Montreal: More than 200 works from 41 countries, including 77 feature films, 92 short films and 50 new media creations, are on the program for the Montreal International Festival of New Cinema and New Media, Oct. 11-21. The festival, codirected by Claude Chamberlan and Luc Bourdon, is dedicated to international auteur cinema and digital and new media productions. Softimage founder Daniel Langlois is chair of the FCMM board.

Opening-night film for the festival’s 30th edition is the Quebec premiere of Andre Turpin’s Un Crabe dans la tete, which opened this year’s Perspective Canada section at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Other Canadian and Canadian-coproduced features in the competitive international section (Prix Banque Laurentienne) include Zacharias Kunuk’s Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner), the first-ever Inuit-language feature film, and Bertrand Bonello’s Le Pornographe, coproduced with France.

Chamberlan has announced German director Wim Wenders is among this year’s special guests. The feature program screens at Ex-Centris and the newly renovated Cinema du Parc.

FCMM continues its tradition of programming fascinating documentaries, with Aussie director Michael Rubbo’s Much Ado About Something, home boy Daniel Cross’ S.P.I.T.: Squeegee Punks in Traffic and Canadian Geoff Bowie’s The Universal Clock – The Resistance of Peter Watkins (National Film Board) on the program.

The FCMM forum agenda includes sessions on international models for screenwriters as well as interactive and development issues in new media.

This year’s national cinema focus is Portugal, with 10 features and four shorts on the program.

FCMM’s private-sector corporate sponsors include Volkswagen, The Daniel Langlois Foundation for

Arts, Science and Technology, Bell Canada and post producer Vision Globale. Radio-Canada is the official broadcaster.

-www.fondation-langlois.org

-www.fcmm.com