National Short and Medium-Length Competition
Animation, cinema and poetry intertwine through personal accounts and an exploration that ties the filmmaker’s grief over his mother to a renewed sense of cultural identity.
A HUNDRED YEARS FROM NOW
- Arijit Debnath
- 2026
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French or English
- 14 min
Retrospective Bani Khoshnoudi
In an impressionistic style, this film observes daily life of Tehran in 2007, painting a nuanced and sensitive portrait of a society too often kept in the shadows.
A PEOPLE IN THE SHADOWS
- Bani Khoshnoudi
- 2008
- Iran, Netherlands
- s.t. French and English
- 92 min
Special screening
This essay recounts the struggle for the repatriation and reburial of Ancestors, laying bare the coloniality and ethnocentrism of non-Indigenous institutions.
AANIKOOBIJIGAN [ANCESTOR / GREAT-GRANDPARENT / GREAT-GRANDCHILD]
- Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil
- 2026
- United States, Denmark
- s.t. English
- 80 min
New Visions Competition
Set in the heart of this isolated community that has been thrown into turmoil by the presence of the Chilean Navy, this film chronicles an admirable shared resistance.
ABOVE THE WATERLINE
- Elisa Sepúlveda Ruddoff
- 2026
- Chile, France
- s.t. French or English
- 73 min
International Feature Competition
In Algiers, Hassen Ferhani joins his father, a writer, on a poetic stroll in which the city fosters a lyrical reflection on beauty, creation and cultural transmission.
ALEA JACARANDAS
- Hassen Ferhani
- 2026
- France, Algeria
- s.t. French and English
- 78 min
Panorama - Essentials
A luminous poetic essay dedicated to Amílcar Cabral, the African agronomist, thinker and revolutionary who led the anticolonial struggle in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde.
International Short and Medium-Length Competition
Through a combination of archival documents, 3D scans and film, this engaging work revisits the history of solidarity and anti-colonial struggles for freedom among Portuguese colonies.
AN IMPOSSIBLE ADDRESS
- Suneil Sanzgiri
- 2025
- United States, Angola, India
- s.t. English
- 39 min
New Visions Competition
With a creative mix of various visual archives, this rigorous and fascinating film revisits the incomplete solidarity project of OPEC and its member countries.
AN INCOMPLETE CALENDAR
- Sanaz Sohrabi
- 2026
- Canada (Quebec), Iran, Turkey, Venezuela
- s.t. French or English
- 77 min
New Visions Competition
With a strong focus on dance and its transmission, this documentary captures the final year of training at the École des Sables in Senegal.
National Feature Competition
In collaboration with her family, the filmmaker examines the intergenerational impacts and legacy of the Vietnam War by recreating scenes from a book written by her father.
Western Balkans Focus : Blurring the Lines
After decades in exile, a father returns to his Kosovo village with his filmmaker daughter, reimagining a vanished childhood through memory, performance and film.
THE BEAUTY OF THE DONKEY
- Dea Gjinovci
- 2025
- Switzerland, Kosovo
- s.t. French and English
- 77 min
New Visions Competition
After finding her teenage diaries at her late father’s house, the filmmaker weaves an introspective essay in which the enthralling memory of her history professor resurfaces like a dream.
LA BELLE ANNÉE
- Angelica Ruffier
- 2026
- Sweden, Norway
- s.t. French or English
- 95 min