20 Nov. - 01 Dec. 2024
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.
See full detailsLei 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 detailsIrina 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 detailsElla 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 detailsSaurav 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 detailsWith 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 detailsLuiza 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 detailsKim 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 detailsPierre 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 detailsSylvain 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 detailsWeaving 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 detailsUnder the oppressive hum of military antennas, young Sicilian Valentina dreams of fleeing her village’s arid landscape to blossom elsewhere.
See full detailsAlongside 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 detailsRooted 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 detailsAnonymous 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
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 detailsZazie 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 detailsNorika 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 detailsEmanuel 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 detailsAlexis Kyle Mitchell uses a poetic approach to explore the experience of living with a genetic disorder while questioning family heritage and mortality.
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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.
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 detailsThis 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)
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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 detailsTaking a critical look at Jerusalem’s development project in the 70s, this film reveals the invisible violence perpetrated against the Palestinian people.
See full detailsComité 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 detailsJean-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 detailsJeannine 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 detailsJeannine 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 detailsThroughout 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.
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