National Short and Medium-Length Competition
Sto Lat (100 years) brings to life memories in danger of being erased by the illness of Julitta, a Polish survivor of a Gulag forced labour camp, who will soon turn 100.
100 YEARS
- Mitchell Stafiej
- 2025
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French or English
- 30 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
Combining archival footage and contemporary recordings, the director paints a complex portrait of mother-daughter relationships across three generations of her Iranian family.
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
A metal band desperately needs to find a new drummer for their next show, but behind this urgent, pragmatic quest lies another more existential one.
DOG DAYS OF SUMMER
- Virgile Ratelle
- 2025
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 16 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
A poetic and geological laboratory, this experimental short explores the atmospheres, details, textures, and patterns of mineral, aqueous, and film materials.
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
Captured on film, Film de roche shows bouldering as a mesmerizing visual and auditory trance, a true ode to the fragility and resilience of the female body.
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
In this DIY diary, Émilie Baillargeon documents the idleness that accompanies her new identity as a mother-artist with humour, sincerity, stubbornness, and vulnerability.
J'AI EU UNE IDÉE ÉVIDENTE ET J'ATTENDS QU'ELLE REVIENNE
- Emilie Baillargeon
- 2025
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 16 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
With a refined touch of humour and bite, Dan Popa and Hoda Adra combine their talents to offer a riveting poetic and political look at the Paris Olympics and, more broadly, at our era.
JEUX DE CORRESPONDANCE
- Dan Popa, Hoda Adra
- 2025
- Canada (Quebec), France
- s.t. English
- 27 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
This hybrid film, with its atmosphere of suspended time, offers a surprising foray into the world of amateur radio operators united by a desire for human connection.
LEUR EXISTENCE
- Xavier Doutre, Clarence de Bayser
- 2025
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French or English
- 27 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
Based on the incomplete work of Lloyd Wong, who died of AIDS over 30 years ago, Lesley Loksi Chan turns the unfinished into a space of memory and transmission.
LLOYD WONG, UNFINISHED
- Lesley Loksi Chan, Llyod Wong
- 2025
- Canada
- s.t. French or English
- 29 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
Engaging with images of the Second Intifada shot by her father, filmmaker Nada El-Omari questions the meaning of images, the fragility of memory, and the erosion of the value of truth.
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
Morning Circle follows a father and son through the home, playground, and kindergarten, where language, care, and ritual reveal the weight of exile, authority, exclusion, and quiet resistance.
MORNING CIRCLE
- Basma Al-Sharif
- 2025
- Canada, United Arab Emirates
- s.t. English
- 21 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
Through a simple juxtaposition of words and images, this refreshingly mature coming-of-age story invites us into the last summer of adolescence with all its worries.
ROMY TIENT UN JOURNAL
- Charles-Émile Lafrance
- 2025
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 13 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
The streets of Montreal intersect with a distant yet familiar Colombia, connecting two remote realities that unite to bear witness to the magnitude of absence.
TIGERS CAN BE SEEN IN THE RAIN
- Oscar Ruiz Navia
- 2025
- Colombia, Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 16 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
Using images shot on film, this short film explores the deep connections between the territory of Nunavut, Inuit , flora, and fauna.
TUKTUIT : CARIBOU
- Lindsay McIntyre
- 2025
- Canada
- s.t. French and English
- 16 min