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]
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]
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
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
Award
Documentary
Director
Country
Ref
Grand Prize, International Feature
Lost Land (Territoire perdu)
Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd
Belgium
[ 5]
Honorable Mention, International Feature
The Tiniest Place (El lugar más pequeño)
Tatiana Huezo
Mexico
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
Hula and Natan
Robby Elmaliah
Israel
Honorable Mention, International Medium-Length Film
Out of Reach (Poza zasiegiem)
Jakub Stozek
Poland
Best International Short Film
Flying Anne (Anne Vliegt)
Catherine van Campen
Netherlands
People's Choice Award
Bouton
Res Balzli
Switzerland
Critic's Choice Award
United States of Africa (Les États-Unis d’Afrique)
Yanick Létourneau
Canada/Quebec
Critic's Choice Award, Honorable Mention
Wiebo's War David York
Canada
Women Inmates' Jury
The Tiniest Place (El lugar más pequeño)
Tatiana Huezo
Mexico
Best Editing in an International Feature
Lost Land (Territoire perdu)
Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd
Belgium
Best Cinematography in an International Feature
The Night Watchman (El Velador)
Natalia Almada
Mexico
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
Award [ 6]
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
*Introduction of the "Student Jury Award"
Award [ 7]
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
Award [ 8]
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
*"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 [ 9]
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
*"Best Editing" and "Best Cinematography" awards are removed to introduce "Special Jury Prize" for International and National Feature.
Award [ 10]
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
Award [ 11]
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
*"Best New Talent From Quebec/Canada" becomes "New Vision Award"
Award [ 12]
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, Ukraine
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
Nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up Tasha Hubbard
Canada
Student Jury Award
Nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up Tasha Hubbard
Canada
Women Inmate Jury Award
Nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up Tasha Hubbard
Canada
*"Women Inmate Jury Award" not awarded due to Covid-19
Award [ 14]
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
*Introduction of the "Special Jury Prize, National Short or Medium-Length Film"
Award [ 15]
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: Wochiigii lo: End of the Peace
Heather Hatch
Canada
Student Jury Award
Geographies of Solitude Jacquelyn Mills
Canada
Women Inmate Jury Award
Big Fight in Little Chinatown
Karen Cho
Canada
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 (Éviction)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
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