Cannes jury prize winner “Sirât,” out later this month from Neon, is closing in on securing a Finest Worldwide Function Oscar nomination with one other pageant prize.
On Monday, the fifteenth annual Montclair Movie Pageant revealed winners throughout its three aggressive classes in the course of the 10-day New Jersey movie showcase: Fiction, Documentary, and Future/Now. The fiction characteristic jury — which included Sundance producer Invoice Curran, movie critic/New York Movie Pageant programmer Kameron Austin Collins, and me — awarded the highest prize to Oliver Laxe’s unforgiving travelogue a couple of father (Sergi López) journeying by way of EDM raves within the Moroccan desert looking for his lacking daughter.
Different movies within the part included a spread of pageant favorites and Oscar entries: “A Poet,” “Sound of Falling,” “Two Prosecutors,” and “Sentimental Worth.”
IndieWire publicizes these winners completely. The documentary jury, which included critics Lovia Gyarkye and Nicolas Rapold and director/producer Giselle Bailey, awarded each Kahlil Joseph’s “BLKNEWS: Phrases & Situations” and Brittany Shyne’s “Seeds” — two portraits of Black American life that premiered at Sundance — in a tie.
The New York-set, Dominican-centered coming-of-age movie “Mad Payments to Pay: (Or Future, Dile Que No Soy Malo)” from director Joel Alfonso Vargas received the Mark Urman Award for Fiction Filmmaking from the Future/Now jury, which included The Hollywood Reporter and former IndieWire editor Tony Maglio, Hamptons Movie Pageant programmer Matthew Jackett, and 1-2 Particular’s SVP of acquisitions Amanda Trokan. The $5,000 prize was established in honor of the namesake Montclair resident. The panel additionally awarded a particular jury prize to John Magaro for his efficiency as a father on a fraught highway journey along with his two youngsters.
In the meantime, the viewers award for fiction characteristic went to Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Worth,” whereas the identical prize for documentary went to Ryan White’s “Come See Me within the Good Gentle.” The viewers award for world cinema went to Jafar Panahi’s “It Was Simply an Accident,” whereas the viewers award for brief movie went to “All of the Empty Rooms” from Joshua Seftel.
The brief movie choice was juried by journalist Addie Morfoot, “Acquainted Contact” star Kathleen Chalfant, and “Misplaced in Jersey” podcast host Rachel Martens. “The Sentry,” directed by Jake Wachtel, received the pageant’s Fiction Quick Movie Competitors. “On Whale,” directed by Winslow Crane-Murdoch, received the pageant’s Documentary Quick Movie Competitors, with a Particular Jury Prize awarded to “The Lengthy Valley,” directed by Robert Machoian and Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck.
“Standby,” directed by Robert Gomes, received the pageant’s New Jersey Shorts Competitors, with a Particular Jury Prize awarded to “Brenda,” directed by Jasmine Wang and Danny Monico.
The 2025 Montclair Movie Pageant’s Junior Jury included 15 space highschool college students representing 12 colleges. Their prime prize went to Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Bugonia,” with a particular jury prize for debut characteristic going to Akinola Davies Jr. for “My Father’s Shadow.”
