Through their richly enigmatic and playful correspondence, filmmakers Jean-Luc Godard and Ebrahim Golestan develop a bond of mutual respect and incomprehension.

Through their richly enigmatic and playful correspondence, filmmakers Jean-Luc Godard and Ebrahim Golestan develop a bond of mutual respect and incomprehension.

Olha Zhurba combines compassion and authentic storytelling to explore Roma’s childhood and the complexities of growing up alone and without care.

Olha Zhurba combines compassion and authentic storytelling to explore Roma’s childhood and the complexities of growing up alone and without care.

In a shopping mall in Shenzen city, two young children turn their mundane and impersonal surroundings into a playground and living space steeped in fantasy.

A man spends his days patiently and calmly awaiting death while he works in a laboratory where autopsies are conducted.

The experimental Slovakian short film Strigov explores death, grief, and finality through the soft yet unsettling whispers of a child.

Illustrating the complexity of grief, a man learns to scuba dive to find the body of his wife, missing since the terrible 2011 tsunami that hit Japan.

A Night Song bears witness to the last days of Noella, an elderly woman who has chosen to receive medical assistance in dying at home.

This self-portrait by Robbie Tait Jr., politically charged and composed of many of his works, shows how his artistic practice is rooted in a culture he is keen to share.

In an expatriate community in Toronto, a Syrian couple struggles to adapt to their new country and with the feeling that life is on hold.

The voices of several women testify to the role and significance of the body—in particular, the racialized female body—in our society.

Muôi Hong is a single mother, a queer woman, and a hip-hop dancer whose passion and integrity defy traditional Vietnamese society’s expectations of women her age.

Mountaineer Boris Kaschenko’s family goes to Patagonia to scatter his ashes. Against breathtaking landscapes, grief and joy mingle in an extraordinary tribute.

Ten anonymous Burmese filmmakers document life under the terrors of a military dictatorship through raw documentary footage and allegorized reconstructions.

This intersecting story immerses us in a movement of resistance and decolonization and exposes a migration driven by a desire for emancipation and food independence.

Riccardo De Cal’s contemplative film forms a mosaic of stories, places and memories, shot at the rhythm of the seasons along the Piave river.

In Brazil, an all-female gang selling oil on the black market sets out to represent the political interests of a population abandoned by the government.

The Eclipse poetically shows the individual scars and social traumas of war in the former Yugoslavia, examining the traces of a still-visible past.

An essay film or a cinematographic performance, Terra Femme ingeniously assembles travelogues shot by women between 1920 and 1950, investigating the female gaze.

Amid cigarette smoke and the distant sounds of the rest of the population, a group of queer friends talk, party, and confide in one another in the privacy of their homes.

Unframing Documentary showcases three sound creations to listen to in the darkness of the Cinémathèque québécoise: today, cinema will not rely on images.

Le souffle de Beyrouth recounts the story of a city through the cycles of destruction and reconstruction of the past decades. This well-crafted documentary combines a rich meditation on the role of sound designer with the trajectory of the city where Rana Eid has spent most of her life. Through Marine Vlahovic’s microphone, we are invited to listen to a genuine manifesto on the power of sound.

The two other creations are best defined as field recordings, a genre at the crossroads of anthropology and sound art. Fuga takes us to a Mexico City neighbourhood where freight trains crisscross the country to accommodate the consumerist lifestyle of northern countries while robbing southern countries. These trains also carry migrants, also dispossessed, who have more difficulty getting across the border than the objects we wish to buy or sell. Finally, Echap skillfully evokes the capitalist steamroller that makes everything uniform, standard, nondescript and disturbing.

An experimental exploration set to a poetic rhythm about seven innate qualities humans possess to get through life’s challenges.

An experimental documentary exploring the archival work of Sable Island by self-taught naturalist Zoe Lucas, resulting in a remarkably rich fusion of science and art.

Filmed over one day, this film by Volodymyr Tykhyy, a founding member of the Babylon‘13 filmmakers’ collective, looks at the Ukrainian people’s many forms of resistance.

This playful hybrid film is a window into a small French village. An anecdote recounted by locals highlights the absurd paranoia shown by the media.

An astronaut leaves his spaceship and returns to Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where he tries to reconnect with his identity and roots.

This captivating short film shares Innu stories rooted in the forests flooded by the construction of dams and hydroelectric reservoirs.

Under the pretext of a police interrogation, this film shows the politically charged history of Shaho mountain of the Zagros Mountains range in Iran.

Every fall, the quaint town of Churchill in northern Manitoba becomes a popular tourist attraction during polar bear migration season.

This multi-voiced film immerses us in manufacturing in the Philippines, where LGBTQ+ employees are subjected to precarious work conditions to produce religious items.

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