Magnus Isacsson Competition
A long-standing resident of the farm, the filmmaker sets up a camera close to this community living physically and ideologically on the margins of consumer society.
Magnus Isacsson Competition
Gulls, the landfill, the scientist, and the hawk: Serge-Olivier Rondeau captures a compelling scene as gulls populate Canada's largest landfill.
LES HÉRITIERS
- Serge-Olivier Rondeau
- 2025
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 79 min
The soirée de la relève Radio-Canada
This animated documentary, with its stark yet imaginative drawings, explores the intersecting paths of people suffering from anxiety as they move toward healing.(AF)
HISTOIRES D'ANXIÉTÉS
- Adèle Schneider
- 2025
- Canada (Quebec)
- 14 min
The soirée de la relève Radio-Canada
Scrolling through Google Maps, photos, voice memos, and internet searches on her computer screen, the director looks back on a family breakup that distanced her from her half-sisters. (AF)
HYPERLIEN
- Juliette Poitras
- 2025
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 13 min
International Feature Competition
Set in a village in Georgia’s Pankisi Valley near the Chechen border, Imago follows filmmaker Déni Oumar Pitsaev as he confronts generational silence and cultural displacement while dreaming of a home and a life beyond convention.
New Visions Competition
Between wildfire and pointillist landscapes, In the Manner of Smoke traces the delicate rhythms of seeing, where images linger, shift, and dissolve like drifting smoke.
IN THE MANNER OF SMOKE
- Armand Yervant Tufenkian
- 2025
- United States, United Kingdom
- s.t. French
- 90 min
Panorama - Special screening
Interurbain explores a mother’s emotional void as she grapples with geographical distance and her son’s absence.
INTERURBAIN
- Marc-Olivier Huard
- 2025
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 9 min
Wapikoni
Composed of an intriguing series and superimposition of still images to reveal various elements, this visual poem explores the movement of a fascinating symbolic abstraction. (HSB)
IV.ISO:NA.IR__
- Jim Matlock
- 2024
- Canada
- 2 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
In this DIY diary, Émilie Baillargeon documents the idleness that accompanies her new identity as a mother-artist with humour, sincerity, stubbornness, and vulnerability.
J'AI EU UNE IDÉE ÉVIDENTE ET J'ATTENDS QU'ELLE REVIENNE
- Emilie Baillargeon
- 2025
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 16 min
National Feature Competition
At once cerebral, touching, and funny, this dense, minimalist (auto)biographical film unfolds as a creative observation on artistic exploration and life.
J'AI PERDU DE VUE LE PAYSAGE
- Sophie Bédard Marcotte
- 2025
- Canada
- s.t. English
- 85 min
National Feature Competition
Jean-François Caissy invites us into the chaotic, authentic world of early childhood with his candid composite images of the group’s interactions, confrontations, and curiosities.
JARDIN D'ENFANTS
- Jean-François Caissy
- 2025
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 84 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
With a refined touch of humour and bite, Dan Popa and Hoda Adra combine their talents to offer a riveting poetic and political look at the Paris Olympics and, more broadly, at our era.
JEUX DE CORRESPONDANCE
- Dan Popa, Hoda Adra
- 2025
- Canada (Quebec), France
- s.t. English
- 27 min