Montreal International Documentary Festival

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20 Nov. - 01 Dec. 2024

Cinéma Cineplex Odeon Quartier Latin - Salle 10
Cinéma Cineplex Odeon Quartier Latin - Salle 12
Cinéma Moderne
Cinéma du Parc - Salle 2
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Fernand-Seguin
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Norman-McLaren
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Principale
Office National du Film du Canada
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15:30 Larry (iel) *
Catherine Legault | 2024 | English, French | S.T English

The filmmaker observes trans, non-binary artist Laurence Philomène prepare for the release of their retrospective book Puberty, wherein they boldly affirm their body and everyday life.

See full details
18:30 *
(1) Le voleur de paix
Charles Hervieux-Rock | 2024 | French | S.T English

With inspirational imagery, Charles Hervieux-Rock recounts a friend’s experience to illustrate the importance of forgiveness and the need to avoid resentment, the thief of peace.

See full details
(2) Billy
Lawrence Côté-Collins | 2024 | French | S.T English

A poignant portrait of Billy, a soul tormented by schizophrenia, who, thanks to the friendship and support of the filmmaker, seeks lucidity after committing an irreparable act.

See full details
21:30 Sous le soleil exactement / MIREN FELDER / Comme...*
(1) Sous le soleil exactement
Noa Blanche Beschorner | 2024 | German | S.T French

Divided into four language exercises, this meditative work of surprising narrative originality creates fleeting urban poetry exposing the details of a presence in motion.

See full details
(2) MIREN FELDER
Malen Otaño | 2024 | Spanish | S.T French

Troubled by the death of her grandmother Miren, filmmaker Malen Otaño examines her family archives in the form of a photographic essay to reveal their hidden meanings.

See full details
(3) Comme une spirale
Lamia Chraibi | 2024 | English, Arabic, French | S.T French

The intimate, hard-hitting testimonies of migrant domestic workers, in the swirling city of Beirut, question notions of identity, home and justice.

See full details
(4) Après le silence
Matilde-Luna Perotti | 2024 | Spanish | S.T French

By staging herself and using home movies, the filmmaker breaks her silence about her sexual assault for the purposes of healing and empowerment.

See full details
(5) Adieu Ugarit
Samy Benammar, Mohamad Awaad | 2024 | Arabic | S.T French

An inspiring co-production, this experimental short poetically and directly questions how and why one tells a traumatic story.

See full details
18:00 My Memory Is Full of Ghosts
Anas Zawahri | 2024 | Arabic | S.T English

Anas Zawahri’s film offers a poignant portrayal of Homs, Syria, as residents navigate the trauma of war and strive to rebuild their lives amidst the city’s haunting ruins.

See full details
19:45 We Are Inside
Farah Kassem | 2024 | Arabic | S.T English

A filmmaker returns to Tripoli after 15 years abroad to reconnect with her father. Their intimate bond, shaped by poetry and intergenerational tensions, unfolds against the backdrop of Lebanon’s political unrest.

See full details
18:00 An Emotional Encyclopedia of War
Anna Kravets | 2023 | English

Combining auto-ethnography and testimonies gathered in a reconstructed shelter, Anna Kravets creates an admirable emotional (and sonic) encyclopedia of wartime life.

See full details
20:30 Performance | Nous sommes au cinéma
Julie Faubert | 2024 | - Without dialogue

An experimental sound, video and performative creation from Julie Faubert that unfolds from the very specific context of the Cinéma moderne screening room in Montreal.

See full details
18:00 Audio Documentary Listening Session #2
Audio Documentary Listening Session #2

Unframing Documentary presents sound works to be experienced in the darkness of Cinéma Moderne. For the second year running, cinema is taking a visual sabbatical. To tell stories through sound is to access an endlessly evocative power, akin to that of literature, and one that offers unprecedented creative freedom. As Orson Welles once said: “on the radio, the screen is larger than in the cinema.”

This program includes An Emotional Encyclopedia of War, and a RIDM favorite from the creative audio festival Phonurgia Nova.

Presented in collaboration with Jenny Cartwright.

See full details
20:15 Valentina and the MUOSters *
Francesca Scalisi | 2024 | Italian | S.T French

Under the oppressive hum of military antennas, young Sicilian Valentina dreams of fleeing her village’s arid landscape to blossom elsewhere.

See full details
18:00 The Undergrowth *
Macu Machín | 2024 | Spanish | S.T English

Reunited for the first time in a long while, three sisters try to divide the inheritance of their family land, an arid plain in the Canary Islands where nature rules.

See full details
16:00 Avancer masqué / Quebrante / The Song of the...*
(1) Avancer masqué
Laurence Olivier | 2024 | - Without dialogue | S.T English

Somewhere between experimental cinema, documentary and horror film, masked villagers wander through the snow to indulge in a little-known regional tradition: Mi-Carême.

See full details
(2) Quebrante
Janaina Wagner | 2024 | Portuguese | S.T English

Between poetry, history, science, and popular culture, this experimental film plunges us into the heart of the Amazon, weaving a link between the moon and the rocks of the region's caves.

See full details
(3) The Song of the Years to Come
Alexander Cabeza Trigg | 2023 | Spanish, Silbo Gomero | S.T English

Lyrical and meditative in nature, this short film pays tribute to the sacred nature of La Gomera’s collective memory, infused in the fabric of its landscapes and history.

See full details
(4) History is Written at Night
Alejandro Alonso Estrella | 2024 | Spanish, English | S.T English

In the darkness of a gigantic blackout, nightlife comes alive in mystical forms. The collective destiny of the Cuban people patiently takes shape until dawn.

See full details
18:15 Traces / Both, Instrument & Sound / Razeh-del /...*
(1) Traces
Chantal Partamian | 2023 | - Without dialogue | S.T English

Toxic masculinity dissolves and disintegrates as images of war collide with a lesbian pornographic film in this experimental found footage work.

See full details
(2) Both, Instrument & Sound
Sharlene Bamboat | 2024 | English | S.T English

Activist Tony Souza tells his life story under the textures of hand-processed 16 mm film and through musical and visual variations exploring the concept of tension.

See full details
(3) Razeh-del
Maryam Tafakory | 2024 | Farsi | S.T English

Within a polyphonic composition of images from Iranian films from the late 90s, two female students try to get published in their country's first women's newspaper.

See full details
(4) Loveboard
Felipe Casanova | 2023 | French | S.T English

Through its pixelated, dysfunctional archive, a broken cellphone reveals fragments of a romantic relationship, underscoring the fragility of love and technology.

See full details
20:45 Iva Radivojevic short films program*
(1) Following Crickets
Iva Radivojevic | 2010 | German | S.T English

A summery seaside landscape evokes memories of another era that doesn’t belong to this place. Skillfully working the double screen, this film embodies a poetic memory.

See full details
(2) Between Colors of I
Iva Radivojevic | 2013 | French | S.T English

A man traverses Moroccan landscapes, where the vibrant colors and evocative sounds of his former home awaken memories and spark an introspective search for a new identity.

See full details
(3) Notes from the Border
Iva Radivojevic | 2015 | Arabic, Greek, English | S.T English

Building on Evaporating Borders, this film takes a compassionate and informed look at the realities of refugee migration in Europe through N’s personal story.

See full details
(4) Nattō
Iva Radivojevic | 2018 | English | S.T English

Over images of city life captured from a tourist’s perspective, an omniscient narrator recounts the development of an intimate relationship between A and B during a trip to Taipei.

See full details
(5) Quietly I Walk the Wrong Way
Iva Radivojevic | 2021 | Serbian | S.T English

Through iPhone Instagram stories filmed during the pandemic, this film explores the profound feelings of isolation and separation experienced in the landscapes of Alaska and on the island of Lesbos.

See full details
(6) Gaāda { togetherness }
Iva Radivojevic | 2022 | English, Arabic | S.T English

Gaada, shot in Algeria, documents the collaborative journey of creating a segment of the feature film Aleph, emphasizing the collective spirit of the filmmaking process.

See full details
21:30 Eastern Anthems Concert: Musical Performance and Live Projection with MOAB + David Rothenberg + Broods XIX & XIX
Eastern Anthems Concert: Musical Performance and Live Projection with MOAB + David Rothenberg + Broods XIX & XIX

FREE

For one evening only, MOAB, a seven-piece experimental music ensemble from Montreal, will perform alongside David Rothenberg, professor of philosophy at NJIT, jazz clarinetist and lover of American seasonal cicadas.

Through free improvisation pieces, the ensemble will propose a profound exploration of the sonorities of cicadas, based on recordings captured in Illinois in the summer of 2024, when two broods (the XIIIth and the XIXth) met for the first time in 221 years, producing a variety of more than seven different sounds.

All in all, this is an instinctive experience akin to an encounter of the third kind, rooted in both the psyche and the body. Everyone is invited!

See full details
21:30 Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed
Hernán Rosselli | 2024 | Spanish | S.T French

Weaving a narrative based on real family archives, the filmmaker and his protagonists develop an inventive gangster film that blurs the boundaries between fiction and documentary.

See full details
17:15 Lapilli *
Paula Durinova | 2024 | Slovak | S.T English

As we’re gently guided by the filmmaker's voice, Lapilli explores the profound absence left by grief in rocky landscapes and churning waters.

See full details
19:15 Eastern Anthems *
Matthew Wolkow, Jean-Jacques Martinod | 2024 | English, French, Spanish | S.T French

A relay between two artists, this experimental film shows the return of a species of cicada that only emerges every 17 years in an America that also may be starting a new cycle.

See full details
10:30 NFB's Open House
NFB's Open House

FREE

The NFB is delighted to welcome you to its premises during the RIDM! Come and chat with filmmakers, creators and the NFB team about their projects presented at the festival, and about opportunities for collaboration. It's the perfect opportunity to take a break and chat in a relaxed atmosphere.

See full details
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10h
Office National du Film du Canada
10H30 NFB's Open House
NFB's Open House

FREE

The NFB is delighted to welcome you to its premises during the RIDM! Come and chat with filmmakers, creators and the NFB team about their projects presented at the festival, and about opportunities for collaboration. It's the perfect opportunity to take a break and chat in a relaxed atmosphere.

More info
15h
Cinéma Cineplex Odeon Quartier Latin - Salle 10
15H30 Larry (iel) *
Catherine Legault | 2024 | English, French | S.T. French or English

The filmmaker observes trans, non-binary artist Laurence Philomène prepare for the release of their retrospective book Puberty, wherein they boldly affirm their body and everyday life.

See full details
16h
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Fernand-Seguin
16H00 Avancer masqué / Quebrante / The Song of the...*
(1) Avancer masqué
Laurence Olivier | 2024 | - Without dialogue

Somewhere between experimental cinema, documentary and horror film, masked villagers wander through the snow to indulge in a little-known regional tradition: Mi-Carême.

See full details (2) Quebrante
Janaina Wagner | 2024 | Portuguese | S.T. French or English

Between poetry, history, science, and popular culture, this experimental film plunges us into the heart of the Amazon, weaving a link between the moon and the rocks of the region's caves.

See full details (3) The Song of the Years to Come
Alexander Cabeza Trigg | 2023 | Spanish, Silbo Gomero | S.T. French or English

Lyrical and meditative in nature, this short film pays tribute to the sacred nature of La Gomera’s collective memory, infused in the fabric of its landscapes and history.

See full details (4) History is Written at Night
Alejandro Alonso Estrella | 2024 | Spanish, English | S.T. French or English

In the darkness of a gigantic blackout, nightlife comes alive in mystical forms. The collective destiny of the Cuban people patiently takes shape until dawn.

See full details
17h
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Principale
17H15 Lapilli *
Paula Durinova | 2024 | Slovak | S.T. English

As we’re gently guided by the filmmaker's voice, Lapilli explores the profound absence left by grief in rocky landscapes and churning waters.

See full details
18h
Cinéma Cineplex Odeon Quartier Latin - Salle 10
18H30 *
(1) Le voleur de paix
Charles Hervieux-Rock | 2024 | French | S.T. English

With inspirational imagery, Charles Hervieux-Rock recounts a friend’s experience to illustrate the importance of forgiveness and the need to avoid resentment, the thief of peace.

See full details (2) Billy
Lawrence Côté-Collins | 2024 | French | S.T. English

A poignant portrait of Billy, a soul tormented by schizophrenia, who, thanks to the friendship and support of the filmmaker, seeks lucidity after committing an irreparable act.

See full details
Cinéma Cineplex Odeon Quartier Latin - Salle 12
18H00 My Memory Is Full of Ghosts
Anas Zawahri | 2024 | Arabic | S.T. English

Anas Zawahri’s film offers a poignant portrayal of Homs, Syria, as residents navigate the trauma of war and strive to rebuild their lives amidst the city’s haunting ruins.

See full details
Cinéma Moderne
18H00 An Emotional Encyclopedia of War
Anna Kravets | 2023 | English

Combining auto-ethnography and testimonies gathered in a reconstructed shelter, Anna Kravets creates an admirable emotional (and sonic) encyclopedia of wartime life.

See full details
18H00 Audio Documentary Listening Session #2
Audio Documentary Listening Session #2

Unframing Documentary presents sound works to be experienced in the darkness of Cinéma Moderne. For the second year running, cinema is taking a visual sabbatical. To tell stories through sound is to access an endlessly evocative power, akin to that of literature, and one that offers unprecedented creative freedom. As Orson Welles once said: “on the radio, the screen is larger than in the cinema.”

This program includes An Emotional Encyclopedia of War, and a RIDM favorite from the creative audio festival Phonurgia Nova.

Presented in collaboration with Jenny Cartwright.

More info
Cinéma du Parc - Salle 2
18H00 The Undergrowth *
Macu Machín | 2024 | Spanish | S.T. English

Reunited for the first time in a long while, three sisters try to divide the inheritance of their family land, an arid plain in the Canary Islands where nature rules.

See full details
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Fernand-Seguin
18H15 Traces / Both, Instrument & Sound / Razeh-del /...*
(1) Traces
Chantal Partamian | 2023 | - Without dialogue

Toxic masculinity dissolves and disintegrates as images of war collide with a lesbian pornographic film in this experimental found footage work.

See full details (2) Both, Instrument & Sound
Sharlene Bamboat | 2024 | English | S.T. French

Activist Tony Souza tells his life story under the textures of hand-processed 16 mm film and through musical and visual variations exploring the concept of tension.

See full details (3) Razeh-del
Maryam Tafakory | 2024 | Farsi | S.T. English

Within a polyphonic composition of images from Iranian films from the late 90s, two female students try to get published in their country's first women's newspaper.

See full details (4) Loveboard
Felipe Casanova | 2023 | French | S.T. English

Through its pixelated, dysfunctional archive, a broken cellphone reveals fragments of a romantic relationship, underscoring the fragility of love and technology.

See full details
19h
Cinéma Cineplex Odeon Quartier Latin - Salle 12
19H45 We Are Inside
Farah Kassem | 2024 | Arabic | S.T. English

A filmmaker returns to Tripoli after 15 years abroad to reconnect with her father. Their intimate bond, shaped by poetry and intergenerational tensions, unfolds against the backdrop of Lebanon’s political unrest.

See full details
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Principale
19H15 Eastern Anthems *
Matthew Wolkow, Jean-Jacques Martinod | 2024 | English, French, Spanish | S.T. French and English

A relay between two artists, this experimental film shows the return of a species of cicada that only emerges every 17 years in an America that also may be starting a new cycle.

See full details
20h
Cinéma Moderne
20H30 Performance | Nous sommes au cinéma
Julie Faubert | 2024 | - Without dialogue

An experimental sound, video and performative creation from Julie Faubert that unfolds from the very specific context of the Cinéma moderne screening room in Montreal.

See full details
Cinéma du Parc - Salle 2
20H15 Valentina and the MUOSters *
Francesca Scalisi | 2024 | Italian | S.T. French or English

Under the oppressive hum of military antennas, young Sicilian Valentina dreams of fleeing her village’s arid landscape to blossom elsewhere.

See full details
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Fernand-Seguin
20H45 Iva Radivojevic short films program*
(1) Following Crickets
Iva Radivojevic | 2010 | German | S.T. English

A summery seaside landscape evokes memories of another era that doesn’t belong to this place. Skillfully working the double screen, this film embodies a poetic memory.

See full details (2) Between Colors of I
Iva Radivojevic | 2013 | French | S.T. English

A man traverses Moroccan landscapes, where the vibrant colors and evocative sounds of his former home awaken memories and spark an introspective search for a new identity.

See full details (3) Notes from the Border
Iva Radivojevic | 2015 | Arabic, Greek, English | S.T. English

Building on Evaporating Borders, this film takes a compassionate and informed look at the realities of refugee migration in Europe through N’s personal story.

See full details (4) Nattō
Iva Radivojevic | 2018 | English

Over images of city life captured from a tourist’s perspective, an omniscient narrator recounts the development of an intimate relationship between A and B during a trip to Taipei.

See full details (5) Quietly I Walk the Wrong Way
Iva Radivojevic | 2021 | Serbian | S.T. English

Through iPhone Instagram stories filmed during the pandemic, this film explores the profound feelings of isolation and separation experienced in the landscapes of Alaska and on the island of Lesbos.

See full details (6) Gaāda { togetherness }
Iva Radivojevic | 2022 | English, Arabic | S.T. English

Gaada, shot in Algeria, documents the collaborative journey of creating a segment of the feature film Aleph, emphasizing the collective spirit of the filmmaking process.

See full details
21h
Cinéma Cineplex Odeon Quartier Latin - Salle 10
21H30 Sous le soleil exactement / MIREN FELDER / Comme...*
(1) Sous le soleil exactement
Noa Blanche Beschorner | 2024 | German | S.T. English

Divided into four language exercises, this meditative work of surprising narrative originality creates fleeting urban poetry exposing the details of a presence in motion.

See full details (2) MIREN FELDER
Malen Otaño | 2024 | Spanish | S.T. French or English

Troubled by the death of her grandmother Miren, filmmaker Malen Otaño examines her family archives in the form of a photographic essay to reveal their hidden meanings.

See full details (3) Comme une spirale
Lamia Chraibi | 2024 | English, Arabic, French | S.T. French or English

The intimate, hard-hitting testimonies of migrant domestic workers, in the swirling city of Beirut, question notions of identity, home and justice.

See full details (4) Après le silence
Matilde-Luna Perotti | 2024 | Spanish | S.T. French or English

By staging herself and using home movies, the filmmaker breaks her silence about her sexual assault for the purposes of healing and empowerment.

See full details (5) Adieu Ugarit
Samy Benammar, Mohamad Awaad | 2024 | Arabic | S.T. French or English

An inspiring co-production, this experimental short poetically and directly questions how and why one tells a traumatic story.

See full details
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Norman-McLaren
21H30 Eastern Anthems Concert: Musical Performance and Live Projection with MOAB + David Rothenberg + Broods XIX & XIX
Eastern Anthems Concert: Musical Performance and Live Projection with MOAB + David Rothenberg + Broods XIX & XIX

FREE

For one evening only, MOAB, a seven-piece experimental music ensemble from Montreal, will perform alongside David Rothenberg, professor of philosophy at NJIT, jazz clarinetist and lover of American seasonal cicadas.

Through free improvisation pieces, the ensemble will propose a profound exploration of the sonorities of cicadas, based on recordings captured in Illinois in the summer of 2024, when two broods (the XIIIth and the XIXth) met for the first time in 221 years, producing a variety of more than seven different sounds.

All in all, this is an instinctive experience akin to an encounter of the third kind, rooted in both the psyche and the body. Everyone is invited!

More info
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Principale
21H30 Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed
Hernán Rosselli | 2024 | Spanish | S.T. French or English

Weaving a narrative based on real family archives, the filmmaker and his protagonists develop an inventive gangster film that blurs the boundaries between fiction and documentary.

See full details
16h30After circus *

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