The Festival of the Three Continents (French: Festival des 3 Continents) is an annual film festival held since 1979 in Nantes, France, and is devoted to the cinemas of Asia, and Africa and Latin America. It was founded by Philippe and Alain Jalladeau.^[1][2][3] The top award in the festival's competition is the balloon shaped Golden Montgolfiere.^[1] In conjunction with the festival is the Produire au Sud, or Producers of the South, a project that provides funding to independent film productions from Asia, Africa and Latin America.^[1]

Contents 1 List of Golden Montgolfiere winners 2 Further reading 3 References 4 External links

[edit] List of Golden Montgolfiere winners

Year	Film	Director	Country of origin
1979	Baara	Souleymane Cissé	Mali
1980	Chafika et Metwal	Aly Badrakhan	Egypt
1981	They Don't Wear Black Tie	Leon Hirszman	Brazil
	Plae Kao	Cherd Songsri	Thailand
1982	My Son, My Precious	Aribam Syam Sharma	India
1983	Angela Markado	Lino Brocka	The Philippines
1984	The Wanderers	Nacer Khemir	Tunisia
	The Boys from Fengkuei	Hou Hsiao-hsien	Taiwan
1985	The Runner	Amir Naderi	Iran
	A Summer at Grandpa's	Hou Hsiao-hsien	Taiwan
1986	In the Wild Mountains	Yan Xueshu	China
1987	Motherland Hotel	Ömer Kavur	Turkey
1988	Rouge	Stanley Kwan	Hong Kong
1989	Water, Wind, Dust	Amir Naderi	Iran
1990	Untamagiru	Go Takamine	Japan
1991	Five Girls and a Rope	Yeh Hung-wei	Taiwan
1992	Bloody Morning	Li Shaohong	China
1993	For Fun	Ning Ying	China
1994	Dos crímenes	Roberto Sneider	Mexico
1995	Sender Unknown	Carlos Carrera	Mexico
1996	A True Story	Abolfazl Jalili	Iran
1997	Made in Hong Kong	Fruit Chan	Hong Kong
1998	After Life	Hirokazu Koreeda	Japan
	Xiao Wu	Jia Zhangke	China
1999	Luna Papa	Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov	Tajikistan
2000	Platform	Jia Zhangke	China
2001	Delbaran	Abolfazl Jalili	Iran
2002	My Brother Silk Road	Marat Sarulu	Kyrgyzstan/Kazakhstan
2003	Seven Days, Seven Nights	Joel Cano	Cuba
2004	Day and Night	Wang Chao	China
2005	Angel's Fall	Semih Kaplanoglu	Greece/Turkey
2006	A Few Kilos of Dates for a Funeral	Saman Salur	Iran
2008	Parque vía	Enrique Rivero	Mexico

[edit] Further reading

• unesco.org, "Asia’s magic lantern"
• filmfestivals.com, "Festival of Three Continents"
• Ain't It Cool, "Euro-AICN: Festival des 3 Continents in Nantes; PrisonFish; Speed of Light; Bond; Shame'sPhotos; Pinocchio; StarWars"
• Soul Beats Africa, "3 Continents Film Festival - Africa, Asia, Latin America"
• The Cunning Canary, "International Theatre Festival of Three Continents"

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Nantes Three Continents Festival at the Internet Movie Database
• Three Continents Festival Official website
• ftvdb.bfi.org
• Produire au Sud

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