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. English and French
- 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.
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. English and French
- 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. English and French
- 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