Three Continents Festival


The Three Continents Festival 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. The top award in the festival's competition is the balloon-shaped Montgolfiere d'or. In conjunction with the festival is the Produire au Sud, a project that provides funding to independent film productions from Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of Produire au Sud in 2021, Director Guillaume Mainguet organised a retrospective and commissioned a series of interviews, produced by Julia Hammett-Jamart.

List of Montgolfière d'or winners

YearFilmDirectorCountry of origin
1979BaaraSouleymane CisséMali
1980Chafika et MetwalAly BadrakhanEgypt
1981They Don't Wear Black TieLeon HirszmanBrazil
1981Plae KaoCherd SongsriThailand
1982Imagi NingthemAribam Syam SharmaIndia
1983Angela MarkadoLino BrockaThe Philippines
1984The WanderersNacer KhemirTunisia
1984The Boys from FengkueiHou Hsiao-hsienTaiwan
1985The RunnerAmir NaderiIran
1985A Summer at Grandpa'sHou Hsiao-hsienTaiwan
1986In the Wild MountainsYan XueshuChina
1987Motherland HotelÖmer KavurTurkey
1988RougeStanley KwanHong Kong
1989Water, Wind, DustAmir NaderiIran
1990UntamagiruGō TakamineJapan
1991Five Girls and a RopeYeh Hung-weiTaiwan
1992Bloody MorningLi ShaohongChina
1993For FunNing YingChina
1994Dos crímenesRoberto SneiderMexico
1995Sender UnknownCarlos CarreraMexico
1996A True StoryAbolfazl JaliliIran
1997Made in Hong KongFruit ChanHong Kong
1998After LifeHirokazu KoreedaJapan
1998Xiao WuJia ZhangkeChina
1999Luna PapaBakhtyar KhudojnazarovTajikistan
2000PlatformJia ZhangkeChina
2001DelbaranAbolfazl JaliliIran
2002My Brother Silk RoadMarat SaruluKyrgyzstan/Kazakhstan
2003Seven Days, Seven NightsJoel CanoCuba
2004Day and NightWang ChaoChina
2005Angel's FallSemih KaplanogluGreece/Turkey
2006A Few Kilos of Dates for a FuneralSaman SalurIran
2008Parque víaEnrique RiveroMexico
2014Hill of FreedomHong Sang-sooSouth Korea
2015Kaili BluesBi GanChina
2016In the Last Days of the CityTamer El SaidEgypt
2017Taming the HorseTao GuChina
2018Memories of My BodyGarin NugrohoIndonesia
2019ÖndögWang Quan'anChina
2020Moving OnYoon Dan BiSouth Korea
2020ZeroKazuhiro SôdaJapan, USA
2021Wheel of Fortune and FantasyRyûsuke HamaguchiJapan
2022Glorious AshesBùi Thạc ChuyênVietnam
2025The World of LoveYoon Ga-eunSouth Korea