ANTES DO NOME
Luana Melgaço
Produced by Luiz Pretti (Anavilhana / Errante Filmes)
Feature film - Brazilian selection
Logline : Before the Name is the constant search for a place in the world. Walking towards the other, towards the unknown, yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Selected in collaboration with Brasil CineMundi and with the financial support of the Gouvernement du Québec
FATHER'S DAY
Ayana O'Shun
Produced by Bellange Bianca (Bel Ange Moon Productions)
Feature Film - Canadian selection
Logline: A documentary investigating the phenomenon of absent fathers in Black communities through the personal stories of the director and compelling women from Canada and Guadeloupe.
I LOST MY VIEW OF THE LANDSCAPE
Sophie Bédard-Marcotte
Produced by Pierre-Mathieu Fortin (Office National du Film du Canada)
Feature Film - Canadian selection
Logline: I lost my view of the landscape is a humorous and poetic feature-length documentary about the intricacies of the creative process and the search for meaning in art and life. Director Sophie Bédard Marcotte follows her neighbor, playwright and director Gabriel Plante, as he crafts a play based on the myth of Sisyphus.
JAMAPA
Tania Ximena Ruiz
Produced by Paulina Villavicencio (Disruptiva Films)
Feature film - Mexican selection
Logline : The waters of the JAMAPA River flow against the passage of time in their fierce resistance to death. A glaciologist, a photographer, and an elderly woman echo the river's fate, capturing a thunderous disappearance.
Selected in collaboration with DocsMX and with the financial support of the Gouvernement du Québec
LAND OF THE LIVING SKIES
Mackenzie Reid Rostad
Produced by Kristina Pedersen (Kristina Picture)
Feature Film - Canadian selection
Logline: In a move the ruling classes would describe as backwards, a filmmaker and his grandmother reverse time in an attempt to correct the mistakes of the past.
LITI LITI
Mamadou Khouma Gueye
Produced by Rosa Spaliviero (Twenty Nine Studio et Production)
Feature Film - Senegalese selection
Logline: Through the story of the launch of Africa's first TER, the film questions its development and its impact on ordinary people, far from the challenges of globalization.
ON THE SERBIAN BORDER
Federico Cammarata et Filippo Foscarini
Produced by Stefano Centini (Volos Films)
Feature film - Italian selection
Logline: In the Serbian forest, near the Hungarian border, a clan of Afghan migrant smugglers is hiding in the dark. During a long night in this extreme limbo, the walls between their world and ours almost disappear.
Selected in collaboration with Festival dei popoli and with the financial support of the Institut Italien de Culture de Montréal
FORUM RIDM AWARD winner
SKIN OF THE SKY
Andrea Bussmann
Produced by Andrea Bussmann
Feature Film - Canadian selection
Logline: SKIN OF THE SKY is an essay film that explores the interconnected lives of humans and non-human species in the Mexican American borderlands.
GRANDÉ STUDIOS SUPPORT winner
WIND AND VIEW
Sheng-Hung Hsieh
Produced by Ina Hon (Moolin Films)
Feature Film - Taiwanese selection
Logline: For over 60 years, a tiny grocery store in the Taiwanese mountains has been the setting for a romantic love story between an Indigenous Paiwan princess and an exiled Chinese soldier.
Selected in collaboration and with financial support from Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute and Tawain Docs