International Feature Competition
Filmed over 15 years, this film combines legend and magical realism to immerse us in the reality of the border village of Moimenta, where Mariana and her family live.
GODS OF STONE
- Iván Castiñeiras Gallego
- 2025
- Spain, Portugal, France
- s.t. French or English
- 85 min
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
Retrospective Louise Bourque : Reality Unfolded in the Echoes of Memory
An obsession, a fleeting image, a longing: the home as a romanticized, idealized place of intimacy, insistently inhabiting the most personal sphere, the territory of dreams and memories, of fantasy and desire. Using a short segment from personal home-movies (edited and reproduced multiple times) as a primary source of imagery, the process is a formal and lyrical exploration whereby the film is being essentially treated as a material, a surface, a membrane that can be manipulated directly in a "desperate" attempt at reclaiming and demystifying, at finding and revealing, at mapping the ineffable, at capturing and letting go...The original home-movie images once reproduced were affected through a variety of hand manipulations and chemical processes (without the use of optical effects) such as toning, deterioration of the emulsion and emulsion lifts, solarization, tinting, ripping, perforation, collage and hand-made "mattes", painting, printing, bleaching, scratching, as well as manipulations in contact printing and the developing process.
(Maude Trottier)
(Maude Trottier)
IMPRINT
- Louise Bourque
- 1997
- 14 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.
Panorama - Essentials
Little, Big, and Far follows Karl, a 70-year-old astronomer, as he journeys from Vienna to a Greek island, seeking dark skies to reflect on stars, memory, love, and the ties that bind life.
LITTLE, BIG, AND FAR
- Jem Cohen
- 2025
- Austria, United States
- s.t. English
- 121 min
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, Lloyd Wong
- 2025
- Canada
- s.t. French or English
- 29 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
National Feature Competition
Merging archival images, stories, voices, and songs, Partition looks at the British occupation of Palestine from 1917 to 1948.
Panorama - Against the Grain
Sky Hopinka’s Powwow People reveals the powwow in a cinematic space, capturing a vivacious celebration where dance, music, and testimony embody Indigenous community and presence.
POWWOW PEOPLE
- Sky Hopinka
- 2025
- United States
- 88 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
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
Through a simple juxtaposition of words and images, this refreshingly mature coming-of-age story invites us into the last summer of adolescence with all its worries.
ROMY TIENT UN JOURNAL
- Charles-Émile Lafrance
- 2025
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 13 min
Wapikoni
This short film, the brainchild of a father who loves telling his children stories, creatively brings a tale to life while revealing the behind-the-scenes of its inception with the help of his daughter. (HSB)
RUBY, LA PETITE FOURMI
- François Bergeron
- 2024
- Canada
- s.t. English
- 7 min