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, 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
Magnus Isacsson Competition
In the arid hell of the U.S.-Mexico border, a couple of Mexican volunteers struggle to restore dignity to the victims of a tragic migratory journey.
MAIS OÙ VA-T-ON, COYOTE?
- Jonah Malak
- 2025
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French or English
- 85 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.
International Short and Medium-Length Competition
Marratein, Marratein lingers between Beirut and Detroit, weaving memory and reflection into a meditation on belonging, heritage, and the echoes of diaspora.
MARRATEIN, MARRATEIN
- Julia Yezbick
- 2025
- United States, Lebanon
- 25 min
Opening film
Memorial Continuum recounts the friendship and complicity of two artists as they lead us into the heart of the Island of Montréal (Tiohtià:ke). Manuel Mathieu, a Haitian contemporary artist on the rise, unfolds his abstract public artworks shaped by major upheavals. In the intimacy of their exchanges, the gaze of his protégé, artist Malcom Odd, is reshaped and transformed, redefining the metropolis and its iconic mountain. Together, they invite us to explore a living space of memory, encounter, and fractures, where each gesture and each trace resonates between past and future, and where the strength of the whole arises from the richness of its fragments.
MEMORIAL CONTINUUM
- Malcom Odd
- 2025
- Canada
- s.t. French or English
- 16 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
Engaging with images of the Second Intifada shot by her father, filmmaker Nada El-Omari questions the meaning of images, the fragility of memory, and the erosion of the value of truth.
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
Soirée Regard x Ridm
Having recently lost her sight, Marie-Christine awakens her son's curiosity and wonder at the beauty of the universe
ORBITES
- Sarah Seené
- 2025
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 23 min