National Feature Competition
This work invites us to see differently, and even to experience, the ecosystem that connects oysters to a community of fishers and oyster farmers.
CONCRETE TURNED TO SAND
- Ryan Ermacora, Jessica Johnson
- 2026
- Canada
- s.t. French
- 73 min
Panorama - Horizons
Retracing the coming-of-age story of the members of Nigerian artist collective The Critics, this documentary tells the story of a search for meaning and the importance of art for youth.
CROCODILE
- Pietra Brettkelly, The Critics
- 2026
- Nigeria, New Zealand
- s.t. English
- 91 min
The soirée de la relève Radio-Canada
This portrait of Trois-Pistoles mortician Roch Fleury offers a meditation on our relationship with death and the role of the displayed body in the grieving process.
New Visions Competition
Geographer Akhbari explores and examines the infrastructure and narratives specific to the ports, economies and informal trade routes between the Caspian Sea and the Strait of Hormuz.
CROSSINGS: KALEH ZIYARAT
- Rouzbeh Akhbari
- 2026
- Canada, Portugal, Oman, Iran
- s.t. French or English
- 67 min
Panorama - Horizons
With tender warmth and dreamlike visual poetry, this intimate film brings together the experiences of motherhood shared by several women.
CUEILLI SOUS LE BANANIER
- Laura Kamugisha
- 2026
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French or English
- 14 min
Magnus Isacsson Competition
Through voices and urban sounds, Simon Plouffe explores intimate and collective soundscapes that shape the act of listening through a visual representation of sound.
DES GRUES ET DES VOIX
- Simon Plouffe
- 2026
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 71 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
This work revisits Lebanon’s history and geopolitics by interrogating the hero figure, incorporating spoken interviews and blending intermediality with this film’s reflexivity.
DISAPPEARANCE IS NOT DEATH
- Joyce Joumaa
- 2026
- Canada (Quebec), Lebanon
- s.t. English
- 26 min
Western Balkans Focus : Blurring the Lines
Through the perspectives of three survivors and archival images, this film explores Srebrenica’s history, where forests, fields and disturbed earth bear the scars of the past.
DISTURBED EARTH
- Kumjana Novakova, Guillermo Carreras-Candi
- 2021
- Spain, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia
- s.t. English
- 71 min
Western Balkans Focus : Blurring the Lines
Within the confines of a hospital, women share intimate stories of body, memory and trauma, revealing how listening can transform vulnerability into connection and strength.
THE DIVINE FEMININE
- Ivana Todorovic
- 2026
- Serbia
- s.t. English
- 20 min
Panorama - Horizons
Sékou Timité travels across Africa, meeting with fellow griots, in a quest to perfect his craft as a traditional storyteller and keeper of ancestral memory.
DJELIYA, MÉMOIRE DU MANDÉ
- Boubacar Sangaré
- 2026
- Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Mali, Senegal
- s.t. French or English
- 117 min
International Feature Competition
In Norrköping, a mother and son move through daily life, their world unfolding through moody music, luminous 16 mm images and a dreamlike sense of time.
Special screening
A maid is suspected of murdering her former employer. Questioned by the police, she will reveal the existence of a supernatural power.
DREI ATLAS
- Miryam Charles
- 2018
- Haiti, Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 7 min