Montreal International Documentary Festival

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Schedule

20 - 30 Nov. 2025

Centre Pierre-Péladeau - Studio de musique
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
Salle d'exposition de la Place des Arts
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11:45 TRACES : le processeur de peine
Vali Fugulin | 2025 | French, English

A collective and immersive experience inviting you to poetically explore your grief—whether from the loss of a loved one, a friendship, a home, or even a dream—in a personalized and introspective way.

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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.

See full details
18:00 Mais où va-t-on, Coyote? *
Jonah Malak | 2025 | Spanish | S.T French

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.

See full details
20:30 Études métamorphiques / Film de roche / Jeux de...*
(1) Études métamorphiques
David Ricard, Nelly Paquentin | 2025 | - Without dialogue | S.T French

A poetic and geological laboratory, this experimental short explores the atmospheres, details, textures, and patterns of mineral, aqueous, and film materials.

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(2) Film de roche
Laurence Olivier | 2025 | - Without dialogue | S.T French

Captured on film, Film de roche shows bouldering as a mesmerizing visual and auditory trance, a true ode to the fragility and resilience of the female body.

See full details
(3) Jeux de Correspondance
Dan Popa, Hoda Adra | 2025 | French | S.T French

With a refined touch of humour and bite, Dan Popa and Hoda Adra combine their talents to offer a riveting poetic and political look at the Paris Olympics and, more broadly, at our era.

See full details
(4) J'ai eu une idée évidente et j'attends qu'elle revienne
Emilie Baillargeon | 2025 | French | S.T French

In this DIY diary, Émilie Baillargeon documents the idleness that accompanies her new identity as a mother-artist with humour, sincerity, stubbornness, and vulnerability.

See full details
(5) Landscapes of Longing
Alisha Tejpal, Mireya Martinez, Anoushka Mirchandani | 2025 | English, Hindi | S.T French

Freely exploring a fragmented reflection on identity, family, and belonging, this touching, playful film weaves together an intergenerational family memory.

See full details
17:00 The World Upside Down *
Agostina Di Luciano, Leon Schwitter | 2025 | Spanish | S.T French

The World Upside Down draws on both documentary and fictional codes to look at an Argentina in crisis, inviting magic and mysticism to break the rural routine.

See full details
19:15 Leur existence / Bardo / 09/05/1982
(1) Leur existence
Xavier Doutre, Clarence de Bayser | 2025 | French, English | S.T English

This hybrid film, with its atmosphere of suspended time, offers a surprising foray into the world of amateur radio operators united by a desire for human connection.

See full details
(2) Bardo
Viera Cákanyová | 2025 | Slovak | S.T English

Using a rich exploration with AI, the filmmaker immerses us in the experience of a retreat into darkness, prompting a reflection on perception and human existence.

See full details
(3) 09/05/1982
Jorge Caballero, Camilo Restrepo | 2025 | Spanish | S.T English

An “official” narrative, coupled with images that gradually cast doubt on their veracity, forces us to reflect in this era of post-truth fuelled by AI.

See full details
21:15 Imago *
Déni Oumar Pitsaev | 2025 | Chechen, Russian, Georgian | S.T English

Set in a village in Georgia’s Pankisi Valley near the Chechen border, Imago follows filmmaker Déni Oumar Pitsaev as he confronts generational silence and cultural displacement while dreaming of a home and a life beyond convention.

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.

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.

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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 SPI
Sayun Simung | 2025 | Tayal, Mandarin | S.T English

In Tayal tradition, “Spi,” which means to dream, is how people connect with their ancestors. Sayun Simung traces how one family, torn between modernity and Indigenous memory, strives to carry forward the spirit of their ancestor.

See full details
20:30 Marche commune
(1) IV.iso:na.IR__
Jim Matlock | 2024 | - Without dialogue

Composed of an intriguing series and superimposition of still images to reveal various elements, this visual poem explores the movement of a fascinating symbolic abstraction. (HSB)

See full details
(2) Marche commune
Sylvain L'Espérance | 2025 | - Without dialogue

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.

See full details
21:30 Musical performance | Bibi Club
Musical performance | Bibi Club

FREE
Following a screening of the documentary A Sound of My Own (Rebecca Zehr, 2021), a candid portrait of musician Marja Burchard as she follows in the footsteps of her late father in the Krautrock collective Embryo, the duo Bibi Club will give a hybrid performance, part concert and part DJ set, inspired by the film's music and fueled by their own compositions.
Bibi Club is the musical project of vocalist and keyboardist Adèle Trottier-Rivard and guitarist Nicolas Basque. They explore the sensitive spectrum between here and there, pointing to love, nature, and community as the only true purpose in life.

See full details
15:00 Estados Generales *
Mauricio Freyre | 2025 | Spanish | S.T English

On a sensory journey to the heart of Hispanic flora, Mauricio Freyre examines plant seeds as yet another manifestation of colonial violence and neglect.

See full details
17:30 In the Manner of Smoke
Armand Yervant Tufenkian | 2025 | English | S.T French

Between wildfire and pointillist landscapes, In the Manner of Smoke traces the delicate rhythms of seeing, where images linger, shift, and dissolve like drifting smoke.

See full details
20:00 A Sound Of My Own
Rebecca Zehr | 2021 | German, English | S.T French

Blending archives, performances, and images of everyday life, this film paints a portrait of Marja Burchard, leader of the eclectic krautrock collective Embryo, co-founded by her late father.

See full details
21:30 Past Future Continuous
Firouzeh Khosrovani, Morteza Ahmadvand | 2025 | Farsi | S.T English

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.

See full details
16:00 Burn From Absence
Emeline Courcier | 2024 | French | S.T. English

Emeline 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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*Director or crew member in attendance

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11h
Centre Pierre-Péladeau - Studio de musique
11H45 TRACES : le processeur de peine
Vali Fugulin | 2025 | French, English

A collective and immersive experience inviting you to poetically explore your grief—whether from the loss of a loved one, a friendship, a home, or even a dream—in a personalized and introspective way.

See full details
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 Estados Generales *
Mauricio Freyre | 2025 | Spanish | S.T. English

On a sensory journey to the heart of Hispanic flora, Mauricio Freyre examines plant seeds as yet another manifestation of colonial violence and neglect.

See full details
16h
Salle d'exposition de la Place des Arts
16H00 Burn From Absence
Emeline Courcier | 2024 | French | S.T. English

Emeline 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.

See full details
17h
Cinéma du Parc - Salle 2
17H00 The World Upside Down *
Agostina Di Luciano, Leon Schwitter | 2025 | Spanish | S.T. French or English

The World Upside Down draws on both documentary and fictional codes to look at an Argentina in crisis, inviting magic and mysticism to break the rural routine.

See full details
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Principale
17H30 In the Manner of Smoke
Armand Yervant Tufenkian | 2025 | English | S.T. French

Between wildfire and pointillist landscapes, In the Manner of Smoke traces the delicate rhythms of seeing, where images linger, shift, and dissolve like drifting smoke.

See full details
18h
Cinéma du Musée - Auditorium Maxwell-Cummings
18H00 Mais où va-t-on, Coyote? *
Jonah Malak | 2025 | Spanish | S.T. French or English

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.

See full details
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Fernand-Seguin
18H00 SPI
Sayun Simung | 2025 | Tayal, Mandarin | S.T. English

In Tayal tradition, “Spi,” which means to dream, is how people connect with their ancestors. Sayun Simung traces how one family, torn between modernity and Indigenous memory, strives to carry forward the spirit of their ancestor.

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 Leur existence / Bardo / 09/05/1982
(1) Leur existence
Xavier Doutre, Clarence de Bayser | 2025 | French, English | S.T. French or English

This hybrid film, with its atmosphere of suspended time, offers a surprising foray into the world of amateur radio operators united by a desire for human connection.

See full details (2) Bardo
Viera Cákanyová | 2025 | Slovak | S.T. English

Using a rich exploration with AI, the filmmaker immerses us in the experience of a retreat into darkness, prompting a reflection on perception and human existence.

See full details (3) 09/05/1982
Jorge Caballero, Camilo Restrepo | 2025 | Spanish | S.T. French or English

An “official” narrative, coupled with images that gradually cast doubt on their veracity, forces us to reflect in this era of post-truth fuelled by AI.

See full details
20h
Cinéma du Musée - Auditorium Maxwell-Cummings
20H30 Études métamorphiques / Film de roche / Jeux de...*
(1) Études métamorphiques
David Ricard, Nelly Paquentin | 2025 | - Without dialogue

A poetic and geological laboratory, this experimental short explores the atmospheres, details, textures, and patterns of mineral, aqueous, and film materials.

See full details (2) Film de roche
Laurence Olivier | 2025 | - Without dialogue

Captured on film, Film de roche shows bouldering as a mesmerizing visual and auditory trance, a true ode to the fragility and resilience of the female body.

See full details (3) Jeux de Correspondance
Dan Popa, Hoda Adra | 2025 | French | S.T. English

With a refined touch of humour and bite, Dan Popa and Hoda Adra combine their talents to offer a riveting poetic and political look at the Paris Olympics and, more broadly, at our era.

See full details (4) J'ai eu une idée évidente et j'attends qu'elle revienne
Emilie Baillargeon | 2025 | French | S.T. English

In this DIY diary, Émilie Baillargeon documents the idleness that accompanies her new identity as a mother-artist with humour, sincerity, stubbornness, and vulnerability.

See full details (5) Landscapes of Longing
Alisha Tejpal, Mireya Martinez, Anoushka Mirchandani | 2025 | English, Hindi | S.T. English

Freely exploring a fragmented reflection on identity, family, and belonging, this touching, playful film weaves together an intergenerational family memory.

See full details
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Fernand-Seguin
20H30 Marche commune
(1) IV.iso:na.IR__
Jim Matlock | 2024 | - Without dialogue

Composed of an intriguing series and superimposition of still images to reveal various elements, this visual poem explores the movement of a fascinating symbolic abstraction. (HSB)

See full details (2) Marche commune
Sylvain L'Espérance | 2025 | - Without dialogue

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.

See full details
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Principale
20H00 A Sound Of My Own
Rebecca Zehr | 2021 | German, English | S.T. French

Blending archives, performances, and images of everyday life, this film paints a portrait of Marja Burchard, leader of the eclectic krautrock collective Embryo, co-founded by her late father.

See full details
21h
Cinéma du Parc - Salle 2
21H15 Imago *
Déni Oumar Pitsaev | 2025 | Chechen, Russian, Georgian | S.T. French or English

Set in a village in Georgia’s Pankisi Valley near the Chechen border, Imago follows filmmaker Déni Oumar Pitsaev as he confronts generational silence and cultural displacement while dreaming of a home and a life beyond convention.

See full details
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Norman-McLaren
21H30 Musical performance | Bibi Club
Musical performance | Bibi Club

FREE
Following a screening of the documentary A Sound of My Own (Rebecca Zehr, 2021), a candid portrait of musician Marja Burchard as she follows in the footsteps of her late father in the Krautrock collective Embryo, the duo Bibi Club will give a hybrid performance, part concert and part DJ set, inspired by the film's music and fueled by their own compositions.
Bibi Club is the musical project of vocalist and keyboardist Adèle Trottier-Rivard and guitarist Nicolas Basque. They explore the sensitive spectrum between here and there, pointing to love, nature, and community as the only true purpose in life.

More info
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Principale
21H30 Past Future Continuous
Firouzeh Khosrovani, Morteza Ahmadvand | 2025 | Farsi | S.T. English

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.

See full details
16h30After circus *

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