The Montreal World Film Festival has booked three films by Quebec directors for its top-tier competition slate.

Quebec director Christian Duguay’s Jappeloup, a Canadian-French coproduction based on one of France’s greatest equestrian victories, will contend in Montreal.

Also competing at the MWFF is Alain Chartrand’s October crisis drama La Maison du Pecheur, and Mathieu Roy’s L’Autre Maison, which stars Marcel Sabourin, Roy Dupuis and Julie Gayet.

The festival’s first features competition has two Quebec films in contention: Samuel Thivierge’s La Fille du Martin, about a young woman working at her mother’s pet supplies store in Montreal, and Pascale Ferland’s Ressac, a film about three women in a decaying industrial town that stars Nicole-Sylvie Lagarde, Muriel Dutil and Pierre-Luc Lafontaine.

The Focus on World Cinema sidebar has a host of Canadian titles, including Matt Birman’s A Fish Story, Simon Winterson’s Twice and Lenin Sivam’s A Gun and a Ring, a Canada-Sri Lanka coproduction.

Montreal also booked a host of Canadian documentaries, led by Andre St-Pierre’s Dance of Hands, a Canada-Congo co-production, Yiddish: A Tale of Survival, by Abigail Hirsch, and Siu Ta’s Whatever You Wish.

A full list of Montreal film titles is available online.

The Montreal World Film Festival, which will screen in all 418 titles, including short films, is to run from Aug. 22 to Sept. 2.