Luc Moullet: One Step Forward, One Step Sideways
A paean to the beauty of spoil tips, hills made up of mining waste – human creations from another era, still unappreciated.
New Visions Competition
The filmmaker captures her father as he travels home to Malaysia to build a farm for birds that build edible nests. A tender exploration of family relationships and the migrant experience.
Natural Stories
The final journey of an elephant and his driver, to the legendary elephants’ graveyard. A magnificent film in the form of a sensory trip, in an age of mass extinction.
Cemetery
- Carlos Casas
- 2019
- France, United Kingdom, Poland, Uzbekistan
- s.t. French or English
- 86 min
Canadian Feature Competition
Greece: a historic, geographic and political heartland. A film at the intersection of philosophy and sensory exploration, where beauty and memory inhabit the land.
Le chant d'Empédocle
- Sylvain L'Espérance, Marie-Claude Loiselle
- 2019
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 108 min
7 x Wapikoni Mobile
Eva and Manon practice the art of throat singing in their native Arctic land, in the small village of Kangirsuk. Interspliced with footage from the four seasons of Kangirsuk from Johnny Nassak.
Chants de gorges à Kangirsuk
- Eva Kaukai, Manon Chamberland
- 2018
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French or English
- 4 min
The State of the World
A portrait of two young Haitian men in Tijuana: a poignant tribute to every exile trapped in the web of immigration policy.
Chèche Lavi
- Sam Ellison
- 2019
- United States, Mexico, Haiti
- s.t. English
- 76 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
In a stray-dog refuge in Morocco, time seems to stand still for the 750 animals waiting to be adopted, their lives following a precise, monotonous routine.
Clebs
- Halima Ouardiri
- 2019
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French or English
- 18 min
The State of the World
Through a collaboration with the directors, four women inmates imagine a better world, where the most vulnerable are supported rather than punished.
Conviction
- Nance Ackerman, Ariella Pahlke, Teresa MacInnes
- 2019
- Canada
- s.t. French
- 78 min
History Revisited
The conclusion to Patricio Guzmán’s geographic and political trilogy about Chile focuses on the Andes, an inescapable symbol of Chileans’ relationship with land and history.
La cordillère des songes
- Patricio Guzmán
- 2019
- France, Chile
- s.t. French or English
- 85 min
