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
Under the surface of this short film with its zoological imprint hides a profound exploration of the Chilean countryside.
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
After 20 years, Rawane Nassif returned to the Msaytbeh district of Lebanon. She touchingly shares her impressions and relationship with the place where she grew up.
MSAYTBEH, THE ELEVATED PLACE
- Rawane Nassif
- 2024
- Canada, Lebanon
- s.t. English
- 21 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
Taking a critical look at Jerusalem’s development project in the 70s, this film reveals the invisible violence perpetrated against the Palestinian people.
RULE OF STONE - ANNULÉ
- Danae Elon
- 2024
- Canada
- s.t. French or English
- 85 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
Following cetacean conservationists, Six Knots poetically explores the relationship between science, practicality, spirituality, colonization, and perception.
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
Toxic masculinity dissolves and disintegrates as images of war collide with a lesbian pornographic film in this experimental found footage work.
New Visions Competition
Alexis Kyle Mitchell uses a poetic approach to explore the experience of living with a genetic disorder while questioning family heritage and mortality.
THE TREASURY OF HUMAN INHERITANCE
- Alexis Kyle Mitchell
- 2024
- Canada, United Kingdom
- s.t. English
- 60 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