Montreal International Documentary Festival

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Schedule

20 - 30 Nov. 2025

Centre Pierre-Péladeau - Studio de musique
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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11:00 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
20:45 Études métamorphiques / Film de roche / Jeux de...*
(1) Études métamorphiques
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 details
(2) Film de roche
Laurence 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 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
18:45 Écrire la vie - Annie Ernaux racontée par des...
Claire Simon | 2025 | French | S.T English

In 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 details
17:00 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
21:15 Soul of the Foot *
Mustafa Uzuner | 2025 | Turkish | S.T English

Through 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 details
18:45 True North
Michèle Stephenson | 2025 | French, English | S.T English

This 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 details
11:00 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.

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
14:00 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
16:00 Where Do Birds Go When It Rains / Marratein,...
(1) Where Do Birds Go When It Rains
Juan 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 details
(2) Marratein, Marratein
Julia 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 details
(3) L'mina
Randa 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 details
(4) Rezbotanik
Pedro 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 details
20:45 Taste of Wild Tomato
Kek-Huat Lau | 2021 | Mandarin | S.T English

Kaohsiung, 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 details
18:15 Soul of the Desert *
Mónica Taboada-Tapia | 2024 | Spanish, Wayuunaiki | S.T French

To finally find peace, recognition, and dignity, Georgina, a trans Wayúu elder, crosses the Colombian desert to reconnect with those who rejected her.

See full details
21:00 Musical performance | PyPy
Musical performance | PyPy

FREE

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.

See full details
15:00 Chronique d'une ville*
(1) Phoenix
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 details
(2) Chronique d'une ville
Nadine 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 details
17:30 Partition*
(1) Solastalgie
Jon-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 details
(2) Partition
Diana 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 details
19:30 GENERAL IDEA: Art, AIDS and the fin de siècle *
Annette Mangaard | 2007 | English | S.T French

A 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)

See full details
21:00 Gods of Stone *
Iván Castiñeiras Gallego | 2025 | Portuguese, Galicien, Spanish | S.T French

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 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.

See full details
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11h
Centre Pierre-Péladeau - Studio de musique
11H00 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
Cinémathèque québécoise - Foyer Luce-Guilbeault
11H00 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
14h
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Fernand-Seguin
14H00 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
15h
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Principale
15H00 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
16h
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Fernand-Seguin
16H00 Where Do Birds Go When It Rains / Marratein,...
(1) Where Do Birds Go When It Rains
Juan Sebastian Sisa | 2024 | Spanish | S.T. French or 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 details (2) Marratein, Marratein
Julia Yezbick | 2025 | 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 details (3) L'mina
Randa Maroufi | 2025 | Darija | S.T. French or 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 details (4) Rezbotanik
Pedro Gonçalves Ribeiro | 2025 | Portuguese | S.T. French or 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 details
Salle d'exposition de la Place des Arts
16H00 Burn From Absence
(1) 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 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
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Principale
17H30 Partition*
(1) Solastalgie
Jon-Evan Quoquochi | 2025 | - Without dialogue

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 details (2) Partition
Diana Allan | 2025 | Arabic | S.T. French or English

Merging archival images, stories, voices, and songs, Partition looks at the British occupation of Palestine from 1917 to 1948.

See full details
18h
Cinéma du Musée - Auditorium Maxwell-Cummings
18H45 Écrire la vie - Annie Ernaux racontée par des...
Claire Simon | 2025 | French | S.T. English

In 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 details
Cinéma du Parc - Salle 2
18H45 True North
Michèle Stephenson | 2025 | French, English | S.T. English

This 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 details
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Fernand-Seguin
18H15 Soul of the Desert *
Mónica Taboada-Tapia | 2024 | Spanish, Wayuunaiki | S.T. French and English

To finally find peace, recognition, and dignity, Georgina, a trans Wayúu elder, crosses the Colombian desert to reconnect with those who rejected her.

See full details
19h
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Principale
19H30 GENERAL IDEA: Art, AIDS and the fin de siècle *
Annette Mangaard | 2007 | English | S.T. French

A 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)

See full details
20h
Cinéma du Musée - Auditorium Maxwell-Cummings
20H45 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
20H45 Taste of Wild Tomato
Kek-Huat Lau | 2021 | Mandarin | S.T. English

Kaohsiung, 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 details
21h
Cinéma du Parc - Salle 2
21H15 Soul of the Foot *
Mustafa Uzuner | 2025 | Turkish | S.T. French or English

Through 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 details
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Norman-McLaren
21H00 Musical performance | PyPy
Musical performance | PyPy

FREE

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.

More info
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Principale
21H00 Gods of Stone *
Iván Castiñeiras Gallego | 2025 | Portuguese, Galicien, Spanish | S.T. French or English

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 details
16h30After circus *

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