Panorama - Essentials
Danish filmmaker Lea Glob spends over a decade patiently capturing Apolonia Sokol’s unique world as the French painter carves out her artistic identity with resilience and unflinching defiance.
APOLONIA, APOLONIA
- Lea Glob
- 2022
- Denmark, Poland
- s.t. French or English
- 116 min
Opening film
The filmmaker turns her camera on her mother, actress Hiam Abbass, to paint an intimate intergenerational portrait of the daring Palestinian women in her family. The work offers a sensitive look at exile while celebrating the resilience of family ties.
BYE BYE TIBERIAS
- Lina Soualem
- 2023
- France, Palestine, Belgium, Qatar
- s.t. French and English
- 82 min
Panorama - Horizons
Concealed in small blinds, hunters wait for game. As time slows down, the hunters find a healing and introspective connection with nature.
CACHES
- Nicolas Paquet
- 2023
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 27 min
Panorama - Horizons
For Azaelle, Loue O’Farrell, and LuFisto—three female wrestlers from Quebec—the ring is a passionate endeavor and a way to let off steam of day-to-day injustice.
CELLES QUI LUTTENT
- Sarah Baril Gaudet
- 2023
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French and English
- 70 min
Focus Bidayyat : New Beginnings
In Coma, three women from three generations of a family live the drama of ordinary life during an extraordinary time in Syria.
COMA
- Sara Fattahi
- 2015
- Lebanon, Syria
- s.t. English
- 98 min
Panorama - Horizons
Through a fictitious character, the director immerses himself in the world of turkers, those click workers who perform micro-tasks night and day in front of their screens.
EN ATTENDANT LES ROBOTS
- Natan Castay
- 2023
- Belgium
- s.t. French or English
- 40 min
Panorama - The State of the World
Shot within various bomb shelters in Nagorno-Karabakh, the film underscores the hardships endured by civilians trapped in the throes of a 44-day war.
FAR FROM MICHIGAN
- Silva Khnkanosian
- 2023
- France, Armenia
- s.t. French or English
- 77 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
Reconstructions, archives, and interviews come together as family members explore the death of a woman who died of smallpox at the turn of the 20th century.
FOUR MILE CREEK
- Ryan McKenna
- 2023
- Canada (Quebec)
- 22 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 Feature Competition
Claude Demers offers a heartfelt exploration of his relationships with fatherhood; his memories brought to life through archival images and magnificent reconstructions.
JOURNAL D'UN PÈRE
- Claude Demers
- 2023
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 75 min
International Feature Competition
Through videos shot clandestinely by incarcerated mothers, Malqueridas gives a voice to resilient women, separated from their babies and condemned to be forgotten.
MALQUERIDAS
- Tana Gilbert
- 2023
- Chile, Germany
- s.t. English
- 75 min
International Short and Medium-Length Competition
A story unfolds through written words. Two women lie in bed; between their embraces and tender words, one confides in the other an experience about an interrupted rendezvous in Tehran.
MAST-DEL
- Maryam Tafakory
- 2023
- United Kingdom, Iran
- s.t. English
- 18 min