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Montreal World Film Festival picks competition lineup
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Montreal World Film Festival picks competition lineup
OTTAWA, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- Organizers of the 30th Montreal World
Film Festival has announced a lineup of 22 films that will compete
for the Grand Prize of the Americas, the top prize at the festival
scheduled for Aug. 24-Sept. 4.
The finalists are heavily weighted to films from Europe, Asia and
Latin America, with only one strictly North American production: the
festival's closing night selection, The Secret Life of Happy People,
directed by Canadian Stphane Lapointe.
Hailing from Europe are the films Hell in Tangier (Belgium,
Spain), ...
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