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
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
National Feature Competition
Both poetic and sensory, this documentary essay exposes the magnetism and the dark side of cities that attract and embrace us as much as they confine us.
CHRONIQUE D'UNE VILLE
- Nadine Gomez
- 2025
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French or English
- 76 min
Panorama - Essentials
In class, high schoolers explore Annie Ernaux's work through group discussions, where intimacy and contemporary collective history meet and resonate with each other.
ÉCRIRE LA VIE - ANNIE ERNAUX RACONTÉE PAR DES LYCÉENNES ET DES LYCÉENS
- Claire Simon
- 2025
- France
- s.t. English
- 91 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
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.
Carte blanche
A portrait of the artists’ collective GENERAL IDEA, this documentary, made from extensive archives, is a story of love, fame, overwhelming loss, and, ultimately, renewal.
“I chose General Idea: Art, AIDS and the Fin de Siècle for the way this Canadian collective has turned art into an act of resistance, subverting social codes with provocation and dark humour. Their radicalism resonates with the subversive energy I try to convey through my projects.”(Annie-Claude Deschênes)
“I chose General Idea: Art, AIDS and the Fin de Siècle for the way this Canadian collective has turned art into an act of resistance, subverting social codes with provocation and dark humour. Their radicalism resonates with the subversive energy I try to convey through my projects.”(Annie-Claude Deschênes)
GENERAL IDEA: ART, AIDS AND THE FIN DE SIÈCLE
- Annette Mangaard
- 2007
- Canada
- s.t. French
- 50 min
International Feature Competition
Filmed over 15 years, this film combines legend and magical realism to immerse us in the reality of the border village of Moimenta, where Mariana and her family live.
GODS OF STONE
- Iván Castiñeiras Gallego
- 2025
- Spain, Portugal, France
- s.t. French or English
- 85 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
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