National Short and Medium-Length Competition
Taking as its starting point the explosion of a pipeline caused by Haifa workers in 1936, A Stone's Throw tells the story of Palestinian resistance and relocation.
A STONE’S THROW
- Razan AlSalah
- 2024
- Canada (Quebec), Palestine, Lebanon
- s.t. English
- 40 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
An inspiring co-production, this experimental short poetically and directly questions how and why one tells a traumatic story.
ADIEU UGARIT
- Samy Benammar, Mohamad Awaad
- 2024
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French or English
- 16 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
By staging herself and using home movies, the filmmaker breaks her silence about her sexual assault for the purposes of healing and empowerment.
APRÈS LE SILENCE
- Matilde-Luna Perotti
- 2024
- Canada (Quebec), Colombia
- s.t. French or English
- 14 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
Archipelago of Earthen Bones — To Bunya brings together 16mm images of volcanic sites in an impressionistic way, with a soundscape evocative of their history and grandeur.
ARCHIPELAGO OF EARTHEN BONES — TO BUNYA
- Malena Szlam
- 2024
- Canada (Quebec), Australia, Chile
- 20 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
Somewhere between experimental cinema, documentary and horror film, masked villagers wander through the snow to indulge in a little-known regional tradition: Mi-Carême.
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
Activist Tony Souza tells his life story under the textures of hand-processed 16 mm film and through musical and visual variations exploring the concept of tension.
BOTH, INSTRUMENT & SOUND
- Sharlene Bamboat
- 2024
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French
- 39 min
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
In this filmed diary, accompanied by magnetic resonance images and film experiments, the filmmaker owns her illness, multiple sclerosis.
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
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
Following cetacean conservationists, Six Knots poetically explores the relationship between science, practicality, spirituality, colonization, and perception.