19 - 29 Nov. 2026
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Le monde dans mes oreilles, a podcast broadcast on CHOQ.ca and hosted by Caroline Marcoux-Gendron, Ph.D. (associate professor in the Department of Music at UQAM), gives immigrants a voice through the music that marks their life journeys. Co-presented with the RIDM, the new season ties in with the 2026 Territorial Focus on the Western Balkans. A special edition will be recorded live at the RIDM with filmmaker Ivan Markovic in connection with his film.
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Join us for a festive evening celebrating the Western Balkans Focus: Blurring the Lines, featuring live music by Blerta Kosova, who co-wrote the original music for I Have Never Been on an Airplane by Redon Kika, part of this year’s Focus.
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 detailsIn Durban, South Africa, Lishana cares for her dying mother. This hybrid film explores memory, transmission and grief as both personal and collective experiences.
See full detailsA thought-provoking look inside a support centre for men with violent behaviour, where specialists guide them with patience and resilience.
See full detailsIntimate and atmospheric, the film connects the personal experience of three youths to the wider reality of a generation facing unanswered questions.
See full detailsWeaving together several stories in Taipei, this playful film embraces a great formal and aesthetic freedom to revealingly dissolve the boundary between fiction and reality.
See full detailsGeographer Akhbari explores and examines the infrastructure and narratives specific to the ports, economies and informal trade routes between the Caspian Sea and the Strait of Hormuz.
See full detailsThe eulachon’s return to the Bella Coola River valley brings hope to the Nuxalk, as they reconnect with their territory and history.
See full detailsIn a poetic vision where art and memory intertwine, KUBANA combines various stories of the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda to explore how to rebuild society after the unspeakable.
See full detailsThis intimate and brave feature film takes us on a personal and rigorous investigation of anxiety and its effects with a well-judged touch of humour.
See full detailsFilmed along the Scottish coast, this experimental film project by Karl Lemieux documents the decommissioning of offshore oil platforms at the end of their operational life, transforming an industrial process into a sensory experience where image, sound, and materiality converge. Presented as an installation, Plateforms confronts viewers with these monuments of the oil industry, opening a space for reflection on our relationship to territory, time, and the irreversible transformations of the contemporary world.
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For the second year in a row, RIDM, the Indigenous artist-run Centre d’art daphne and Coop Vidéo de Montréal come together to present a discussion with Indigenous filmmakers. How are stories, perspectives and cinematic forms evolving? How do these changes take shape in subject matter, storytelling, imagery and creative practices? This conversation invites collective reflection on the new directions Indigenous cinema is taking today.
Speakers: Olivia Ikey (filmmaker, Inuguiniq), Vincent Careau (Présence Autochtone) and Elayna Einish (filmmaker, Lethal Ethel).
Bojina Panayotova | 2026 | English | S.T French
Through reused images and words, this essay revisits the Women’s Pentagon Action, a movement that brought together over 2,000 women seeking social and environmental justice.
See full detailsKiddy Smile, Jérémie Danon | 2026 | French | S.T French
Over the course of one night, profound reflections on the invisibility of Black bodies in French culture and media come to life in four cars.
See full detailsA portrait of brotherly love takes us into the Chinese diaspora in Spain, as the filmmaker observes her brother and his troubled past with a gentle, patient camera.
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