Luc Moullet: One Step Forward, One Step Sideways
Combining the comic and the tragic, Luc Moullet returns to his home region, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, to investigate the residents’ apparent propensity for madness.
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
An experimental approach, with ghostly and atemporal elements, gives substance to recollections of a disturbing but largely forgotten episode in the history of Gaspésie.
Luc Moullet: One Step Forward, One Step Sideways
An exploration of two mountain villages that, lacking roads, have almost fallen off the map. A brilliant exercise in distanciation that exposes the dire condition of neglected rural areas.
International Short and Medium-Length Competition
Starting from a static black and white shot of a Dunkin’ Donuts coffee mug, the filmmaker lets his thoughts roam wherever they may, from the ontology of cinema to the meaning of life and much more.
This Action Lies
- James N Kienitz Wilkins
- 2018
- United States, Switzerland
- 32 min
Canadian Feature Competition
For nearly 40 years, Robert Fisk has been one of the most important and meticulous reporters of Middle East turmoil. A lesson in history and journalism.
This Is Not a Movie
- Yung Chang
- 2019
- Canada, Germany
- s.t. English
- 106 min
Luc Moullet: One Step Forward, One Step Sideways
A new temple has replaced churches and movie theatres: the supermarket. An airtight, incisive and visionary analysis of the workings of peak consumerism.