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 Feature Competition
Through visual and sound research of great aesthetic precision, the filmmaker affirms the landscapes of a Minganie that exist only through the artistic eye and the possibilities of film.
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 Feature Competition
A poignant portrait of Billy, a soul tormented by schizophrenia, who, thanks to the friendship and support of the filmmaker, seeks lucidity after committing an irreparable act.
La soirée de la relève Radio-Canada
A parallel encounter of two queer identities seeking to deconstruct the ideas that prevent them from existing, and of their body in transition navigating the complex path of physical transformation.
THE BODY/TRANSMUTATIONEM
- Bleue Pronovost-Teyssier
- 2024
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French
- 15 min
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
La soirée de la relève Radio-Canada
Under the heaviness of the Montreal metro’s grey concrete and among the anonymous bodies passing through, the voices of its workers share the great dramas and small pleasures of a life spent underground.
CE QUI SE PASSE SOUS TERRE
- Raphaëlle Bergeron
- 2024
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French
- 11 min
Magnus Isacsson Competition
Richard, a young Brazilian circus artist, is thrown out by his adoptive mother and must confront his childhood traumas through a rich and healing quest for identity.
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.