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 - Against the Grain
In a historical review of the 1972 smallpox epidemic in Yugoslavia, archival images are paired with narration from a doctor who vividly recalls life at the time.
ANOTHER SPRING
- Mladen Kovacevic
- 2022
- Serbia, France, Qatar
- s.t. English
- 90 min
International Short and Medium-Length Competition
During a ferry ride, the space between two shores allows us to observe ferry passengers under a fog both literal and suggestive of time suspended.
AQUERONTE
- Manuel Muñoz Rivas
- 2023
- Spain
- s.t. English
- 26 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
The soirée de la relève Radio-Canada
A woman sweeps the street, and a fishmonger opens her car trunk. From a window, a neighbour looks on as workers smash the bricks of Casa Bonjardim.
CASA BONJARDIM
- Camille Salvetti
- 2022
- Canada (Quebec), Portugal
- s.t. French
- 18 min
The soirée de la relève Radio-Canada
Weaving together accounts from Clémence’s family and friends, the director exposes the grief that follows the young woman’s death by femicide.
CLÉMENCE
- Myriam Ben Saïd
- 2023
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 18 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
Deeply atmospheric and textural, Cold and Dark explores the challenges faced by a small group of Slovakian loggers and their workhorse, Kubo.
COLD AND DARK
- Peter Hošták
- 2023
- Slovakia, Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 30 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
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
Panorama - Horizons
An intimate portrait of a woman whose unsettling candor has made her one of the most influential voices in the movements for social justice and equality in the United States.
GOING TO MARS: THE NIKKI GIOVANNI PROJECT
- Joe Brewster, Michèle Stephenson
- 2023
- United States
- 102 min
Panorama - Horizons
In this coming-of-age pop tale, two friends enjoy summer in Laredo, Texas, trying to overcome their anxieties around an uncertain future.
HUMMINGBIRDS
- Silvia Del Carmen Castaños, Estefanía "Beba" Contreras
- 2023
- United States
- s.t. English
- 78 min
The soirée de la relève Radio-Canada
Nicole pays a visit to her mother, camera in tow. With great warmth and intimacy, she shares a look into a home inhabited by the memories of a resilient woman.
IT IS WHAT IT IS
- Nicole Doummar
- 2023
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French
- 13 min