International Feature Competition
Made up of powerful, symbolic images, this captivating and poetic cinematic testimony explores an inventive and free-flowing look at exile, memory, and the future.
National Feature Competition
This work, starring Charlotte Rampling as a psychotherapist, uses symbolic imagery shot on 16mm black-and-white film to present a profound journey into the human mind.
International Feature Competition
On a Beirut beach, three men expose their lives to the filmmaker’s attentive gaze. Dima El-Horr captures memory, loss, and resilience amid Lebanon’s perpetual political turmoil.
AND THE FISH FLY ABOVE OUR HEADS
- Dima El-Horr
- 2025
- Lebanon, France, Saudi Arabia
- s.t. French or English
- 70 min
Retrospective Louise Bourque : Reality Unfolded in the Echoes of Memory
This deeply moving short film explores the different stages of romantic grief by conveying emotional power and a healing vulnerability. (HSB)
AUTO PORTRAIT/SELF PORTRAIT POST PARTUM
- Louise Bourque
- 2017
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 14 min
International Short and Medium-Length Competition
Using a rich exploration with AI, the filmmaker immerses us in the experience of a retreat into darkness, prompting a reflection on perception and human existence.
BARDO
- Viera Cákanyová
- 2025
- Czech Republic, Slovakia
- s.t. French or English
- 28 min
International Short and Medium-Length Competition
Beneath Which Rivers Flow blends portraits and speculative narrative to explore the human and geographical impacts of climate change on the daily lives of an Iraqi family.
National Feature Competition
This ensemble film uses interacting stories and aspirations to reveal the intricate ties of a diverse community united around the emblematic and legendary Lac-Saint-Jean blueberry.
LES BLUES DU BLEUET
- Andrés Livov
- 2024
- Canada
- s.t. French and English
- 76 min
Uxdoc RIDM
Emeline Courcier uses artificial intelligence as a tool and metaphor, drawing from her Vietnamese family’s memory and their philosophy of erasing the past to build resilience.
BURN FROM ABSENCE
- Emeline Courcier
- 2024
- France, Canada
- s.t. English
- 35 min
Retrospective Louise Bourque : Reality Unfolded in the Echoes of Memory
In a tribute to her father, the filmmaker revisits a family memory he left behind, exploring his absence and representation through the medium of cinema.
BYE BYE NOW
- Louise Bourque
- 2022
- Canada (Quebec)
- 10 min
National Feature Competition
Both poetic and sensory, this documentary essay exposes the magnetism and the dark side of cities that attract and embrace us as much as they confine us.
CHRONIQUE D'UNE VILLE
- Nadine Gomez
- 2025
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French or English
- 76 min
International Short and Medium-Length Competition
This film uses the exploitation of coltan to reappropriate colonial archives, building an eloquent reflexive dialogue between the legacy of the past and the current reality.
COLTAN
- Petna Ndaliko Katondolo
- 2025
- Democratic Republic of Congo, United States
- s.t. French or English
- 37 min