Montreal International Documentary Festival

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Schedule

20 - 30 Nov. 2025

Cinéma Public
Cinéma du Musée - Auditorium Maxwell-Cummings
Cinéma du Parc - Salle 2
Cinémathèque québécoise - Foyer Luce-Guilbeault
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Fernand-Seguin
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Norman-McLaren
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Principale
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19:30 While the Green Grass Grows: A Diary in Seven... *
Peter Mettler | 2025 | English, Spanish, German | S.T French

A free-filmed diary with captivating philosophical and cinematographic explorations, this epic seven-part work is a sensory, poetic, and human experience.

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18:00 Chronique d'une ville*
(1) Phoenix
Marylène Houle | 2025 | Abenaki | S.T French

With its moving personal approach, careful artistic direction, and inspired sound design, this skillfully symbolic work embodies the importance of transmission. (HSB)

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(2) Chronique d'une ville
Nadine Gomez | 2025 | English, Japanese, Spanish | S.T French

Both poetic and sensory, this documentary essay exposes the magnetism and the dark side of cities that attract and embrace us as much as they confine us.

See full details
20:30 The Westoxicateds *
Gilda Pourjabar | 2025 | Persian, English | S.T English

Gilda Pourjabar illustrates how Western pop art has slipped through the cracks of Iran's repressive political regime to light the rebellious sparks in young people.

See full details
17:00 Siksikakowan: The Blackfoot Man
Sinakson Trevor Solway | 2025 | English, Siksiká | S.T French

Through thoughtful discussions and scenes from daily life, the director examines masculinity as it is experienced within his community, the Siksika Nation.

See full details
19:15 Waking Hours
Federico Cammarata, Filippo Foscarini | 2025 | Pashtu, Dari | S.T English

In 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 details
21:30 Action Item
Paula Durinová | 2025 | English

This film revisits stories of anxiety and burnout through an aesthetic exploration that embodies them in a sensory way to invite us to transform our toxic cultures and societies.

See full details
15:00 UXdoc : Where documentary meets new technologies
(1) All Unsaved Progress Will Be Lost
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.

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(2) Empereur
Marion 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.

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(3) Queer Utopia
Lui 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.

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(4) The Man Who Couldn't Leave
Singing 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.

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(5) Energeia
Ugo 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 details
18:00 Focus Taïwan : short film program*
(1) K's Room - the Creation and Destruction of the World
Wei-Lin Hung | 2020 | English, Mandarin | S.T English

Weaving lines from the book New English Grammar, the film reconstructs Mr. K’s psyche in captivity as a metaphor for men, boundaries, and a nation under martial law.

See full details
(2) Flight and Frame
Johan Chang | 2022 | Japanese | S.T English

After being forced to return to Taiwan from Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic, Johan Chang documents with humour and delicacy the challenges of creating on film.

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(3) Don't be afraid let it show
Erica Sheu | 2021 | Mandarin, English | S.T English

In the form of a digital stroll, this short uses images taken from the web to map Kinmen, the Taiwanese island and childhood home of artist Erica Sheu.

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(4) Last Year When the Train Passed by
Pang-Chuan Huang | 2018 | Chinese | S.T English

“What were you doing when I took this photo as the train was passing by your house last year?”

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(5) Fur Film Vol.1: I don't own a cat
Tzuan WU, Erica Sheu | 2021 | - Without dialogue | S.T English

The first work in a collaboration between Erica Sheu and Tzuan Wu, this short film attempts to reconcile the emotions evoked by various images shot in Taiwan and the United States.

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(6) The Embryo's Dream, Upon the Moon
Tzuan WU | 2022 | - Without dialogue | S.T English

Composed of archives of all kinds, this short film articulates a speculative narrative in which embryos hold the collective memory of multiple life forms.

See full details
20:00 Green Valley *
Morgan Tams | 2025 | English

A long-standing resident of the farm, the filmmaker sets up a camera close to this community living physically and ideologically on the margins of consumer society.

See full details
20:00 Throuple Date: Anniversary party for F3M, pixelleX and Tënk
Throuple Date: Anniversary party for F3M, pixelleX and Tënk

FREE

Three organizations, one same passion: Documentary Cinema. To celebrate 20, 15 and 5 years of dedication and partnership with creators, Les Films du 3 Mars, pixelleX and Tënk invite you to a festive evening for all manner of encounters! To mark the occasion, signature cocktails, sweet treats, and other surprises will be on the menu!

See full details
15:00 J'ai perdu de vue le paysage*
(1) Lethal Ethel
Elayna Einish | 2025 | English | S.T English

In a clever blend of horror, comedy, documentary, and militant fiction, this unique portrait asserts a jubilant territorial sovereignty, without compromise. (HSB)

See full details
(2) J'ai perdu de vue le paysage
Sophie Bédard Marcotte | 2025 | French | S.T English

At once cerebral, touching, and funny, this dense, minimalist (auto)biographical film unfolds as a creative observation on artistic exploration and life.

See full details
17:30 Wind, Talk to Me
Stefan Djordjevic | 2025 | Serbian | S.T English

In this hybrid film combining the past and present, Stefan Djordjevic returns to his family in his native village, where an injured dog and the wind help them heal from his mother's death.

See full details
19:30 A History of Sadness / Dragica, Danica, Duška /...
(1) A History of Sadness
Layla Tosifi | 2024 | Persian | S.T English

Combining archival footage and contemporary recordings, the director paints a complex portrait of mother-daughter relationships across three generations of her Iranian family.

See full details
(2) Dragica, Danica, Duška / or / when Zora, the goddess of Dawn, opens the gates of Heaven for Sun to emerge
Iva Radivojevic | 2025 | Albanian, Croatian, Serbo-Croatian | S.T English

Nurtured by the mythology of Zora, the Slavic goddess of dawn, and inspired by the filmmaker's grandmothers, this short film pays tribute to women warriors throughout history.

See full details
(3) re-engraved
Lei Lei | 2024 | Mandarin | S.T English

Through experiments bridging film and wood engraving, craftswoman Chen Meiqi's anecdotes tell the story of this Chinese art form.

See full details
(4) Rio Remains Beautiful
Felipe Casanova | 2025 | Portuguese | S.T English

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.

See full details
21:30 Underground
Kaori Oda | 2024 | Japanese | S.T English

Underground invites us to listen gently, transporting the senses to new spaces where a transhistorical exploration of the Battle of Okinawa, a pivotal event in Japanese history, emerges.

See full details
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15h
Cinémathèque québécoise - Foyer Luce-Guilbeault
15H00 UXdoc : Where documentary meets new technologies
(1) All Unsaved Progress Will Be Lost
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 details (2) Empereur
Marion 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 details (3) Queer Utopia
Lui 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 details (4) The Man Who Couldn't Leave
Singing 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 details (5) Energeia
Ugo 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 details
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Principale
15H00 J'ai perdu de vue le paysage*
(1) Lethal Ethel
Elayna Einish | 2025 | English | S.T. French

In a clever blend of horror, comedy, documentary, and militant fiction, this unique portrait asserts a jubilant territorial sovereignty, without compromise. (HSB)

See full details (2) J'ai perdu de vue le paysage
Sophie Bédard Marcotte | 2025 | French | S.T. English

At once cerebral, touching, and funny, this dense, minimalist (auto)biographical film unfolds as a creative observation on artistic exploration and life.

See full details
17h
Cinéma du Parc - Salle 2
17H00 Siksikakowan: The Blackfoot Man
Sinakson Trevor Solway | 2025 | English, Siksiká | S.T. French or English

Through thoughtful discussions and scenes from daily life, the director examines masculinity as it is experienced within his community, the Siksika Nation.

See full details
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Principale
17H30 Wind, Talk to Me
Stefan Djordjevic | 2025 | Serbian | S.T. English

In this hybrid film combining the past and present, Stefan Djordjevic returns to his family in his native village, where an injured dog and the wind help them heal from his mother's death.

See full details
18h
Cinéma du Musée - Auditorium Maxwell-Cummings
18H00 Chronique d'une ville*
(1) Phoenix
Marylène Houle | 2025 | Abenaki | S.T. French

With its moving personal approach, careful artistic direction, and inspired sound design, this skillfully symbolic work embodies the importance of transmission. (HSB)

See full details (2) Chronique d'une ville
Nadine Gomez | 2025 | English, Japanese, Spanish | S.T. French or English

Both poetic and sensory, this documentary essay exposes the magnetism and the dark side of cities that attract and embrace us as much as they confine us.

See full details
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Fernand-Seguin
18H00 Focus Taïwan : short film program*
(1) K's Room - the Creation and Destruction of the World
Wei-Lin Hung | 2020 | English, Mandarin | S.T. English

Weaving lines from the book New English Grammar, the film reconstructs Mr. K’s psyche in captivity as a metaphor for men, boundaries, and a nation under martial law.

See full details (2) Flight and Frame
Johan Chang | 2022 | Japanese | S.T. English

After being forced to return to Taiwan from Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic, Johan Chang documents with humour and delicacy the challenges of creating on film.

See full details (3) Don't be afraid let it show
Erica Sheu | 2021 | Mandarin, English | S.T. English

In the form of a digital stroll, this short uses images taken from the web to map Kinmen, the Taiwanese island and childhood home of artist Erica Sheu.

See full details (4) Last Year When the Train Passed by
Pang-Chuan Huang | 2018 | Chinese | S.T. English

“What were you doing when I took this photo as the train was passing by your house last year?”

See full details (5) Fur Film Vol.1: I don't own a cat
Tzuan WU, Erica Sheu | 2021 | - Without dialogue | S.T. English

The first work in a collaboration between Erica Sheu and Tzuan Wu, this short film attempts to reconcile the emotions evoked by various images shot in Taiwan and the United States.

See full details (6) The Embryo's Dream, Upon the Moon
Tzuan WU | 2022 | - Without dialogue

Composed of archives of all kinds, this short film articulates a speculative narrative in which embryos hold the collective memory of multiple life forms.

See full details
19h
Cinéma Public
19H30 While the Green Grass Grows: A Diary in Seven... *
Peter Mettler | 2025 | English, Spanish, German | S.T. French or English

A free-filmed diary with captivating philosophical and cinematographic explorations, this epic seven-part work is a sensory, poetic, and human experience.

See full details
Cinéma du Parc - Salle 2
19H15 Waking Hours
Federico Cammarata, Filippo Foscarini | 2025 | Pashtu, Dari | S.T. English

In 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 details
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Principale
19H30 A History of Sadness / Dragica, Danica, Duška /...
(1) A History of Sadness
Layla Tosifi | 2024 | Persian | S.T. English

Combining archival footage and contemporary recordings, the director paints a complex portrait of mother-daughter relationships across three generations of her Iranian family.

See full details (2) Dragica, Danica, Duška / or / when Zora, the goddess of Dawn, opens the gates of Heaven for Sun to emerge
Iva Radivojevic | 2025 | Albanian, Croatian, Serbo-Croatian | S.T. English

Nurtured by the mythology of Zora, the Slavic goddess of dawn, and inspired by the filmmaker's grandmothers, this short film pays tribute to women warriors throughout history.

See full details (3) re-engraved
Lei Lei | 2024 | Mandarin | S.T. English

Through experiments bridging film and wood engraving, craftswoman Chen Meiqi's anecdotes tell the story of this Chinese art form.

See full details (4) Rio Remains Beautiful
Felipe Casanova | 2025 | Portuguese | S.T. English

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.

See full details
20h
Cinéma du Musée - Auditorium Maxwell-Cummings
20H30 The Westoxicateds *
Gilda Pourjabar | 2025 | Persian, English | S.T. English

Gilda Pourjabar illustrates how Western pop art has slipped through the cracks of Iran's repressive political regime to light the rebellious sparks in young people.

See full details
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Fernand-Seguin
20H00 Green Valley *
Morgan Tams | 2025 | English

A long-standing resident of the farm, the filmmaker sets up a camera close to this community living physically and ideologically on the margins of consumer society.

See full details
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Norman-McLaren
20H00 Throuple Date: Anniversary party for F3M, pixelleX and Tënk
Throuple Date: Anniversary party for F3M, pixelleX and Tënk

FREE

Three organizations, one same passion: Documentary Cinema. To celebrate 20, 15 and 5 years of dedication and partnership with creators, Les Films du 3 Mars, pixelleX and Tënk invite you to a festive evening for all manner of encounters! To mark the occasion, signature cocktails, sweet treats, and other surprises will be on the menu!

More info
21h
Cinéma du Parc - Salle 2
21H30 Action Item
Paula Durinová | 2025 | English

This film revisits stories of anxiety and burnout through an aesthetic exploration that embodies them in a sensory way to invite us to transform our toxic cultures and societies.

See full details
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Principale
21H30 Underground
Kaori Oda | 2024 | Japanese | S.T. English

Underground invites us to listen gently, transporting the senses to new spaces where a transhistorical exploration of the Battle of Okinawa, a pivotal event in Japanese history, emerges.

See full details
16h30After circus *

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