Montreal International Documentary Festival

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20 Nov. - 01 Dec. 2024

Cinéma Cineplex Odeon Quartier Latin - Salle 10
Cinéma du Parc - Salle 2
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Fernand-Seguin
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Norman-McLaren
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Principale
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14:30 Archipelago of Earthen Bones — To Bunya / Break...*
(1) Archipelago of Earthen Bones — To Bunya
Malena Szlam | 2024 | - Without dialogue | S.T French

Archipelago of Earthen Bones — To Bunya brings together 16mm images of volcanic sites in an impressionistic way, with a soundscape evocative of their history and grandeur.

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(2) Break no.1 & Break no.2
Lei Lei | 2024 | Mandarin | S.T French

In this two-part experimental short, two seemingly innocuous mysteries intertwine and complement each other, without being fully resolved.

See full details
(3) Dans ma tête
Irina Tempea | 2024 | French | S.T French

In this filmed diary, accompanied by magnetic resonance images and film experiments, the filmmaker owns her illness, multiple sclerosis.

See full details
(4) Crushed Between Ocean and Sky
Ella Morton | 2023 | English | S.T French

Shaken violently by a storm, the crew of a sailboat to Antarctica comment on this transcendent experience in a moving, hypnotic visual odyssey.

See full details
(5) Songs of Love and Hate
Saurav Ghimire | 2024 | Nepalese | S.T French

In the absence of their favourite radio host, will listeners be able to overcome their love dilemmas?

See full details
16:45 Union *
Stephen Maing, Brett Story | 2024 | English

With its candid look at the steps involved in creating the first Amazon warehouse union in America, Union provides a comprehensive look at this gruelling yet important process.

See full details
19:30 Ninan Auassat : Nous, les enfants*
(1) Voltige
Luiza Cocora | 2024 | Ukrainian, French | S.T French

After recently arriving in Montreal, Anna, a twelve-year-old Ukrainian gymnast, strives to regain her balance between her war-torn past and her desire for belonging.

See full details
(2) Ninan Auassat : Nous, les enfants
Kim O’Bomsawin | 2024 | French, English, Innu-Aimun, Atikamekw | S.T French

With respect and complicity, this film paints a delicate portrait of Indigenous youth embracing an assertion of identity and the desire for a future imbued with love.

See full details
13:00 Archéologie de la lumière*
(1) Ush
Pierre Gill | 2024 | French, Innu-Aimun | S.T. French or English

Multidisciplinary artist Pierre Gil’s poetry is infused with his own identity, rooted in the land we travel through with him aboard a cedar canoe.

See full details
(2) Archéologie de la lumière
Sylvain L'Espérance | 2024 | - Without dialogue

Through visual and sound research of great aesthetic precision, the filmmaker affirms the landscapes of a Minganie that exist only through the artistic eye and the possibilities of film.

See full details
15:30 Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed
Hernán Rosselli | 2024 | Spanish | S.T 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
17:45 Valentina and the MUOSters *
Francesca Scalisi | 2024 | Italian | S.T 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
20:15 Simon & Marianne *
Pier-Luc Latulippe, Martin Fournier | 2024 | French | S.T English

Alongside a couple’s final weeks before one of them receives medical assistance in dying, this tender film is a lucid reflection on death, but above all, on life.

See full details
17:30 When the Phone Rang *
Iva Radivojevic | 2024 | Serbo-Croatian, English | S.T English

Rooted in the filmmaker's personal experience, this fictional essay embodies a reflection on memory, reconstructing in fragments an intimate and collective buried narrative.

See full details
20:00 Amusement Park
Ricardo Alves Jr. | 2024 | Portuguese | S.T English

Anonymous faces stroll furtively through the city, looking for a night of ephemeral pleasure. An amusement park becomes the playground for unbridled freedom.

Warning: explicit sexual content

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13:15 Msaytbeh, the elevated place / The Instability of...*
(1) Msaytbeh, the elevated place
Rawane Nassif | 2024 | Arabic | S.T English

After 20 years, Rawane Nassif returned to the Msaytbeh district of Lebanon. She touchingly shares her impressions and relationship with the place where she grew up.

See full details
(2) The Instability of Clouds
Zazie Ray-Trapido | 2024 | English | S.T English

Filmed in 16mm, this short film astutely and delicately explores the paradoxes of the American dream via a deep friendship between two neighbours living in the same cul-de-sac.

See full details
(3) Like a Sick Yellow
Norika Sefa | 2024 | Albanian | S.T English

The shadow of a war at its boiling point haunts the filmmaker's family home and the people who live there.

See full details
(4) Entretierra
Emanuel Licha | 2024 | Spanish | S.T English

As people organize themselves to find their missing relatives in Mexico, we hear their voices against a black backdrop amid brief images of excavations and searches.

See full details
15:45 The Treasury of Human Inheritance *
Alexis Kyle Mitchell | 2024 | English, Hebrew | S.T English

Alexis Kyle Mitchell uses a poetic approach to explore the experience of living with a genetic disorder while questioning family heritage and mortality.

See full details
22:00 Eadsé Concert : Ninan Auassat : Nous, les enfants Closing Night
Eadsé Concert : Ninan Auassat : Nous, les enfants Closing Night

FREE

To celebrate the Quebec premiere of Kim O'Bomsawin’s Ninan Auassat : Nous les enfants, the National Film Board (NFB) and RIDM have teamed up to present a concert by Huron-Wendat artist Eadsé, featuring elements of pop, soul and electro.

See full details
17:00 Awards Ceremony
Awards Ceremony

End your festival in style by attending the awards ceremony for the festival’s competitions, in the presence of the juries and filmmakers!

See full details
13:00 Panel | Experimenting with Space Between Reality and Fiction: the Politics of Perception
Panel | Experimenting with Space Between Reality and Fiction: the Politics of Perception

This public discussion brings together experts with perspectives from different fields of experimentation (philosophy, cinema, visual and sound arts) who are interested in the relationship between reality and fiction in in situ, contextual, situated practices. How does activating the tension between the real and the fictional open up reality to other gestures, other uses, other ideas? In what ways do these artistic choices challenge and redefine the place of the political?

This talk is an extension of the reflexion proposed by the performance Nous sommes au cinéma

Panelists: Daniela Angelucci (philosopher, Là fuori, Ombre Corte Editions) + Julie Faubert (visual and sound artist, Nous sommes au cinéma) + Pablo Alvarez­-Mesa (The Soldier’s Lagoon) + Malena Szlam (Archipelago of Earthen Bones — To Bunya)

FREE

See full details
20:45 Abiding Nowhere
Tsai Ming-liang | 2024 | - Without dialogue

In Washington D.C., a walking monk crosses landscapes. The film flirts with performance to offer a break from the pace of modern life and immerse us in the beauty of the moment.

See full details
12:45 Rule of Stone *
Danae Elon | 2024 | English, Hebrew, Arabic | S.T English

Taking a critical look at Jerusalem’s development project in the 70s, this film reveals the invisible violence perpetrated against the Palestinian people.

See full details
15:15 Parmi les montagnes et les ruisseaux*
(1) Ilnikueu
Comité de femmes Puakuteu | 2024 | French | S.T English

In this collective creation by the Mashteuiatsh Puakuteu women’s committee, a doll-making workshop becomes an intimate place of sharing, solidarity, and hope.

See full details
(2) Parmi les montagnes et les ruisseaux
Jean-François Lesage | 2024 | Mandarin | S.T English

Two Chinese artists in exile walk through a forest that seems to be their last refuge, exchanging views on the authoritarian regime they fled and their artistic practice.

See full details
18:00 Fragments of a work: the films of Jeannine Gagné*
(1) Sans faire d'histoire
Jeannine Gagné, Michel Lamothe | 1973 | French

Co-directed with Michel Lamothe, this asynchronous student short depicts a popular Montreal, while sung audio segments echo its psyche.

See full details
(2) L' insoumise
Jeannine Gagné | 1998 | French

Following the work of Marie-Claire Blais and featuring book excerpts, this film presents a mosaic of her universe, giving a fresh take on the cinematic literary biography.

See full details
18:00 Special Screening | Fragments of a Work: the Films of Jeannine Gagné
Special Screening | Fragments of a Work: the Films of Jeannine Gagné

Throughout her career, Jeannine Gagné has defied expectations and labels with her eclectic filmography. This special screening will allow us to rediscover two of her works in 16mm format, Sans faire d'histoire and L'insoumise, and discuss them with the filmmaker.

See full details
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12h
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Principale
12H45 Rule of Stone *
Danae Elon | 2024 | English, Hebrew, Arabic | S.T. French or English

Taking a critical look at Jerusalem’s development project in the 70s, this film reveals the invisible violence perpetrated against the Palestinian people.

See full details
13h
Cinéma du Parc - Salle 2
13H00 Archéologie de la lumière*
(1) Ush
Pierre Gill | 2024 | French, Innu-Aimun | S.T. French or English

Multidisciplinary artist Pierre Gil’s poetry is infused with his own identity, rooted in the land we travel through with him aboard a cedar canoe.

See full details (2) Archéologie de la lumière
Sylvain L'Espérance | 2024 | - Without dialogue

Through visual and sound research of great aesthetic precision, the filmmaker affirms the landscapes of a Minganie that exist only through the artistic eye and the possibilities of film.

See full details
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Fernand-Seguin
13H15 Msaytbeh, the elevated place / The Instability of...*
(1) Msaytbeh, the elevated place
Rawane Nassif | 2024 | Arabic | S.T. English

After 20 years, Rawane Nassif returned to the Msaytbeh district of Lebanon. She touchingly shares her impressions and relationship with the place where she grew up.

See full details (2) The Instability of Clouds
Zazie Ray-Trapido | 2024 | English

Filmed in 16mm, this short film astutely and delicately explores the paradoxes of the American dream via a deep friendship between two neighbours living in the same cul-de-sac.

See full details (3) Like a Sick Yellow
Norika Sefa | 2024 | Albanian | S.T. English

The shadow of a war at its boiling point haunts the filmmaker's family home and the people who live there.

See full details (4) Entretierra
Emanuel Licha | 2024 | Spanish | S.T. French or English

As people organize themselves to find their missing relatives in Mexico, we hear their voices against a black backdrop amid brief images of excavations and searches.

See full details
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Norman-McLaren
13H00 Panel | Experimenting with Space Between Reality and Fiction: the Politics of Perception
Panel | Experimenting with Space Between Reality and Fiction: the Politics of Perception

This public discussion brings together experts with perspectives from different fields of experimentation (philosophy, cinema, visual and sound arts) who are interested in the relationship between reality and fiction in in situ, contextual, situated practices. How does activating the tension between the real and the fictional open up reality to other gestures, other uses, other ideas? In what ways do these artistic choices challenge and redefine the place of the political?

This talk is an extension of the reflexion proposed by the performance Nous sommes au cinéma

Panelists: Daniela Angelucci (philosopher, Là fuori, Ombre Corte Editions) + Julie Faubert (visual and sound artist, Nous sommes au cinéma) + Pablo Alvarez­-Mesa (The Soldier’s Lagoon) + Malena Szlam (Archipelago of Earthen Bones — To Bunya)

FREE

More info
14h
Cinéma Cineplex Odeon Quartier Latin - Salle 10
14H30 Archipelago of Earthen Bones — To Bunya / Break...*
(1) Archipelago of Earthen Bones — To Bunya
Malena Szlam | 2024 | - Without dialogue

Archipelago of Earthen Bones — To Bunya brings together 16mm images of volcanic sites in an impressionistic way, with a soundscape evocative of their history and grandeur.

See full details (2) Break no.1 & Break no.2
Lei Lei | 2024 | Mandarin | S.T. French or English

In this two-part experimental short, two seemingly innocuous mysteries intertwine and complement each other, without being fully resolved.

See full details (3) Dans ma tête
Irina Tempea | 2024 | French | S.T. English

In this filmed diary, accompanied by magnetic resonance images and film experiments, the filmmaker owns her illness, multiple sclerosis.

See full details (4) Crushed Between Ocean and Sky
Ella Morton | 2023 | English | S.T. French

Shaken violently by a storm, the crew of a sailboat to Antarctica comment on this transcendent experience in a moving, hypnotic visual odyssey.

See full details (5) Songs of Love and Hate
Saurav Ghimire | 2024 | Nepalese | S.T. French or English

In the absence of their favourite radio host, will listeners be able to overcome their love dilemmas?

See full details
15h
Cinéma du Parc - Salle 2
15H30 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
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Fernand-Seguin
15H45 The Treasury of Human Inheritance *
Alexis Kyle Mitchell | 2024 | English, Hebrew | S.T. English

Alexis Kyle Mitchell uses a poetic approach to explore the experience of living with a genetic disorder while questioning family heritage and mortality.

See full details
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Principale
15H15 Parmi les montagnes et les ruisseaux*
(1) Ilnikueu
Comité de femmes Puakuteu | 2024 | French | S.T. English

In this collective creation by the Mashteuiatsh Puakuteu women’s committee, a doll-making workshop becomes an intimate place of sharing, solidarity, and hope.

See full details (2) Parmi les montagnes et les ruisseaux
Jean-François Lesage | 2024 | Mandarin | S.T. French or English

Two Chinese artists in exile walk through a forest that seems to be their last refuge, exchanging views on the authoritarian regime they fled and their artistic practice.

See full details
16h
Cinéma Cineplex Odeon Quartier Latin - Salle 10
16H45 Union *
Stephen Maing, Brett Story | 2024 | English

With its candid look at the steps involved in creating the first Amazon warehouse union in America, Union provides a comprehensive look at this gruelling yet important process.

See full details
17h
Cinéma du Parc - Salle 2
17H45 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
17H30 When the Phone Rang *
Iva Radivojevic | 2024 | Serbo-Croatian, English | S.T. English

Rooted in the filmmaker's personal experience, this fictional essay embodies a reflection on memory, reconstructing in fragments an intimate and collective buried narrative.

See full details
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Norman-McLaren
17H00 Awards Ceremony
Awards Ceremony

End your festival in style by attending the awards ceremony for the festival’s competitions, in the presence of the juries and filmmakers!

More info
18h
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Principale
18H00 Fragments of a work: the films of Jeannine Gagné*
Jeannine Gagné, Michel Lamothe | 1973 | French

Co-directed with Michel Lamothe, this asynchronous student short depicts a popular Montreal, while sung audio segments echo its psyche.

See full details Jeannine Gagné | 1998 | French

Following the work of Marie-Claire Blais and featuring book excerpts, this film presents a mosaic of her universe, giving a fresh take on the cinematic literary biography.

See full details
18H00 Special Screening | Fragments of a Work: the Films of Jeannine Gagné
Special Screening | Fragments of a Work: the Films of Jeannine Gagné

Throughout her career, Jeannine Gagné has defied expectations and labels with her eclectic filmography. This special screening will allow us to rediscover two of her works in 16mm format, Sans faire d'histoire and L'insoumise, and discuss them with the filmmaker.

More info
19h
Cinéma Cineplex Odeon Quartier Latin - Salle 10
19H30 Ninan Auassat : Nous, les enfants*
(1) Voltige
Luiza Cocora | 2024 | Ukrainian, French | S.T. French

After recently arriving in Montreal, Anna, a twelve-year-old Ukrainian gymnast, strives to regain her balance between her war-torn past and her desire for belonging.

See full details (2) Ninan Auassat : Nous, les enfants
Kim O’Bomsawin | 2024 | French, English, Innu-Aimun, Atikamekw | S.T. French and English

With respect and complicity, this film paints a delicate portrait of Indigenous youth embracing an assertion of identity and the desire for a future imbued with love.

See full details
20h
Cinéma du Parc - Salle 2
20H15 Simon & Marianne *
Pier-Luc Latulippe, Martin Fournier | 2024 | French | S.T. English

Alongside a couple’s final weeks before one of them receives medical assistance in dying, this tender film is a lucid reflection on death, but above all, on life.

See full details
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Fernand-Seguin
20H00 Amusement Park
Ricardo Alves Jr. | 2024 | Portuguese | S.T. French or English

Anonymous faces stroll furtively through the city, looking for a night of ephemeral pleasure. An amusement park becomes the playground for unbridled freedom.

Warning: explicit sexual content

See full details
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Principale
20H45 Abiding Nowhere
Tsai Ming-liang | 2024 | - Without dialogue

In Washington D.C., a walking monk crosses landscapes. The film flirts with performance to offer a break from the pace of modern life and immerse us in the beauty of the moment.

See full details
22h
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Norman-McLaren
22H00 Eadsé Concert : Ninan Auassat : Nous, les enfants Closing Night
Eadsé Concert : Ninan Auassat : Nous, les enfants Closing Night

FREE

To celebrate the Quebec premiere of Kim O'Bomsawin’s Ninan Auassat : Nous les enfants, the National Film Board (NFB) and RIDM have teamed up to present a concert by Huron-Wendat artist Eadsé, featuring elements of pop, soul and electro.

More info
16h30After circus *

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