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.
Focus Mexico : Light Between the Shadows
Under the watchful eye of his filmmaker friend, a young violinist wanders the streets of Algiers, torn between a deep attachment to his roots and a burning desire to explore the unknown.
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