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
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
International Short and Medium-Length Competition
Rezmorah ends a night of excess with their usual ritual of returning to sobriety: a stroll through the Botanical Garden, where flora and queer existence meet.
REZBOTANIK
- Pedro Gonçalves Ribeiro
- 2025
- Brazil, Portugal, Spain
- s.t. French or English
- 19 min
Magnus Isacsson Competition
Through thoughtful discussions and scenes from daily life, the director examines masculinity as it is experienced within his community, the Siksika Nation.
SIKSIKAKOWAN: THE BLACKFOOT MAN
- Sinakson Trevor Solway
- 2025
- Canada
- s.t. French or English
- 78 min
Focus Taiwan: Beyond the Frame
Taman-Taman (Park) explores the stories of two Indonesian poets who meet in Tainan Park, where they turn everyday experiences and personal narratives into nighttime poems.
TAMAN-TAMAN (PARK)
- Yo Hen So
- 2024
- Taiwan
- s.t. English
- 101 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
Magnus Isacsson Competition
This film of eloquent archives looks back on an important movement of resistance and protest against racism toward Black people in Montreal to create a potent act of remembrance.
TRUE NORTH
- Michèle Stephenson
- 2025
- Canada, United States
- s.t. English
- 96 min
International Feature Competition
In the darkness of an eternal night, this immersive film takes us to a group of Afghan smugglers in the forest on the border between Serbia and Hungary, revealing the cruelty and violence of an unequal world.
WAKING HOURS
- Federico Cammarata, Filippo Foscarini
- 2025
- Italy
- s.t. English
- 78 min
International Short and Medium-Length Competition
This film cleverly and surprisingly explores a philosophical link between vision loss of the filmmaker and the violence that struck Páramo de la Sarna to meditate on social darkness and fear.
WHERE DO BIRDS GO WHEN IT RAINS
- Juan Sebastian Sisa
- 2024
- Colombia
- s.t. French or English
- 18 min
Panorama - Special screening
A free-filmed diary with captivating philosophical and cinematographic explorations, this epic seven-part work is a sensory, poetic, and human experience.
WHILE THE GREEN GRASS GROWS: A DIARY IN SEVEN PARTS
- Peter Mettler
- 2025
- Switzerland, Canada
- s.t. French and English
- 420 min