Focus Taiwan: Beyond the Frame
Kaohsiung, once a Japanese military base, bears the scars of Taiwan’s 228 Incident, where the scars of survivors and descendants endure like the wild tomatoes growing there.
Uxdoc RIDM
Inside the former Green Island Prison, political prisoner A-Kuen recounts stories of imprisonment and persecution that took place in Taiwan in the 1950s.
THE MAN WHO COULDN'T LEAVE
- Singing Chen
- 2022
- Taiwan
- s.t. English
- 35 min
Focus Taiwan: Beyond the Frame
Through Deng Nan-guang’s archives, amateur filmmaking under Japanese colonial rule is reimagined in the present.
THIS IS NOT A FILM BY DENG NAN GUANG
- Pang-Chuan Huang, Chunni Lin
- 2024
- Taiwan
- s.t. English
- 40 min
Focus Taiwan: Beyond the Frame
Through the lens of a family story, the film traces diaspora, Taiwan-United States history, and Cold War legacies, unfolding within the intimate fabric of generational memory.
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
The streets of Montreal intersect with a distant yet familiar Colombia, connecting two remote realities that unite to bear witness to the magnitude of absence.
TIGERS CAN BE SEEN IN THE RAIN
- Oscar Ruiz Navia
- 2025
- Colombia, Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 16 min
The soirée de la relève Radio-Canada
Through intimate, private interviews, women from a Vietnamese family who immigrated to Quebec in 1975 discuss exile, sacrifice, and intergenerational transmission. (AF)
TISSER LA SOIE
- Marguerite Ranger
- 2025
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French
- 20 min
Uxdoc RIDM
A collective and immersive experience inviting you to poetically explore your grief—whether from the loss of a loved one, a friendship, a home, or even a dream—in a personalized and introspective way.
TRACES : LE PROCESSEUR DE PEINE
- Vali Fugulin
- 2025
- Canada
- 25 min
Magnus Isacsson Competition
This film of eloquent archives looks back on an important movement of resistance and protest against racism toward Black people in Montreal to create a potent act of remembrance.
TRUE NORTH
- Michèle Stephenson
- 2025
- Canada, United States
- s.t. English
- 96 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
Using images shot on film, this short film explores the deep connections between the territory of Nunavut, Inuit , flora, and fauna.
TUKTUIT : CARIBOU
- Lindsay McIntyre
- 2025
- Canada
- s.t. French and English
- 16 min
International Feature Competition
Underground invites us to listen gently, transporting the senses to new spaces where a transhistorical exploration of the Battle of Okinawa, a pivotal event in Japanese history, emerges.
The soirée de la relève Radio-Canada
Dreamlike paintings illustrate the resilience of three women facing their physical and relational trauma. (AF)
VOX FÉMINA
- Danielle Tudor
- 2024
- Canada (Quebec)
- 10 min
International Feature Competition
In the darkness of an eternal night, this immersive film takes us to a group of Afghan smugglers in the forest on the border between Serbia and Hungary, revealing the cruelty and violence of an unequal world.
WAKING HOURS
- Federico Cammarata, Filippo Foscarini
- 2025
- Italy
- s.t. English
- 78 min