Montecara Film Festival

Montecara Film Festival
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Status	Active
Genre	Film festival
Frequency	Annual
Location(s)	Çinematèca di Stado
Country	Montecara
Years active	88
Inaugurated	June 10, 1936 (1936-06-10)
Website	festa.cinemateca.mc

The Montecara Film Festival (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 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

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

Year	Béco aùreo	Country of origin	Synopsis
2018
2017	Aksomas (Velvet)	Aucuria	A romantic drama set during the closing months of the Grey Regime, shortly before the Velvet Revolution.
2016	Skytten	Sjealand
2015	Blossom in the Mirror	Tuthina
2014	Deux Cents Siècles	Ainin
2013	Zeviyên Laleyê (The Lily Fields)	Siphria	A romantic comedy about two lovers who need to learn to become comfortable with who they are.
2012
2011	Złóte Stólétie	Template:Country data Slovunia
2010
2009	Hongcao	Namor
2008
2007	Sakiko	Senria	A black comedy about a Senrian woman's attempts to break out of a loveless marriage, a dead-end job, and a miserable life.
2006	Golden Rain	Xiaodong
2005	Holding On	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.
2004
2003
2002	Neşalên (Pickpockets)	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.
2001	Rubbing the Wound	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.
2000	Riget	Sjealand
1999	Lanterns of Brick	Razaria	A group of Razarian soldiers are trapped in a tunnel in Zesmynia during the Gozar War.
1998	Amiçi ed amànti (Friends and lovers)	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.
1997	k’uarapucua tsïtsïkicha (Scorpio's flowers)	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.
1996	As my flower blossoms, hundreds of others wither	Razaria	A warlord in 9th century 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.
1995
1994	Kaze no Hai (Ashes in the Wind)	Senria	A Senrian mother in Xiaodongese-occupied Senria desperately attempts to save her two young children from the Senrian Genocide.
1993	Zdráda, Kłamstvo i Griéh	Template:Country data Slovunia
1992	Plenipotentiary	Zesmynia	A bodyguard of the Neo-Sepcan emperor must overcome numerous dangers as the Aalaaniaq king plots the downfall of the empire.
1991
1990
1989	Dzokera kumba (Separation)	Rwizikuru	An Irfanic and Sotirian couple living in Yekumavirira prior to the Nasani-Rwizikuran War has to fight separation from both their land, and from each other because of their two faiths.
1988
1987	Mezanòte biànca (White midnight)	Montecara	A plan to smuggle a large shipment of illegal drugs through Montecara turns into a fiasco of backstabbing, lies, and murder.
1986	Akayama (Red Mountain)	Senria	A Senrian soldier during the Senrian-Xiaodongese War grapples with the bloodshed of the conflict and the loss of his comrades-in-arms.
1985	Hurşidbanu	Aucuria	The story of Ayla Sönmez, an Atlian nationalist author known by the pseudonym Hurşidbanu, and her efforts to defy the Grey Regime.
1984
1983
1982
1981
1980
1979
1978	Gin'noken (The Silver Sword)	Senria	A historical fiction film retelling the life of the rounin Hyouzaemon Nabesima and his role in the doomed Kyoutoku Rebellion.
1977
1976
1975	Gaisma	Swetania	A scientific team is sent to evaluate the situation on the Gaisma space colony after supernatural occurences are reported.
1974	Tarp Šešėliai (Among the Shadows)	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.
1973
1972
1971
1970	Sepy (The Vultures)	Lecia	Based upon the 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 Hell.
1969
1968
1967
1966
1965
1964
1963	Yakusoku (Promise)	Senria	A romantic drama about two lovers, torn apart by circumstance, and their quest to reunite.
1962	Lu, màma (You, mama)	Montecara	A distant adult son tries to forge a relationship with his free-spirited mother when he finds out that she is dying.
1961
1960
1959	Kakusareta Yousai (The Hidden Fortress)	Senria	A samurai film about a samurai's efforts to destroy an abandoned fortress being used by brigands to harass and extort Senrian peasants.
1958
1957
1956	Dopad	Template:Country data Slovunia
1955
1954
1953	Den sidste dag	Sjealand
1952
1951
1950	Giàn il sìmplio (John the simple)	Montecara	An intellectually disabled man tries to survive during the Occupation of Montecara.
1949
1948
1947
1946	Wélika Windzeniô (The Great Exodus)	File:LecistaniFlag.png Lecia	A religious drama retelling the Lec Exodus, based upon the story as recorded in the Uczénjë.
1945
1944
1943
1942	Solitary Spring	Xiaodong
1941
1940
1939	Blut auf der Fluß Blood on the River	Swetania	A young monarchist officer sails up the Sweta River on a relief mission in the worsening chaos of the Swetanian Revolution.
1938
1937
1936	Il Paradiso	Montecara	A foreign diplomat is drawn into a world of scandal and intrigue by an intoxicating Montecaran cabaret dancer, with disastrous results.