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
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
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 Feature Competition
A woman constantly juggles her resources to provide for her son. Imbued with sensitivity, this film captures both the tough realities of life in Cameroon and the resilience of its people.
MAMBAR PIERRETTE
- Rosine Mbakam
- 2023
- Belgium, Cameroon
- s.t. French or English
- 93 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
International Short and Medium-Length Competition
Between reality and allegory, this film reappropriates a forest once forbidden to women, reimagining it from the perspective of those lost to the stake.
NOCTURNE FOR A FOREST
- Catarina Vasconcelos
- 2023
- Portugal
- s.t. English
- 16 min
International Feature Competition
Through a thoughtful interweaving of analogue and digital images, along with a conversation with an AI, this documentary essay delves into a dystopian future.
NOTES FROM EREMOCENE
- Viera Cákanyová
- 2023
- Slovakia, Czech Republic
- s.t. English
- 78 min
Focus Bidayyat : New Beginnings
Two dissidents embark on a perilous journey from Damascus to Raqqa and then into exile in Turkey as Syria tumbles into the abyss.
OUR TERRIBLE COUNTRY
- Ziad Homsi, Mohammad Ali Atassi
- 2014
- Lebanon, Syria
- s.t. English
- 80 min
The soirée de la relève Radio-Canada
Through a poetic letter to its nation, this short film reveals a strong community and the bond of the young generation to its culture.
LA RAVISSANTE
- Diego Gros-Louis
- 2023
- Canada (Wendake)
- s.t. French
- 6 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 - Against the Grain
Publicity stills of old Hollywood overlap with the frenetic narration of a trial to explore the imprint that cinematic culture leaves on the collective imagination.
STILL FILM
- James N. Kienitz Wilkins
- 2023
- United States
- s.t. French
- 72 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