Special Screening
A performing arts film by Alanis Obomsawin, it documents efforts to raise funds for the James Bay Cree and was made at a time when Cree territory was threatened by hydro-electric projects. Amisk represents early work by Obomsawin, a trailblazer in Canadian Aboriginal film.

AMISK
- Alanis Obomsawin
- 1977
- Canada
- s.t. English
- 40 min
New Visions Competition
Terra Long’s experimental documentary is a hypnotizing, sensory, and evocative look at how date palms have forged the Coachella Valley’s identity.

FEET IN WATER, HEAD ON FIRE
- Terra Long
- 2023
- United States, Canada
- s.t. French or English
- 90 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
This collage of excerpts from over 50 years of film and television is a tribute to those who have always been in the background - but above all, it's a tribute to Jill.

JILL, UNCREDITED
- Anthony Ing
- 2022
- Canada, United Kingdom
- 19 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
Nine Easy Dances, or nine short vignettes of family life suffused with laughter and tenderness, punctuated by the chaos of filming and the unknowns of an aging household.

NINE EASY DANCES
- Nora Rosenthal
- 2023
- Canada
- s.t. French
- 19 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
Through the patient gaze of a brother and sister, this film invites us to rethink everyday life in step with Jonny, their brother with cerebral palsy and autism spectrum disorder.

ORPHEUS
- Malaika Shostakovich, Mustafa Uzuner
- 2023
- Canada
- s.t. French
- 20 min
Doc-to-Doc
These three films by Szlam catapult into a universe in which the techniques of cinema reveal hidden worlds, until now accessible only through extrasensory perception.

PROGRAMME MALENA SZLAM
- Malena Szlam
- Canada, Chile
- 28 min
National Feature Competition
In the intimate setting of an atypical Tehran home, a three-generation Iranian family’s story is interwoven with their country’s political turmoil.

SILENT HOUSE
- Farnaz Jurabchian, Mohammadreza Jurabchian
- 2022
- Canada, Iran, France, Qatar
- s.t. French or English
- 102 min
New Visions Competition
In a vivid mosaic of portraits, women and men working closely with thousand-year-old trees speak with lucid urgency about their connection with these endangered giants.

SILVICOLA
- Jean-Philippe Marquis
- 2023
- Canada
- s.t. French or English
- 80 min
Panorama - The State of the World
Hard-hitting and necessary, this film follows the tradition of investigative documentaries to chronicle a lawyer's crusade against the for-profit nursing home industry.

STOLEN TIME (LE TEMPS DÉROBÉ)
- Helene Klodawsky
- 2023
- Canada
- s.t. French
- 85 min
Panorama - The State of the World
Voices of a mother, a son, and friends unite in an attempt to understand the repercussions of the intergenerational trauma caused by Indigenous residential schools and to rebuild their identity.

WAAPAKE (DEMAIN)
- Jules Arita Koostachin
- 2023
- Canada
- s.t. French
- 80 min
The soirée de la relève Radio-Canada
Ukrainian women exiled in Prague tell their stories as they attempt to rebuild their lives; meanwhile, the war seeps into the voices of the men who have stayed behind.

WHERE MOTION HAS NOT YET CEASED
- Juliette Balthazard
- 2023
- Canada, Czech Republic
- s.t. French
- 17 min
National Feature Competition
Peter Mettler explores the cycle of life in While the Green Grass Grows, a multilayered and epic cinematic exploration to underscore the fragility and profound nature of human relationships.

WHILE THE GREEN GRASS GROWS
- Peter Mettler
- 2023
- Switzerland, Canada
- s.t. French
- 166 min