International Short and Medium-Length Competition
An “official” narrative, coupled with images that gradually cast doubt on their veracity, forces us to reflect in this era of post-truth fuelled by AI.
09/05/1982
- Jorge Caballero, Camilo Restrepo
- 2025
- Mexico, Spain
- s.t. French or English
- 11 min
Carte blanche
Blending archives, performances, and images of everyday life, this film paints a portrait of Marja Burchard, leader of the eclectic krautrock collective Embryo, co-founded by her late father.
A SOUND OF MY OWN
- Rebecca Zehr
- 2021
- Germany
- s.t. French
- 52 min
Uxdoc RIDM
A melancholic journey based on the testimony of a woman who refused to evacuate her hometown village after a terrible disaster.
ALL UNSAVED PROGRESS WILL BE LOST
- Mélanie Courtinat
- 2022
- France
- s.t. English
- 10 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
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
Uxdoc RIDM
It is the story of a man who’s lost his ability to speak, and his daughter who seeks to communicate with him, exploring aphasia as if it were a distant land.
EMPEREUR
- Marion Burger, Ilan Cohen
- 2023
- France, Germany
- 40 min
Uxdoc RIDM
An immersive journey through France's nuclear fission and fusion plants, featuring interviews with experts on the future of energy.
ENERGEIA
- Ugo Arsac
- 2023
- France
- 25 min
New Visions Competition
On a sensory journey to the heart of Hispanic flora, Mauricio Freyre examines plant seeds as yet another manifestation of colonial violence and neglect.
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
A poetic and geological laboratory, this experimental short explores the atmospheres, details, textures, and patterns of mineral, aqueous, and film materials.
ÉTUDES MÉTAMORPHIQUES
- David Ricard, Nelly Paquentin
- 2025
- Canada (Quebec)
- 6 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
Captured on film, Film de roche shows bouldering as a mesmerizing visual and auditory trance, a true ode to the fragility and resilience of the female body.
International Feature Competition
Set in a village in Georgia’s Pankisi Valley near the Chechen border, Imago follows filmmaker Déni Oumar Pitsaev as he confronts generational silence and cultural displacement while dreaming of a home and a life beyond convention.
Retrospective Louise Bourque : Reality Unfolded in the Echoes of Memory
An obsession, a fleeting image, a longing: the home as a romanticized, idealized place of intimacy, insistently inhabiting the most personal sphere, the territory of dreams and memories, of fantasy and desire. Using a short segment from personal home-movies (edited and reproduced multiple times) as a primary source of imagery, the process is a formal and lyrical exploration whereby the film is being essentially treated as a material, a surface, a membrane that can be manipulated directly in a "desperate" attempt at reclaiming and demystifying, at finding and revealing, at mapping the ineffable, at capturing and letting go...The original home-movie images once reproduced were affected through a variety of hand manipulations and chemical processes (without the use of optical effects) such as toning, deterioration of the emulsion and emulsion lifts, solarization, tinting, ripping, perforation, collage and hand-made "mattes", painting, printing, bleaching, scratching, as well as manipulations in contact printing and the developing process.
(Maude Trottier)
(Maude Trottier)
IMPRINT
- Louise Bourque
- 1997
- 14 min