Wapikoni
In a visual exploration through multiple angles and perspectives, the multidisciplinary artist Catherine Boivin travels the road of personal reflection, following in her ancestors’ footsteps.

6 MINUTES/KM
- Catherine Boivin
- 2022
- Canada (Odanak)
- s.t. French or English
- 4 min
Panorama - Horizons
The new generation of Nigerian students speaks out in this observational documentary, where a film club becomes a space for debate on important social issues.

COCONUT HEAD GENERATION
- Alain Kassanda
- 2023
- France, Nigeria
- s.t. French or English
- 89 min
International Feature Competition
Crowrã is an ethnofiction that spans almost a century of Krahô memories, their stories of resistance equally powerful as those of the carnage survived by the community.

CROWRÃ
- João Salaviza, Renée Nader Messora
- 2023
- Brazil, Portugal
- s.t. French or English
- 124 min
Special Screening
In From the East, the Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman takes viewers on a contemplative, dialogue-free exploration of post-Soviet Union Eastern Europe.

D'EST
- Chantal Akerman
- 1993
- Belgium, France
- 110 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
Inuk and Mi’kmaq artist Amy Hull evokes the complexity of her relationship to nostalgia and to her home region through childhood stories and images filmed in 16 mm and Super 8.

THE GREAT KIND MYSTERY
- Ella Morton
- 2023
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 17 min
Panorama - The State of the World
Aboard a volunteer-driven vehicle, dozens of families are trying to flee Ukraine, they leave behind their trauma, and safeguard their dreams for a brighter future.

IN THE REARVIEW
- Maciek Hamela
- 2023
- Poland, France, Ukraine
- s.t. French and English
- 85 min
Panorama - Horizons
A remote Chilean village exists in the shadow of a foreboding power station from which it receives no supply. An electrifying observational film.

IN THE SHADOW OF LIGHT
- Ignacia Merino Bustos, Isabel Reyes Bustos
- 2023
- Chile
- s.t. English
- 66 min
Panorama - Horizons
Between the conformism of a civil servant father and the nervous energy of a feminist activist mother, the filmmaker attempts to find her own contribution to social change.

K-FAMILY AFFAIRS
- Arum Nam
- 2023
- South Korea
- s.t. English
- 87 min
International Short and Medium-Length Competition
Evoking anxiety through sensory elements, Syrian filmmaker Alhasan Yousef’s non-linear short conveys the anguish and powerlessness he feels around the fate of his homeland.

LOCUS CORDIS
- Alhasan Yousef
- 2023
- Belgium, Portugal, Hungary, Syria
- s.t. English
- 20 min
National Feature Competition
Under the bright lights of Saigon, this film celebrates the authenticity and emotional bonds of members of the Vietnamese queer community in their quest for love and belonging.

MÁ SÀI GÒN (MÈRE SAIGON)
- Khoa Lê
- 2023
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French or English
- 98 min
Panorama - Against the Grain
A tipping point for a world to be redefined, this film essay explores film and today’s society through a powerful and complex non-linear discourse.

NOUVEAU MONDE ! (LE MONDE À NOUVEAU)
- Nicolas Klotz, Elisabeth Perceval
- 2023
- France
- s.t. French or English
- 101 min
International Short and Medium-Length Competition
Drawing on archives and memories, the filmmaker tries to make sense of an identity that straddles the border separating Abkhazia and Georgia.

SELF-PORTRAIT ALONG THE BORDERLINE
- Anna Dziapshipa
- 2023
- Georgia
- s.t. English
- 50 min