National Feature Competition
Merging archival images, stories, voices, and songs, Partition looks at the British occupation of Palestine from 1917 to 1948.
International Feature Competition
Across continents, Maryam reconnects with her parents via discreetly installed surveillance cameras, capturing intimate gestures that bridge forced exile, memory, longing, and the passage of time.
Wapikoni
With its moving personal approach, careful artistic direction, and inspired sound design, this skillfully symbolic work embodies the importance of transmission. (HSB)
PHOENIX
- Marylène Houle
- 2025
- Canada (Odanak)
- s.t. French
- 7 min
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
International Short and Medium-Length Competition
Through experiments bridging film and wood engraving, craftswoman Chen Meiqi's anecdotes tell the story of this Chinese art form.
Magnus Isacsson Competition
A mixed-race filmmaker raised in a white adoptive family draws on archives, memories, and testimonials to confront normalized racism and maternal abandonment.
RECOMPOSÉE
- Nadia Louis-Desmarchais
- 2025
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 91 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
International Short and Medium-Length Competition
Using a hybrid approach, archival footage, and a fictional character, this short film tells the stories of Brazilian Black mothers mourning their child’s death by the police.
RIO REMAINS BEAUTIFUL
- Felipe Casanova
- 2025
- Belgium, Switzerland, Brazil
- s.t. English
- 24 min
Panorama - Horizons
Through roller derby, Indigenous women discover a space of sisterhood and healing, allowing them to assert the complexity of their identity and build a community.
RISING THROUGH THE FRAY
- Courtney Montour
- 2025
- Canada
- s.t. French
- 88 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