CSE 2022
'CONTACT' Requiem for a Word
Olivier D. Asselin
An investigation into the transformation of language resulting from COVID-19. The social interrelationships that are completely disrupted today, leave room for a reinterpretation of certain terms that suddenly carry a mortifying value.
CSE 2023
(R)évolution – le travail est humain
Productions 4 Éléments
Discover inspiring worker cooperative solutions to today's challenges in the documentary (R)evolution – work is human.
CSE 2022
$75,000
Moïse Togo
75,000 emphasizes the biological aspect of albinism which is a genetic and hereditary anomaly that affects not only the pigmentation, but also and especially the physical and moral conditions of people with albinism.
CSE 2023
2012/Throught the Heart
Arnaud Valade, Rodrigue Jean
Using footage from both amateur and professional sources, 2012/Throught the Heart immerses us into the intensity of the demonstrations and riots of the 2012 student strike.
CSE 2024
A Golden Life
Boubacar Sangare
In Burkina Faso, young men look under the earth for gold – and a better future. As a result, 16-year-old Rasmané barely seems like a teenager any more. This mainly observational film follows him into the 100-metre abyss of small-scale mining.
CSE 2022
A Los Once
Carolina Admirable García
Best friends Isa and Zoe are both eleven years old. In their video diaries, they tell us about the changes and anguish that come with being a pre-teen.
CSE 2024
A Rainbow to Turtle Island
Robbie Tait Jr
This portrait showcases artist Robbie Tait Jr. and demonstrates the transformative power of art. It introduces his project, Turtle Island Handbook, born from the desire to convey his culture and family heritage through his drawings. It also addresses the political aspect of his art through Rainbow Tears, inspired by the story of political prisoner Leonard Peltier.
CSE 2026
A Wolf in the Suburbs
Amélie Hardy
Welcome to Mississauga where lawns are clipped and no blade of grass dares misbehave. Except at Wolf Ruck’s place. His lawn grows wild, and so does the trouble.
CSE 2022
ABOVE WATER
Aïssa Maïga
In the north of Niger, the village of Tatiste is a victim of global warming and its inhabitants have to move every day to have access to water. A borehole would be enough to bring water to the center of the village.
CSE 2025
Accept yourself as I am
Emmanuelle Roberge
An intimate encounter with Élise, a transgender woman living in the Magdalen Islands.
CSE 2023
Acquittal
Audrey Ginestet
It's been ten years since Manon was charged in "l'affaire Tarnac", accused of having participated in a terrorist enterprise for sabotaging TGV lines. As the trial approaches, the filmakker joins the group of women who are helping Manon prepare her defense.
CSE 2026
Afrikki
Gaëlle Le Roy
Filmed in cinéma vérité between 2011 and 2022, Afrikki recounts a decade of struggles within the African civic and artistic movements of the 2010s.
CSE 2024
After Work
Erik Gandini
In 1958, Hannah Arendt predicted a society without work. After Work explores this current reality and the quest for meaning in economies such as Italy, the USA, South Korea and Kuwait.
CSE 2023
Agony
Arnaud Beaudoux
In search of a 15-day huis-clos, a filmmaker finds himself captive on a trawler on the high seas, where his distress intertwines with the fate of what he is filming. A sensory experience between expectation and panic, this first short film has become the expiatory film of a traumatized filmmaker.
CSE 2023
Alambic : Terre ferme
Beatriz Carvalho
Terre ferme is a poetic and sonorous travelogue, a diary that reveals the thoughts of an immigrant woman, back in her country of origin. This film refers to the personal experience of discovering different territories and the feeling of being both elsewhere and at home.
CSE 2023
All that Breathes
Shaunak Sen
As environmental toxicity and civil unrest escalate, from their makeshift hospital in New Delhi, two brothers care for thousands of black kites, a majestic bird of prey essential to the city’s ecosystem.
CSE 2022
Amour en quarantaine
Millefiore Clarkes
As COVID regulations restrict human interaction, Millefiore Clarkes seizes the opportunity to reflect on the nature of love itself
CSE 2025
An Impression of Everything
Millefiore Clarkes
A lyrical film glimpses oneness amidst escalating division, using footage from a decade of productions, family archives, and stock sources.
CSE 2023
Aquarela
Viktor Kossakovsky
Like a cinematic journey through melting icebergs, deafening waterfalls and crystalline rains, Aquarela reveals the transformative beauty and raw power of water.
CSE 2026
Atémit Sembé
Abdoul Aziz Basse
Back in her native village in Casamance, the Olympic wrestling icon Isabelle Sambou introduces her sisters to her struggles on the international sports scene.
CSE 2024
Atik, gardien du territoire
Guillaume Langlois, Nicolas Lévesque
Jean-Luc Kanapé, an Innu from Pessamit, guides us along the trail of the last caribou herds on his community's ancestral territory.
CSE 2026
Aventurine
Carlos Ferrand
This film follows the filmmaker Carlos Ferrand on a treasure hunt at the end of the world, to a land that has fascinated him for decades.
CSE 2023
Backlash: Misogyny in the Digital Age
Guylaine Maroist, Léa Clermont-Dion
Backlash: Misogyny in the Digital Age is the shocking story of four women leaders whose lives are overturned by cyberviolence. They share a common cause: refusing to be silenced.
CSE 2026
BAEA
Terra Long
In the stark winter landscape of Canada’s Pacific coast, a dedicated wildlife rehabilitation team treats bald eagles suffering from lead poisoning after ingesting hunters’ ammunition in animal remains.
CSE 2026
Baisanos
Andrés Khamis Giacoman, Francisca Khamis Giacoman
Baisanos follows the supporters of Club Deportivo Palestino, weaving a dialogue between Chile and Palestine. Through football, reflections on identity and return intertwine, making every victory the promise of a possible future.
CSE 2025
Balance
Luiza Cocora
Anna, a 12-year-old Ukrainian gymnast, explores the challenges of exile and identity rebuilding after the war.
CSE 2024
Been There
Corina Schwingruber Ilic
The desire to travel is strong, but the places we visit are crowded. What do we get out of it, if not proof in pictures that we've been there? How tourists, in search of the best photos, become invaders.
CSE 2022
Belle River
Guillaume Fournier, Samuel Matteau, Yannick Nolin
2019. Spring flooding on the Mississippi River is reaching record levels. In Louisiana, the residents of Pierre-Part prepare for the worst.
CSE 2023
Big Fight in Little Chinatown
Karen Cho
Big Fight in Little Chinatown documents the collective fight to save Chinatowns across North America. Coast to Coast the film follows Chinatown communities resisting active erasure.
CSE 2022
Bigger Than Us
Flore Vasseur
An Indonesian activist travels the world to meet young people involved in the fight against social inequality and pollution.
CSE 2025
Blue Tango
Marion Chuniaud
Born mute, Azalia uses her body as language, her art freeing her from cerebral palsy's social, physical, and psychological constraints.
CSE 2024
Boat People
Kjell Boersma, Thao Lam
As a child in Vietnam, Thao’s mother often rescued ants from bowls of sugar water. Years later they would return the favour. Boat People is an animated documentary that uses a striking metaphor to trace one family’s flight across the turbulent waters of history.
CSE 2024
Breaking Social
Fredrik Gertten
Breaking Social explores the possibilities of overcoming injustice and corruption. The film aims to re-imagine the building blocks of our societies and ignite the hope that lives within us all.
CSE 2026
Bubbles
Mélissa Lefebvre, Paul Tom
Bubbles gives the floor to autistic teenagers who invite us into their imaginary worlds.
CSE 2023
Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On
Madison Thomas
This film traces the life of cultural and musical icon Buffy Sainte-Marie, an artist and activist for First Nations rights with a trailblazing journey.
CSE 2024
Bye Bye Tiberias
Lina Soualem
Hiam Abbass left her Palestinian village to pursue her dream of becoming an actress in Europe, leaving behind her mother, grandmother, and seven sisters. Thirty years later, her daughter Lina, a filmmaker, returns with her to trace the lost places and scattered memories of four generations of Palestinian women.
CSE 2022
Camilo's Trail
Diego Briceño
The director goes in search of fragments of memory of the man many call the "guerrilla priest". Through these discoveries and the testimonies of those who perpetuate his memory, we learn more about Camilo Torres, a pioneer of liberation theology in Latin America.
CSE 2026
Can't make a flower Grow by Pulling on it
Gabrielle Bergeron-Leduc
Over the course of a summer in Haute-Gaspésie, Rosie-Roch opens up about their complex relationship with their body and the recent unfolding of their identity.
CSE 2024
Carnaval
Justine Martin
Once a year, people from different marginalized communities meet together in the woods to delve into the art of circus and have this discipline become a common way to express themselves, away from the city.
CSE 2026
Chronicle of a City
Nadine Gomez
A patchwork of millions of lives and urban spaces are not only streets and concrete. They are where our dreams and deepest worries unfold.
CSE 2025
Chronicle of a Crisis
Simon Larochelle
Sarah and Simon, a young Montreal couple, lose their apartment amid a housing crisis. This intimate documentary captures the daily anxieties and resistance in the face of growing economic insecurity affecting their generation.
CSE 2024
Claude
Clément Guillaume
Claude, an octogenarian, finds his daily life boring in his small bedroom. Yet behind his bitterness lies a humorous philosopher and a forgotten artist. This short film explores the moving relationship between illness, art and memory.
CSE 2024
Closet's stories
Iris Estivals
Not one, but many closet outings. Some are more difficult than others.
CSE 2023
Cobalt rush : the future of going green
Arnaud Zajtman, Quentin Noirfalisse
Electric cars hold the promise of a clean ecological transition. The global automotive market is concentrating its efforts on competitive production, the key to which is the exploitation of the blue gold, cobalt. This mineral is needed for batteries, and is mainly found in the Congo. But at what price?
CSE 2022
Cocotte
Hélène Théberge
A cinematic reflection of the director's vision of the woman she would become.
CSE 2023
Coextinction
Elena Jean, Gloria Pancrazi
From the northern edges of Vancouver Island to Oregon’s lower Snake Rivers, two passionate filmmakers connect with activists, Indigenous leaders, and renowned scientists to understand the fate of the orcas and find solutions to our most pressing environmental threats.
CSE 2025
Cohabiter
Halima Elkhatabi
Young people searching for roommates reveal themselves in this touching portrait of a generation unafraid to show every facet of their identity.
CSE 2024
D'ici, d'ailleurs
Chadi Bennani
At the beginning of summer, Adam, Ana, and Dahlia turn to their families and friends to question their cultural heritage.
CSE 2023
Dancing with reality
Sylvain Elfassy
At 14 years old, Karim breaks the rules and crosses borders to make his dream come true : become a professionnal dancer.
CSE 2024
Days
Geneviève Dulude-De Celles
Without false modesty, a direct and honest look at a young woman battling breast cancer.
CSE 2025
Dear Oscarz
Sarah Toussaint-Léveillé
Dear Oscarz is a correspondence between the desire to create and life that swallows you up. Something like that.
CSE 2023
Death is dangerous, it could hurt
Mariane Béliveau
Three rhythmic storylines are characterized by rituals of everyday life, coalescing around a common experience: that of shooting up as a mode of drug use.
CSE 2024
Deep Rising
Matthieu Rytz
Punctuated by breathtaking images of deep-sea organisms, Deep Rising traces several decades of manipulations benefiting companies aiming for deep-sea mining extraction.
CSE 2025
Deep Rising
Matthieu Rytz
Punctuated by breathtaking images of deep-sea organisms, Deep Rising traces several decades of manipulations benefiting companies aiming for deep-sea mining extraction.
CSE 2025
Después del silencio
Matilde-Luna Perotti
An aggressor's power is a victim's silence; speaking out is their crucial weapon for freedom, starting after silence.
CSE 2025, CSE 2026
Diaries from Lebanon
Myriam El Hajj
A poetic, personal portrait of Lebanon’s turmoil and resistance, through three voices and the filmmaker’s intimate reflections.
CSE 2026
Do You Love Me
Lana Daher
Made from various archives from the last seven decades, this playful tribute conveys a personal, non-linear, and fragmented journey into Lebanon's intimate and collective memory.
CSE 2023
Dust Away
Dea Gjinovci, Tanita Rahmani
Through this experimental film, immigrant voices in the United States cross imaginary landscapes and question the visions of their American dreams.
CSE 2025
Emboîter leurs pas
Manuel Piron
The encounter of various donors to a queer archive center reveals the colors and history of Montreal's LGBTQIA2S+ community.
CSE 2023
Entre tes mains
Aurore Émaille
Marie has been working with farmers' seeds, the guardians of cultivated biodiversity, for over a decade. She fights to preserve this intangible heritage. Behind her strength of action lies a very sensitive relationship with the world and with plants.
CSE 2025, CSE 2026
Ernest Cole, lost and found
Raoul Peck
Ernest Cole, an exiled photographer, exposed Apartheid. Raoul Peck retraces his life, work, and rediscovered legacy.
CSE 2025
Ever since, I have been flying
Aylin Gökmen
Growing up nomadic in Turkey, a 60-year-old Kurdish man recounts his idyllic youth, lost first love, and police mistreatment.
CSE 2022
Everyday
Zoulikha Tahar
Since her retirement, Kheira has been doing housework and making video calls with her immigrant daughter. To her daughter, Kheira tells, tirelessly, her daily life and her regrets.
CSE 2024
Evicted City
Laurence Turcotte-Fraser, Priscillia Piccoli
Montreal is now in the midst of an unprecedented housing crisis. An intimate portrait of socio-political resistance, this multilayered film explores the human impact of real estate speculation on the cities of tomorrow.
CSE 2024
Éviction
Mathilde Capone
Since 2010, Parthenais has become home to a queer community in Montreal. They share a triplex, creating memories between the dilapidated walls. Twelve years later, a wealthy family bought the building, marking the end of an era of gentrification.
CSE 2022
Expiration
Joris Cottin
In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, Steve Day, who has been suffering from ALS for eight years, decides to seek help to die.
CSE 2023
Fantasmagoría
Juan Francisco Gonzalez
In the middle of the Atacama Desert through the remains of the last saltpeter industry, where the inhabitants witness the decline of industrialization in the driest geographical point in the world.
CSE 2024
Farming the Revolution
Nishtha Jain, X_Co-Réalisateur/Co-Director : Akash Basumatari
Farming the Revolution takes us to the heart of the massive year-long protests against the Indian government's unjust farm laws. The film crew lives among the half million farmers to make us experience the daily texture and indomitable spirit of this historic movement.
CSE 2024
Fatmé
Diala Al hindaoui
Fatmé, 11, fled Syria with her family to Lebanon, living in a roadside tent. Her appearance and feisty nature provoke discussion, but she simply aspires to be the strongest.
CSE 2023
Feeling the Apocalypse
Chen Sing Yap
A psychotherapist struggling with climate anxiety explores what it means to live in a dying world.
CSE 2022
Flee
Jonas Poher Rasmussen
This animated documentary is based on the true story of Afghan refugee Amin Nawabi. Grappling with a painful secret, kept hidden for 20 years, that now threatens to derail the life he has built for himself and his future husband.
CSE 2023
Flying Fish
Nayra Sanz Fuentes
For centuries, flying fish have been understood as symbols of freedom and achievement. They are unique animals that swim and fly, reflecting the possibility of hope. Their transit has been understood as an observational journey through nature, but the impact of human beings and technology is increasing, transforming the environment.
CSE 2026
Forêt rouge
Laurie Lassalle
A growing group of anarchists establish an eco-activist, anti-capitalist community in a French forest. But the State has other plans. A cinematic and revolutionary film about freedom and ideals.
CSE 2023
Fragments
Marie-lou Béland
Women's voices are raised to give testimony of victims of sexual violence. It is through the reconstitution of a story with these fragments of experience that a societal portrait is painted throughout the documentary.
CSE 2023
Framing Agnes
Chase Joynt
The film turns the talk show format inside out in response to media's ongoing fascination with trans people. The film breathes life into six previously unknown stories from the archives of the UCLA Gender Clinic in the 1950s.
CSE 2023
Free Money
Lauren DeFilippo, Sam Soko
This documentary offers a fascinating and critical case study of a universal basic income project established in the Kenyan village of Kogutu by GiveDirectly, an NGO convinced that it has found a foolproof algorithm to end global poverty.
CSE 2023
French Enough
Alexis Normand
At her family’s cabin on Wakaw Lake, Saskatchewan, renowned Fransaskois singer-songwriter Alexis Normand invites audiences into a series of candid exchanges about belonging and bilingualism on the Prairies.
CSE 2026
From and to Nature, We Return
Bishoy Adel
In a mesmerizing visual journey, From and to Nature, We Return explores the deep connection between humanity and Mother Earth, calling us to reconnect with nature and live in harmony with its cosmic rhythms.
CSE 2026
From Darkness to Light
Martin Gunn
De l’ombre à la lumière takes viewers into the often unfamiliar world of Indigenous and non-Indigenous homelessness in Val‑d’Or.
CSE 2025
From Ground Zero
22 Palestinian Filmmakers
22 Palestinian filmmakers document life in wartime Gaza — a powerful tribute to dignity, resistance, and creative survival.
CSE 2026
From where a name becomes memory
Paola Espinoza
Graffiti, stencils, people, and insects appear and disappear on a bridge in Cuenca, a city in southern Ecuador, revealing the gender violence persisting through the years.
CSE 2025
Gan Tang, The Lake
Tianming Zhou
In the summer of 2023, the government of Jiujiang launched the Gan Tang Lake Cleansing Project. Within weeks, this ancient lake with over two millennia of history was drained.
CSE 2023
Gentle Hum of Spring
Simon Garez
As the spring thaw approaches in Saskatchewan, a young beekeeper struggles to maintain his bee colonies after they are afflicted by a mysterious malady.
CSE 2023
Geographies of Solitude
Jacquelyn Mills
Created using a scope of innovative eco-friendly filmmaking techniques, Geographies of Solitude is an immersion into the rich ecosystem of Sable Island and the life of a naturalist and environmentalist who has lived over 40 years on this remote sliver of land in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean.
CSE 2026
Green is the New Red
Anna Recalde Miranda
This amazing investigation offers an intimate journey through Latin America, elaborating a genealogy of an ecological disaster, presenting an unprecedented historical and political contextualization.
CSE 2026
Growing Together: A Journey in Agriculture
Adam Koperqualuk, Preston Sam
Preston and Adam grow food under a geodesic dome despite the harsh northern climate, sharing their harvest with their community and passing on essential knowledge toward food self-sufficiency.
CSE 2025
Healing Dolls
Comité De femmes Puakuteu
Mashteuiatsh women share grief and hope making dolls, building a strong, supportive space for healing together.
CSE 2024
Hebron Relocation
Holly Andersen
A candid look at her community's difficult past, the filmmaker interweaves intimate stories and rare footage to offer a glimpse into life during the forced relocation of the Inuit of northern Labrador.
CSE 2026
Histoires d'anxiétés
Adèle Schneider
Through animation, three women share intimate accounts of their experiences with anxiety since childhood. Between fear, loneliness, and the search for well-being, the film explores the reality of living with everyday anxiety.
CSE 2023
History Will Judge
Germán Gutiérrez
At the announcement of the signing of peace agreements between the Colombian government and the guerrillas in 2016, director Germán Gutiérrez filmed in one of the last FARC camps.
CSE 2026
Homles
Bruno Chouinard
HOMLES follows Steeve, a former Jehovah's Witness cast out by his parents, who now lives and works as a barber from his van on the streets of Montreal.
CSE 2026
Hurry Up, Hurry Up
Germain Le Carpentier
An old tire competes in Mayotte’s historic tire race, where the fates of two women intersect under the blazing sun.
CSE 2026
I Don't Think I'm Alone in This
Jack Wolf
A young Palestinian boy who grew up in Syria is forced to flee as war engulfs his neighbourhood in Damascus. But the regime the Palestinian boy fled has fallen, he can go home.
CSE 2023
I lost my Mom
Denys Desjardins
In the style of a film diary, I lost my Mom immerses us in the personal experience of the filmmaker and his sister as they try to ensure their mother can end her days with dignity in the CHSLD system.
CSE 2026
Ibuka, Justice
Justice Rutikara
In Kigali, Valentine and Jean-Claude, a new couple of young parents, face the threat of a mass hecatomb over their entire country.
CSE 2026
If Something Happens to One of Us
Carol Sibony
The story of the victorious struggle for the reintegration of Christian Porta, communist and trade-union militant, following his illegal dismissal.
CSE 2022
Ignacio
Justin Beaulieu
Under a militant carapace, an orphan hides deep wounds. Ignacio is preparing the fight of his life. As he exposes the horrors perpetrated during the Guatemalan armed conflict, he reveals the tragedy that led to his adoption.
CSE 2026
In the Forest
Pascale Ferland
In the Forest is a documentary essay that explores the deep connections between humans, animals, and the forest.
CSE 2022
IN-BETWEEN
Jacopo De Falco, Romain Le Roux
The release from prison approaches and questions Jo, Aziz, Mohammed and Kamal. What awaits them beyond these walls that have known their thoughts, their prayers, their fears?
CSE 2023
Into The Ice
Lars Ostenfeld
In the Greenland ice sheet we can see our future. Into the Ice travels with three pioneering glaciologist on their expeditions into the inland ice of Greenland, and top-notch science meets breathtaking visuals.
CSE 2023
Invisible Demons
Rahul Jain
An urgent look at the climate crisis, Rahul Jain’s eye-opening essay unfolds in a series of stunning, often birds-eye images of a very man-made disaster.
CSE 2024
Invisible Demons
Rahul Jain
An urgent look at the climate crisis, Rahul Jain’s eye-opening essay unfolds in a series of stunning, often birds-eye images of a very man-made disaster.
CSE 2022
Irréductibles
Olivier Dubuquoy
Irreducible is a film about men and women who have won battles that seemed lost in advance. Blocking a nuclear power plant, sabotage to put an end to pollution at sea, ZAD to protect the forest, all have in common to be victorious in their struggle.
CSE 2022
Iskwew ishkueu
Maïlys Flamand
A young woman recounts her journey from her home community to the city. After experiencing culture shock in the city, this is where she wants to live from now on. Iskwew-ishkueu: a gentle film born of resilience.
CSE 2025
It will Always End in the End
Nancy Pettinicchio
Montreal designer Gabriel, queer and HIV-positive, shares his acceptance journey, offering a timely, hopeful view of Quebec's HIV activism.
CSE 2022
J'suis pas raciste, j'ai un ami noir
Sara Ben-Saud
Young people of color who have evolved in predominantly white circles reveal their reality. They embody that mythical figure in the collective imagination: the "black friend".
CSE 2026
James Bay 1975: The Shock of Two Nations
Mathieu Fournier, Melanie Lameboy, Myriam Berthelet
This film takes us back to the origins of two major revolutions: the rapid expansion of Hydro-Québec with the construction of the La Grande complex, and the awakening of the Indigenous nations of Northern Quebec.
CSE 2022
Je me soulève
Hugo Latulippe
Twenty young actors are brought together in a laboratory by directors Véronique and Gabrielle Côté to create a collective work. Over the course of a full year, they delve into contemporary Quebec poetry with the goal of extracting the "spirit of times" from it.
CSE 2022
Je suis gai
Ajahnis Charley
After working abroad for five years, filmmaker Ajahnis Charley returns home to Oshawa, Ontario, in isolation. He returns to be reunited with his family and is on a mission to make some very personal revelations.
CSE 2022
Joe Buffalo
Amar Chebib
Joe Buffalo is an Aboriginal skateboarding legend. He is also a survivor of the residential school system in Canada.
CSE 2026
Khartoum
Anas Saeed, Rawia Alhag, Ibrahim Snoopy, Timeea Mohamed Ahmed
Forced to leave Sudan for East Africa after the outbreak of war, five citizens of Khartoum replay their life stories.
CSE 2024
King Coal
Elaine McMillion Sheldon
The central Appalachian region, associated with coal mining, shapes local life. Elaine McMillion Sheldon's documentary weaves the past and present myths of this unique region. "King Coal" poetically explores the transformation of this environment, dominated by wild beauty and mysterious stories.
CSE 2025
King's Court
Serville Poblete
An intimate look of two young men navigating life, love, friendship and family.
CSE 2022
Kubra
Mélanie Trugeon
Kubra is an Afghan performance artist, refugee in Paris. By turning her body into a painting, she goes in search of her history.
CSE 2023
L'atelier
Namai Kham Po
Kathy Tran and Agnès Gaudreau work as auto mechanics at Bâtiment 7, a collective-run space that facilitates the integration of minorities. We get to know them through this inspiring place where they’re truly able to be themselves.
CSE 2022
La Case
Marion Auvin, Serena Porcher-Carli
For lesbians, coming out can have surprising effects, especially in the workplace.
CSE 2024
La ferme des Bertrand
Gilles Perret
50 years on a farm… Haute Savoie, 1972: the Bertrand farm, a dairy farm with around a hundred animals run by three single brothers, is filmed for the first time. Now, 25 years later, the director-neighbor takes up the camera again to accompany Hélène, who in turn is about to hand over the reins.
CSE 2024
La guardia blanca
Julien Élie
This documentary by Julien Elie exposes the regime of terror orchestrated by transnational corporations, the government, and organized crime to seize natural resources in Mexico.
CSE 2026
La muse
Wanda Nolan
Take a road trip across Newfoundland with photographer Ting Ting Chen and her muse, Robert Tilley, as they explore memory, identity and the power of creative connections.
CSE 2025
La Pensée-Machine
Olivier D. Asselin
A documentary essay exploring the invasion of machines into our lives and the resulting "culture war."
CSE 2024
La théorie du boxeur
Nathanaël Coste
Nathanaël Coste explores the Drôme valley to understand farmers' adaptation strategies, while questioning the food resilience of our regions.
CSE 2026
Land of Cold
Hervé Demers
In the vast expanses of Northern Canada, immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa reflect on the challenges and splendors of winter.
CSE 2024
Le balai libéré
Coline Grando
In the 1970s, cleaning ladies from the Catholic University of Louvain threw out their employer and founded Le Balai Libéré, a cleaning cooperative. Decades later, today's staff question the relevance of bossless work by meeting these pioneers.
CSE 2025
Le dernier flip : démarchandiser l’immobilier
Mathieu Vachon
Our housing became commodities. Profit-driven speculation blocks access. Boosting supply isn't enough; new units fuel speculation. Decommodification is the essential solution.
CSE 2025
Le goût des choses
Alain Wirth
For the past three years, Pierre-Gilles and Antoine have been growing their vegetables entirely naturally. It’s a daily challenge that only resilience can overcome.
CSE 2023
Le Mythe de la femme noire
Ayana O'Shun
Le Mythe de la Femme Noire is a feature-length documentary that investigates the image of black women in society. Experts say the Black community is the minority most affected by images created centuries ago.
CSE 2026
Le Pérou est un lieu pour mourir
Víctor Augusto Mendívil
Through archival images and a letter to his son, a filmmaker questions the country he will inherit, between disillusionment, memory, and fragile hope.
CSE 2023
Les années Super 8
Annie Ernaux, David Ernaux-Briot
The Super 8 films taken by writer Annie Ernaux between 1972 and 1981 are family archives, but also the testimony of a social class in the decade following 1968.
CSE 2022
Les bienveillants
Sarah Baril Gaudet
Les bienveillants immerses itself in the world of the Tel-Aide Montreal telephone listening center, following a group of future volunteers who learn the art of empathetic listening.
CSE 2025
Les Lavandières
Laura Kamugisha
Les Lavandières tells the story of Jeanne, an immigrant mother, exploring the birth and sudden collapse of a dream.
CSE 2022
Les Mains dans la Terre
Antoine Trichet
Eight residents and volunteers are working to create their own habitat, to move towards autonomy, to control their food or simply to live together in a space where different futures are possible.
CSE 2025
Les perdants
Jenny Cartwright
Three candidates destined to lose expose deep inequalities in Quebec’s electoral system.
CSE 2023
Les terrains vagues
Marie-Ève Drolet
Les Terrains Vagues offers a window onto a time-stretched space, from which emanate the voices of five individuals. Revolving around their internal dialogues, the film takes the form of a broad conversation about the models and preconceived ideas that impact the way they experience their sexuality.
CSE 2026
Lethal Ethel
Elayna Einish
Lethal Ethel is a fictional documentary blending horror and humor, tracing the story of a Naskapi vampire who kills to protect her land and culture.
CSE 2026
Letters from Wolf Street
Arjun Talwar
A central Warsaw street becomes a kaleidoscope of Polish society. Behind the camera is an Indian migrant who is seeking to overcome the distance between himself and a country full of contradictions and anxieties.
CSE 2026
Leveret Road
Tim Bouvette
Ten-year-old Jeanne, a neuroatypical skate and snowboard enthusiast, must learn to maintain her self-confidence and focus on her unique strengths to overcome these new academic challenges.
CSE 2025
Like There is No Tomorrow
Matteo Keffer, Riccardo Cremona
Like There is no Tomorrow tells the story of a group of activists engaged in a campaign of non-violent civil disobedience.
CSE 2022
Little Palestine, Journal d'un siège
Abdallah Al-Khatib
In his first film, Little Palestine, Diary of a Siege, filmmaker Abdallah Al-Khatib offers a glimpse into the daily lives of the residents of Yarmouk, the largest Palestinian refugee camp in the world, as they persevere with dignity and hope in the midst of an endless state of war.
CSE 2024
Losing your home
Emmanuel Rioux
The housing crisis is multifaceted. The harsh reality of eviction. The struggle against forced homelessness, a growing phenomenon.
CSE 2024
Loud & Here
Josiane Blanc
After noticing too many cases of sexual violence going unreported or unpunished within their own schools, 23 teen girls decide to take matters into their own hands to make meaningful change to policy affecting school boards across Quebec.
CSE 2024
Low-Tech – Les Bâtisseurs du Monde d'Après
Adrien Bellay
In contrast to high-tech, low-tech promotes an ecological and local approach, favoring techniques that are simple, sustainable and accessible to all. A citizens' collective is campaigning to popularize this approach, using accessible tools to produce energy, repair machines and create means of production in various sectors such as agriculture and industry.
CSE 2024
Madeleine
Raquel Sancinetti
Every week, two friends born 67 years apart share their life stories in the lounge of a retirement home. The younger one convinces the 107-year-old to join her on a road trip to the sea.
CSE 2024
Mael and the revolution
Céline Thiou
At the age of 17, Maël, a Le Mans 24-hour race enthusiast, took the environment by surprise. A student at an agricultural high school, he developed a singular political awareness, despite the opposition of his fellow students.
CSE 2026
Mais où va-t-on, Coyote ?
Jonah Malak
For the last twelve years, Marisela and Ely and the group of volunteers Águilas del Desierto, have been roaming the US-Mexico desert in an all-consumming search and rescue mission.
CSE 2025
Make a wildlife documentary in front of home
Sofian Chouaib
A vacant lot near his home sparks Sofian's idea: a wildlife documentary in that rare, human-absent neighborhood space.
CSE 2024
Malartic
Nicolas Paquet
Ten years after the opening of the gigantic Malartic open-pit gold mine, the hoped-for economic miracle is a mirage. Main Street is not prospering, with no demographic gain. Director Nicolas Paquet exposes an opaque decision-making system that excludes citizens.
CSE 2026
Man in Touggourt Paradox
Oussama Ramdane
This film traces the memory of Touggourt a city once grown from its palm trees and shaped by them now slowly stripped of its soul.
CSE 2023
Manitushiss ; Virus
Réal Junior Leblanc
Powerful cinematographic slam, with a mastery of words in the language imposed by colonization, this film expresses a criticism of our relationship to Mother Earth.
CSE 2024
Manufacturing the Threat
Amy Miller
A poor couple, manipulated by undercover agents, is coerced into committing a terrorist attack in Canada. This documentary reveals police infiltration and incitement practices, exposing unchecked surveillance post‑9/11.
CSE 2025
Marche ou crève
Coline Hauguel
Maïté, a shepherd and livestock farmer, shares her daily life with us, from morning rituals to the steep paths of Voguë’s hills.
CSE 2022
Mary Two-Axe Earley: I Am Indian Again
Courtney Montour
Mary Two-Axe Earley: "I Am Indian Again" tells the powerful story of a leading Canadian women's rights activist, Mary Two-Axe Earley.
CSE 2025
Maurice
Serge Giguère
Maurice portrays the legendary #9 of the Montreal Canadiens in an entirely new light.
CSE 2026
Maybe in the Snow
Laurence Ly
series of photos serving as family correspondence between Canada and Cambodia was entrusted to a swallow.
CSE 2025
Middletown
Amanda McBaine, Jesse Moss
Fred Isseks led his students to expose a toxic waste conspiracy, a lesson in civic courage captured by McBaine and Moss.
CSE 2026
Mikuba
Petna Ndaliko Katondolo
Mikuba transports us into the cobalt veins of Kolwezi, where artisanal miners fiercely guard their ancestral heritage.
CSE 2026
Momentum
Nada El-Omari
Assembled from archives filmed in Egypt and Palestine in 2000, Momentum reflects on memory and place. It reveals the power of images to bear witness, then and now, even as the world moves on.
CSE 2026
Mother Land
Kantarama Gahigiri
She stands like a goddess of technological waste, surrounded by mountains of trash, plastic, and rare earth metals — a furious call to confront capitalism, colonialism, and environmental destruction in Africa.
CSE 2025
Mr. De Garie
Laura Marroquin-Éthier
Julien De Garie, a screen printing enthusiast and teacher, explores creativity, teaching, and the meaning of being an artist.
CSE 2023
My Imaginary Country
Patricio Guzmàn
October 2019, an unexpected revolution, a social explosion. Chile had recovered its memory. The event I had been waiting for since my student struggles in 1973 finally materialized.
CSE 2022
Neighbors in my backyard
Eli Jean Tahchi
Between Parc-Extension and the town of Mont-Royal, a scar in the space creates a strange dichotomy between two neighborhoods.
CSE 2022
Ni Dieu ni maître – Épisode 3 : Des fleurs et des pavés
Tancrède Ramonet
At the end of the Second World War, anarchism experienced a gigantic decline. But, little by little, in the heart of the Cold War, more and more revolutionaries turn to anarchism and contribute to give it a new echo.
CSE 2022
Ni Dieu ni maître – Épisode 4 : Les réseaux de la colère
Tancrède Ramonet
In the aftermath of the Cold War, where the imperial powers competed with violence, the main danger of anarchism was no longer to disappear. It was to become alienated. But, at the heart of the great social mobilizations, anarchism is always present, without always saying its name, and restarts for one turn at least the great wheel of our history.
CSE 2023
Ni Wapiten; I see
Julie Ottawa, Noémie Echaquan
Ni Wapiten is a plea to better respect Mother Earth. In this poetic film, we follow a child's journey through the woods to his community's local dump. Playfully, he reuses the waste to build a bear, symbolizing nature.
CSE 2025
Ninan Auassat : Nous, les enfants
Kim O'Bomsawin
Ninan Auassat: We, the Children is a heartfelt cry in a time when Indigenous youth are claiming their place and their future.
CSE 2025
No Other Land
Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor, Yuval Abraham
An activist film documents the struggle of Palestinian and Israeli voices against apartheid and occupation in the West Bank.
CSE 2024
Non-Aligned: Scenes from the Labudovic Reels
Mila Turajlic
Serbian archive reels unveil anti-imperialist struggles and the Non-Aligned Movement. Mila Turajlic meets filmmaker Stevan Labudovic to unveil these forgotten images and their global political impact.
CSE 2022
Northern Comfort: A Drive Around Town
Melanie Lameboy
A short documentary about life in Northern Quebec and the differences in living conditions between the Cree and local non-natives. A story about how being Métis and trilingual in northern communities raises some questions about the social dynamics between the Cree and non-natives living in Chisasibi.
CSE 2023
Notes on Displacement
Khaled Jarrar
The news is full of disturbing images of overcrowded boats and vast tent camps. But how much do we really know about what refugees are going through? Notes on Displacement takes a deep dive on a gruelling journey.
CSE 2023
Notes sur la mémoire et l'oubli
Amélie Hardy
Capture, document, record, share, restart.We are making ourselves more memorable than ever by archiving every bit of our daily lives. What if we lost something along the way?
CSE 2023
Notre-Dame-de‑l'Arsenic
Christian Mathieu Fournier, Martin Frigon
Immerse yourself in the unprecedented social upheaval that took place in Rouyn-Noranda in 2022, following public health revelations of unusually high levels of arsenic in the air.
CSE 2024
Nous n'avons pas peur des ruines
Yannis Youlountas
Mitsotakis succeeds Tsipras in Greece, aiming to suppress Exarcheia. Resistance intensifies, uniting other European cities. Struggles erupt across the country for land, sea, and life.
CSE 2024
Ocean seen from the heart
Iolande Cadrin-Rossignol, Marie-Dominique Michaud
Once perceived as infinite and unchanging, the ocean is now suffering the alarming impact of our actions on its biodiversity and temperature. "L'Océan vu du cœur" highlights its fragility and remarkable capacity for regeneration, while underlining the crucial importance of preserving it.
CSE 2024
On the Adamant
Nicolas Philibert
L'Adamant, a unique day center floating on the Seine in Paris, provides a therapeutic environment for adults suffering from mental disorders. This film explores the encounters between patients and carers, resisting the dehumanization of psychiatry.
CSE 2023
On the Caribou Trail
Denys Desjardins
Meditation on the passage of time, the territory we live in and the ties that bind us.
CSE 2022
Once you know
Emmanuel Cappellin
How can we continue to live with the idea that the human adventure can fail? In search of answers, Emmanuel Cappellin meets experts who call for the most humane transition possible.
CSE 2024
Orlando, My Political Biography
Paul B. Preciado
One hundred years after Virginia Woolf's Orlando, where the character changes sex, Paul B. Preciado asserts that the world is becoming "Orlandesque" and organizes a casting call for today's Orlandos. This film project explores the transformation of the world in a poetic and political way.
CSE 2022
Oui
Henri Pardo
Dear Jackie unfolds as an intimate correspondence with Jackie Robinson, a baseball player who became a prominent civil rights activist in the United States, contrasting the milestones of his time in Montreal with the actual experience of the black community revealed in powerful moments of truth.
CSE 2022
Our Path
Collectif Mapuche
We, the Mapuche youth of Ayja Rewe Budi, as we travel the territory from north to south, meet elders along the way who share their knowledge of the Mapuche life threatened by the coastal highway project.
CSE 2022
Our Silent Struggle
Suvi West
This documentary exposes the cultural genocide of the Sami people, made possible by the assimilation and colonization policies of the Finnish governments until today. Giving voice to these people, "Eatnameamet – Our Silent Struggle" shows their struggle to exist.
CSE 2024
Outside Center
Eli Jean Tahchi
After finding community on a rugby team in Munich, Jamaican-born Desmond tackles life by embracing his identity.
CSE 2024
Ovan Gruvan (Above the mine)
Lova Karlsson, Théo Audoire
Kiruna, north of Sweden; after a series of strange events, the town is set in motion.
CSE 2023
Paradise
Alexander Abaturov
In the summer 2021, an exceptional heatwave and drought led to giant fires that ravaged 19 million hectares of land in northeastern Siberia.
CSE 2023
Paradoxe
Aimé Majeau Beauchamp
Paradox, portrays a being of intensity and gentleness. As she undergoes feminizing hormone therapy, Laure learns to cope with the changes in her body, emotions and identity.
CSE 2024
Parc-Ex au coeur de MTL
Ayesha Sheikh
Nostalgic, Hudson explains how his experiences on the streets of Montreal's Parc-Extension district shaped his personality.
CSE 2025
People are thirsty
Zeineb BEN SALAH
A short film where activist Islem reveals how water and labor are linked, exposing daily struggles in a fragile state.
CSE 2024
People of the sea
Vincent L'hérault
During the short lobster season, fishermen and plant workers are the economic mainstays of the Magdalen Islands. In a market dominated by the United States, the fragility of the fishery and the future of seafaring and island culture are obvious.
CSE 2022
Perdre Mario
Carl Leblanc
By committing one of the 1,200 suicides that took place in Quebec that year, Mario plunged his friends and loved ones into a whirlwind of questions and deep sadness, the same one that assails anyone brutally left in mourning by a voluntary and irrevocable departure.
CSE 2026
Pie Dan Lo
Kim Yip Tong
In 2020, a bulk carrier ran aground off the coast of Mauritius, causing the region's worst ecological disaster. This short, hand-animated documentary bears witness to the impact of the event on local communities.
CSE 2026
Plastic People: The Hidden Crisis of Microplastics
Ben Addelman, Ziya Tong
Humanity’s relationship with plastic and one woman’s mission to expose shocking new revelations about the impact of microplastics on human health.
CSE 2025
Posthumains
Dominique Leclerc
After years of relying on medical devices for her survival, director Dominique Leclerc turns to emerging technologies in search of alternative solutions.
CSE 2022
Pour la suite du monde
Michel Brault, Pierre Perrault
A poetic and ethnographic documentary on the life of the inhabitants of Isle-aux-Coudres, rendered first by a language, green and hard, always eloquent, and then by the legendary porpoise fishing, work at sea governed by the moon and the tides.
CSE 2022
Raconte-moi mon corps
Nadia Louis-Desmarchais
Short documentary film about Naila Rabel and her relationship with her body as she had to navigate the stigma that fat people face in our society growing up.
CSE 2023
Rebellion
Elena Sánchez Bellot, Maia Kenworthy
Rebellion tell the behind-the-scenes story of Extinction Rebellion from its launch in 2018. With unprecedented access, the filmmakers follow a group of unlikely allies and capture the human drama of social movements first hand.
CSE 2024
Récolter l'hiver
Amélie Dussault
Growing vegetables without heating when it’s snowing in the sky? This is the challenge of market gardeners who have embarked with conviction on this unlikely adventure. Récolter l'hiver follows their daily life as pioneers.
CSE 2026
Recomposée
Nadia Louis-Desmarchais
Raised in a white adoptive family, a young Métis filmmaker explores the internalized and normalized racism that surrounds her, in an emotional and introspective quest through which she seeks to recompose the identity and family puzzle that is hers.
CSE 2026
Red Fever
Catherine Bainbridge, Neil Diamond
Red Fever is a witty and entertaining feature documentary about the profound — yet hidden — Indigenous influence on Western culture and identity.
CSE 2022
Red Square on a Black Board
Hugo Samson, Santiago Bertolino
RED SQUARE ON A BLACK BOARD traces the day-by-day anatomy of the student resistance and its main actors to reveal a militant movement of committed and inspired youth.
CSE 2023
Rejeito
Pedro De Filippis
After the largest mining dam breaks in history, further dam collapses threaten millions in Brazil. A state advisor confronts the government's modus operandi, while dam refugees resist the mining companies' abuses in their threatened communities.
CSE 2022
Resist and Bloom
Benjamin Dourdet, Marc-Émile Dumont Poulin
Committed citizens of Hochelaga are mobilizing to save the natural spaces of a vacant lot from the impending invasion of the Ray-Mont Logistiques industrial project. Together, they occupy the territory and demand the creation of a nature park.
CSE 2023
Ressources
Hubert Caron Guay, Serge-Olivier Rondeau
Ressources focus on the living conditions of humans, animals and plants linked together by the industrial chain of animal slaughter and meat processing. By following various actors captured by this chain, the film observes a state of precariousness shared beyond the boundaries of species.
CSE 2023
Returning to Reims
Jean-Gabriel Périot
Through the autobiographical essay of sociologist and philosopher Didier Eribon, performed by Adèle Haenel, "Retour à Reims" (Fragments) tells an intimate and political story of the French working class from the early 1950s to the present day.
CSE 2022
RETURNING TO REIMS
Jean-Gabriel Périot
Through the autobiographical essay of sociologist and philosopher Didier Eribon, performed by Adèle Haenel, "Retour à Reims" (Fragments) tells an intimate and political story of the French working class from the early 1950s to the present day.
CSE 2026
ReXistence
Will Prosper
Decades of archival footage reveal the persistence of systemic violence in Canada. By bringing this hidden history to light, ReXistence raises awareness and fuels today’s struggles.
CSE 2023
Riposte feministe
Marie Perennes, Simon Depardon
At night, armed with white sheets and black paint, they plaster the streets with messages of support for the victims of misogyny and slogans decrying femicide.
CSE 2022
Robin Bank
Anna Giralt Gris
This is the story of Enric Duran, a Catalan activist who took out loans of half a million euros that he had no intention of repaying. Instead, he used the money to finance social projects and explains that he committed these thefts to denounce the bad practices of the banking system.
CSE 2023
Rojek
Zaynê Akyol
Rojek meets incarcerated members of the Islamic State detained in prison camps, from all over the world and sharing a common ideal: to establish a caliphate.
CSE 2023
Rolava
Rosalie Guay, Thomas Landry
In the heart of the Sudeten Forest in the Czech Republic, the remains of a troubled past are still visible. While walking through these ruins, a young woman wonders about this past and our duty to remember.
CSE 2025
Rooted
Mathieu Bélanger-Landry
Linda returns to Kapuskasing, her hometown, to understand why her Indigenous family gave her up for adoption.
CSE 2022
Sacrifiée
David Sanchez
Flavie is a bold and stubborn 15-year-old who, in order to defend her social and environmental convictions, is ready to use civil disobedience even if it means facing the law.
CSE 2025
Saturday
Jessica Hall
From England to Hong Kong to Canada, Katherine and her mother defy doubts, building a vibrant life despite the challenges of disability.
CSE 2026
See — Judge — Act : The history of the JOC in Québec
Annie Deniel
The film sheds light on the untold story of Quebec’s Young Catholic Workers (JOC), a grassroots labor movement born in the 1930s. The film explores its essential role in the feminist and union struggles and social transformations that shaped Quebec in the 20th century.
CSE 2025
Sept-Îles '72: Archives du monde ordinaire
Etienne Langlois
A film about the 1972 workers’ revolt in Sept-Îles — its causes, its tragic unfolding, and its human consequences.
CSE 2026
Silk Spun
Marguerite Ranger
Blending memory and fiction, Silk Spun follows three generations of Vietnamese women in Quebec since 1975, exploring how shifting cultural contexts transform their sense of identity.
CSE 2024
Silvicola
Jean-Philippe Marquis
In the vast forests of the Canadian West Coast, nature meets industry. Silvicola presents a gallery of captivating characters, revealing the challenges of commodifying this scarce natural resource.
CSE 2024
Sisters of Wrestling
Sarah Baril Gaudet
Sisters of Wrestling paints an intimate portrait of Azaelle, Loue O’Farrell, and LuFisto, three warriors of the ring for whom wrestling is both a passion and an escape from everyday injustice.
CSE 2025
Sleepless Birds
Dana Melaver, Tom Claudon
Industrial light in Bretagne, its environmental impacts on nature and time, and it raises philosophical questions about human control.
CSE 2025
Snake Hill
Joëlle Abou Chabké
Filmmaker Joëlle and husband Melhem return home for permaculture. With herpetologist Rami's support facing snakes, she finds her true mission: pesticide devastation.
CSE 2023
Sofia
Diana Muñoz
The death of my great-grandmother Sofía is a taboo in the family. The surface of this story is known, but not the background and much less the beginning, only its tragic end. The answers are in the family, in my grandparents and my uncles.
CSE 2025
Speech for a melting statue
Collectif Faire-Part
A poet hopes for the fall of the statue of Leopold II in Brussels, a symbol of institutional racism inherited from Belgium's colonial past.
CSE 2026
Steal This Story, Please!
This film follows the intrepid independent journalist Amy Goodman (Democracy Now!) over 30 years, as she confronts the forces trying to silence the voices excluded from the mainstream.
CSE 2025
Sudan, Remember Us
Hind Meddeb
In 2019, Sudanese protesters topple a dictator. Their democratic hopes collide with a stalled, impossible transition.
CSE 2024
Suddenly TV
Roopa Gogineni
During a demonstration in Khartoum, a group of young Sudanese create an imaginary TV channel to meet other revolutionaries.
CSE 2023
Tax Me If You Can
Yannick Kergoat
With rigor, and a dose of humor, Tax Me If You Can explains the mechanisms of tax havens and demonstrates how tax evasion, an essential cog in the neoliberal system, accelerates the growth of economic inequality.
CSE 2026
TE PU
Rose Bertranet
The anonymity of a keyboard, a hacked identity, a pixelated hatred. TE PU denounces online violence, through the testimonies of two victims.
CSE 2022
The Act of Beauty
Nicolas Paquet
Hidden in the heart of the Bic Mountains, in this territory called the Bas-du-Fleuve, is a community of spirits, daring spirits that take root. This "Sageterre" is the work of Jean Bédard, writer, philosopher, social worker and above all a farmer.
CSE 2022
The Ants and the Grasshopper
Raj Patel, Zak Piper
To save her village from extreme weather, Anita Chitaya faces her greatest challenge: persuading Americans that climate change is real.
CSE 2024
The Ballad of Hard Times
Pascal Gélinas, Richard Boutet
La Turlute des années dures released in 1983, explores the Quebecois Great Depression with poignant testimonials and popular songs. Forty years later, it remains relevant in the face of persistent social inequalities.
CSE 2025
The battle of Saint-Leonard
Félix Rose
The Battle of Saint-Léonard tells the story of Raymond Lemieux and Mario Barone, two remarkable yet forgotten men of modest origins, who each fought with strength and conviction, despite the heavy consequences to themselves, their families, and their professional lives.
CSE 2026
The Blueberry Blues
Andrés Livov
In Lac-Saint-Jean, a diverse community comes together each summer to harvest blueberries, discovering the power of resilience as they celebrate the season's bounty.
CSE 2026
The Butcheress of Trois-Pistoles
Karine Lamontagne
With her butcher shop in Trois-Pistoles, Renée LeBlanc-Paulin has surrounded herself with a network of women committed to maintaining a supply chain as fragile as it is necessary.
CSE 2025
The Delightful One
Diego Gros-Louis
Fusing poetry and music, La Ravissante is a love letter to the Huron-Wendat Nation, carried by its engaged youth.
CSE 2024
The Dismantling of Baveuse City
Chloé Pilon Vaillancourt
The unveiling of rapper Marie-Gold's musical album "Bienvenue à Baveuse City", exploring a seemingly playful and colorful world behind the scenes.
CSE 2022
The Distant Barking of Dogs
Simon Lereng Wilmont
In 2016, when many have already left the war-torn eastern part of Ukraine, 10-year-old Oleg remains there with his grandmother who has taken care of him since his mother died. They have nowhere else to go. By getting close to Oleg, The Distant Barking of Dogs shows the effect of conflict on children.
CSE 2026
The Encampments
Kei Pritsker, Michael T. Workman
When a group of students at Columbia University in New York City launch a movement protesting the war in Gaza, they spark a nationwide uprising in solidarity with the people of Gaza.
CSE 2026
The epiphanies
Jeanne Perney
Les épiphanies questions the heteronormative system and explores the awakening of a lesbian desire through a theatre of objects and personal documents. 
CSE 2022
The Family of the Forest
Laura Rietveld
Gerard and Catherine sacrificed family, friends and their native Belgium to live self-sufficiently in the boreal forest of the Gaspé Peninsula in Quebec. 15 years later, as their three sons grow into young adults, what will become of this remarkable life they have given everything for?
CSE 2024
The Fighter
André-Charles Ishpatao
André-Charles is a boxer. Sports changed his life. He hopes his journey will inspire others to regain their pride and hold their heads high when facing life's adversities.
CSE 2024
The Flag
Joseph Paris
Yasser, a human rights activist, explores Paris to share a neglected truth, while Joseph, a filmmaker, accompanies him to analyze France's identitarian withdrawal through the evolution of political and media discourse over five decades. Their quest confronts the present with history to grasp the continuing regression of our freedoms.
CSE 2022
The Future Innu
Stéphane Nepton
An ode to the land in relation to my dual identity as an urban Aboriginal person. A very personal and poetic story.
CSE 2022
The Gig Is Up
Shannon Walsh
Millions of people throughout the world find work for hire online. The working conditions are often dangerous and unfair. "The Gig Is Up" makes us realize that the magic of technology that we are being sold may be an illusion.
CSE 2022
The Hairdresser
Lorraine Price
Kathleen is a hairdresser. Always has been. Always will be. Even at 83, she's still a hairdresser. But not in the way you'd expect – Kathleen's work is special.
CSE 2023
The Hearing
Émilie B. Guérette, Peggy Nkunga Ndona
After crossing 11 countries irregularly to seek asylum in Canada, Peggy, Simon and their three children are waiting for the hearing that will determine whether they get refugee status or not.
CSE 2025
The Last Straw
Éric Guéret
An organic farmer faces ruin, revealing the contradictions of an agricultural system in ecological and economic crisis.
CSE 2022
The Magnitude of All Things
Jennifer Abbott
Lorsque Jennifer Abbott perd sa sœur, décédée d’un cancer, son chagrin la rend sensible à l’extrême gravité de la crise climatique. Dans ce nouveau documentaire, elle esquisse des parallèles intimes entre les deuils vécus à l’échelle personnelle aussi bien que planétaire.
CSE 2023
The Marvellous Wild World of the Vegetable Garden
Guilaine Bergeret, Rémi Rappe
As we plunge into the heart of a vegetable garden free of pesticides and other chemicals, we discover thousands of tiny lives organizing themselves, as in a microsociety.
CSE 2024
The Myth of the Black Woman
Ayana O'Shun
Le Mythe de la Femme Noire is a feature-length documentary that investigates the image of black women in society. Experts say the Black community is the minority most affected by images created centuries ago.
CSE 2025
The part of sky
Emeline Lefebvre
Grey seals migrate, guided by light and currents, stirring in us poetry, mystery, gentleness, and the deep beauty of nature.
CSE 2025
The Pickers
Elke Sasse
A journey to European fields: 1 million migrants are harvesting our daily fruit and veg. Most of them under precarious conditions.
CSE 2022
The Positive Energy of Gods
Laetitia Møller
The singers of the group Astéréotypie, who come from a medical-educational institute for young autistic people, unveil their explosive universe on stage, encouraged by an educator who is more passionate about raw art than about educational techniques. Their collective adventure is a cry for freedom.
CSE 2022
The Roar of Their Engines
Charles-Émile Lafrance, Jason Todd
Under the Artillery of the Engines is a documentary essay set in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, a heavily militarized rural state that still bears the scars of an unresolved 50-year-old conflict.
CSE 2026
The Sandbox
Kenya-Jade Pinto
Through cinematic landscapes and testimony from survivors, journalists, and witnesses, The Sandbox explores modern border control, where surveillance, AI, and militarization decide who lives and who dies.
CSE 2022
The silence of the Mole
Anaïs Taracena
Throughout the 1970s, journalist Elías Barahona infiltrated the heart of Guatemala's most repressive military government. In seeking to uncover the story of this unique and secret individual, "El Silencio del Topo" opens cracks in the walls of silence.
CSE 2025
The Sky Above Zenica
Nanna Frank Møller, Zlatko Pranjic
In Zenica, citizens fight deadly pollution and the toxic silence of political, industrial, and European institutions.
CSE 2022
The Southern Wind
Aucéane Roux
In Canada, the village of Val Gagné is facing a rural exodus. Life seems to be dissolving and the future is uncertain. But these Franco-Ontarian villagers are surprised by a wind of renewal. A wind that will give them hope.
CSE 2022
The Straight Agenda
Emily Robertson
A young writer shares her experience of coming out as a pansexual woman.
CSE 2023
The Velvet Queen
Marie Amiguet, Vincent Munier
High in the mountains of Tibet, photographer Vincent Munier and writer Sylvain Tesson wait patiently for the snow leopard to pass. Meantime, the two men weave a dialogue that is as facetious as it is philosophical about our place among living beings.
CSE 2024
The Velvet Queen
Marie Amiguet, Vincent Munier
High in the mountains of Tibet, photographer Vincent Munier and writer Sylvain Tesson wait patiently for the snow leopard to pass. Meantime, the two men weave a dialogue that is as facetious as it is philosophical about our place among living beings.
CSE 2025
The Velvet Queen
Marie Amiguet, Vincent Munier
High in the mountains of Tibet, photographer Vincent Munier and writer Sylvain Tesson wait patiently for the snow leopard to pass. Meantime, the two men weave a dialogue that is as facetious as it is philosophical about our place among living beings.
CSE 2023
The Way I Welcome You
Amparo Fortuny
Detained with her family while seeking asylum in Scotland, Khabat now shares with her sister the imprint of those memories in her daily life and they explore how their memories have been transformed with the passage of time. These recollections are attached to the places she inhabited, revealing her transformation through resonances of her memories in the present.
CSE 2026
These Wild Cats
Steve Patry
Surrounded by a forest of spruce trees and scrap metal carcasses, Martin, an indomitable loner patches up a new existence in the company of his pack of cats.
CSE 2022
Transform you
Jimmy Valdivieso
A documentary filmmaker thinks he has made a feature film that can combat the stigma that punishes the traditional inhabitants of Lima's historic center.
CSE 2026
True North
Michèle Stephenson
Michèle Stephenson’s moving documentary centres on the 1969 student protests against racism at Montreal’s Concordia University and their contribution to the story of Black liberation.
CSE 2026
Tuktuit : Caribou
Lindsay McIntyre
An experimental documentary exploring the close and enduring connections between Inuit, caribou, lichens, and land use.
CSE 2024
Twice Colonized
Lin Alluna
Aaju Peter embarks on a quest to recover her language and culture, from which she was cut off by colonial assimilation policies. Her personal journey, filmed over seven years, shows how courage, emotion and conviction can combine to have a lasting influence on the course of history.
CSE 2025
Un jeu à soi
Julia Martinez Heimann, Natalia Laclau
In Buenos Aires, Lorena, Juliana, and Luci, footballers and feminists, fight for their dreams and a symbolic space.
CSE 2023
Un robot à soi
Anne-Gabrielle Lebrun-Harpin
By reusing home appliance commercials and television archives, this retrofuturist feminist essay questions the capitalist discourse between 1940 and 1970 in order to examine the relationship between women and technology.
CSE 2022
Under the Same Sun
François Jacob
Despite the 1994 ceasefire, there is still no real peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan, who continue to fight bitterly over the mountainous region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Under the same sun, the inhabitants of the region are listening attentively.
CSE 2025
Union
Brett Story, Stephen Maign
A group of Amazon workers embark on an unprecedented campaign to unionize their warehouse in Staten Island, New York
CSE 2026
Uprising
Thomas Lacoste
A portrait in 16 voices from the Earth Uprisings movement reveals the unprecedented composition of multiple forces deployed to resist the ongoing ecological catastrophe.
CSE 2026
Urban Forests
Anne-Marie Rocher
Although green spaces have long been neglected in cities, for several years now, the beneficial effects of urban forests have been rediscovered thanks to the mobilization of citizens.
CSE 2024
Vibrations from Gaza
Rehab Nazzal
Vibrations from Gaza delves into the lives of deaf children in Gaza, who witness the violence of Israeli military operations. Amani, Musa, Israa and others share their poignant memories of bombings, drones and collapsing buildings. The film also questions the origin of their deafness: natural or caused by Israeli sonic weapons.
CSE 2022
View from the Summit
Magnus Isacsson
Summit of the Americas, April 20, 2001. Quebec City looks like a city under siege. While the political and financial guests in the security perimeter discuss the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) agreements, citizen groups demonstrate in the streets.
CSE 2024
Villa Madjo
Elen Sylla Grollimund
Her white-skinned father was born in Africa, and her black-skinned mother was born in Europe. A complex story of her family, colonialism and the interracial couple.
CSE 2023
Wandering
Karla Meza
For the past three years, a young Mexican asylum seeker has been forced to put his academic career and his dream of becoming a police officer on hold due to his immigration status.
CSE 2025
Washed Away
Aucéane Roux
As a village disappears due to heavy flooding, memories are revived.
CSE 2025
Way Out
Jeremy Taylor
Way Out delves into the darkest parts of the mind and the journey toward healing, breaking the silence around mental health stigma.
CSE 2024
Where Motion Has Not Yet Ceased
Juliette Balthazard
Having found refuge from the Russian-Ukrainian conflict in Prague, two women and their young daughters face the expectation and hope of an imminent return to Ukraine.
CSE 2025
Who Loves The Sun
Arshia Shakiba
In war-torn northern Syria, makeshift oil refineries define a post-apocalyptic life where Mahmood navigates harsh work and local complexities.
CSE 2026
Wider than the sky
Valerio Jalongo
The film ventures into the unknown territory that is AI through science, poetry, and art, traveling the world in search of an answer capable of revealing what makes us human, what can save us from a destructive trajectory.
CSE 2025
Wilfred Buck
Lisa Jackson
A vibrant journey where Wilfred Buck heals his past by reconnecting with the ancestral wisdom of the stars.
CSE 2023
Wochiigii lo: End of the Peace
Heather Hatch
Produced over five years by Haida filmmaker Heather Hatch, this documentary follows the struggle of members of the West Moberly and Prophet River First Nations against the construction of a mega-dam that will devastate the « rivière de la Paix ».
CSE 2022
Writing With Fire
Rintu Thomas, Sushmit Ghosh
Khabar Lahariya is a unique Indian news source. With smart phones in hand, these determined journalists confront the traditions of traditional media, tackling the hottest topics in Indian news while reworking their own identity as Dalits.
CSE 2024
Yintah
Brenda Michell, Jennifer Wickham, Michael Toledano
YINTAH, meaning “land” in the Wet’suwet’en language, tells the story of an Indigenous nation asserting sovereignty. It is the story of the Wet’suwet’en people reoccupying their territory and resisting the construction of multiple pipelines.
CSE 2023
Yvon / The Eternal
Benoit Massé
Yvon, a man living with HIV, is undertaking palliative care. Through classical music, he finds the strenght to move forward.
CSE 2022
Zinder
Aicha Macky
À Kara-Kara, quartier marginalisé de Zinder au Niger, règne une culture de la violence entre gangs. Certains jeunes tentent de s’en sortir, fonder une famille parfois et s’offrir un avenir autre que celui de la prison. Aicha Macky, originaire de Zinder, filme au plus près leur quotidien.
CSE 2022
ZO REKEN
Emanuel Licha
In Port-au-Prince, a humanitarian organization's SUV is diverted from its usual use: its Haitian passengers now use it to talk about neo-colonialism and to denounce the promises made by the international community that have not been kept, while the people cry out their anger.