In an immigration office in Abidjan, those who dream of a life elsewhere come up against complex and uncertain procedures. But really, why leave?
CAMPUS MONDE
- N'tifafa Y.E Glikou
- 2024
- France, Benin, Senegal
- s.t. English
- 53 min
La soirée de la relève Radio-Canada
Under the heaviness of the Montreal metro’s grey concrete and among the anonymous bodies passing through, the voices of its workers share the great dramas and small pleasures of a life spent underground.
CE QUI SE PASSE SOUS TERRE
- Raphaëlle Bergeron
- 2024
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French
- 11 min
International Feature Competition
Meant as an allegory, this film unfolds in a kind of symbolic huis-clos where a woman perceives and interprets different artistic representations of war.
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.
Focus Mexico : Light Between the Shadows
Ciudad is an immersion into the neighborhoods of Mexico City, offering a diversity of viewpoints, which, when put together, skillfully combine to make the city.
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
The intimate, hard-hitting testimonies of migrant domestic workers, in the swirling city of Beirut, question notions of identity, home and justice.
COMME UNE SPIRALE
- Lamia Chraibi
- 2024
- Canada
- s.t. French or English
- 28 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
Shaken violently by a storm, the crew of a sailboat to Antarctica comment on this transcendent experience in a moving, hypnotic visual odyssey.
CRUSHED BETWEEN OCEAN AND SKY
- Ella Morton
- 2023
- Canada
- s.t. French
- 25 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
In this filmed diary, accompanied by magnetic resonance images and film experiments, the filmmaker owns her illness, multiple sclerosis.
International Short and Medium-Length Competition
A look at the absurdity of authorities governing gender identity through the exploration of the unusual behaviours observed in hens and roosters from 1471 to the present day.
DE GALLO QUI OVAVIT
- Nina Forsman
- 2024
- Finland
- s.t. French or English
- 16 min
A tender immersion into the world of Martin, a reserved man who has isolated himself from the world, but not his feelings, and his feline menagerie.
DES CHATS SAUVAGES
- Steve Patry
- 2024
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 78 min