National Short and Medium-Length Competition
Nine Easy Dances, or nine short vignettes of family life suffused with laughter and tenderness, punctuated by the chaos of filming and the unknowns of an aging household.
NINE EASY DANCES
- Nora Rosenthal
- 2023
- Canada
- s.t. French
- 19 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
Panorama - Against the Grain
In a peaceful Cuban village, life seems measured out in goodbyes, and the heartache of departures haunts three generations of its residents.
THE OCEANS ARE THE REAL CONTINENTS
- Tommaso Santambrogio
- 2023
- Cuba, Italy
- s.t. English
- 119 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
Through the patient gaze of a brother and sister, this film invites us to rethink everyday life in step with Jonny, their brother with cerebral palsy and autism spectrum disorder.
ORPHEUS
- Malaika Shostakovich, Mustafa Uzuner
- 2023
- Canada
- s.t. French
- 20 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
In Munich, an amateur rugby team trains hard. For Desmond and his team, united by their queer identity, there is more to learn than just the rules of the game.
OUTSIDE CENTER
- Eli Jean Tahchi
- 2023
- Canada (Quebec), Germany
- s.t. French or English
- 21 min
Panorama - Essentials
Through the sincere plea of one forensic doctor, Pure Unknown undertakes a compassionate inquiry into the loss of migrants in the Mediterranean Sea, and reveals the negligence of an entire system.
PURE UNKNOWN
- Valentina Cicogna, Mattia Colombo
- 2023
- Italy, Switzerland, Sweden
- s.t. English
- 93 min
International Short and Medium-Length Competition
Quiet as It’s Kept holds a contemporary, experimental and sensory mirror up to Toni Morrison’s first novel, The Bluest Eye, which explores the lives of Black women in the US.
QUIET AS IT'S KEPT
- Ja'Tovia Gary
- 2023
- United States
- s.t. French
- 26 min
Doc-to-Doc
With a camera held almost at arm's length, Resurrection gives a voice to the survivors of the Juanacatlán Falls disaster, while paying tribute to those who were lost.
RESURRECTION
- Eugenio Polgovsky
- 2016
- Mexico
- s.t. French
- 93 min
Panorama - Against the Grain
In this fictional work firmly rooted in a documentary-style approach, a sound artist travels to a mining community in India. Confronted with this new reality, he begins to doubt himself.
WHISPERS OF FIRE & WATER
- Lubdhak Chatterjee
- 2023
- India
- s.t. English
- 84 min