National Short and Medium-Length Competition
Against the backdrop of the carnival and its tribulations, the whirl of rides mirrors Kim’s state of mind as the young Québécois carnival worker thinks hard about his future.
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L' ARTIFICE
- Isabelle Grignon-Francke
- 2023
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 18 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
Deeply atmospheric and textural, Cold and Dark explores the challenges faced by a small group of Slovakian loggers and their workhorse, Kubo.
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COLD AND DARK
- Peter Hošták
- 2023
- Slovakia, Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 30 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
A deep-dive into an imaginary world built from scratch, this music short by Montreal rapper Marie-Gold shows the creative process behind her latest album.
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LA DÉCONSTRUCTION DE BAVEUSE CITY
- Chloé Pilon Vaillancourt
- 2023
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 9 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
Reconstructions, archives, and interviews come together as family members explore the death of a woman who died of smallpox at the turn of the 20th century.
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FOUR MILE CREEK
- Ryan McKenna
- 2023
- Canada (Quebec)
- 22 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
Inuk and Mi’kmaq artist Amy Hull evokes the complexity of her relationship to nostalgia and to her home region through childhood stories and images filmed in 16 mm and Super 8.
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THE GREAT KIND MYSTERY
- Ella Morton
- 2023
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 17 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
Based on sponsored films produced between 1920 and 1970, this film articulates an interpretation of the colonial imagination in which the violence of the archives resonates with the present.
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HOLIDAY NATIVE LAND
- Nicolas Renaud, Brian Virostek
- 2023
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 37 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
With poetic narration by artist Bettina Szabo and captivating images of nature, experimental short film Immortelles focuses on the creative act in all its complexity.
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IMMORTELLES
- Mark Durand
- 2023
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 6 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
This collage of excerpts from over 50 years of film and television is a tribute to those who have always been in the background - but above all, it's a tribute to Jill.
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JILL, UNCREDITED
- Anthony Ing
- 2022
- Canada, United Kingdom
- 19 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
This poetic, immersive short on the edge of experimental cinema transports us into an age-old tradition of fire dancing celebrated every summer in Bulgaria.
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LET THE RED MOON BURN
- Ralitsa Doncheva
- 2023
- Bulgaria, Canada (Quebec)
- 7 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
Nine Easy Dances, or nine short vignettes of family life suffused with laughter and tenderness, punctuated by the chaos of filming and the unknowns of an aging household.
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NINE EASY DANCES
- Nora Rosenthal
- 2023
- Canada
- s.t. French
- 19 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
Through the patient gaze of a brother and sister, this film invites us to rethink everyday life in step with Jonny, their brother with cerebral palsy and autism spectrum disorder.
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ORPHEUS
- Malaika Shostakovich, Mustafa Uzuner
- 2023
- Canada
- s.t. French
- 20 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
In Munich, an amateur rugby team trains hard. For Desmond and his team, united by their queer identity, there is more to learn than just the rules of the game.
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OUTSIDE CENTER
- Eli Jean Tahchi
- 2023
- Canada (Quebec), Germany
- s.t. French or English
- 21 min