In honor of this beloved Montreal documentary filmmaker, this competition brings together national films with a strong social conscience.
Magnus Isacsson Competition
Richard, a young Brazilian circus artist, is thrown out by his adoptive mother and must confront his childhood traumas through a rich and healing quest for identity.

Magnus Isacsson Competition
In war-torn Haiti, a group of artists are busy preparing for a theatre festival. Between rehearsals and work meetings, heart-rending questions emerge.

KOUTKEKOUT
- Joseph Hillel
- 2024
- Canada (Quebec), Haiti
- s.t. French or English
- 84 min
Magnus Isacsson Competition
The filmmaker observes trans, non-binary artist Laurence Philomène prepare for the release of their retrospective book Puberty, wherein they boldly affirm their body and everyday life.

LARRY (IEL)
- Catherine Legault
- 2024
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French or English
- 103 min
Closing Film
With respect and complicity, this film paints a delicate portrait of Indigenous youth embracing an assertion of identity and the desire for a future imbued with love.

NINAN AUASSAT : NOUS, LES ENFANTS
- Kim O’Bomsawin
- 2024
- Canada
- s.t. French and English
- 93 min
Magnus Isacsson Competition
Alongside a couple’s final weeks before one of them receives medical assistance in dying, this tender film is a lucid reflection on death, but above all, on life.

SIMON & MARIANNE
- Pier-Luc Latulippe, Martin Fournier
- 2024
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 71 min
Magnus Isacsson Competition
Lisa Jackson’s film follows Cree Elder Wilfred Buck’s transformation into a revered educator and guardian of Indigenous star knowledge by seamlessly bridging past and present through a compelling visual narrative.

WILFRED BUCK
- Lisa Jackson
- 2024
- Canada
- s.t. French or English
- 93 min
Magnus Isacsson Competition
Les yeux ne font pas le regard plunges us into the visual and aural experience of blindness, lived and told by five people who have lost their sight to weapons of war.

LES YEUX NE FONT PAS LE REGARD
- Simon Plouffe
- 2024
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French or English
- 93 min