19 - 29 Nov. 2026
Sékou Timité travels across Africa, meeting with fellow griots, in a quest to perfect his craft as a traditional storyteller and keeper of ancestral memory.
See full detailsAn elegy about returning to a home fled amid the violence of rural Colombia through imagined archives, home movies and war footage.
See full detailsBani Khoshnoudi | 2013 | - Without dialogue | S.T French
Through layers of translucent imagery, the film reveals the solidarity of a dance performed by Communist Kurds, captured on Super 8 during the May Day demonstration in Paris.
See full detailsBani Khoshnoudi | 2022 | English | S.T French
An inventive collaboration with saxophonist Christine Abdelnour, this work conveys and embodies a palpable tension, as well as a life that soars in the face of repression.
See full detailsBani Khoshnoudi | 2022 | Spanish, English | S.T French
Shot on film and developed using desert plants, this work revisits the tragedies of Chinese migrants in Mexico that have remained unrecorded and undocumented.
See full detailsBani Khoshnoudi | 2026 | Persian, English | S.T French
This cinematic elegy is an eloquent montage that explores the power and role of images under a regime that controls their circulation and narrative.
See full detailsElham Ehsas | 2026 | Pashtun | S.T English
Archives connect the fate of the only Afghan to have journeyed into space with his own family’s exile to reflect on Afghanistan’s history, colonialism and the erasure of memory.
See full detailsSuneil Sanzgiri | 2025 | English, Portuguese | S.T English
Through a combination of archival documents, 3D scans and film, this engaging work revisits the history of solidarity and anti-colonial struggles for freedom among Portuguese colonies.
See full detailsJoyce Joumaa | 2026 | Arabic | S.T English
This work revisits Lebanon’s history and geopolitics by interrogating the hero figure, incorporating spoken interviews and blending intermediality with this film’s reflexivity.
See full detailsCome celebrate the Quebec premiere of LOUF! Enjoy a taste of authentic Palestinian flavours, a chance to meet the team behind the film and a DJ set by MNSA and Nadim Maghzal from the Laylit collective.
Presented by l'Office national du film.
Shayma' Awawdeh | 2025 | Arabic | S.T English
Archival videotapes of the Second Intifada in the West Bank resurface, prompting an exchange between Shayma’ Awawdeh and her mother about childhood memories and forgetting.
See full detailsNima Nassaj | 2026 | Persian | S.T English
As war reaches Tehran, an Iranian filmmaker’s film about Palestine transforms into a personal diary of displacement, fear, memory and survival.
See full detailsKomtouch Napattaloong | 2026 | English, Thai | S.T English
Using images of an old point-and-shoot camera, In Sum offers a tactile essay that weaves a critique of imperialism into a meditation on memory and forgetting.
See full detailsMayra Villavicencio | 2026 | Spanish | S.T English
This essay draws on images available on the Internet to reflect on the roles, effects and circulation of surveillance footage in Lima, Peru.
See full detailsSet in the heart of this isolated community that has been thrown into turmoil by the presence of the Chilean Navy, this film chronicles an admirable shared resistance.
See full detailsSacheen Ruperthouse-Trapper | 2026 | French | S.T English
Beautifully shot under the cover of night, this cinematic poem dedicated to Mother Earth embodies an intimate and luminous connection with the land.
See full detailsNicolás Pereda | 2026 | Spanish | S.T English
This humorous fictional film plays with the ways of narrating reality, as the filming of a televised interview on the career of three composers is incessantly interrupted.
See full detailsAlban Muja | 2025 | Albanian | S.T English
During the Kosovo War, a painter is ordered to draw his captor’s portrait, turning art into a matter of survival.
See full detailsMina Simendic | 2026 | English, Serbian, German, Arabic | S.T English
A filmmaker turns language and 16 mm film into devices of exchange, reflecting on migration and the sacrifices required to cross borders in search of something new.
See full detailsIlir Hasanaj | 2024 | Albanian | S.T English
After workplace injuries derail their lives, three men speak of dreams and survival against a world of labour, construction and quiet injustice.
See full detailsIvana Todorovic | 2026 | Serbian | S.T English
Within the confines of a hospital, women share intimate stories of body, memory and trauma, revealing how listening can transform vulnerability into connection and strength.
See full detailsIvan Markovic | 2025 | Serbian | S.T English
As young workers dismantle Belgrade’s Sava Centar, fragments of Yugoslavia’s past collide with a generation for whom its memory exists only in images.
See full detailsHanis Bagashov | 2025 | Macedonian | S.T English
Two brothers spend summer at their grandmother’s farm, where family archives and shared rituals gently revive their late grandfather’s presence.
See full detailsLOUF follows Fadi Kattan as he opens a restaurant, a direct approach to a lucid reflection on the political and activist dimensions of Palestinian cuisine.
See full detailsSioui One | 2026 | English | S.T French
Blending poetic narration with rhythmic visuals this film challenges colonial representations of Indigenous identity while affirming the connections that sustain culture and self-expression.
See full detailsFrançois Jacob | 2026 | French, English, Dutch | S.T French
At the crossroads of investigative journalism, science-fiction thriller and a portrait of an artist at work, this hybrid film takes a caustic look at tax havens.
See full detailsMohanad Yaqubi revives the remarkable work of Lebanese filmmaker Jocelyne Saab, whose perspective humanized populations experiencing conflict and exile.
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