Schedule
Wardi
Wardi, a Palestinian girl, lives with her whole family in the refugee camp where she was born. The day her beloved great-grandfather entrusts her with the key to his former home, Wardi fears he has lost hope of ever returning. How can she reconnect with that hope?
RIDM - Grand Prize for National Feature Competition
While the Green Grass Grows
The cycle of life, death, and renewal is at the heart of this multilayered, epic, and intimate cinematic exploration, centered mostly around the filmmaker’s personal experience of losing his parents.
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Militant cinema
The struggle for Palestinian self-determination was supported by radical left-wing movements worldwide, also in Japan. This is illustrated by a collection of 16mm films, which were dubbed and screened in Japan. R 21 AKA Restoring Solidarity draws on these documents.
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Young Voices
This short film program explores the worlds of Palestinian children and youth through an emphasis on different soundscapes and voices, from bombardments felt through vibrations in Gaza to video game sounds that simulate lived reality under colonial rule.
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Feminist Resistance
This final screening night centers around the stories of Palestinian women who have powerfully fought against and resisted Zionism. The two films presented respectively reflect on the experience of guerilla fighting and the haunting memories of imprisonment in Israeli jails.
May December
Elizabeth, an actress, comes to meet the woman she’ll play in her next film: Gracie, a woman who, two decades ago, gave up everything for a crazy love affair with a 13-year-old teenager. The mirror game between the two women becomes a fascinating chase.
Les rayons gamma
There’s Abdel, whose quiet life is turned upside down by the arrival of his extrovert cousin, whom he takes in for the summer; Fatima, who longs for a more stable existence and is trying to get away from her bad associations; Toussaint, who, on a fishing trip, finds a bottle washed up with a message inside.
Past Lives
Nora and Hae Sung, a pair of close childhood friends, are separated after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. Twenty years later, they reunite and grapple with notions of love and destiny.
Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant
A young vampire is unable to kill to meet her need for blood, but may have found a solution in a young man with suicidal tendencies.
Les feuilles mortes
In modern-day Helsinki, two lonely souls in search of love meet by chance at a karaoke bar. However, their path to happiness is strewn with obstacles – from lost phone numbers and wrong addresses, to alcoholism and a charming stray dog.
My Animal
Heather, an outcast teenage goalie, falls for newcomer Jonny, an alluring but tormented figure skater. As their relationship deepens, Heather’s growing desires clash with her darkest secret, forcing her to control the animal within.
Caiti Blues
Caiti Lord has a wonderful voice that she intends to use for more than just selling cherry cocktails. As madness grips the United States, in the most disturbing absurdity, Caiti feels a growing sense of asphyxiation. So Caiti sings. A blues.
With Iphigénie Marcoux-Fortier in attendance
Novembre
The filmmakers capture life stories and reflections, taking us on a unique geographical and human journey through a Montreal that seems inscribed in a kind of weightlessness. The film conveys the spleen of autumn, and perhaps of the times in which we live.
Monster
Young Minato’s behavior at home is becoming increasingly strange. His mother confronts the school management and sets the wheels in motion. Everything points to an abusive teacher, but is it really that clear-cut?
Ma cité évincée
A choral, intimate film, Ma cité évincée gives a voice to those who are living through the aftermath of real estate speculation in Montreal, one of the last major affordable cities in North America, during an unprecedented housing crisis.
Les feuilles mortes
In modern-day Helsinki, two lonely souls in search of love meet by chance at a karaoke bar. However, their path to happiness is strewn with obstacles – from lost phone numbers and wrong addresses, to alcoholism and a charming stray dog.
With Terry Chiu, Steven Lee in attendance
Open Doom Crescendo
In the wastelands of a devastated Montreal, a band of outcasts clash ceaselessly, in search of the Incarnation of Angst, which will provide them with their ultimate catharsis.
Last chance
Jules au pays d'Asha
In 1940, young Jules and his family move to live with his uncle Jovite in northern Quebec. One day, Jules’ dog wanders into the nearby forest without his master. Jules must do the same to find his four-legged companion. Out in the wild, he meets a young girl named Asha.
Wardi
Wardi, a Palestinian girl, lives with her whole family in the refugee camp where she was born. The day her beloved great-grandfather entrusts her with the key to his former home, Wardi fears he has lost hope of ever returning. How can she reconnect with that hope?
With Xi Feng (editor), Nellie Carrier (producer) in attendance
Caiti Blues
Caiti Lord has a wonderful voice that she intends to use for more than just selling cherry cocktails. As madness grips the United States, in the most disturbing absurdity, Caiti feels a growing sense of asphyxiation. So Caiti sings. A blues.
Listening session with Nicolas Lachapelle in attendance
Retour à Normétal
On the occasion of a fishing trip, the members of the Lachapelle family return for the first time to the small mining town where they were born. In 55 years, the village has changed a lot, but the journey to rediscover the stories that shaped this family has just begun.
My Animal
Heather, an outcast teenage goalie, falls for newcomer Jonny, an alluring but tormented figure skater. As their relationship deepens, Heather’s growing desires clash with her darkest secret, forcing her to control the animal within.
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Priscilla
When teenager Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone completely unexpected in private moments: an exciting crush, an ally in solitude, a vulnerable best friend…
Simple comme Sylvain
Sophia’s life is turned upside down the day she meets Sylvain, an entrepreneur from the Laurentians who is the complete opposite of her lifestyle. She’ll leave everything behind to live this burning passion.
Gremlins
A father offers his son an unusual pet, a Mogwai. The rules are simple: keep it away from water, bright lights and, most importantly, never feed him after midnight. But the rules are inadvertently broken, and the consequences multiply at an alarming rate.
