Retrospective Louise Bourque : Reality Unfolded in the Echoes of Memory
Against a complex soundscape, a sparkling abstraction gradually reveals an evocative montage of archival images of Houdini in chains, seeking emancipation. (HSB)
A LITTLE PRAYER (H-E-L-P)
- Louise Bourque
- 2011
- Canada
- 8 min
Panorama - Against the Grain
A filmmaker and his son’s vacation in an abandoned hotel intersects with the story of a murderer from the 1830s and the personal memories of a past that shapes and haunts.
Uxdoc RIDM
A melancholic journey based on the testimony of a woman who refused to evacuate her hometown village after a terrible disaster.
ALL UNSAVED PROGRESS WILL BE LOST
- Mélanie Courtinat
- 2022
- France
- s.t. English
- 10 min
Panorama - Essentials
Always paints an honest, tender, and poetic portrait of the modest daily life of Youbin Gong, a young and talented poet, and his family as farmers in the mountains of Hunan.
National Feature Competition
This work, starring Charlotte Rampling as a psychotherapist, uses symbolic imagery shot on 16mm black-and-white film to present a profound journey into the human mind.
International Feature Competition
On a Beirut beach, three men expose their lives to the filmmaker’s attentive gaze. Dima El-Horr captures memory, loss, and resilience amid Lebanon’s perpetual political turmoil.
AND THE FISH FLY ABOVE OUR HEADS
- Dima El-Horr
- 2025
- Lebanon, France, Saudi Arabia
- s.t. French or English
- 70 min
Retrospective Louise Bourque : Reality Unfolded in the Echoes of Memory
This deeply moving short film explores the different stages of romantic grief by conveying emotional power and a healing vulnerability. (HSB)
AUTO PORTRAIT/SELF PORTRAIT POST PARTUM
- Louise Bourque
- 2017
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 14 min
International Short and Medium-Length Competition
Beneath Which Rivers Flow blends portraits and speculative narrative to explore the human and geographical impacts of climate change on the daily lives of an Iraqi family.
Uxdoc RIDM
Emeline Courcier uses artificial intelligence as a tool and metaphor, drawing from her Vietnamese family’s memory and their philosophy of erasing the past to build resilience.
BURN FROM ABSENCE
- Emeline Courcier
- 2024
- France, Canada
- s.t. English
- 35 min
Retrospective Louise Bourque : Reality Unfolded in the Echoes of Memory
In a tribute to her father, the filmmaker revisits a family memory he left behind, exploring his absence and representation through the medium of cinema.
BYE BYE NOW
- Louise Bourque
- 2022
- Canada (Quebec)
- 10 min
International Short and Medium-Length Competition
This film uses the exploitation of coltan to reappropriate colonial archives, building an eloquent reflexive dialogue between the legacy of the past and the current reality.
COLTAN
- Petna Ndaliko Katondolo
- 2025
- Democratic Republic of Congo, United States
- s.t. French or English
- 37 min
