Montreal, Friday, November 8, 2024 – The Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) is proud to present the premieres of the most recent works by both acclaimed local filmmakers as well as rising new talents. In keeping with its mission to support and promote auteur documentary filmmaking in Quebec and Canada, RIDM is once again setting itself apart as a premiere platform for these works, with a selection of 58 national films presented this year.
National Feature Competition
Among Mountains and Streams (Parmi les montagnes et les ruisseaux) by Jean-François Lesage | World Premiere
Archéologie de la lumière by Sylvain L’Espérance | World Premiere
Billy by Lawrence Côté-Collins | Canadian Premiere
Intercepted by Oksana Karpovych | Quebec Premiere
Le Plein potentiel by Annie St-Pierre | World Premiere
The Soldier’s Lagoon by Pablo Alvarez-Mesa | Quebec Premiere
Tout sur Margo by Yann-Manuel Hernandez and Margaux Latour | World Premiere
New Visions Competition
Eastern Anthems by Jean-Jacques Martinod and Matthew Wolkow | Canadian Premiere
Okurimono by Laurence Lévesque | Quebec Premiere
The Treasury of Human Inheritance by Alexis Kyle Mitchell | Canadian Premiere
Up the River with Acid by Harald Hutter | Canadian Premiere
Magnus Isacsson Competition
Circo by Lamia Chraibi | World Premiere
Koutkekout by Joseph Hillel | Canadian premiere
LARRY (they/them) by Catherine Legault | Quebec Premiere
Seeing Through the Darkness (Les yeux ne font pas le regard) by Simon Plouffe | World Premiere
Ninan Auassat: We, the Children by Kim O’Bomsawin | Quebec Premiere
Rule of Stone by Danae Elon | Quebec Premiere
Simon & Marianne by Martin Fournier and Pier-Luc Latulippe | Canadian Premiere
Wilfred Buck by Lisa Jackson | Quebec Premiere
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
Adieu Ugarit by Samy Benammar and Mohamad Awaad | World Premiere
Après le silence by Matilde-Luna Perotti | World Premiere
Archipelago of Earthen Bones — To Bunya by Malena Szlam | Quebec Premiere
A Stone’s Throw by Razan AlSalah | Canadian Premiere
Both, Instrument & Sound by Sharlene Bamboat | Quebec Premiere
Crushed Between Ocean and Sky by Ella Morton | Quebec Premiere
Dans ma tête by Irina Tempea | Quebec Premiere
Entretierra by Emanuel Licha | North American Premiere
lessons on flight by Cecilia Araneda | Canadian Premiere
Like a Spiral (Comme une spirale) by Lamia Chraibi | Quebec Premiere
Msaytbeh, the elevated place by Rawane Nassif | North American Premiere
Six Knots by Ali Vanderkruyk | Quebec Premiere
Sous le soleil exactement by Noa Blanche Beschorner | World Premiere
Traces by Chantal Partamian | Quebec Premiere
With Veiled Intent (Avancer masqué) by Laurence Olivier | World Premiere
Panorama - Against the Grain
Just Above the Surface of the Earth (For a Coming Extinction) by Marianna Milhorat | Quebec Premiere
Panorama - Horizons
These Wild Cats (Des chats sauvages) by Steve Patry | North American Premiere
Ibuka, Justice by Justice Rutikara | World Premiere
Panorama - Special Screenings
L’insoumise by Jeannine Gagné
Sans faire d’histoire by Jeannine Gagné and Michel Lamothe
Wapikoni
Awani Na Nokmes? by Tedesso Lachapelle and Isaak Lachapelle Gill
Ilnikueu by the Comité de femmes Puakuteu
Le voleur de paix by Charles Hervieux-Rock
Madah8do al8miwi nia by Kim Arseneault
Nipi utaiamun by Uapukun Mestokosho McKenzie
Résilience by Mali
Ush by Pierre Gill
Soirée de la relève Radio-Canada
Auen tshil, auen nil by Frédérique Picard
Ce qui se passe sous terre by Raphaëlle Bergeron
Emboîter leurs pas by Manuel Orhy Pirón
Les mains de ma grand-mère by Pascal St-Gelais
Les oiseaux aiment les toits by Charles Warren et Maxence Dumouchel
The Body/transmutationem by Bleue Pronovost-Teyssier
Doc-to-doc
L.A. Tea Time by Sophie Bédard-Marcotte
Le petit Jésus by André-Line Beauparlant
Documentaires d’épouvante that brings together the short films Nalujuk Night by Jennie Williams, Forêts by Simon Plouffe and Bitesized Nightmares by Kyle Edward Ball.
Closing the festival
Ninan Auassat: We, the Children by Kim O’Bomsawin | Quebec Premiere
Voltige by Luiza Cocora | World Premiere
In collaboration with Télé-Québec, partner of the Doc-to-Doc screenings, RIDM presents five award-winning films from recent years on the telequebec.tv platform: Aswang by Alyx Ayn Arumpac, Veranada by Dominique Chaumont, Une femme, ma mère (A Woman, My Mother) de Claude Demers, Knit’s Island by Ekiem Barbier, Guilhem Causse and Quentin L’helgoualc’h, and Au-delà des hautes vallées (Far Behond the Pasturelands) by Maude Plante-Husaruk and Maxime Lacoste-Lebuis. This is a unique opportunity to discover or revisit these memorable films, now available for free across Quebec until December 1st.
The 27th edition of RIDM will take place from November 20 to December 1st, 2024.
at the Cinémathèque québécoise, Cineplex Odéon Quartier Latin, Cinéma du Musée, Cinéma du Parc, Cinéma Moderne, National Film Board of Canada, BAnQ and Théâtre Outremont.
For all the information about the 2024 program and to purchase ticket: ridm.ca
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