International Feature Competition
Filmed over 15 years, this film combines legend and magical realism to immerse us in the reality of the border village of Moimenta, where Mariana and her family live.
GODS OF STONE
- Iván Castiñeiras Gallego
- 2025
- Spain, Portugal, France
- s.t. French or English
- 85 min
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.
Retrospective Louise Bourque : Reality Unfolded in the Echoes of Memory
An obsession, a fleeting image, a longing: the home as a romanticized, idealized place of intimacy, insistently inhabiting the most personal sphere, the territory of dreams and memories, of fantasy and desire. Using a short segment from personal home-movies (edited and reproduced multiple times) as a primary source of imagery, the process is a formal and lyrical exploration whereby the film is being essentially treated as a material, a surface, a membrane that can be manipulated directly in a "desperate" attempt at reclaiming and demystifying, at finding and revealing, at mapping the ineffable, at capturing and letting go...The original home-movie images once reproduced were affected through a variety of hand manipulations and chemical processes (without the use of optical effects) such as toning, deterioration of the emulsion and emulsion lifts, solarization, tinting, ripping, perforation, collage and hand-made "mattes", painting, printing, bleaching, scratching, as well as manipulations in contact printing and the developing process.
(Maude Trottier)
(Maude Trottier)
IMPRINT
- Louise Bourque
- 1997
- 14 min
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 (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 85 min