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
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
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
Panorama - Horizons
For Azaelle, Loue O’Farrell, and LuFisto—three female wrestlers from Quebec—the ring is a passionate endeavor and a way to let off steam of day-to-day injustice.
CELLES QUI LUTTENT
- Sarah Baril Gaudet
- 2023
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French and English
- 70 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
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
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
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
Focus Bidayyat : New Beginnings
In Coma, three women from three generations of a family live the drama of ordinary life during an extraordinary time in Syria.
COMA
- Sara Fattahi
- 2015
- Lebanon, Syria
- s.t. English
- 98 min
International Feature Competition
Crowrã is an ethnofiction that spans almost a century of Krahô memories, their stories of resistance equally powerful as those of the carnage survived by the community.
CROWRÃ
- João Salaviza, Renée Nader Messora
- 2023
- Brazil, Portugal
- s.t. French or English
- 124 min