Familly Screenings
In nature, a couple is a male and a female. Well, not always! A couple can also be a female and a female. Or a male and a male. You might not know it, but homosexuality isn't just a human story.
DANS LA NATURE
- Marcel Barelli
- 2021
- Switzerland
- 5 min
Panorama - Horizons
Burdened by three unfinished short films, a filmmaker confronts his anxieties by launching into a playful and introspective deep dive.
DAVID CONTRE GOLIATH
- David B. Ricard
- 2022
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 90 min
International Feature Competition
The passengers of a hundred-year-old boat are presented as a cross-section of Bangladeshi society in this kaleidoscopic film, which sets its own course in genre-blurring cinema.
DAY AFTER...
- Kamar Ahmad Simon
- 2021
- Bangladesh, Norway, France
- s.t. English
- 115 min
Panorama - Horizons
Despite their austere lifestyle, the cloistered nuns of l’Abbaye Sainte-Marie des Deux-Montagnes are charismatic women with an incredible love of life.
DE L'AUTRE CÔTÉ
- Lessandro Sócrates
- 2022
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 84 min
Focus Brazil : Navigating the Future
Ihjãc’s dreams after his father’s death reveal to him he’ll soon be a shaman. Denying his fate, he leaves his Krahô tribe for a village in the Brazilian hinterland.
THE DEAD AND THE OTHERS
- João Salaviza, Renée Nader Messora
- 2018
- Brazil, Portugal
- s.t. English
- 114 min
National Feature Competition
Blending the past and present, this film portrays a bold and sonically rich family portrait about home, displacement, and current major immigration movements.
THE DEPENDENTS
- Sofía Brockenshire
- 2022
- Canada, Argentina
- s.t. English
- 91 min
Opening film
Uprooted from its land of origin, the diaspora tries to root itself elsewhere. But, is it still possible to belong?
DES RACINES NÉES
- ALUNAYA
- 2022
- Canada (Quebec), Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 9 min
Panorama - Horizons
This multi-voiced film immerses us in manufacturing in the Philippines, where LGBTQ+ employees are subjected to precarious work conditions to produce religious items.
DIVINE FACTORY
- Joseph Mangat
- 2022
- Philippines, United States, Taiwan
- s.t. English
- 121 min
International Feature Competition
In Brazil, an all-female gang selling oil on the black market sets out to represent the political interests of a population abandoned by the government.
DRY GROUND BURNING
- Joana Pimenta, Adirley Queirós
- 2022
- Brazil, Portugal
- s.t. French or English
- 164 min