Short and Medium-Length Competitions
Ghostly images of past and present, filmed in the Nlaka'pamux nation, in British Columbia. An essay on our relationship with colonial narratives and the land.
Occupation of Memory
- Jade Baxter
- 2017
- Canada
- s.t. English
- 6 min
UXdoc
OMG MTL!, made under the guidance of director Émilie B. Guérette, is the fourth webdoc produced by the RIDM’s Youth Program.
OMG MTL !
- Émilie B. Guérette
- 2017
- Canada (Quebec)
Short and Medium-Length Competitions
A viscerally poetic love letter from an exiled filmmaker to his family, left behind amidst the Syrian civil war, is a powerful testament to the pain of uprooting oneself.
On the Edge of Life
- Yaser Kassab
- 2017
- Syria
- s.t. English
- 45 min
Short and Medium-Length Competitions
Maggie lives in the country with her father; their isolated little world is a mysterious place. A stark, mesmerizing document of an uncommon childhood.
one of the roughs, a kosmos
- Carmine Grimaldi
- 2017
- United States
- 21 min
Short and Medium-Length Competitions
A filmmaker whose father abandoned her questions her family. It’s a simple cinematic process that reveals a deeply complex story. A daughter’s investigation, steeped in humour and emotion.
The Origin of Trouble
- Tessa Louise Pope
- 2016
- Netherlands
- s.t. English
- 30 min
Portraits
Ale and Rocío are Honduran immigrants in Mexico who need to take on adult roles to care for their siblings when their mother is arbitrarily jailed. A gut-wrenching film.
The Other Side of the Wall
- Pau Ortiz
- 2017
- Mexico, Spain
- s.t. English
- 68 min
RIDM Special 20th
A merciless portrait of a food industry that has become dehumanized in the name of mass production. Our Daily Bread tells a story of efficiency gone wrong, with neither dialogue nor commentary.
Our Daily Bread
- Nikolaus Geyrhalter
- 2005
- Germany, Austria
- 92 min
Special Presentations
Alanis Obomsawin takes us inside a Cree school with an innovative system. With her usual rigour and sensitivity, she celebrates actions being taken to build a better future.
Our People Will Be Healed
- Alanis Obomsawin
- 2017
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English and French
- 97 min
International Feature Competition
Part experimental documentary, part fiction, this singular work questions the nature of cinema and our ways of thinking about the Middle East.
Ouroboros
- Basma Alsharif
- 2017
- France, Palestine, Belgium, Qatar
- s.t. English
- 78 min
