2025 Edition – Films from A to Z

A‑Z

Accept yourself as I am 

Emmanuelle Roberge

An intimate encounter with Élise, a transgender woman living in the Magdalen Islands.

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. 

Balance 

Luiza Cocora

Anna, a 12-year-old Ukrainian gymnast, explores the challenges of exile and identity rebuilding after the war. 

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. 

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. 

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.






Dahomey 

Mati Diop

November 2021: Twenty-six royal treasures looted from Dahomey finally return to Benin, sparking emotion and debates about their past absence. 

Dear Oscarz 

Sarah Toussaint-Léveillé

Dear Oscarz is a correspondence between the desire to create and life that swallows you up. Something like that. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

Ernest Cole, lost and found 

Raoul Peck

Ernest Cole, an exiled photographer, exposed Apartheid. Raoul Peck retraces his life, work, and rediscovered legacy. 

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. 

From Ground Zero 

22 Palestinian Filmmakers

22 Palestinian filmmakers document life in wartime Gaza — a powerful tribute to dignity, resistance, and creative survival. 

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. 

Healing Dolls 

Comité De femmes Puakuteu

Mashteuiatsh women share grief and hope making dolls, building a strong, supportive space for healing together. 

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. 

King's Court 

Serville Poblete

An intimate look of two young men navigating life, love, friendship and family. 

La Pensée-Machine 

Olivier D. Asselin

A documentary essay exploring the invasion of machines into our lives and the resulting "culture war."



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. 

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. 

Les Lavandières 

Laura Kamugisha

Les Lavandières tells the story of Jeanne, an immigrant mother, exploring the birth and sudden collapse of a dream. 

Les perdants 

Jenny Cartwright

Three candidates destined to lose expose deep inequalities in Quebec’s electoral system. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

Maurice 

Serge Giguère

Maurice portrays the legendary #9 of the Montreal Canadiens in an entirely new light. 

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. 

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. 

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.




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.

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. 

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. 

Rooted 

Mathieu Bélanger-Landry

Linda returns to Kapuskasing, her hometown, to understand why her Indigenous family gave her up for adoption. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

Sudan, Remember Us 

Hind Meddeb

In 2019, Sudanese protesters topple a dictator. Their democratic hopes collide with a stalled, impossible transition. 

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. 

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. 

The Last Straw 

Éric Guéret

An organic farmer faces ruin, revealing the contradictions of an agricultural system in ecological and economic crisis. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

Union 

Brett Story, Stephen Maign

A group of Amazon workers embark on an unprecedented campaign to unionize their warehouse in Staten Island, New York 

Washed Away 

Aucéane Roux

As a village disappears due to heavy flooding, memories are revived. 

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. 

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. 

Wilfred Buck 

Lisa Jackson

A vibrant journey where Wilfred Buck heals his past by reconnecting with the ancestral wisdom of the stars.