A‑Z Film List

A‑Z

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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.



Bubbles 

Mélissa Lefebvre, Paul Tom

Bubbles gives the floor to autistic teenagers who invite us into their imaginary worlds. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

Ernest Cole, lost and found 

Raoul Peck

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

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. 

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. 

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.

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. 

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. 

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. 

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.



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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

In the Forest 

Pascale Ferland

In the Forest is a documentary essay that explores the deep connections between humans, animals, and the forest. 

James Bay 1975: The Shock of Two Nations 

Mathieu Fournier, Mélanie 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. 

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. 

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.

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. 

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. 

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.


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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

Maybe in the Snow 

Laurence Ly

series of photos serving as family correspondence between Canada and Cambodia was entrusted to a swallow. 

Mikuba 

Petna Ndaliko Katondolo

Mikuba transports us into the cobalt veins of Kolwezi, where artisanal miners fiercely guard their ancestral heritage. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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.

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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.


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. 

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. 

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.

Tuktuit : Caribou 

Lindsay McIntyre

An experimental documentary exploring the close and enduring connections between Inuit, caribou, lichens, and land use. 

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. 

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. 

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.