The soirée de la relève Radio-Canada
Scrolling through Google Maps, photos, voice memos, and internet searches on her computer screen, the director looks back on a family breakup that distanced her from her half-sisters. (AF)
HYPERLIEN
- Juliette Poitras
- 2025
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 13 min
The soirée de la relève Radio-Canada
Made from footage shot in Bogotá in his uncle's empty apartment while he was still alive, this film transports us to a nephew’s reflections on absence and the regrets of his vague memories. (AF)
KENNEDY
- Pablo Antonio Vargas Venegas
- 2025
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French
- 7 min
International Short and Medium-Length Competition
Between dreams and memories, three lives have been searching for an anchor since they had to leave Cape Verde for the city. This film is a hybrid, poetic work in which exile sparks nostalgia.
THE LAST HARVEST
- Nuno Boaventura Miranda
- 2025
- Cape Verde, Portugal
- s.t. English
- 23 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
Morning Circle follows a father and son through the home, playground, and kindergarten, where language, care, and ritual reveal the weight of exile, authority, exclusion, and quiet resistance.
MORNING CIRCLE
- Basma Al-Sharif
- 2025
- Canada, United Arab Emirates
- s.t. English
- 21 min
Panorama - Essentials
Documenting the daily life of five young brothers, shepherds in the mountains of North
Macedonia, the precise and intimate camera reveals the dynamics between humans and animals penned in by the open horizon.
Macedonia, the precise and intimate camera reveals the dynamics between humans and animals penned in by the open horizon.
THE MOUNTAIN WON'T MOVE
- Petra Seliškar
- 2025
- North Macedonia, Slovenia, France
- s.t. French or English
- 95 min
The soirée de la relève Radio-Canada
It’s summer in Haute-Gaspésie, and Rosie-Roch recalls intimate memories of her youth and opens up about her burgeoning queer identity between swims and walks. (AF)
ON TIRE PAS SUR UNE PLANTE POUR QU'ELLE POUSSE
- Gabrielle Bergeron-Leduc
- 2025
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 16 min
Uxdoc RIDM
In his living room, a retired playwright unveils a revelation to the spectator : he is losing his memories and seeks companionship to reconstruct his cherished remembrances.
QUEER UTOPIA
- Lui Avallos
- 2023
- Brazil, Portugal
- 25 min
Panorama - Horizons
Through roller derby, Indigenous women discover a space of sisterhood and healing, allowing them to assert the complexity of their identity and build a community.
RISING THROUGH THE FRAY
- Courtney Montour
- 2025
- Canada
- s.t. French
- 88 min
New Visions Competition
Through personal and collective memory, this sensitive essay in three movements attempts to bring to life Turkey’s past and future potential without nostalgia.
SOUL OF THE FOOT
- Mustafa Uzuner
- 2025
- Canada, Turkey
- s.t. French or English
- 66 min
Uxdoc RIDM
Inside the former Green Island Prison, political prisoner A-Kuen recounts stories of imprisonment and persecution that took place in Taiwan in the 1950s.
THE MAN WHO COULDN'T LEAVE
- Singing Chen
- 2022
- Taiwan
- s.t. English
- 35 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
The streets of Montreal intersect with a distant yet familiar Colombia, connecting two remote realities that unite to bear witness to the magnitude of absence.
TIGERS CAN BE SEEN IN THE RAIN
- Oscar Ruiz Navia
- 2025
- Colombia, Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 16 min
The soirée de la relève Radio-Canada
Through intimate, private interviews, women from a Vietnamese family who immigrated to Quebec in 1975 discuss exile, sacrifice, and intergenerational transmission. (AF)
TISSER LA SOIE
- Marguerite Ranger
- 2025
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French
- 20 min