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
Special Screening
A performing arts film by Alanis Obomsawin, it documents efforts to raise funds for the James Bay Cree and was made at a time when Cree territory was threatened by hydro-electric projects. Amisk represents early work by Obomsawin, a trailblazer in Canadian Aboriginal film.
AMISK
- Alanis Obomsawin
- 1977
- Canada
- s.t. English
- 40 min
National Feature Competition
Caiti works as a bartender and dreams of returning to the music scene. The young woman carries the burden of success while society around her seems to fail miserably.
CAITI BLUES
- Justine Harbonnier
- 2023
- France, Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French
- 84 min
Special Screening
Released in 1971, this lyrical short documentary marked the directorial debut of legendary Abenaki director Alanis Obomsawin. Filmed at a residential school in northern Ontario, it is composed entirely of drawings by young Cree children and stories told by the children themselves.
CHRISTMAS AT MOOSE FACTORY
- Alanis Obomsawin
- 1971
- s.t. French
- 13 min
International Short and Medium-Length Competition
A visual poem exploring a mysterious ship graveyard in the heart of the Mediterranean, its weird landscape inviting us to reflect on the human condition.
ELEFSINA NOTRE AMOUR
- Mahdi Fleifel
- 2023
- Greece
- 9 min
International Short and Medium-Length Competition
A 60-year-old Kurdish man shares stories of his childhood, shifting from fond memories of loved ones to the recollection of violent events.
EVER SINCE, I HAVE BEEN FLYING
- Aylin Gökmen
- 2023
- Switzerland
- s.t. French or English
- 19 min
Sky Hopinka: Redefining potential territories
Through this experimental short film and densely wrought sensory experience, we are exposed to a myth imagined for Xawiska, a plant used by the Ho-Chunk to recover from a fainting spell.
FAINTING SPELLS
- Sky Hopinka
- 2018
- United States
- 11 min
Sky Hopinka: Redefining potential territories
A meditation on death and reincarnation, this visually and sonically rich film stands as a compelling tribute to Indigenous poet Diane Burns.
I'LL REMEMBER YOU AS YOU WERE NOT AS WHAT YOU'LL BECOME
- Sky Hopinka
- 2016
- United States
- 13 min
Sky Hopinka: Redefining potential territories
On the winding road of a father-son relationship, this personal short weaves a timeless dialogue between the two, narrowing the distance separating them.
JÁAJI APPROX.
- Sky Hopinka
- 2015
- United States
- 8 min
Sky Hopinka: Redefining potential territories
In this touching intergenerational story, the filmmaker’s great-grandmother giving a language lesson to his grandmother in 1972 is a starting point that sparks reflection around knowledge transmission.
KICKING THE CLOUDS
- Sky Hopinka
- 2021
- United States
- 16 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
Audio work
In this program, three sound creations tackle the theme of memory. What remains of the places and people we love once they’ve disappeared or been transformed?
LES LIEUX DISPARUS
- Claude Périard
- 2022
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French
- 28 min