Three Continents Festival

The Three Continents Festival (French: Festival des 3 Continents) is an annual film festival held since 1979 in Nantes, France, devoted to the cinemas of Asia, 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 Montgolfiere d'or.^[1] In conjunction with the festival is the Produire au Sud ("Producers of the South"), a project that provides funding to independent film productions from Asia, Africa, and Latin America.^[1]

Festival des 3 Continents

Location	Nantes, France
Founded	1979
Founded by	Philippe and Alain Jalladeau
Awards	Montgolfière d'or
Artistic director	Jérôme Baron
Website	http://www.3continents.com/

List of Montgolfière d'or 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	Imagi Ningthem	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	Gō 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
2014	Hill of Freedom	Hong Sang-soo	South Korea
2015	Kaili Blues	Bi Gan	China
2016	In the Last Days of the City	Tamer El Said	Egypt
2017	Taming the Horse	Tao Gu	China
2018	Memories of My Body	Garin Nugroho	Indonesia
2019	Öndög	Wang Quan'an	China
2020	Moving On	Yoon Dan Bi	South Korea
	Zero	Kazuhiro Sôda	Japan, USA
2021	Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy	Ryûsuke Hamaguchi	Japan
2022	Glorious Ashes	Bùi Thạc Chuyên	Vietnam

Further reading

• Asia's magic lantern^[4]
• Festival of Three Continents^[5]
• Ain't It Cool,^[6] "Euro-AICN: Festival des 3 Continents in Nantes; PrisonFish; Speed of Light; Bond; Shame'sPhotos; Pinocchio; StarWars"
• Soul Beats Africa,^[7] "3 Continents Film Festival – Africa, Asia, Latin America"
• The Cunning Canary,^[8] "International Theatre Festival of Three Continents"