Wapikoni
Calling the Ekuanitshiu Shipu River her sister and source of healing, Uapukun Mestokosho McKenzie makes a poetic film about and with water.
NIPI UTAIAMUN
- Uapukun Mestokosho McKenzie
- 2023
- Canada (Ekuanitshit)
- s.t. French or English
- 6 min
New Visions Competition
Back in Nagasaki, Noriko Oi is confronted with her deceased mother’s painful past and decides to break the silence surrounding the intergenerational trauma caused by the nuclear attack.
International Feature Competition
The last resident of a mesmerizingly beautiful village nestled in a Cabo Verde valley, 76-year-old Quirino is forced to leave the only place he has ever known.
OMI NOBU, L'HOMME NOUVEAU
- Carlos Yuri Ceuninck
- 2023
- Cape Verde, Belgium, Sudan, Germany
- s.t. French or English
- 64 min
International Short and Medium-Length Competition
Spurred by childhood memories, this poetic work questions the promises of progress in industrial mining, with its various economic and social repercussions.
Based on evidence from the “Foca Rape Camps” trial, this research-creation condemns the trivialization of wartime rape by giving a voice to Bosnian survivors.
SILENCE OF REASON
- Kumjana Novakova
- 2023
- North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- s.t. French and English
- 63 min
Magnus Isacsson Competition
Alongside a couple’s final weeks before one of them receives medical assistance in dying, this tender film is a lucid reflection on death, but above all, on life.
SIMON & MARIANNE
- Pier-Luc Latulippe, Martin Fournier
- 2024
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 71 min
National Feature Competition
A sophisticated, artistic look at the páramo, this work explores the social and environmental realities of this unique region, where the future carries its memories as a legacy.
THE SOLDIER'S LAGOON
- Pablo Alvarez-Mesa
- 2024
- Colombia, Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French or English
- 77 min
International Short and Medium-Length Competition
In lush Angola, the all-powerful Portuguese colonizer emerges like a parasite, ravaging the fauna, flora, and local populations.
International Feature Competition
A sparkling film that follows the metamorphosis of young Sara, who is torn between the friends of her working-class neighbourhood and the new world that opens to her when she discovers the theatre.
TO OUR FRIENDS
- Adrián Orr
- 2024
- Spain, Portugal
- s.t. French or English
- 90 min
National Feature Competition
Playing with the codes of documentary, Tout sur Margo is an intimate autofiction exploring a sincere but disappointed young performer’s quest for meaning.
TOUT SUR MARGO
- Yann-Manuel Hernandez, Margaux Latour
- 2024
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 80 min