Wapikoni
In a visual exploration through multiple angles and perspectives, the multidisciplinary artist Catherine Boivin travels the road of personal reflection, following in her ancestors’ footsteps.
6 MINUTES/KM
- Catherine Boivin
- 2022
- Canada (Odanak)
- s.t. French or English
- 4 min
International Feature Competition
Seeking a sense of belonging, the filmmaker returns to his rural village in northern Spain, where he tries to understand his family and their world so deeply rooted in traditions.
A HOUSE FOR WANDERING SOULS
- Pablo Lago Dantas
- 2023
- Spain
- s.t. English
- 73 min
Special Screening
A performing arts film by Alanis Obomsawin, it documents efforts to raise funds for the James Bay Cree and was made at a time when Cree territory was threatened by hydro-electric projects. Amisk represents early work by Obomsawin, a trailblazer in Canadian Aboriginal film.
AMISK
- Alanis Obomsawin
- 1977
- Canada
- s.t. English
- 40 min
Panorama - Against the Grain
In a historical review of the 1972 smallpox epidemic in Yugoslavia, archival images are paired with narration from a doctor who vividly recalls life at the time.
ANOTHER SPRING
- Mladen Kovacevic
- 2022
- Serbia, France, Qatar
- s.t. English
- 90 min
Panorama - Essentials
Danish filmmaker Lea Glob spends over a decade patiently capturing Apolonia Sokol’s unique world as the French painter carves out her artistic identity with resilience and unflinching defiance.
APOLONIA, APOLONIA
- Lea Glob
- 2022
- Denmark, Poland
- s.t. French or English
- 116 min
Panorama - Horizons
In a sleeping house, women share their stories, beginning to loosen the painful knots that have bound their lives to those of their violent partners.
APRÈS-COUPS
- Romane Garant Chartrand
- 2023
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 25 min
International Short and Medium-Length Competition
During a ferry ride, the space between two shores allows us to observe ferry passengers under a fog both literal and suggestive of time suspended.
AQUERONTE
- Manuel Muñoz Rivas
- 2023
- Spain
- s.t. English
- 26 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
Against the backdrop of the carnival and its tribulations, the whirl of rides mirrors Kim’s state of mind as the young Québécois carnival worker thinks hard about his future.
L' ARTIFICE
- Isabelle Grignon-Francke
- 2023
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 18 min
Audio work
Exploring the journey and subsequent confinement of people who had to leave everything behind in the pursuit of a better life, this program features two sound creations that strongly echo one another.
AU TRAVERS DES ÉCHOS
- Victoria Maréchal
- 2023
- Argentina, Switzerland
- s.t. French
- 17 min
Panorama - Horizons
From Germany, the filmmaker talks to his father in Syria. In between long silences, the film evokes the feeling of powerlessness brought on by exile.
BACKGROUND
- Khaled Abdulwahed
- 2023
- Germany
- s.t. French or English
- 64 min
Panorama - Against the Grain
Driven into exile by far-right paramilitary forces, the inhabitants of a Colombian village return 20 years later to the place they once called home.
LA BONGA
- Sebastián Pinzón Silva, Canela Reyes
- 2023
- Colombia, United States
- s.t. French or English
- 78 min
Opening film
The filmmaker turns her camera on her mother, actress Hiam Abbass, to paint an intimate intergenerational portrait of the daring Palestinian women in her family. The work offers a sensitive look at exile while celebrating the resilience of family ties.
BYE BYE TIBERIAS
- Lina Soualem
- 2023
- France, Palestine, Belgium, Qatar
- s.t. French and English
- 82 min