National Short and Medium-Length Competition
Combining archival footage and contemporary recordings, the director paints a complex portrait of mother-daughter relationships across three generations of her Iranian family.
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 Feature Competition
Made up of powerful, symbolic images, this captivating and poetic cinematic testimony explores an inventive and free-flowing look at exile, memory, and the future.
International Feature Competition
On a Beirut beach, three men expose their lives to the filmmaker’s attentive gaze. Dima El-Horr captures memory, loss, and resilience amid Lebanon’s perpetual political turmoil.
AND THE FISH FLY ABOVE OUR HEADS
- Dima El-Horr
- 2025
- Lebanon, France, Saudi Arabia
- s.t. French or English
- 70 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
New Visions Competition
Karin Pennanen revisits the creative world and personal archives of her uncle Markku to develop a fascinating artistic dialogue with him in a surprising and touching posthumous tribute.
International Short and Medium-Length Competition
Nurtured by the mythology of Zora, the Slavic goddess of dawn, and inspired by the filmmaker's grandmothers, this short film pays tribute to women warriors throughout history.
DRAGICA, DANICA, DUšKA / OR / WHEN ZORA, THE GODDESS OF DAWN, OPENS THE GATES OF HEAVEN FOR SUN TO EMERGE
- Iva Radivojevic
- 2025
- United States, Kosovo
- s.t. English
- 10 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
Wapikoni
The joy of fishing for Jack, a curious and charismatic 10-year-old enthusiast, shines through the screen during a day on the water with his grandmother and through clips from his YouTube channel. (HSB)
FISHING WITH JACK
- Jack Hardy
- 2024
- Canada
- s.t. French
- 8 min
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