Montreal International Documentary Festival

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19 - 29 Nov. 2026

Cinéma du Parc - Salle 2
Cinémathèque québécoise - Café-bar
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Fernand-Seguin
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Norman-McLaren
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Principale
Maison Théâtre
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18:00 Atcha Atcha *
Mamadou Dia | 2026 | French, English | S.T English

With a strong focus on dance and its transmission, this documentary captures the final year of training at the École des Sables in Senegal.

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20:30 The Flower and the Flood / Invisible Landscape /...*
(1) Flower and the Flood, The
Elisa González | 2026 | English | S.T French

A flood destroys a saffron crop and uncovers a lost lake. This analogue film, eco-processed using plants, reveals a land that remembers.

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(2) Invisible Landscape
Yen-Chao Lin | 2026 | English | S.T French

A woman who left Taiwan at the age of thirteen returns to the land of her ancestors to reconnect with her heritage on a sensory journey driven by fragmented memories.

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(3) Plateformes
Karl Lemieux | 2026 | French | S.T French

Oscillating between distanced observation and the embodied experience of dismantling oil rigs, Platforms provides a speculative reflection on the end of oil.

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(4) Singing of the Evening Stars
Iris Sang | 2026 | - Without dialogue | S.T French

Through an immersive and hypnotic soundscape, this film verges on abstraction to create a fabulous and striking dialogue between Los Angeles’s urban past and present.

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17:30 Panel | Territories in Conversation: Voices from the Western Balkans
Panel | Territories in Conversation: Voices from the Western Balkans

FREE

Bringing together filmmakers and festival professionals from Serbia, North Macedonia and Kosovo, this round table explores how contemporary cinema from these three countries of the Western Balkans engages with borders, memory, belonging and place. It looks at a new generation of filmmakers questioning inherited narratives, challenging established boundaries and imagining new ways of relating to the region, and to one another. The dialogue explores what cinema can reveal when borders and territories become points of encounter rather than limitation.

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20:15 Sunset *
Miloš Jacimovic | 2026 | Serbo-Croatian, English | S.T English

A monumental seaside rehabilitation institute comes alive through therapy, labour and routine, becoming a deeply cinematic meditation on time and a collective world in transition.

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17:45 Luciérnagas *
Bani Khoshnoudi | 2018 | Spanish, English, Persian | S.T French

Through a skillful and subtle approach, this fiction explores the complex reality of exile through the everyday life of Ramin, an Iranian immigrant in Veracruz.

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20:30 Performance | Constellations
Performance | Constellations

In this performance, artists Amanda Lickers and Miri Chekhanovich bring their research-creation practices into dialogue around how places, mapping and counter-mapping are carried through bodies and materials. After a screening of a short film by each artist, the evening unfolds as a live fishbowl conversation through projected images, film excerpts and online searches. Moving from satellite views to eye-level perspectives, and from territories to skins, hides and gelatin, they ask what it means to map a place not from above, but through the memories, emotions and materials that form it.

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22:00 VISIONS celebrates 12 years
VISIONS celebrates 12 years

Since 2014, VISIONS has brought moving-image artists and audiences together in Montréal. To celebrate twelve years, the series is handing over the room to two local artists: Leon Louder opens with Typo, an improvised audiovisual performance, then Joni Void (Jean Néant) takes over the CDJs. A party for the communities that keep VISIONS alive. Come join us!

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13:30 Doggerland
Kim Ekberg | 2026 | Swedish | S.T English

In Norrköping, a mother and son move through daily life, their world unfolding through moody music, luminous 16 mm images and a dreamlike sense of time.

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15:30 Memory
Vladlena Sandu | 2025 | Russian | S.T English

The filmmaker revisits her childhood in Chechnya in an inventive recreation to understand the cycle of violence that spans generations.

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18:00 Foam of Worlds
Anna Marziano | 2026 | Italian, French, German, English | S.T English

This poetic hybrid work of fiction explores a woman’s commitment to the environment and the daily realities of compassionate parenting on the cusp of an inevitable upheaval.

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20:00 Inuguiniq *
Olivia Ikey | 2026 | English, Inuktitut | S.T English

Inuguiniq explores the challenge of helping one’s child thrive through an Indigenous cultural legacy marked with beauty but also burdened by a history of trauma.

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17:30 Un souffle à la fois *
Steve Patry | 2026 | French, English | S.T French

A thought-provoking look inside a support centre for men with violent behaviour, where specialists guide them with patience and resilience.

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20:00 Petit Tom*
(1) Marcher vers la réconciliation
Félicia Vollant Dubé | 2026 | French | S.T English

Through poetic narration, two young girls revisit memories of residential schools through a symbolic staging in which past and present enter into dialogue.

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(2) Petit Tom
André-Line Beauparlant | 2026 | French | S.T English

André-Line Beauparlant follows the chaotic childhood and adolescence of her cousin’s son Tom, prompting reflection on social reproduction and the difficulty of escaping it.

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Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Principale
13H30 Doggerland
Kim Ekberg | 2026 | Swedish | S.T. English

In Norrköping, a mother and son move through daily life, their world unfolding through moody music, luminous 16 mm images and a dreamlike sense of time.

See full details
15h
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Principale
15H30 Memory
Vladlena Sandu | 2025 | Russian | S.T. French or English

The filmmaker revisits her childhood in Chechnya in an inventive recreation to understand the cycle of violence that spans generations.

See full details
17h
Cinémathèque québécoise - Café-bar
17H30 Panel | Territories in Conversation: Voices from the Western Balkans
Panel | Territories in Conversation: Voices from the Western Balkans

FREE

Bringing together filmmakers and festival professionals from Serbia, North Macedonia and Kosovo, this round table explores how contemporary cinema from these three countries of the Western Balkans engages with borders, memory, belonging and place. It looks at a new generation of filmmakers questioning inherited narratives, challenging established boundaries and imagining new ways of relating to the region, and to one another. The dialogue explores what cinema can reveal when borders and territories become points of encounter rather than limitation.

More info
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Fernand-Seguin
17H45 Luciérnagas *
Bani Khoshnoudi | 2018 | Spanish, English, Persian | S.T. French and English

Through a skillful and subtle approach, this fiction explores the complex reality of exile through the everyday life of Ramin, an Iranian immigrant in Veracruz.

See full details
Maison Théâtre
17H30 Un souffle à la fois *
Steve Patry | 2026 | French, English | S.T. French and English

A thought-provoking look inside a support centre for men with violent behaviour, where specialists guide them with patience and resilience.

See full details
18h
Cinéma du Parc - Salle 2
18H00 Atcha Atcha *
Mamadou Dia | 2026 | French, English | S.T. French or English

With a strong focus on dance and its transmission, this documentary captures the final year of training at the École des Sables in Senegal.

See full details
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Principale
18H00 Foam of Worlds
Anna Marziano | 2026 | Italian, French, German, English | S.T. French or English

This poetic hybrid work of fiction explores a woman’s commitment to the environment and the daily realities of compassionate parenting on the cusp of an inevitable upheaval.

See full details
20h
Cinéma du Parc - Salle 2
20H30 The Flower and the Flood / Invisible Landscape /...*
(1) Flower and the Flood, The
Elisa González | 2026 | English | S.T. French

A flood destroys a saffron crop and uncovers a lost lake. This analogue film, eco-processed using plants, reveals a land that remembers.

See full details (2) Invisible Landscape
Yen-Chao Lin | 2026 | English | S.T. French

A woman who left Taiwan at the age of thirteen returns to the land of her ancestors to reconnect with her heritage on a sensory journey driven by fragmented memories.

See full details (3) Plateformes
Karl Lemieux | 2026 | French | S.T. English

Oscillating between distanced observation and the embodied experience of dismantling oil rigs, Platforms provides a speculative reflection on the end of oil.

See full details (4) Singing of the Evening Stars
Iris Sang | 2026 | - Without dialogue | S.T. French and English

Through an immersive and hypnotic soundscape, this film verges on abstraction to create a fabulous and striking dialogue between Los Angeles’s urban past and present.

See full details
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Fernand-Seguin
20H15 Sunset *
Miloš Jacimovic | 2026 | Serbo-Croatian, English | S.T. English

A monumental seaside rehabilitation institute comes alive through therapy, labour and routine, becoming a deeply cinematic meditation on time and a collective world in transition.

See full details
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Norman-McLaren
20H30 Performance | Constellations
Performance | Constellations

In this performance, artists Amanda Lickers and Miri Chekhanovich bring their research-creation practices into dialogue around how places, mapping and counter-mapping are carried through bodies and materials. After a screening of a short film by each artist, the evening unfolds as a live fishbowl conversation through projected images, film excerpts and online searches. Moving from satellite views to eye-level perspectives, and from territories to skins, hides and gelatin, they ask what it means to map a place not from above, but through the memories, emotions and materials that form it.

More info
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Principale
20H00 Inuguiniq *
Olivia Ikey | 2026 | English, Inuktitut | S.T. French or English

Inuguiniq explores the challenge of helping one’s child thrive through an Indigenous cultural legacy marked with beauty but also burdened by a history of trauma.

See full details
Maison Théâtre
20H00 Petit Tom*
Félicia Vollant Dubé | 2026 | French | S.T. English

Through poetic narration, two young girls revisit memories of residential schools through a symbolic staging in which past and present enter into dialogue.

See full details André-Line Beauparlant | 2026 | French | S.T. English

André-Line Beauparlant follows the chaotic childhood and adolescence of her cousin’s son Tom, prompting reflection on social reproduction and the difficulty of escaping it.

See full details
22h
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Norman-McLaren
22H00 VISIONS celebrates 12 years
VISIONS celebrates 12 years

Since 2014, VISIONS has brought moving-image artists and audiences together in Montréal. To celebrate twelve years, the series is handing over the room to two local artists: Leon Louder opens with Typo, an improvised audiovisual performance, then Joni Void (Jean Néant) takes over the CDJs. A party for the communities that keep VISIONS alive. Come join us!

More info
16h30After circus *

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