21 Nov. - 01 Dec. 2024
In this deeply poetic documentary essay, director Catherine Martin explores three aspects of the vast subject of darkness, from Japanese aesthetics to the invention of cinema.
See full detailsAn exploration of the phenomenon of female genital mutilation through the journeys and narratives of Canadian women of African descent who are seeking to break the taboos surrounding it.
See full detailsDriven into exile by far-right paramilitary forces, the inhabitants of a Colombian village return 20 years later to the place they once called home.
See full detailsCatherine Boivin | 2022 | Atikamekw | S.T French
In a visual exploration through multiple angles and perspectives, the multidisciplinary artist Catherine Boivin travels the road of personal reflection, following in her ancestors’ footsteps.
See full detailsFarnaz Jurabchian, Mohammadreza Jurabchian | 2022 | Farsi | S.T French
In the intimate setting of an atypical Tehran home, a three-generation Iranian family’s story is interwoven with their country’s political turmoil.
See full detailsA woman constantly juggles her resources to provide for her son. Imbued with sensitivity, this film captures both the tough realities of life in Cameroon and the resilience of its people.
See full detailsThe new generation of Nigerian students speaks out in this observational documentary, where a film club becomes a space for debate on important social issues.
See full detailsNicolas Renaud, Brian Virostek | 2023 | English, French | S.T English
Based on sponsored films produced between 1920 and 1970, this film articulates an interpretation of the colonial imagination in which the violence of the archives resonates with the present.
See full detailsJyoti Mistry | 2023 | English | S.T English
In a remarkable feat of editing, this striking experimental work celebrates queer love and eroticism, drawing on a wealth of film archives.
See full detailsJa'Tovia Gary | 2023 | English | S.T English
Quiet as It’s Kept holds a contemporary, experimental and sensory mirror up to Toni Morrison’s first novel, The Bluest Eye, which explores the lives of Black women in the US.
See full detailsCapturing both the stunning beauty of the natural landscapes and the mundanity of the survivalists’ daily lives, Knit’s Island draws us into a larger than life videogame.
See full detailsA figure wanders through a deserted building she is keeping watch over. At the intersection of fiction, essay, and experimental film, this work is a multifaceted reflection on how we see the world.
See full detailsThe sterile environment of an animal testing lab is juxtaposed with the meditative daily life of a shepherd, exposing the contradictions between the neighbouring worlds.
See full detailsRania Stephan | 2018 | Arabic | S.T English
Edited from Egyptian sci-fi film The Master of Time, (directed by Kamal el Sheikh in 1987), the viewer joins the main character, who is stuck in space and time.
See full detailsRania Stephan | 2022 | Arabic | S.T English
A film-conversation between a writer and filmmaker questions the relationship between language and cinema as tools to represent war and violence.
See full detailsKnown for their frenetic and sensual musical world that blends live performance, poetry, and electronica, French duo Potochkine will be in Montreal for the festival. Join us for a synthpop and coldwave-infused dance extravaganza that perfectly echoes the strangeness sometimes associated with the forsaken spaces featured in Denis Côté’s Mademoiselle Kenopsia.
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