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The '''Montecara Film Festival''' ([[Montecaran language|Montecaran]]: ''Fèsta Montecarà di Çìnema'') is an annual international film festival held in [[Montecara]]. It features premieres of films from all genres, including documentaries, made across [[Esquarium]]. Each participating nation is allowed to submit one film for consideration for the festival's grand prize, the ''Béco aùreo'' (Golden Goat). Films must have been completed in the preceding 12 months and make their premiere at the festival to be eligible for screening. It takes place each year at the [[Çinematèca di Stado]]. 

== Format ==
The weeklong festival takes usually takes place in September or October. An opening ceremony held on the first night traditionally features a major opera singer performing the Montecaran national anthem before the [[Colegio|Secretary of Education and Culture]] makes an introductory speech. The year’s films are introduced along with their directors, and the members of the jury are announced and introduced. There is sometimes an additional musical performance, usually of film music from the past. A reception follows the opening ceremony. 

Films are screened each afternoon and evening of the festival, and there at least one reception or party each night. The last night of the festival features the awards ceremony, where the ''Béco aùreo'' is presented to the winning film by the Patron of the Çinematèca di Stado.

== Prize ==
[[File:Chèvre d'or antique.jpg|thumb|200px|The ''Béco aùreo'' statuette]]
The festival's grand prize is the '''''Béco aùreo''''', which is awarded on behalf of the Çinematèca di Stado to that year's best film. The physical prize is a golden statuette of a goat, Montecara's unofficial national animal. The jury is composed of directors, actors, writers, and other filmmakers associated with past winners of the prize.

Films awarded the ''Béco aùreo'' tend to be highly sought-after by distribution companies, many of whose representatives are always in attendance. Winning the prize is seen as one of the greatest financial blessings an artistic film can achieve, as it all but guarantees that the film will see a wide release and, more than likely, turn a profit.

== List of awards ==

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! style="width: 20%;" | ''Béco aùreo''
! style="width: 15%;" | Country of origin
! style="width: 60%;" | Synopsis
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| 2018 ||  || 
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| 2017 || ''[[Aksomas]]''<br>''(Velvet)'' || {{flag|Aucuria}}
| A romantic drama set during the closing months of the Grey Regime, shortly before the [[Velvet Revolution]].
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| 2016 ||  ''[[Skytten]]''|| {{flag|Sjealand}}
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| 2015 || ''[[Blossom in the Mirror]]'' || {{flag|Tuthina}}
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| 2014 || ''[[Deux Cents Siècles]]'' || {{flag|Ainin}} 
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| 2013 || ''[[Zeviyên Laleyê]]''<br>''(The Lily Fields)'' || {{flag|Siphria}} 
| A romantic comedy about two lovers who need to learn to become comfortable with who they are.
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| 2012 ||  ||  
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| 2011 ||  ''[[Złóte Stólétie]]'' || {{flag|Slovunia}}
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| 2010 ||  || 
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| 2009 || ''[[Hongcao]]'' || {{flag|Namor}}  
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| 2008 || ''[[Pod yabloney]]'' || {{flag|Luziyca}}
| A farmer girl and a city boy meet and fall in love with one another.
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| 2007 || ''[[Sakiko]]'' || {{flag|Senria}}
| A {{wp|black comedy}} about a Senrian woman's attempts to break out of a loveless marriage, a dead-end job, and a miserable life. 
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| 2006 || ''[[Golden Rain]]'' || {{flag|Xiaodong}}
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| 2005 || ''{{wp|To Live (1994 film)|Holding On}}'' ||  {{flag|Zesmynia}}
|A rural landlord witnesses successive downfalls of status and later the painful deaths of each of his close family members in the context of Zesmynia in the mid-20th century, driving him to despair.
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| 2004 ||  ||  
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| 2003 ||  ||  
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| 2002 ||  ''[[Neşalên]]''<br>''(Pickpockets)'' || {{flag|Siphria}}
| A drama focusing on a pair of teenage pickpockets, their romance, and the conflict between their life of crime and their hopes for the future.
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| 2001 || ''Rubbing the Wound'' ||  {{flag|Zesmynia}}
|A landed gentryman who lost his titles is able to regain prominence by becoming a salt merchant; however, he loses his wealth again when the salt trade is put under imperial control and powerful merchants are removed from their positions.
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| 2000 || ''[[Riget]]'' || {{flag|Sjealand}}
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| 1999 ||  ''{{wp|Pretty Village, Pretty Flame|Lanterns of Brick}}'' || {{flag|Razaria}}
|A group of Razarian soldiers are trapped in a tunnel in [[Zesmynia]] during the [[Gozar War]].
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| 1998 || ''[[Amiçi ed amànti]]''<br>''(Friends and lovers)''|| {{flag|Montecara}}
|A drama-comedy where a divorced man hosts a dinner party at his villa to celebrate his engagement to his second wife-to-be; the guest list includes his ex-wife, her new husband, her stepchildren, and his fiancée's adult daughter.  
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| 1997 || ''[[k’uarapucua tsïtsïkicha]]''<br>''(Scorpio's flowers)''|| {{flag|Karazawa}}
|The story of 8 students who create a resistance cell against the Malnonfi regime in the 70s. A very bleak tragedy talking about self-destructive tendencies, ideals, but also the need to oppose tyrany even in the face of death.
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| 1996 || ''As my flower blossoms, hundreds of others wither''|| {{flag|Razaria}}
|A warlord in 9th century [[Principality of Razaria|Razaria]] usurps the throne of the [[Neo-Sepcan Empire]] and presides over a reign of terror for one week before he is defeated and killed; based partially on the life of [[Ratibor the Usurper]].
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| 1995 ||  || 
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| 1994 || ''[[Kaze no Hai]]''<br>''(Ashes in the Wind)'' || {{flag|Senria}}
| A Senrian mother in [[Imperial Authority of Senrian Territories|Xiaodongese-occupied Senria]] desperately attempts to save her two young children from the [[Senrian Genocide]].
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| 1993 ||  ''[[Zdráda, Kłamstvo i Griéh]]'' || {{flag|Slovunia}}
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| 1992 || ''{{wp|Forbidden City Cop|Plenipotentiary}}'' ||  {{flag|Zesmynia}}
|A bodyguard of the [[Neo-Sepcan Empire|Neo-Sepcan]] emperor must overcome numerous dangers as the Aalaaniaq king plots the downfall of the empire.
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| 1991 ||  ||  
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| 1990 ||  ||  
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| 1989 || ''[[Sokhraneniye zaliva (1989 film)|Sokhraneniye zaliva]]'' || {{flag|Luziyca}}   
| A documentary about the importance of protecting the [[Gulf of Gelyevich]] from further environmental damage.
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| 1988 || || 
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| 1987 || ''[[Mezanòte biànca]]''<br>''(White midnight)''|| {{flag|Montecara}} 
|A plan to smuggle a large shipment of illegal drugs through Montecara turns into a fiasco of backstabbing, lies, and murder. 
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| 1986 ||  ''[[Akayama]]''<br>''(Red Mountain)'' ||  {{flag|Senria}}
| A Senrian soldier during the [[Senrian-Xiaodongese War]] grapples with the bloodshed of the conflict and the loss of his comrades-in-arms.
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| 1985 || ''[[Hurşidbanu (film)|Hurşidbanu]]'' || {{flag|Aucuria}} 
| The story of [[Ayla Sönmez]], an [[Atlian nationalism|Atlian nationalist]] author known by the pseudonym Hurşidbanu, and her efforts to defy the Grey Regime.
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| 1984 ||  ||  
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| 1983 ||  ||  
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| 1982 ||  ||
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| 1981 ||  ||  
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| 1980 ||  ||  
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| 1979 || ''[[Sbogom Chen!]]'' || {{flag|Katranjiev}} 
| After the mother wakes up from a coma in 1976, her son attempts to protect her from fatal shock by concealing the end of the [[People's Republic of Katranjiev]].
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| 1978 || ''[[Gin'noken]]''<br>''(The Silver Sword)'' || {{flag|Senria}} 
| A historical fiction film retelling the life of the {{wp|Ronin|rounin}} [[Hyouzaemon Nabesima]] and his role in the doomed [[Kyoutoku Rebellion]].
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| 1977 ||  ||  |
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| 1976 ||  ||  |
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| 1975 ||  ||  |
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| 1974 || ''[[Tarp Šešėliai]]''<br>''(Among the Shadows)'' ||  {{flag|Aucuria}}
| A private investigator in 1860s Aucuria must go up against criminal thugs and corrupt politicians in his efforts to take down a protection racket.
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| 1973 || ''[[Razdeleniye (1973 film)|Razdeleniye]]''  ||  {{flag|Luziyca}}
| Details the separation of a family in [[Po'ai]] following [[Namor]]'s occupation of [[East Po'ai]] in 1933, and how the separation affects them
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| 1972 ||  ||  |
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| 1971 ||  ||  |
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| 1970 ||  ''[[The Vultures (1970 film)|Sepy]]''<br>''(The Vultures)'' ||  {{flag|Lecia}}
| Based upon the [[The Vultures (play)|play of the same name]] by [[Irena Kokòszynski]]; the film focuses on a [[Rodnéwiary]] clergyman, a Lecian noble, and an army officer who have become stranded in a desert, implied to be [[Piôsky|Hell]].
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| 1969 ||  ||  |
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| 1968 ||  ||  |
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| 1967 ||  || |
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| 1966 ||  ||  |
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| 1965 || ''[[Gorniye lyudi]]''  || {{flag|Luziyca}}
| Tragicomedy of a family working at a coal mine in southern Luziyca.
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| 1964 ||  ||  | 
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| 1963 || ''[[Yakusoku]]''<br>''(Promise)'' || {{flag|Senria}}
|A romantic drama about two lovers, torn apart by circumstance, and their quest to reunite.
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| 1962 || ''[[Lu, màma]]''<br>''(You, mama)'' || {{flag|Montecara}}
|A distant adult son tries to forge a relationship with his free-spirited mother when he finds out that she is dying. 
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| 1961 ||  ||  |
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| 1960 ||  ||  |
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| 1959 ||  ''[[Kakusareta Yousai]]''<br>''(The Hidden Fortress)'' ||  {{flag|Senria}}
| A {{wp|samurai cinema|samurai film}} about a samurai's efforts to destroy an abandoned fortress being used by brigands to harass and extort Senrian peasants.
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| 1958 ||  ||  |
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| 1957 ||  || |
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| 1956 || ''[[Dopad]]''  || {{flag|Slovunia}} 
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| 1955 ||  ||  | 
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| 1954 ||  ||  | 
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| 1953 || ''[[Den sidste dag]]'' || {{flag|Sjealand}}
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| 1952 ||  ||  |
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| 1951 ||  ||  |
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| 1950 || ''[[Giàn il sìmplio]]''<br>''(John the simple)'' || {{flag|Montecara}}
|An intellectually disabled man tries to survive during the [[Occupation of Montecara]]. 
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| 1949 ||  ||  | 
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| 1948 ||  ||  | 
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| 1947 ||  ||  | 
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| 1946 ||  ''[[Wélika Windzeniô]]''<br>''(The Great Exodus)'' || [[File:LecistaniFlag.png|22px|border]] [[Lecia]]
| A religious drama retelling the [[Great Exodus (Lecia)|Lec Exodus]], based upon the story as recorded in the [[Uczénjë]].
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| 1945 ||  ||  | 
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| 1944 ||  ||  | 
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| 1942 || ''[[Solitary Spring]]'' || {{flag|Xiaodong}} 
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| 1937 || ''[[Velikaya Odisseya (1937 film)|Velikaya Odisseya]]'' || {{flag|Luziyca}} 
| Adaption of the Argilian story ''{{wp|Odyssey|The Odyssey}}''
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| 1936 || ''[[Il Paradiso]]'' || {{flag|Montecara}}
|A foreign diplomat is drawn into a world of scandal and intrigue by an intoxicating Montecaran cabaret dancer, with disastrous results.
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