20 - 30 Nov. 2025
Jack Hardy | 2024 | English | S.T. French
The joy of fishing for Jack, a curious and charismatic 10-year-old enthusiast, shines through the screen during a day on the water with his grandmother and through clips from his YouTube channel. (HSB)
See full detailsJean-François Caissy | 2025 | French | S.T. English
Jean-François Caissy invites us into the chaotic, authentic world of early childhood with his candid composite images of the group’s interactions, confrontations, and curiosities.
See full detailsThis film of eloquent archives looks back on an important movement of resistance and protest against racism toward Black people in Montreal to create a potent act of remembrance.
See full detailsA free-filmed diary with captivating philosophical and cinematographic explorations, this epic seven-part work is a sensory, poetic, and human experience.
See full detailsFREE This round table brings together filmmakers whose work explores how cinema can move from the intimate to the collective. Participants will explore cinema’s power to transform the deeply personal into a shared experience, while engaging with the tensions of social boundaries, cultural memory, and the evolving politics of identity and representation.
Speakers : Basma Al-sharif (Morning Circle) & Lee Anne Schmitt (Evidence) & Mustafa Uzuner (Soul of the Foot)
Moderation : Oscar Ruiz Navia (Tigers Can Be Seen in the Rain)
The discussion will be held in english, with live translation available through Wordly.
Free admission
Mélanie Courtinat | 2022 | English | S.T. English
A melancholic journey based on the testimony of a woman who refused to evacuate her hometown village after a terrible disaster.
See full detailsMarion Burger, Ilan Cohen | 2023 | French, English
It is the story of a man who’s lost his ability to speak, and his daughter who seeks to communicate with him, exploring aphasia as if it were a distant land.
See full detailsLui Avallos | 2023 |
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.
See full detailsSinging Chen | 2022 | Mandarin | S.T. English
Inside the former Green Island Prison, political prisoner A-Kuen recounts stories of imprisonment and persecution that took place in Taiwan in the 1950s.
See full detailsUgo Arsac | 2023 | French
An immersive journey through France's nuclear fission and fusion plants, featuring interviews with experts on the future of energy.
See full detailsWilliam Hong-xiao Wei | 2025 | Chinese, English | S.T English
Through a kaleidoscopic collection of images and memories, this personal and political visual essay reveals the effects of censorship on China's contemporary queer community.
See full detailsOscar Ruiz Navia | 2025 | Spanish | S.T English
The streets of Montreal intersect with a distant yet familiar Colombia, connecting two remote realities that unite to bear witness to the magnitude of absence.
See full detailsNuno Boaventura Miranda | 2025 | Portuguese | S.T English
Between dreams and memories, three lives have been searching for an anchor since they had to leave Cape Verde for the city. This film is a hybrid, poetic work in which exile sparks nostalgia.
See full detailsBasma Al-Sharif | 2025 | Arabic, Armenian, German | S.T English
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.
See full detailsRejecting pessimism, this film, made entirely from archival footage, revisits 50 years of Chilean history to keep dreaming of the necessary political change, beyond shattered hopes.
See full detailsJuan Sebastian Sisa | 2024 | Spanish | S.T French
This film cleverly and surprisingly explores a philosophical link between vision loss of the filmmaker and the violence that struck Páramo de la Sarna to meditate on social darkness and fear.
See full detailsJulia Yezbick | 2025 | English | S.T French
Marratein, Marratein lingers between Beirut and Detroit, weaving memory and reflection into a meditation on belonging, heritage, and the echoes of diaspora.
See full detailsRanda Maroufi | 2025 | Darija | S.T French
In this powerful and sensory short film, with the help of the inhabitants of Jerada, Morocco, Randa Maroufi reconstructs the hostile, threatening tunnels of an abandoned coal mine.
See full detailsPedro Gonçalves Ribeiro | 2025 | Portuguese | S.T French
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.
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Join us for a festive evening celebrating Focus Taiwan: Beyond the Frame, with live music by DJ Vice City, straight from Taiwan. Presented in collaboration with the Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute’s flagship initiatives Taiwan Docs and the Taiwan International Documentary Festival, this event is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Offices of Montreal and New York.
Opening cocktail of the Focus Taïwan : Beyond the Frame, with the participation of the principal participants of this section of the RIDMs 28th edition.
See full detailsWords, words, words
Words, words, words explores the trajectory of words using a listening device and live writing projected onto an overhead projector, with the help of certain selected objects and images (film, gauze, etc.). From thought to voice, from ear to hand, from writing to projection, from one body to another, the performance seeks to activate the circulation and echo of memory from the appearance of the invited materials and the gaps that emerge between them. (Maude Trottier)
Sounds and Image : Louise Bourque
Words : Maude Trottier
This Is Not a Film by Deng Nan-guang
An audiovisual performance combining a screening of This Is Not a Film by Deng Nan-guang by Huang Pang-chuan and Chunni Lin and a live performance by DJ Vice City (Taiwan).
After the death of the renowned photographer Deng Nan-guang (1907–1971), several small-gauge films, believed to be shot by him, were donated to the Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute. This film is a re-creation based on those archival images. It reconstructs the amateur image-making scene during the Japanese colonial period from a contemporary perspective.
The filmmaker adopts a skillful artisanal approach, transporting us into the unique, colourful, and lush world of her aunt, Agatha Bock, an independent, radiant woman with a lively spirit.
See full detailsThrough thoughtful discussions and scenes from daily life, the director examines masculinity as it is experienced within his community, the Siksika Nation.
See full detailsTaman-Taman (Park) explores the stories of two Indonesian poets who meet in Tainan Park, where they turn everyday experiences and personal narratives into nighttime poems.
See full detailsIn the darkness of an eternal night, this immersive film takes us to a group of Afghan smugglers in the forest on the border between Serbia and Hungary, revealing the cruelty and violence of an unequal world.
See full detailsEmeline 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.
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