New Visions Competition
Between wildfire and pointillist landscapes, In the Manner of Smoke traces the delicate rhythms of seeing, where images linger, shift, and dissolve like drifting smoke.
IN THE MANNER OF SMOKE
- Armand Yervant Tufenkian
- 2025
- United States, United Kingdom
- s.t. French
- 90 min
Wapikoni
Composed of an intriguing series and superimposition of still images to reveal various elements, this visual poem explores the movement of a fascinating symbolic abstraction. (HSB)
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- Jim Matlock
- 2024
- Canada
- 2 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
In this DIY diary, Émilie Baillargeon documents the idleness that accompanies her new identity as a mother-artist with humour, sincerity, stubbornness, and vulnerability.
J'AI EU UNE IDÉE ÉVIDENTE ET J'ATTENDS QU'ELLE REVIENNE
- Emilie Baillargeon
- 2025
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 16 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
With a refined touch of humour and bite, Dan Popa and Hoda Adra combine their talents to offer a riveting poetic and political look at the Paris Olympics and, more broadly, at our era.
JEUX DE CORRESPONDANCE
- Dan Popa, Hoda Adra
- 2025
- Canada (Quebec), France
- s.t. English
- 27 min
International Short and Medium-Length Competition
Freely exploring a fragmented reflection on identity, family, and belonging, this touching, playful film weaves together an intergenerational family memory.
LANDSCAPES OF LONGING
- Alisha Tejpal, Mireya Martinez, Anoushka Mirchandani
- 2025
- India, United States
- s.t. French or English
- 15 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
This hybrid film, with its atmosphere of suspended time, offers a surprising foray into the world of amateur radio operators united by a desire for human connection.
LEUR EXISTENCE
- Xavier Doutre, Clarence de Bayser
- 2025
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French or English
- 27 min
Magnus Isacsson Competition
In the arid hell of the U.S.-Mexico border, a couple of Mexican volunteers struggle to restore dignity to the victims of a tragic migratory journey.
MAIS OÙ VA-T-ON, COYOTE?
- Jonah Malak
- 2025
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French or English
- 85 min
National Feature Competition
Drawing on the world's film archives, this film traces the trajectory of an imagined community on the move, traversing a timeless memory toward a common affirmation.
International Feature Competition
Across continents, Maryam reconnects with her parents via discreetly installed surveillance cameras, capturing intimate gestures that bridge forced exile, memory, longing, and the passage of time.
Uxdoc RIDM
In his living room, a retired playwright unveils a revelation to the spectator : he is losing his memories and seeks companionship to reconstruct his cherished remembrances.
QUEER UTOPIA
- Lui Avallos
- 2023
- Brazil, Portugal
- 25 min
Focus Taiwan: Beyond the Frame
In Tayal tradition, “Spi,” which means to dream, is how people connect with their ancestors. Sayun Simung traces how one family, torn between modernity and Indigenous memory, strives to carry forward the spirit of their ancestor.
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