International Feature Competition
A poetic and political film that raises environmental and social issues as it documents an outlandish project: a rich, powerful Georgian transplants massive trees to his private garden.
TAMING THE GARDEN
- Salomé Jashi
- 2021
- Switzerland, Germany, Georgia
- s.t. French or English
- 92 min
Les vidéographes - Le devoir de mémoire
TERRES FANTÔMES
- Félix Lamarche
- 2019
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 20 min
National Feature Competition
A documentary-style fictional film set in Romania, where we are left feeling that sometimes life is best appreciated in some of its more evasive and fleeting moments.
THEY SLEEP STANDING
- Bogdan Stoica
- 2021
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French or English
- 72 min
International Feature Competition
Alina Gorlova’s visually striking film spanning from Ukraine to Syria, is a powerful meditation on humanity’s entrapment in the endless cycle of war and peace.
THIS RAIN WILL NEVER STOP
- Alina Gorlova
- 2020
- Ukraine, Germany, Latvia, Qatar
- s.t. English
- 103 min
Short and Medium-Length National Competition
Somewhere between an autobiographical piece, a heartfelt tribute to an immigrant mother whose fate is out of her hands, and a dance film, this ode to freedom bubbles with reflections and experimentations.
THE TRUSS ARCH
- Sonya Stefan
- 2021
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French
- 35 min