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
Driven into exile by far-right paramilitary forces, the inhabitants of a Colombian village return 20 years later to the place they once called home.
LA BONGA
- Sebastián Pinzón Silva, Canela Reyes
- 2023
- Colombia, United States
- s.t. French or English
- 78 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
Panorama - Against the Grain
In this deeply poetic documentary essay, director Catherine Martin explores three aspects of the vast subject of darkness, from Japanese aesthetics to the invention of cinema.
ÉLOGE DE L'OMBRE
- Catherine Martin
- 2023
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French or English
- 86 min
Panorama - Essentials
The sterile environment of an animal testing lab is juxtaposed with the meditative daily life of a shepherd, exposing the contradictions between the neighbouring worlds.
FAUNA
- Pau Faus
- 2023
- Spain
- s.t. English
- 74 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
Based on sponsored films produced between 1920 and 1970, this film articulates an interpretation of the colonial imagination in which the violence of the archives resonates with the present.
HOLIDAY NATIVE LAND
- Nicolas Renaud, Brian Virostek
- 2023
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 37 min
Focus Bidayyat : New Beginnings
A film-conversation between a writer and filmmaker questions the relationship between language and cinema as tools to represent war and violence.
IN FIELDS OF WORDS: CONVERSATIONS WITH SAMAR YAZBEK
- Rania Stephan
- 2022
- Lebanon
- s.t. English
- 69 min
International Feature Competition
Capturing both the stunning beauty of the natural landscapes and the mundanity of the survivalists’ daily lives, Knit’s Island draws us into a larger than life videogame.
KNIT'S ISLAND
- Ekiem Barbier, Guilhem Causse, Quentin L'helgoualc'h
- 2023
- France
- s.t. French and English
- 96 min
Panorama - The State of the World
An exploration of the phenomenon of female genital mutilation through the journeys and narratives of Canadian women of African descent who are seeking to break the taboos surrounding it.
KOROMOUSSO - GRANDE SOEUR
- Habibata Ouarme, Jim Donovan
- 2023
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French or English
- 75 min
International Short and Medium-Length Competition
In a remarkable feat of editing, this striking experimental work celebrates queer love and eroticism, drawing on a wealth of film archives.
LOVING IN BETWEEN
- Jyoti Mistry
- 2023
- Australia, South Africa
- s.t. French
- 18 min
Special Screening
A figure wanders through a deserted building she is keeping watch over. At the intersection of fiction, essay, and experimental film, this work is a multifaceted reflection on how we see the world.
MADEMOISELLE KENOPSIA
- Denis Côté
- 2023
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 80 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