New Visions Competition
On a sensory journey to the heart of Hispanic flora, Mauricio Freyre examines plant seeds as yet another manifestation of colonial violence and neglect.
International Feature Competition
In a rare fusion of art and pedagogy, this compelling essay exposes the invisible hand of the John M. Olin Foundation behind the trickling down (neo)conservatism in the United States.
Magnus Isacsson Competition
Gulls, the landfill, the scientist, and the hawk: Serge-Olivier Rondeau captures a compelling scene as gulls populate Canada's largest landfill.
LES HÉRITIERS
- Serge-Olivier Rondeau
- 2025
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 79 min
International Feature Competition
Set in a village in Georgia’s Pankisi Valley near the Chechen border, Imago follows filmmaker Déni Oumar Pitsaev as he confronts generational silence and cultural displacement while dreaming of a home and a life beyond convention.
Panorama - Special screening
Interurbain explores a mother’s emotional void as she grapples with geographical distance and her son’s absence.
INTERURBAIN
- Marc-Olivier Huard
- 2025
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 9 min
Wapikoni
Composed of an intriguing series and superimposition of still images to reveal various elements, this visual poem explores the movement of a fascinating symbolic abstraction. (HSB)
IV.ISO:NA.IR__
- Jim Matlock
- 2024
- Canada
- 2 min
Panorama - Horizons
In Senegal, the residents of Guinaw Rail are being forced to leave their neighbourhood, dismantled to make way for a regional express train and its promises of modernity.
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
Based on the incomplete work of Lloyd Wong, who died of AIDS over 30 years ago, Lesley Loksi Chan turns the unfinished into a space of memory and transmission.
LLOYD WONG, UNFINISHED
- Lesley Loksi Chan, Llyod Wong
- 2025
- Canada
- s.t. English
- 29 min
Soirée Regard x Ridm
My Sister addresses the underlying tensions between two sisters. After their recent reunion, we slowly discover their private hang-ups and divergent paths to adulthood.
MA SOEUR
- Rosalie Pelletier
- 2025
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 14 min
National Feature Competition
Drawing on the world's film archives, this film traces the trajectory of an imagined community on the move, traversing a timeless memory toward a common affirmation.
