in an International Feature | | | | |
15th edition (2012)
| Award | Documentary | Director | Country |
|---|
| 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 | |
16th edition (2013)
| Award [5] | Documentary | Director | Country |
|---|
| 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 | |
17th edition (2014)
- Introduction of the "Student Jury Award"
!Award [6] !Documentary!Director!Country
| 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 | |
18th edition (2015)
| Award [7] | Documentary | Director | Country |
|---|
| 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 | |
19th edition (2016)
- "Best International Medium-Length Film" and "Best International Short Film" awards become "Best International Short or Medium-Length Film" and "Best National Short or Medium-Length Film"
!Award [8] !Documentary!Director!Country
| 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 | |
20th edition (2017)
- "Best Editing" and "Best Cinematography" awards are removed to introduce "Special Jury Prize" for International and National Feature.
!Award [9] !Documentary!Director!Country
| 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 | |
21st edition (2018)
| Award [10] | Documentary | Director | Country |
|---|
| 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 | |
22nd edition (2019)
- "Best New Talent From Quebec/Canada" becomes "New Vision Award"
!Award [11] !Documentary!Director!Country
| 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 |
| 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 | | Tasha Hubbard | Canada |
| Student Jury Award | | Tasha Hubbard | Canada |
| Women Inmate Jury Award | | Tasha Hubbard | Canada | |
23rd edition (2020)
24th edition (2021)
- "Women Inmate Jury Award" not awarded due to Covid-19
!Award [13] !Documentary!Director!Country
| 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 | |
25th edition (2022)
- Introduction of the "Special Jury Prize, National Short or Medium-Length Film"
!Award [14] !Documentary!Director!Country
| 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: | Heather Hatch | Canada |
| Student Jury Award | Geographies of Solitude | Jacquelyn Mills | Canada |
| Women Inmate Jury Award | Big Fight in Little Chinatown | Karen Cho | Canada | |
26th edition (2023)
!Award!Documentary!Director!Country| 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 | 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 | |
References
- "Feminine sense of RIDM; Festival lineup showcases the strength of documentaries directed by women". Montreal Gazette, November 15, 2013.
- Web site: Our mission . 2022-06-13 . RIDM . en.
- Web site: Pomerance . Shelley . 2005-11-01 . Encounter the Rencontres . 2022-06-13 . POV Magazine . en-US.
- Web site: Montreal's Forum RIDM unveils 2021 program for hybrid event . 2022-06-13.
- Web site: 2013-11-29 . Montreal International Documentary Festival Awards 2013: 16th Annual RIDM Winners . 2022-06-14 . Trending Awards . en-US.
- Web site: Alioff . Maurie . 2015-02-22 . Report from RIDM 2014 . 2022-06-14 . POV Magazine . en-US.
- Web site: Prozeniuk . Tyler . 2015-12-23 . RIDM: the cinema of the real . 2022-06-14 . POV Magazine . en-US.
- Web site: Regan Reid . November 21, 2016 . Resurrecting Hassan wins at RIDM . 2022-06-14 . Playback.
- Web site: 2017-11-19 . Palmarès de la 20e édition des Rencontres internationales du documentaire . 2022-06-14 . CTVM.info . fr-FR.
- News: 2018-11-19 . Palmarès de la 21e édition des RIDM - CTVM.info . fr-FR . CTVM.info . 2022-06-14.
- Web site: 2019-11-24 . Palmarès de la 22e édition des Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal (RIDM) . 2022-06-14 . CTVM.info . fr-FR.
- Web site: ICI.Radio-Canada.ca . Zone Arts- . Les RIDM dévoilent leurs 9 films gagnants . 2022-06-14 . Radio-Canada.ca . fr-ca.
- Web site: Mullen . Pat . 2021-11-21 . zo reken, Looking for Horses Lead RIDM 2021 Winners (updated) . 2022-06-14 . POV Magazine . en-US.
- Web site: Mullen . Pat . 2022-11-27 . The Dependents, One Take Grace Lead RIDM Award Winners . 2022-12-02 . POV Magazine . en-US.
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