Montreal International Documentary Festival

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Schedule

20 Nov. - 01 Dec. 2024

Cinéma du Parc - Salle 2
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Fernand-Seguin
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Norman-McLaren
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Principale
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15:00 Sauve qui peut
Alexe Poukine | 2024 | French | S.T English

Continuing her exploration of and reflection on re-enactments, Alexe Poukine takes a revealing look at medical training and the healthcare system.

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19:45 The Stimming Pool
The Neurocultures Collective (Sam Chown Ahern, Georgia Bradburn, Benjamin Brown, Robin Elliott-Knowles, Lucy Walker), Steven Eastwood | 2024 | English

An immersive mix of observational documentary and fictional elements, this co-creation reveals the distinct perceptions of the members of a collective of neurodivergent filmmakers.

See full details
17:15 Maia - Portrait avec mains *
Alexandra Gulea | 2024 | Aromanian, Romanian | S.T English

Through a variety of processes and techniques creating an eclectic collage effect, Alexandra Guela tells us the story of her family and her people, the Aromanians.

See full details
17:30 Documentaires d'épouvante *
Jennie Williams, Kyle Edward Ball, Simon Plouffe | 2024 | English, Inuktitut, Innu-Aimun | S.T French

Can documentaries adopt the codes of horror films? This descent into the darkness invites us to reflect on documentary cinema driven by atmospheres and sensations.

See full details
19:45 We Are Inside
Farah Kassem | 2024 | Arabic | S.T English

A filmmaker returns to Tripoli after 15 years abroad to reconnect with her father. Their intimate bond, shaped by poetry and intergenerational tensions, unfolds against the backdrop of Lebanon’s political unrest.

See full details
15:00 CIRCO *
Lamia Chraibi | 2024 | Portuguese | S.T English

Richard, a young Brazilian circus artist, is thrown out by his adoptive mother and must confront his childhood traumas through a rich and healing quest for identity.

See full details
10:00 Family Activity | Never Let Go !
Family Activity | Never Let Go !

The RIDM is pleased to invite young and old to family-friendly screenings aimed at introducing budding filmmakers to documentary-inspired cinema. For this tenth annual edition of the event, the Carrousel international du film de Rimouski presents a selection of funny, poignant and awe-inspiring animated shorts that will delight all generations.

The screening will be followed by a creative workshop put together by students from Concordia's Film Animation program.

In this program :
La boulangerie de Boris
by Masa Avramovic
Corvine by Sean McCarron
Kayak by Solène Bosseboeuf, Flore Dechorgnat, Tiphaine Klein, Auguste Lefort, Antoine Rossi
Le temps des orages by Gabrielle Gingras
Tournesol by Natalia Chernysheva
Two one Two by Shira Avni

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13:00 Inconditionnelles: Listening Session + Discussion with the Art Entr'Elles Collective
Inconditionnelles: Listening Session + Discussion with the Art Entr'Elles Collective

Inconditionnelles plunges us into the stories of seven women who, having lived through incarceration, look back on this life-changing experience with striking lucidity and generosity. Their voices, marginalized and rarely heard, resonate freely here, telling stories of resilience, love, and forgiveness. Each story is first and foremost one of survival, in a variety of fragmented sound forms that alternate between testimonies, stories, songs, sound effects, and snippets of conversation, and in which poetry always comes into play. A true demonstration of what community art and co-creation can inspire, this collaborative work by the Art Entr'elles collective is an invitation to meet and welcome these women into the public space. The listening session will be followed by a discussion.

FREE

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20:00 Performance | Hantées
Performance | Hantées

The Outaouais region abounds with haunted houses and inexplicable paranormal phenomena. In the Hantées podcast, host Julien Morissette sheds light on reports of mysterious events through archival footage and testimonials from local residents.

In this story, brought to life on stage thanks to immersive sound accompaniment, University of Ottawa journalism student Flavie Demers-Côté puts the Hantées team on the trail of Percy F. Woodcock and the region's most famous paranormal story: the Dagg Farm poltergeist. Who are the people who live on this haunted site? The host hopes to untangle the mystery of today's dark stories and those of the last century.

FREE - RESERVATION REQUIRED

See full details
20:45 No Other Land
Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal | 2024 | Arabic, Hebrew, English | S.T English

No Other Land exposes the devastating impact of Israeli demolition campaigns in the West Bank’s Masafer Yatta, revealing the human cost and deep divides through the gripping perspectives of a Palestinian activist and an Israeli journalist.

See full details
12:45 Archipelago of Earthen Bones — To Bunya / Break...*
(1) Archipelago of Earthen Bones — To Bunya
Malena Szlam | 2024 | - Without dialogue | S.T English

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.

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(2) Crushed Between Ocean and Sky
Ella Morton | 2023 | English | S.T English

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 details
(3) Break no.1 & Break no.2
Lei Lei | 2024 | Mandarin | S.T English

In this two-part experimental short, two seemingly innocuous mysteries intertwine and complement each other, without being fully resolved.

See full details
(4) Dans ma tête
Irina Tempea | 2024 | French | S.T English

In this filmed diary, accompanied by magnetic resonance images and film experiments, the filmmaker owns her illness, multiple sclerosis.

See full details
(5) Songs of Love and Hate
Saurav Ghimire | 2024 | Nepalese | S.T English

In the absence of their favourite radio host, will listeners be able to overcome their love dilemmas?

See full details
15:00 Ninan Auassat : Nous, les enfants *
Kim 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 details
17:45 Billy*
(1) Le voleur de paix
Charles Hervieux-Rock | 2024 | French | S.T English

With inspirational imagery, Charles Hervieux-Rock recounts a friend’s experience to illustrate the importance of forgiveness and the need to avoid resentment, the thief of peace.

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(2) Billy
Lawrence Côté-Collins | 2024 | French | S.T English

A poignant portrait of Billy, a soul tormented by schizophrenia, who, thanks to the friendship and support of the filmmaker, seeks lucidity after committing an irreparable act.

See full details
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*Director or crew member in attendance

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10h
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Fernand-Seguin
10H00 Family Activity | Never Let Go !
Family Activity | Never Let Go !

The RIDM is pleased to invite young and old to family-friendly screenings aimed at introducing budding filmmakers to documentary-inspired cinema. For this tenth annual edition of the event, the Carrousel international du film de Rimouski presents a selection of funny, poignant and awe-inspiring animated shorts that will delight all generations.

The screening will be followed by a creative workshop put together by students from Concordia's Film Animation program.

In this program :
La boulangerie de Boris
by Masa Avramovic
Corvine by Sean McCarron
Kayak by Solène Bosseboeuf, Flore Dechorgnat, Tiphaine Klein, Auguste Lefort, Antoine Rossi
Le temps des orages by Gabrielle Gingras
Tournesol by Natalia Chernysheva
Two one Two by Shira Avni

More info
12h
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Principale
12H45 Archipelago of Earthen Bones — To Bunya / Break...*
(1) Archipelago of Earthen Bones — To Bunya
Malena Szlam | 2024 | - Without dialogue

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 details (2) Crushed Between Ocean and Sky
Ella 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 details (3) Break no.1 & Break no.2
Lei Lei | 2024 | Mandarin | S.T. French or English

In this two-part experimental short, two seemingly innocuous mysteries intertwine and complement each other, without being fully resolved.

See full details (4) Dans ma tête
Irina Tempea | 2024 | French | S.T. English

In this filmed diary, accompanied by magnetic resonance images and film experiments, the filmmaker owns her illness, multiple sclerosis.

See full details (5) Songs of Love and Hate
Saurav Ghimire | 2024 | Nepalese | S.T. French or English

In the absence of their favourite radio host, will listeners be able to overcome their love dilemmas?

See full details
13h
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Norman-McLaren
13H00 Inconditionnelles: Listening Session + Discussion with the Art Entr'Elles Collective
Inconditionnelles: Listening Session + Discussion with the Art Entr'Elles Collective

Inconditionnelles plunges us into the stories of seven women who, having lived through incarceration, look back on this life-changing experience with striking lucidity and generosity. Their voices, marginalized and rarely heard, resonate freely here, telling stories of resilience, love, and forgiveness. Each story is first and foremost one of survival, in a variety of fragmented sound forms that alternate between testimonies, stories, songs, sound effects, and snippets of conversation, and in which poetry always comes into play. A true demonstration of what community art and co-creation can inspire, this collaborative work by the Art Entr'elles collective is an invitation to meet and welcome these women into the public space. The listening session will be followed by a discussion.

FREE

More info
15h
Cinéma du Parc - Salle 2
15H00 Sauve qui peut
Alexe Poukine | 2024 | French | S.T. English

Continuing her exploration of and reflection on re-enactments, Alexe Poukine takes a revealing look at medical training and the healthcare system.

See full details
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Fernand-Seguin
15H00 CIRCO *
Lamia Chraibi | 2024 | Portuguese | S.T. French or English

Richard, a young Brazilian circus artist, is thrown out by his adoptive mother and must confront his childhood traumas through a rich and healing quest for identity.

See full details
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Principale
15H00 Ninan Auassat : Nous, les enfants *
Kim O’Bomsawin | 2024 | French, English, Innu-Aimun, Atikamekw | S.T. French and English

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 details
17h
Cinéma du Parc - Salle 2
17H15 Maia - Portrait avec mains *
Alexandra Gulea | 2024 | Aromanian, Romanian | S.T. English

Through a variety of processes and techniques creating an eclectic collage effect, Alexandra Guela tells us the story of her family and her people, the Aromanians.

See full details
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Fernand-Seguin
17H30 Documentaires d'épouvante *
Jennie Williams, Kyle Edward Ball, Simon Plouffe | 2024 | English, Inuktitut, Innu-Aimun | S.T. French

Can documentaries adopt the codes of horror films? This descent into the darkness invites us to reflect on documentary cinema driven by atmospheres and sensations.

See full details
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Principale
17H45 Billy*
Charles Hervieux-Rock | 2024 | French | S.T. English

With inspirational imagery, Charles Hervieux-Rock recounts a friend’s experience to illustrate the importance of forgiveness and the need to avoid resentment, the thief of peace.

See full details Lawrence Côté-Collins | 2024 | French | S.T. English

A poignant portrait of Billy, a soul tormented by schizophrenia, who, thanks to the friendship and support of the filmmaker, seeks lucidity after committing an irreparable act.

See full details
19h
Cinéma du Parc - Salle 2
19H45 The Stimming Pool
The Neurocultures Collective (Sam Chown Ahern, Georgia Bradburn, Benjamin Brown, Robin Elliott-Knowles, Lucy Walker), Steven Eastwood | 2024 | English

An immersive mix of observational documentary and fictional elements, this co-creation reveals the distinct perceptions of the members of a collective of neurodivergent filmmakers.

See full details
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Fernand-Seguin
19H45 We Are Inside
Farah Kassem | 2024 | Arabic | S.T. English

A filmmaker returns to Tripoli after 15 years abroad to reconnect with her father. Their intimate bond, shaped by poetry and intergenerational tensions, unfolds against the backdrop of Lebanon’s political unrest.

See full details
20h
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Norman-McLaren
20H00 Performance | Hantées
Performance | Hantées

The Outaouais region abounds with haunted houses and inexplicable paranormal phenomena. In the Hantées podcast, host Julien Morissette sheds light on reports of mysterious events through archival footage and testimonials from local residents.

In this story, brought to life on stage thanks to immersive sound accompaniment, University of Ottawa journalism student Flavie Demers-Côté puts the Hantées team on the trail of Percy F. Woodcock and the region's most famous paranormal story: the Dagg Farm poltergeist. Who are the people who live on this haunted site? The host hopes to untangle the mystery of today's dark stories and those of the last century.

FREE - RESERVATION REQUIRED

More info
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Principale
20H45 No Other Land
Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal | 2024 | Arabic, Hebrew, English | S.T. English

No Other Land exposes the devastating impact of Israeli demolition campaigns in the West Bank’s Masafer Yatta, revealing the human cost and deep divides through the gripping perspectives of a Palestinian activist and an Israeli journalist.

See full details
16h30After circus *

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