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
New Visions Competition
Terra Long’s experimental documentary is a hypnotizing, sensory, and evocative look at how date palms have forged the Coachella Valley’s identity.
FEET IN WATER, HEAD ON FIRE
- Terra Long
- 2023
- United States, Canada
- s.t. French or English
- 90 min
International Short and Medium-Length Competition
A sensitive and surprising portrait, this short film tinged with humour is an ode to encounters, to imagination, and to the small joys of doing things your own way.
FOUR HOLES
- Daniela Muñoz Barroso
- 2023
- Cuba, France
- s.t. French or English
- 20 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
Reconstructions, archives, and interviews come together as family members explore the death of a woman who died of smallpox at the turn of the 20th century.
FOUR MILE CREEK
- Ryan McKenna
- 2023
- Canada (Quebec)
- 22 min
National Feature Competition
In a true work of cinematography, Julien Elie’s extensive research reveals a regime of terror and violence that reigns with impunity in Mexico.
LA GARDE BLANCHE
- Julien Elie
- 2023
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French or English
- 109 min
Panorama - Horizons
An intimate portrait of a woman whose unsettling candor has made her one of the most influential voices in the movements for social justice and equality in the United States.
GOING TO MARS: THE NIKKI GIOVANNI PROJECT
- Joe Brewster, Michèle Stephenson
- 2023
- United States
- 102 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
Inuk and Mi’kmaq artist Amy Hull evokes the complexity of her relationship to nostalgia and to her home region through childhood stories and images filmed in 16 mm and Super 8.
THE GREAT KIND MYSTERY
- Ella Morton
- 2023
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 17 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
Panorama - Horizons
In this coming-of-age pop tale, two friends enjoy summer in Laredo, Texas, trying to overcome their anxieties around an uncertain future.
HUMMINGBIRDS
- Silvia Del Carmen Castaños, Estefanía "Beba" Contreras
- 2023
- United States
- s.t. English
- 78 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
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
With poetic narration by artist Bettina Szabo and captivating images of nature, experimental short film Immortelles focuses on the creative act in all its complexity.
IMMORTELLES
- Mark Durand
- 2023
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 6 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