Short and Medium-Length International Competition
Armed with courage and a restless Super 8, the filmmaker offers a moving personal essay with a masterly aesthetic, focusing on an irredeemable and painful family rift.
WILL YOU LOOK AT ME
- Shuli Huang
- 2022
- China
- s.t. English
- 20 min
UXdoc
The journey of a nine-year-old boy taken from his family and placed by force in a residential school.
WILLIAM
- Sonia Bonspille Boileau
- 2022
- Canada (Quebec)
- 30 min
Closing film
BC Hydro is building a third dam on Peace River. The First Nations living there are fighting fiercely to stop this harmful project.
WOCHIIGII LO: END OF THE PEACE
- Heather Hatch
- 2021
- Canada (British Columbia & Alberta)
- s.t. English
- 84 min
Focus Brazil : Navigating the Future
For over five centuries, colonization has appropriated Indigenous bodies, cultures, languages, and souls. Ziel Karapotó creates a ritualized reimagining of history.
THE WORD BECAME FLESH
- Ziel Karapotó
- 2019
- Brazil
- s.t. English
- 6 min
Short and Medium-Length National Competition
Cut with inventive simplicity into acts, this film shows Yvon’s daily life, where the ordinary and surreal coexist, illustrating his desire to live fully.
YVON / L'ÉTERNEL
- Benoit Massé
- 2022
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 21 min
Short and Medium-Length National Competition
A sound mixer goes to the edge of industrialized Zug Island, found between Windsor and Detroit, to investigate a mysterious sound emanating from it.
ZUG ISLAND
- Nicolas Lachapelle
- 2022
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French or English
- 23 min