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Raphael Ouellet

Five faces of opression.

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EARLY WINTER
Michael Rowe

David, 45, lives in Montreal with his wife, Maya, a housewife of Russian extraction who only speaks English, and their two young sons. Working the night...

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ECOTONE
Thierry Fournier

In this network installation, a 3D landscape is generated by messages grabbed from Twitter and read by computer voices sharing wishes such as, “I’d...

COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE

EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT
Ciro Guerra

In 1909, Karamakate, a reclusive shaman living in Amazonia, meets Theodor, a very ill white ethnographer who convinces him to venture together into the...

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EMOCEAN
Jonathan Jarzyna, Lucas Ufo, JJ Weihl

CANADIAN PREMIERE / THE BAND FENSTER WILL BE PRESENTTrue story! While recording their third album, with much difficulty, a band mysteriously disappears....

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THE END OF FORWARD TIME
Brian Gardiner

A film about growing up in the shadow of the Cold War.

COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE

ENDORPHINE
André Turpin

There’s Simone, a disturbed teen who copes as best she can with her mother’s murder. There’s also Simone, in her twenties, who copes with her panic...

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ENGRAM OF RETURNING
Daïchi Saïto

Transforming anonymous found footage into powerful, expressive and painterly imagery, Engram of Returning (“engram,” also called “memory-trace”) is...

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ENTERTAINMENT
Rick Alverson

A stand-up comic is on tour in the miscellaneous dives and dumpy venues of the Mojave Desert. It’s a miserable life, with performances to match. This...

PANORAMA

ESTO ES LO QUE HAY, CHRONIQUE D'UNE POÉSIE CUBAINE
Léa Rinaldi

In 2005, Aldo and Bian started Los Aldeanos, a Havana hip-hop group whose popularity among the locals and reputation outside Cuba are on the rise. When the...

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EVERGREEN
Sasha Litvintseva

Evergreen explores the crisis of grand narratives in the face of the photographic image. It is a self-deconstructing story of an immortal traveller’s...

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EVERYTHING WILL BE FINE
Wim Wenders

Struggling with a bad case of writer’s block and unnerved by a fight with his girlfriend, the young writer Tomas Eldan heads out for a drive in the snow....

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THE EXQUISITE CORPUS
Peter Tscherkassky

In 1925 Surrealists in Paris started to use a writing and drawing technique they called “Cadavre exquis”, which translates as “The...

HOMMAGES ET RÉTROSPECTIVES

Echoes
Jaimz Asmundson

Structured around the recollection of a premonitory dream, fragmented memories from the period leading up to the death of the filmmaker’s mother were...

P'TITS LOUPS

Encore le petit chaperon rouge
Ana Horvat

Mother interrupts Little Red Riding Hood as she plays happily, and gives her a basket of food to deliver to Granny. Little Red Riding Hood reluctantly...

HOMMAGES ET RÉTROSPECTIVES

Energy and How to Get It
Robert Frank

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F FOR FIBONACCI
Beatrice Gibson

F for Fibonacci takes as its departure point American author William Gaddis' epic modernist novel JR (1975). An eerily prescient, biting social satire,...

RENCONTRES PANCANADIENNES DU CINÉMA ÉTUDIANT

FABI
JANI BELLEFLEUR-KALTUSH

PANORAMA

FASSBINDER-TO LOVE WITHOUT DEMANDS
Christian Braad Thomsen

We all know the facts: over 40 made-for-TV and feature films, more than 30 theatre plays, acting performances galore and a brilliant, provocative body of...

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FATIMA
Philippe Faucon

Separated from her husband, Fatima (Soria Zeroual) works as a cleaning lady as she struggles to bring up her two daughters, a rebellious teen and a med...

COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE

FERDINAND KNAPP
Andrea Baldini

Ferdinand Knapp is the pre-eminent actor of French theatre, revered by all. In preparing for a new play, the lines between his character’s malevolent...

COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE

FICTITIOUS FORCE
Philip Widmann

“These things don’t happen by force,” says Observer A. “Or by one’s will,” adds Observer B. Fictitious Force is a discussion about the...

COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE

FIRE, THE
Juan Schnitman

In only 24 hours, Lucia and Marcelo will be moving into their dream home. Since they’re due to sign the next day, the couple has to hide the $100,000...

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FJARÐARHEIÐI
Anna Friz, Konrad Korabiewski

Using field recordings, cottage-built electronics, analogue tape and feedback systems, Friz and Korabiewski perform live, accompanied by Friz’ monochrome...