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
Short and Medium-Length Competition
Anas Zawahri’s film offers a poignant portrayal of Homs, Syria, as residents navigate the trauma of war and strive to rebuild their lives amidst the city’s haunting ruins.
Retrospective Iva Radivojevic : Imaginary Landscapes of Dislocation
Over images of city life captured from a tourist’s perspective, an omniscient narrator recounts the development of an intimate relationship between A and B during a trip to Taipei.
NATTō
- Iva Radivojevic
- 2018
- United States
- 8 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
Retrospective Carlos Ferrand and the Grupo de Cine Liberación sin Rodeos: a Legacy of Political and Cinematic Activism
A poetic blend of fiction and documentary, this tender short film reveals the daily lives of children in Cusco while developing a decolonial discourse.
Wapikoni
Calling the Ekuanitshiu Shipu River her sister and source of healing, Uapukun Mestokosho McKenzie makes a poetic film about and with water.
NIPI UTAIAMUN
- Uapukun Mestokosho McKenzie
- 2023
- Canada (Ekuanitshit)
- s.t. French or English
- 6 min
Wapikoni
No Other Land exposes the devastating impact of Israeli demolition campaigns in the West Bank’s Masafer Yatta, revealing the human cost and deep divides through the gripping perspectives of a Palestinian activist and an Israeli journalist.
NO OTHER LAND
- Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal
- 2024
- Palestine, Norway
- s.t. English
- 95 min
Retrospective Iva Radivojevic : Imaginary Landscapes of Dislocation
Building on Evaporating Borders, this film takes a compassionate and informed look at the realities of refugee migration in Europe through N’s personal story.
NOTES FROM THE BORDER
- Iva Radivojevic
- 2015
- United States
- s.t. English
- 10 min
La soirée de la relève Radio-Canada
Like a caged bird yearning for freedom, an anonymous city dweller struggles to find his place in the chaos of the city.
LES OISEAUX AIMENT LES TOITS
- Charles Warren, Maxence Dumouchel
- 2024
- Canada (Quebec), Czech Republic
- s.t. French
- 8 min
New Visions Competition
Back in Nagasaki, Noriko Oi is confronted with her deceased mother’s painful past and decides to break the silence surrounding the intergenerational trauma caused by the nuclear attack.
International Feature Competition
The last resident of a mesmerizingly beautiful village nestled in a Cabo Verde valley, 76-year-old Quirino is forced to leave the only place he has ever known.
OMI NOBU, L'HOMME NOUVEAU
- Carlos Yuri Ceuninck
- 2023
- Cape Verde, Belgium, Sudan, Germany
- s.t. French or English
- 64 min
National Feature Competition
Two Chinese artists in exile walk through a forest that seems to be their last refuge, exchanging views on the authoritarian regime they fled and their artistic practice.
PARMI LES MONTAGNES ET LES RUISSEAUX
- Jean-François Lesage
- 2024
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French or English
- 98 min