Retrospective Carlos Ferrand and the Grupo de Cine Liberación sin Rodeos: a Legacy of Political and Cinematic Activism
This cinematic pamphlet reveals the inequalities and condemns the repercussions caused by the destructive exploitation of the Amazon, including the genocide of several populations.
VISIÓN DE LA SELVA
- Grupo de cine Liberación sin Rodeos
- 1971
- Peru
- s.t. French
- 18 min
Closing Film
Recently arrived in Montreal, Anna, a twelve-year-old Ukrainian gymnast, is trying to find her balance between a past marked by war and her desire to belong.
VOLTIGE
- Luiza Cocora
- 2024
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French
- 21 min
Closing film
A filmmaker returns to Tripoli after 15 years abroad to reconnect with her father. Their intimate bond, shaped by poetry and intergenerational tensions, unfolds against the backdrop of Lebanon’s political unrest.
WE ARE INSIDE
- Farah Kassem
- 2024
- Lebanon, Qatar, Denmark
- s.t. English
- 180 min
Retrospective Iva Radivojevic : Imaginary Landscapes of Dislocation
Rooted in the filmmaker's personal experience, this fictional essay embodies a reflection on memory, reconstructing in fragments an intimate and collective buried narrative.
WHEN THE PHONE RANG
- Iva Radivojevic
- 2024
- Serbia, United States
- s.t. English
- 73 min
Magnus Isacsson Competition
Lisa Jackson’s film follows Cree Elder Wilfred Buck’s transformation into a revered educator and guardian of Indigenous star knowledge by seamlessly bridging past and present through a compelling visual narrative.
WILFRED BUCK
- Lisa Jackson
- 2024
- Canada
- s.t. French or English
- 93 min
International Feature Competition
In a revealing documentary approach, this story, told with the protagonists playing themselves, reconstructs their uprooting in the face of the insensitivity of climate change.
THE WOLVES ALWAYS COME AT NIGHT
- Gabrielle Brady
- 2024
- Mongolia, Australia, Germany
- s.t. English
- 96 min
Magnus Isacsson Competition
Les yeux ne font pas le regard plunges us into the visual and aural experience of blindness, lived and told by five people who have lost their sight to weapons of war.
LES YEUX NE FONT PAS LE REGARD
- Simon Plouffe
- 2024
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French or English
- 93 min