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
Special Screening
In From the East, the Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman takes viewers on a contemplative, dialogue-free exploration of post-Soviet Union Eastern Europe.
D'EST
- Chantal Akerman
- 1993
- Belgium, France
- 110 min
Opening film
At the beginning of summer, Adam, Ana, and Dahlia turn to their families and friends to question their cultural heritage. Through tender conversations, "Here and There" juxtaposes the different influences that steer the blossoming of the cultural identities of second and third-generation immigrants.
D'ICI, D'AILLEURS
- Chadi Bennani
- 2023
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French or English
- 19 min