Becoming Oneself - Nov 19 to Nov 25
A portrait, spanning one year, of a young Arab Montrealer who’s been disowned for his homosexuality. A short film that delicately captures the loneliness of the ostracized.

LOINTAIN
- Aziz Zoromba
- 2020
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 18 min
Becoming Oneself - Nov 19 to Nov 25
The inspiring portrait of a female boxer from Argentina, determined to exorcise the demons of past violence in the boxing ring, and her touching relationship with her coach.

Becoming Oneself - Nov 19 to Nov 25
A poignant portrait of a young woman who uses words and a tattoo to reconcile her Inuit and Québécois identities, and reclaims the memory of her mother.

MÉTAMORPHOSES
- Nicolas Renaud
- 2020
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 18 min
Becoming Oneself - Nov 19 to Nov 25
The mid-century diary of a rich Swiss woman: impressive archival work results in cinematic sleight of hand, revealing the torments of a woman who seemed to have everything.

MY MEXICAN BRETZEL
- Nuria Giménez
- 2019
- Spain
- s.t. English
- 74 min
Becoming Oneself - Nov 19 to Nov 25
A vibrant, creative film that does justice to Billy Tipton, a jazz musician who died in 1989 who has since become an emblematic figure of transmasculinity.

NO ORDINARY MAN (UN VRAI GENTLEMAN)
- Aisling Chin-Yee, Chase Joynt
- 2020
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French
- 84 min
Becoming Oneself - Nov 19 to Nov 25
Yoan and Gabrielle are 18 and getting ready to leave their native Témiscamingue. A first feature that takes a gentle, poetic look at coming of age.

Becoming Oneself - Nov 19 to Nov 25
Sasha, 7, is lively, gentle and cute. She loves to dance. Sasha was born a boy. A heartbreaking portrait of a trans child, filmed with great sensitivity.

Becoming Oneself - Nov 19 to Nov 25
Starting from a lost-and-found, the film is a good-natured and affectionate meditation on loss. A winter tale infused with human warmth.

PRIÈRE POUR UNE MITAINE PERDUE
- Jean-François Lesage
- 2020
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French or English
- 79 min
Becoming Oneself - Nov 19 to Nov 25
Six apparently unrelated segments offer a unique, assured vision of the multiple identities of the contemporary person.

SIX PIECES IN STARGAZER ALBUM
- Jiyang Zhang
- 2020
- Canada (Quebec), China
- s.t. English
- 17 min
Becoming Oneself - Nov 19 to Nov 25
After her parents die, a young woman maintains the family greenhouse to cope with her pain. A delicate journal of mourning, floating between reality and imagination.

Becoming Oneself - Nov 19 to Nov 25
A woman learns she’s critically ill. Life once again becomes a source of wonder, and the present and childhood memories come together in an impressionistic poetic collage.

TREES IN SUMMER
- Suyu Lee
- 2020
- South Korea
- s.t. English
- 40 min