RIDM Award Winners
December 13 and 14, 2025
Cinéma Public is proud to partner with the Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal (RIDM) to present several award-winning films from the 28th edition of the festival. The program includes Imago by Déni Oumar Pitsaev (Grand Prize in the International Feature Film Competition), Soul of the Foot by Mustafa Uzuner (New Visions / FRIPESCI Award), Partition by Diana Allan (Grand Prize in the National Feature Competition), Waking Hours by Federico Cammarata and Filippo Foscarini (Special Jury Prize in the International Feature Competition), Marratein, Marratein by Julia Yezbick (Best International Short or Medium-Length Film), Lloyd Wong, Unfinished by Lesley Loksi Chan and Lloyd Wong (Best National Short or Medium-Length Film), and Momentum by Nada El-Omari (Special Jury Prize in the National Short or Medium-Length Film Competition). Mais où va-t-on, Coyote ? by Jonah Malak (Magnus-Isacsson Award) will be presented in January.
Please note that these screenings are presented by Cinéma Public and that passports, accreditations and ticket books produced by the RIDM will not be accepted.
RIDM Award Winners
Imago
Déni, a Chechen exile, returns to a remote valley in Georgia where he has just purchased a plot of land. Determined to build an unusual house there, he revives memories, tensions, and family expectations, while his clan wants only one thing: to see him finally get married.
Déni Oumar Pitsaev
France, Belgium
language: Chechen, Russian, Georgian
subtitles: French
109 min
RIDM Award Winners
Partition
Diana Allan revisits film archives of Palestine under British occupation, combining images and voices of refugees to deconstruct the colonial narrative. Partition offers a decolonial rewriting of history through echoes, multiple perspectives, and oral accounts.
Diana Allan
Palestine, Lebanon, Quebec (Canada)
language: Arabic
subtitles: French
61 min
RIDM Award Winners
RIDM Award Winners: Short films (2025)
Three award-winning short and medium-length films from the RIDM’s 28th edition: Marratein, Marratein, Lloyd Wong, Unfinished and Momentum.
Julia Yezbick, Lesley Loksi Chan and Lloyd Wong, Nada El-Omari
language: English or no dialogue
subtitles: French
73 min
RIDM Award Winners
Soul of the Foot
Soul of the Foot explores the intimate and collective memory surrounding Turkey’s failed attempt to join the European Union. From the eclipse of 1999 to political negotiations and then to the urban present, the film composes a sensitive essay on a future in limbo.
Mustafa Uzuner
Canada, Turkey
language: Turkish
subtitles: French
66 min
RIDM Award Winners
Waking Hours
In the darkness, Waking Hours transports us among a group of Afghan smugglers in the forest on the border between Serbia and Hungary. Starting from a distance, the static camera observes the movements visible thanks to a few sources of light piercing the darkness.
Federico Cammarata, Filippo Foscarini
Italy
language: Pashtu, Dari
subtitles: English
78 min
