Canadian Feature Competition
Thierry Loa invites us on a film experience with this symphonic look at our civilization, somewhere between 1920s avant-garde films and the works of Godfrey Reggio.
UXdoc
A virtual reality work that takes you inside the lives of teens in a juvenile detention centre.
310
- Emily Laliberté, Mélina Desrosiers, Les filles du 310
- 2018
- Canada (Quebec)
- 24 min
Short and Medium-Length Competitions
A brilliant reinvention of the mountaineering film, this is the revisited diary of the first Serb to climb Everest: a meditation on hubris and mysterious high-altitude mental states.
4 Years in 10 Minutes
- Mladen Kovacevic
- 2018
- Serbia
- s.t. English
- 63 min
Kazuhiro Soda: Making Images Speak
A woman and a flower share a small apartment. A quasi-erotic tandem emerges, until one day, life’s events upset the fragile balance.
Canadian Feature Competition
The life of Hopukali, a 5-year-old novice in a monastery in Nepal. A keenly observed film.
Kazuhiro Soda: Making Images Speak
Soda shows a Japanese businessman watching the people at the next table in a fast-food restaurant. A collection of little performances that reveal different facets and strata of the American society.
Canadian Feature Competition
A touching portrait of two sisters who were separated when the younger one became a nun. A nuanced exploration of family, faith and the meaning of life.
A Sister's Song
- Danae Elon
- 2018
- Canada (Quebec), Israel
- s.t. French or English
- 81 min
Short and Medium-Length Competitions
The breathtaking landscapes of the Altiplano are found in northern Chile and Argentina. Using beautiful superimpositions on 16mm film, Malena Szlam captures their splendour.
Special Presentations
A meticulous collection of precise, devastating witness accounts of Chinese re-education camps, Les âmes mortes is a crucially important historical document.
Les âmes mortes
- Wang Bing
- 2018
- France, Switzerland
- s.t. French or English
- 495 min
Fine Local Product: Women-Made and Queer Videos from 1990
ARTifice
Filmmaker Pedro González Rubio offers an incredibly touching portrait of Mexican youth, awakening to life, love and adulthood while staging Sophocles’ Antigone.
Antígona
- Pedro González Rubio
- 2018
- Mexico
- s.t. French or English
- 75 min
ARTifice
A fascinating investigation into the fate of an ancient statue found and then lost in Gaza – a symbol of a fragile region’s complex situation.
L' Apollon de Gaza
- Nicolas Wadimoff
- 2018
- Switzerland, Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French or English
- 78 min
Special Presentations
A close look at the days before and after the Catalan independence referendum in 2017: a tribute to a popular movement, raising important questions about the idea of democracy.
Avec un sourire, la révolution
- Alexandre Chartrand
- 2018
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French
- 87 min
La bête humaine
Where do the thousands of objects around us come from? Where do they go? This audio-visual symphony is a dark reflection on our world.
Beautiful Things
- Giorgio Ferrero, Federico Biasin
- 2017
- Italy
- s.t. English
- 96 min
Special Presentations
An immersive experience inviting us to re-establish contact with the intensely tactile character of nature, and to think about the origins and evolution of human behaviour.
Becoming Animal
- Peter Mettler, Emma Davie
- 2018
- Switzerland, United Kingdom
- s.t. French
- 79 min
Maria Augusta Ramos: Exposing the System
The director examines the justice system’s handling of minors. Behave observes the inevitable fallout of a social impasse.
Short and Medium-Length Competitions
An original, creative essay that revives the life and provocative work of Mary McLane, an early-20th century American writer, avant-garde in her feminism and open bisexuality.
Between My Flesh and the World's Fingers
- Talena Sanders
- 2018
- United States
- 32 min
Kazuhiro Soda: Making Images Speak
Shot in Ann Arbor’s massive football stadium - “the Big House” - the film is a snapshot of American society.
The Big House
- Terri Sarris, Markus Nornes, Kazuhiro Soda, Cinéastes De L'Université Du Michigan
- 2018
- United States, Japan
- 119 min
UXdoc
A spectacular virtual reality journey to a future Toronto, where indigenous languages are the gateway to imagining a possible future.
Biidaaban: First Light
- Lisa Jackson, Mathew Borrett, Jam3
- 2018
- Canada
- 7 min
Special Presentations
Performances and testimonials make for an unforgettable film that cuts to America’s dark heart, through a re-enactment of the tragic deportation of striking miners in 1917.
Bisbee '17
- Robert Greene
- 2018
- United States
- s.t. English
- 113 min
Fine Local Product: Women-Made and Queer Videos from 1990
Kazuhiro Soda: Making Images Speak
Following the chaotic election campaign of a candidate of the Liberal Democratic Party, the director reveals a great observational cinema, methodical, and incisive.
Kazuhiro Soda: Making Images Speak
The filmmaker reconnects with candidate Yamauchi in 2011, as Japan copes with the trauma of the Fukushima disaster to analyze contemporary Japan with its troubling democratic deficits.
International Feature Competition
Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport is now a shelter for migrants awaiting visas. Following Ibrahim, a young Syrian, the filmmaker takes us inside the everyday life of an unusual microcosm.
Central Airport THF
- Karim Aïnouz
- 2017
- Germany, France, Brazil
- s.t. French or English
- 97 min
Short and Medium-Length Competitions
A hilarious, brilliantly critical futuristic fiction presented as a documentary-to-come about Marne-la-Vallée, home to Disneyland Paris.
International Feature Competition
Three women in three cities, in Syria, Sweden and Austria. The filmmaker reveals the profound depression afflicting people broken by war and exile, whether geographical or internalized.
Chaos
- Sara Fattahi
- 2018
- Austria, Syria, Lebanon, Qatar
- s.t. English
- 95 min
International Feature Competition
The daily life of the owner of an all-night restaurant in Taipei becomes a captivating poetic meditation on life after dark.
Special Presentations
An inspiring, humanist ensemble film about the realities of life in Quebec’s Basse-Côte-Nord region.
Les Coasters
- Nicolas-Alexandre Tremblay, Stéphane Trottier
- 2018
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French or English
- 86 min
DOC35: A Look Back, a Future Vision
La bête humaine
Director Cynthia Choucair wanders Lesbos with three Clowns Without Borders, searching for the refugees locked away by local authorities.
Counting Tiles
- Cynthia Choucair
- 2018
- Lebanon
- s.t. English
- 85 min
Special Presentations
Nicolas Philibert takes us inside a nursing school, where we meet the students and see their stressful lives, captured with deep empathy.
De chaque instant
- Nicolas Philibert
- 2018
- France, Japan
- s.t. English
- 105 min
UXdoc
A virtual reality short made in parallel with Beautiful Things: a spectacular audio-visual symphony about the “life” of the objects around us.
Denoise
- Giorgio Ferrero, Federico Biasin
- 2017
- Italy, Switzerland, United States
- s.t. English
- 13 min
Maria Augusta Ramos: Exposing the System
For a year, Ramos’ camera follows Desi, 11-year old, bouncing back and forth between the mobile home where her father ekes out a precarious existence and her grandparents’ apartments. A moving film about growing up.
Short and Medium-Length Competitions
This film explores Lebanon’s violent past by delving deep into the memories, archives and conversations gathered by a young filmmaker born after the Mount Lebanese war of 1983.
The Disappearance of Goya
- Toni Geitani
- 2017
- Lebanon
- s.t. English
- 56 min
UXdoc
A 360° short that invites us to roam three Hong Kong neighbourhoods through the testimonials of people who are passionate about their city.
Disappearance: Hong Kong Stories
- Shannon Walsh
- 2018
- Hong Kong, Canada
- 14 min
Portraits
Oleg, 10, lives with his grandmother near the front lines of the Donbass, Ukraine conflict. A beautifully filmed, heartbreaking portrait of a childhood disrupted by the violence of adults.
The Distant Barking of Dogs
- Simon Lereng Wilmont
- 2017
- Denmark
- s.t. English
- 91 min
Portraits
The filmmaker records the memories of residents of a retirement home. With a remarkable sense of detail, she reveals the cruelty and beauty of old age.
Distant Constellation
- Shevaun Mizrahi
- 2017
- United States, Turkey, Netherlands
- s.t. English
- 82 min
Short and Medium-Length Competitions
Between dreams and reality, an original portrait of the Danish translator of Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami, framed as an extension of the acclaimed author’s imaginary world.
Maria Augusta Ramos: Exposing the System
Drought assembles a portrait of an impoverished land and its residents, who seem to have been sculpted by their harsh surroundings and exposes local politicians’ empty promises.
Drought
- Maria Augusta Ramos
- 2015
- Brazil
- s.t. English
- 88 min
ARTifice
Parallel profiles of three indigenous musicians who are energizing Canadian music by melding their traditional musical heritage with contemporary styles, including folk, reggae and electronica.
Du teweikan à l'électro : voyage aux sources de la musique autochtone
- Kim O'Bomsawin
- 2018
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French or English
- 55 min
International Feature Competition
A wildly provocative experimental essay in which a motley assortment of unlikely marginal rebels form a hilarious, vitriolic portrait of fractured America.
Empty Metal
- Adam Khalil, Bayley Sweitzer
- 2018
- United States
- 84 min
La bête humaine
Through portraits of different Indian workers, the filmmaker sketches a portrait of human society, using an approach that goes beyond simple observation.
The End and the Means
- Pawel Wojtasik
- 2018
- United States, India, France
- s.t. English
- 99 min
Canadian Feature Competition
The Exarcheia district, in Athens, is the home of Greek anarchism. Over the course of a night, Nadine Gomez takes the pulse of an idealistic society and its paradoxes.
Exarcheia, le chant des oiseaux
- Nadine Gomez
- 2018
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French or English
- 73 min
Fine Local Product: Women-Made and Queer Videos from 1990
International Feature Competition
A fragmentary essay in black and white, combining fiction and documentary, past and present, to highlight the identity issues haunting the republics of the former USSR.
Extinction
- Salomé Lamas
- 2018
- Portugal, Germany
- s.t. English
- 86 min
The State of the World
After the death of his cousin, a young Russian soldier, the filmmaker captures two different worlds linked by death: the ongoing training of the deceased’s regiment, and the grief-stricken family.
Le fils
- Alexander Abaturov
- 2018
- France, Russia
- s.t. French or English
- 71 min
Canadian Feature Competition
An intimate portrait of Haitian poet, art critic and actor Dominique Batraville. Filmed inside his tiny bedrooom/library, he lets us glimpse his infinite imagination.
Les flâneries du voyant
- Aïda Maigre-Touchet
- 2018
- Canada, France, Haiti
- s.t. French or English
- 72 min
Kazuhiro Soda: Making Images Speak
Captivating short that exposes a young photographer’s torments. Fascinated by a meeting with a blind man in the street, he takes several photos of the man’s face revealing a disturbing moment.
Special Presentations
A deadpan documentary fable about a Romanian bureaucrat obsessed with changing the rules of soccer.
Football infini
- Corneliu Porumboiu
- 2018
- Romania
- s.t. French or English
- 70 min
Kazuhiro Soda: Making Images Speak
When James arrives at the home of his cousin Jon in New York, he disrupts the peaceful routine Jon enjoys with his girlfriend. So begins a series of wanderings through the big city.
Maria Augusta Ramos: Exposing the System
Filmed in São Paulo a few weeks before the World Cup in 2014. The portraits of four men from different backgrounds give us a picture of the city, Brazilian society and the challenges of urban life.
Future June
- Maria Augusta Ramos
- 2015
- Netherlands, Brazil
- s.t. English
- 96 min
Special Presentations
In small-town Arkansas, Christian fundamentalism and flamboyant gay culture get along as best they can, building fragile bonds and defying stereotypes.
The Gospel of Eureka
- Donal Mosher, Michael Palmieri
- 2018
- United States
- 73 min
Short and Medium-Length Competitions
Part documentary, part experimental cinema, anthropology, political broadside and metaphysical pondering. A film about the ghosts and repressed nightmares of post-revolutionary Turkey.
Gulyabani
- Gürcan Keltek
- 2018
- Netherlands, Turkey
- s.t. English
- 34 min
International Feature Competition
A poetic, sensory, lyrical work: an unprecedented film, radically redefining the on-screen representation of African Americans.
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
- RaMell Ross
- 2018
- United States
- 77 min
Canadian Feature Competition
The life of a Kirghiz family that lives off the bounty of a threatened forest. A touching portrait, from daily toil to ancient myths.
Maria Augusta Ramos: Exposing the System
Once again dividing her attention between several protagonists of varying backgrounds, the filmmaker analyzes the immense challenges facing the political and legal authorities.
Hill of Pleasures
- Maria Augusta Ramos
- 2013
- Netherlands, Brazil
- s.t. English
- 91 min
Nos New York
UXdoc
An interactive site that shows us the struggles and hopes of people around the world, in the form of original documentary profiles and photographs.
The Human Link
- Sam Motazedi
- 2018
- Canada, Argentina
- s.t. English
- 90 min
Short and Medium-Length Competitions
What does it mean to publicly support the cultural boycott of Israel? Two Palestinians debate the question, after one of them signs a petition demanding the cancellation of a Radiohead concert.
I Signed the Petition
- Mahdi Fleifel
- 2018
- United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland
- s.t. English
- 11 min
International Feature Competition
Consisting mainly of archival footage, this film looks back on 30 years of Irish history alongside the personal story of a son trying to understand his father.
Canadian Feature Competition
Switching between fiction and documentary, self-portrait and poetic essay, Impetus is a meditation on creativity, everyday poetry and the beauty of human contact.
Impetus
- Jennifer Alleyn
- 2018
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French or English
- 95 min
Kazuhiro Soda: Making Images Speak
Portrait of elderly residents of the coastal town Ushimado, Inland Sea is a poetic, melancholy look at a culture, era and community on the verge of disappearing.
Short and Medium-Length Competitions
A hybrid project – film, photography, sociology, philosophy – that takes an original look at something underrepresented in most films.
Interchange
- Melanie Shatzky, Brian M. Cassidy
- 2018
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 61 min
The State of the World
A haunting, meditative exploration of an Australian island and its detention centre for asylum-seekers, capturing human beings trapped in an arcane and brutal system.
Island of the Hungry Ghosts
- Gabrielle Brady
- 2018
- Germany, United Kingdom, Australia
- s.t. English
- 94 min
Closing Film
A portrait of a non-conformist athlete, a reflection on the relationships between sport and cinema, and a look back at a legendary tennis match. An original and spectacular essay.
John McEnroe: l'empire de la perfection
- Julien Faraut
- 2018
- France
- s.t. French or English
- 90 min
Maria Augusta Ramos: Exposing the System
Justice lays bare the workings of a very powerful and complex system of a criminal court in Rio de Janeiro through portraits of three people representing different facets of the justice system.
Justice
- Maria Augusta Ramos
- 2004
- Netherlands, Brazil
- s.t. English
- 106 min
The State of the World
Congolese filmmaker Dieudo Hamadi follows political and citizen movements opposing Democratic Republic of Congo’s Kabila in a turbulent Kinshasa in late 2016.
Kinshasa Makambo
- Dieudo Hamadi
- 2018
- Democratic Republic of Congo, France, Switzerland, Germany
- s.t. French or English
- 75 min
Portraits
Laila at the Bridge is the portrait of an intrepid Afghan woman determined to single handedly cure heroin addiction in Kabul by all means necessary.
Laila at the Bridge
- Elizabeth Mirzaei, Gulistan Mirzaei
- 2018
- Canada (Quebec), Afghanistan
- s.t. English
- 98 min
The Rick Prelinger Sessions: Archives, Popular Documentary, NYC
Lost Landscapes of New York mixes home movies by New Yorkers, tourists, and semi-professional cinematographers with outtakes from feature films and background “process plates” picturing granular details of New York’s cityscape.
Portraits
Lost Warrior follows a young couple trying to reunite in Europe after one is barred from ever coming back for joining a terrorist organization in Somalia.
Lost Warrior
- Søren Steen Jespersen, Nasib Farah
- 2018
- Denmark
- s.t. English
- 81 min
The State of the World
A portrait of four Westerners who volunteered to fight against the Islamic State alongside the Kurds, including a captivating visit to the combat zones.
DOC35: A Look Back, a Future Vision
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
- Mark Achbar, Peter Wintonick
- 1992
- Canada
- 167 min
The State of the World
What happens to history’s forgotten people? An ambitious, deeply personal documentary about the fate of thousands of Poles who were deported during the Second World War.
Memory Is Our Homeland
- Jonathan Durand
- 2018
- Canada (Quebec), Poland
- s.t. French or English
- 91 min
Kazuhiro Soda: Making Images Speak
A close look inside Dr. Yamamoto’s psychiatric clinic, a disturbingly threadbare operation exposing the social crisis and economic misery behind the suffering.
Mental
- Kazuhiro Soda
- 2008
- Japan, United States
- s.t. English
- 135 min
Portraits
An intimate, poetic self-portrait in the form of a love letter to a sister, questioning the fundamental principles of Japanese society.
My Dearest Sister
- Kyoka Tsukamoto
- 2018
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 74 min
Portraits
Both a look at Ukraine’s indie arts scene, and an astonishing, heartbreaking family portrait.
My Father Is My Mother's Brother
- Vadym Ilkov
- 2018
- Ukraine
- s.t. English
- 76 min
International Feature Competition
A disturbing look inside the life of a Syrian jihadi family, and an unforgettable perspective on a world without a future, where childhood and innocence no longer have meaning.
Of Fathers and Sons
- Talal Derki
- 2017
- Germany, Syria, Lebanon, Qatar
- s.t. French or English
- 99 min
Short and Medium-Length Competitions
As the war winds down in the Colombian jungle, the ghosts of the dead wander the forest and the living resume their lives. A film whose aesthetic is steeped in mystery and beauty.
Our Song to War
- Juanita Onzaga
- 2018
- Belgium, Colombia
- s.t. French or English
- 15 min
La bête humaine
A deep dive into high-level athletics, in the form of an unfiltered portrait of a Russian gymnast under intense, unrelenting pressure.
Kazuhiro Soda: Making Images Speak
Actions and conversations of the fishermen and workers of an oyster factory provide a natural window on some of today’s big issues: immigration, environment, globalized economy and generation gap.
Oyster Factory
- Kazuhiro Soda
- 2015
- Japan, United States
- s.t. English
- 145 min
The Rick Prelinger Sessions: Archives, Popular Documentary, NYC
The film consists of 64 self-contained film sequences ranging from 5 seconds to 4 minutes in length arranged into a narrative.
Kazuhiro Soda: Making Images Speak
The film captures moments of humanity with delicacy revealing deep cracks in a society where the most vulnerable struggle mightily just to survive.
Peace
- Kazuhiro Soda
- 2010
- Japan, United States, South Korea
- s.t. English
- 76 min
Family Screenings
La petite fille et la nuit
- Madina Ishkakova
- 2015
- Switzerland, Belgium, France
- s.t. English
- 9 min
La bête humaine
A look at the training of students at Quebec’s top ballet school: an affectionate exploration of their world and its pleasures and disappointments.
Point d'équilibre
- Christine Chevarie-Lessard
- 2018
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 75 min
Canadian Feature Competition
A non-judgmental observation of a Canadian Forces boot camp, exposing the deep workings of an institution geared to enforcing a collective ideal.
Special Presentations
Claire Simon lets us share in the turmoil of an uncertain age by filming the private conversations of a group of teenagers from a Paris suburb.
Fine Local Product: Women-Made and Queer Videos from 1990
Fine Local Product: Women-Made and Queer Videos from 1990
Short and Medium-Length Competitions
Mémé and Tonton Thomas have been watching The Young and the Restless since 1989. Part film analysis, part family introspection, the film is an emotional, good-natured reflection on aging and the passage of time.
La bête humaine
Inside the fascinating world of pioneering women architects: an invitation to rethink the city with professionals who have dedicated their lives to improving our environment.
Rêveuses de villes
- Joseph Hillel
- 2018
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French or English
- 80 min
Short and Medium-Length Competitions
Who was Marie Lourdes? The filmmaker reconstructs the past of her grandmother, who has lost her memory, and explores her creole identity through beautiful animation.
Short and Medium-Length Competitions
The parched shores of the Dead Sea are cracking, becoming impassable. Geology and geopolitics come together in this observation of the failures of colonialism and the exploitation of nature.
Salarium
- Daniel Mann, Sasha Litvintseva
- 2018
- United Kingdom
- s.t. English
- 43 min
Special Presentations
Weaving together intimate testimonies and mesmerizing animation, acclaimed filmmaker Stefano Savona retraces the destruction of the Samouni family’s life in Zeitoun, Gaza.
Samouni Road
- Stefano Savona
- 2018
- France, Italy
- s.t. French or English
- 126 min
International Feature Competition
Oscar Masotta, an icon of the Argentinian avant-garde, is brought to life through an uncategorizable film blending documentary, fiction and performance to unabashedly political ends.
Segunda Vez
- Dora García
- 2018
- Belgium, Norway
- s.t. French or English
- 95 min
International Feature Competition
A subtly dreamy meditation on the suppressed past and uncertain future of rural China emptied of its migrant workers.
Self-Portrait: Sphinx in 47 KM
- Zhang Mengqi
- 2017
- China
- s.t. French or English
- 95 min
Short and Medium-Length Competitions
Every year, they fly south from Quebec to Florida. With good humour and a ection, Mika Goodfriend films retirees who are creating their own community in a manicured paradise.
Canadian Feature Competition
An epic investigation into countless murders in Mexico yields a dark and powerful work about a country that has become a gigantic mass grave.
Soleils noirs
- Julien Elie
- 2018
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French or English
- 152 min
ARTifice
The filmmaker records the rehearsals of a theatre company working on a play about a tragedy that happened during the collapse of Yugoslavia. Gradually, art becomes group therapy.
Srbenka
- Nebojša Slijepcevic
- 2018
- Croatia
- s.t. English
- 72 min
ARTifice
The brazen theft of a Rodin sculpture in Chile is the starting point for a brilliantly playful study of the state of the art market and the concept of artistic creation.
Stealing Rodin
- Cristóbal Valenzuela
- 2017
- Chile, France
- s.t. French or English
- 80 min
Canadian Feature Competition
The sea and its swimmers, fishers and ships as you’ve never seen them before. This sensory journey, structured as a symphony, was filmed on four continents.
Symphonie en aquamarine
- Dan Popa
- 2018
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French or English
- 78 min
Short and Medium-Length Competitions
The filmmaker asks her grandparents about their love story, which triumphed over convention and intolerance. Filmed with an iPhone, this is a playful, poetic and political essay.
Kazuhiro Soda: Making Images Speak
In this film, we meet writer and theatrical director Oriza Hirata and his company. More than a portrait of the artist, this atypical film raises timeless questions: where does the ancient need to “play” come from?
Theatre 1
- Kazuhiro Soda
- 2012
- Japan, United States
- s.t. English
- 172 min
Kazuhiro Soda: Making Images Speak
We are no longer in the creative world of Oriza Hirata but his relationship with the world around him analyzing the paradoxes and challenges facing society in the 21st century.
Theatre 2
- Kazuhiro Soda
- 2012
- Japan, United States, France
- s.t. English
- 170 min
Short and Medium-Length Competitions
Testimonials from Pakistani paramedics and televised re-enactments of violent incidents come together in an exploration of a society’s traumas and its fascination with staged violence.
This Shaking Keeps Me Steady
- Shehrezad Maher
- 2018
- Pakistan, United States
- s.t. English
- 60 min
Short and Medium-Length Competitions
The forests of Michoacán, Mexico, have become the preserve of narco-capitalism. Victor Arroyo’s observational video essay testifies to the extreme violence now commonplace in the region.
Time Is Out of Joint
- Victor Arroyo
- 2018
- Canada (Quebec), Mexico
- s.t. English
- 25 min
Maria Augusta Ramos: Exposing the System
As gripping as any fictional thriller, The Trial follows the daily twists and turns of the trial that led to the impeachment of Dilma Rousse, Brazil’s first democratically elected woman president.
The Trial
- Maria Augusta Ramos
- 2018
- Brazil, Netherlands, Germany
- s.t. English
- 139 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
Through a portrait of talented Anishinaabe dancer and musician Joshua DePerry, who brings together tradition and modernity, Chrisann Hessing delivers an inspiring, hopeful film.
International Feature Competition
Uruguay, 1987-1989: a fascinating series of person-in-the-street interviews takes the pulse of a newborn democracy by asking Uruguayans about an amnesty law for crimes committed during the just-ended dictatorship.
Unas Preguntas
- Kristina Konrad
- 2018
- Germany, Uruguay
- s.t. French or English
- 237 min
DOC35: A Look Back, a Future Vision
Special Presentations
Sergei Loznitsa’s precise gaze captures the fascinating annual commemoration of the Soviet triumph over the Nazis, marked in Berlin for 72 years and counting.
Short and Medium-Length Competitions
An astonishing, flashy, funny essay on pop culture and politics in Pakistan in the 1980s and 90s.
Video Home System
- Sharlene Bamboat
- 2018
- Canada (Quebec)
- 20 min
Special Presentations
During the Austrian presidential election campaign of 1986, Kurt Waldheim’s reputation is seriously attacked – and suffers no damage. The episode foreshadowed our reactionary future.
The Waldheim Waltz
- Ruth Beckermann
- 2018
- Austria
- s.t. French or English
- 94 min
Fine Local Product: Women-Made and Queer Videos from 1990
We’re Here, We’re Queer, We're Fabulous
- Maureen Bradley, Danielle Comeau
- 1990
- Canada
- s.t. French or English
- 28 min
The State of the World
Astra Taylor’s essay film explores all of facets of democracy, by connecting past and present through a choral of ideas, from philosophers to politicians to factory workers and refugees.
What Is Democracy?
- Astra Taylor
- 2018
- Canada
- s.t. French or English
- 107 min
Canadian Feature Competition
Walaa, a strong-willed young Palestinian woman, dreams only of joining the Palestinian Security Forces. A complex and engrossing story of one woman’s education.
What Walaa Wants
- Christy Garland
- 2018
- Canada, Denmark
- s.t. French or English
- 89 min
Short and Medium-Length Competitions
Can viral images trigger our sense of empathy? Skype conversations with Palestinian photographers explore the issues surrounding the viewing of suffering from afar.
When Things Occur
- Oraib Toukan
- 2016
- Palestine, United Kingdom
- s.t. English
- 28 min
The State of the World
Thanks to a seed bank in the arctic, plantings are relocated from Syria to Lebanon. An original meditation on some of the world’s most pressing issues.
Wild Relatives
- Jumana Manna
- 2018
- Lebanon, Norway, Germany, Palestine
- s.t. French or English
- 66 min
Canadian Feature Competition
A homecoming to a Kurdish village becomes a chronicle of a way of life threatened by out-migration, and a powerful portrait of strong women living their lives without men.
Xalko
- Sami Mermer, Hind Benchekroun
- 2018
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French or English
- 100 min
Short and Medium-Length Competitions
A heartbreaking tribute to the first generation of Palestinian refugees, centred on a grandmother’s imaginary visit to Haifa using Google Street View, the only way she has to see the city where she was born.
Your Father Was Born 100 Years Old, and So Was the Nakba
- Razan AlSalah
- 2017
- Palestine, Lebanon, United States
- s.t. English
- 7 min
International Feature Competition
In this moving performative film, women across the United States read and react to letters sent to the editor of Ms. magazine in the 1970s.
Yours in Sisterhood
- Irene Lusztig
- 2018
- United States
- 102 min
Short and Medium-Length Competitions
With stunning cinematography, directors Ariane Lorrain and Shahab Mihandoust explore the disappearing cultural practice of natural yarn dyeing and carpet weaving in the mountains of Western Iran.
Zagros
- Shahab Mihandoust, Ariane Lorrain
- 2018
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French or English
- 58 min
Canadian Feature Competition
A sincere and touching profile of the film editor who worked on Shoah, and who spent decades in the shadow of Claude Lanzmann, revealing the scope of her indispensable contribution and the film’s profound impact on her life.
Ziva Postec. La monteuse derrière le film Shoah
- Catherine Hébert
- 2018
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French or English
- 92 min