20 - 30 Nov. 2025
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.
David Ricard, Nelly Paquentin | 2025 | - Without dialogue | S.T English
A poetic and geological laboratory, this experimental short explores the atmospheres, details, textures, and patterns of mineral, aqueous, and film materials.
See full detailsLaurence Olivier | 2025 | - Without dialogue | S.T English
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 detailsDan 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 detailsEmilie 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 detailsAlisha 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 detailsIn class, high schoolers explore Annie Ernaux's work through group discussions, where intimacy and contemporary collective history meet and resonate with each other.
See full detailsAcross 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 detailsThrough personal and collective memory, this sensitive essay in three movements attempts to bring to life Turkey’s past and future potential without nostalgia.
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 detailsMélanie 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 detailsUnderground 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 detailsJuan Sebastian Sisa | 2024 | Spanish | S.T English
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 English
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 English
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 English
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.
See full detailsKaohsiung, once a Japanese military base, bears the scars of Taiwan’s 228 Incident, where the scars of survivors and descendants endure like the wild tomatoes growing there.
See full detailsTo finally find peace, recognition, and dignity, Georgina, a trans Wayúu elder, crosses the Colombian desert to reconnect with those who rejected her.
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The music of this Montreal supergroup is a concoction of sinister wah-wah freakouts littered with distortion and the necromantic screams of co-vocalist Annie-Claude Deschênes. A surreal and trash-futuristic universe, created by the eccentric minds behind CPC Gangbangs, Red Mass and Duchess Says. With super-disco breaks reminiscent of dance punk from NYC's legendary 99 Records (ESG/Liquid Liquid) woven through psych rock anthems. Becoming favourites on the European festival circuit, PyPy puts on outlandish shows that defy the norms of the traditional rock concert.
Marylène Houle | 2025 | Abenaki | S.T English
With its moving personal approach, careful artistic direction, and inspired sound design, this skillfully symbolic work embodies the importance of transmission. (HSB)
See full detailsNadine Gomez | 2025 | English, Japanese, Spanish | S.T 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 detailsJon-Evan Quoquochi | 2025 | - Without dialogue | S.T English
A region’s beauty gradually reveals an oppressive visual and auditory human presence and the scars inflicted by destructive exploitation. What if this reality wasn't the end? (HSB)
See full detailsDiana Allan | 2025 | Arabic | S.T English
Merging archival images, stories, voices, and songs, Partition looks at the British occupation of Palestine from 1917 to 1948.
See full detailsA portrait of the artists’ collective GENERAL IDEA, this documentary, made from extensive archives, is a story of love, fame, overwhelming loss, and, ultimately, renewal.
“I chose General Idea: Art, AIDS and the Fin de Siècle for the way this Canadian collective has turned art into an act of resistance, subverting social codes with provocation and dark humour. Their radicalism resonates with the subversive energy I try to convey through my projects.”(Annie-Claude Deschênes)
Filmed over 15 years, this film combines legend and magical realism to immerse us in the reality of the border village of Moimenta, where Mariana and her family live.
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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