Short and Medium-Length National Competition
The filmmaker Natalie Murao questions her grandfather on his experience in an internment camp for Japanese citizens in Canada during the Second World War.
BLUE GARDEN
- Natalie Murao
- 2022
- Canada
- s.t. English
- 6 min
Short and Medium-Length National Competition
Filmmaker Noa Blanche Beschorner immerses us in the memory and nostalgia of the former German Democratic Republic, where her aunt once lived.
CHANGE OF SCENERY
- Noa Blanche Beschorner
- 2022
- Canada (Quebec), Germany
- s.t. English
- 6 min
Short and Medium-Length National Competition
A Night Song bears witness to the last days of Noella, an elderly woman who has chosen to receive medical assistance in dying at home.
LE CHANT DE LA NUIT
- Félix Lamarche
- 2022
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 46 min
Short and Medium-Length National Competition
Designed as a cleverly (de)constructed letter, Cloud Gate 2 is a fascinating study of memory and our relationship with multifarious technology that claims to enhance our collective knowledge.
CLOUD GATE 2
- OK Pedersen
- 2022
- United States, Canada (Quebec)
- 44 min
Short and Medium-Length National Competition
This captivating short film shares Innu stories rooted in the forests flooded by the construction of dams and hydroelectric reservoirs.
FORÊTS
- Simon Plouffe
- 2022
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French or English
- 17 min
Short and Medium-Length National Competition
In this auditory immersion, several messages on an answering machine are heard in succession, creating a polyphony of tones, voices, and emotions.
INFINITE DISTANCES
- Pablo Alvarez Mesa
- 2022
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French
- 25 min
Short and Medium-Length National Competition
Under the pretext of a police interrogation, this film shows the politically charged history of Shaho mountain of the Zagros Mountains range in Iran.
LANDSCAPE SUSPENDED
- Naghmeh Abbasi
- 2022
- Canada, Iran
- s.t. English
- 27 min
Short and Medium-Length National Competition
It’s summer in the suburbs, and the days go on and on. The season bears the curious melancholy of distance between self, other, and passing time.
THE LONGEST DAY OF THE YEAR
- Frank Varga Jr.
- 2021
- Canada
- s.t. French or English
- 11 min
Short and Medium-Length National Competition
By masterfully using words in a language imposed by colonization and through powerful cinematic slam, the film expresses a harsh critique of our relationship with Mother Earth.
MANITUSHISS
- Réal Junior Leblanc
- 2022
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 5 min
Short and Medium-Length National Competition
Using Super 8 footage shot over 45 years ago, the short film Mecánicos piratas de Lima is a deeply poetic journey into a timeless past.
MECÁNICOS PIRATAS DE LIMA
- Carlos Ferrand
- 2021
- Canada (Quebec), Peru
- 22 min
Short and Medium-Length National Competition
High in a glass tower, a solitary woman’s imagination can’t be contained within the confined yet apparently limitless space of her hotel room.
ODE TO LONELINESS
- Rawane Nassif
- 2022
- Canada, Lebanon, Qatar
- 17 min
Short and Medium-Length National Competition
Home videos and present-day images are enhanced by an expressive score and editing, sparking a conversation between the past and the present.
ONE HOME TO ANOTHER
- Dominique Van Olm
- 2022
- Netherlands, Canada
- s.t. English
- 10 min