Montclair Film Festival Names Possible Love Top Fiction Winner

Lee Chang-dong's Possible Love won top honors in the fiction feature competition at the Montclair Film Festival, the festival announced. Martin McDonagh's Wild Horse Nine took the audience award in the same category.

In the documentary feature competition, Pegah Ahangarani's Rehearsals for a Revolution received the Bruce Sinofsky Award. Itab Azzam and Jack MacInnes' One in a Million was given the documentary feature special jury prize.

Stephanie Ahn's Bedford Park and William D. Caballero's TheyDream were named co-winners of the Future/Now competition and share the $5,000 Mark Urman award. Juliane Dressner and Miriam Shor's My NDA won the documentary feature audience award.

Ryusuke Hamaguchi's All of a Sudden took the audience award for best of world cinema, and Steven Leckart's An Unknown Substance won the audience award for best short film. Shorts competition winners included K. Xian Ming Yu's I See You in the Flood, Mars Verrone's Buckskin and Jeannette Louie's Us Being Epic.

Kelly O'Sullivan and Alex Thompson's Mouse received the Junior Jury prize, and Senzo Ueno earned a special jury prize for excellence in cinematography for his work on Hirokazu Kore-eda's Look Back. Montclair Film artistic director Tom Hall commented on the winners and the festival's audiences, according to Variety.