Musician (Polaris Music Prize for her album Anima), author (of the autobiographical novel Split Tooth) and outspoken activist, the multi-talented Inuit artist Tanya Tagaq is also an electric performer, plunging her audiences into a trance state through her experimental, highly physical form of throat singing. Filmmaker Chelsea McMullan sets out to capture this visceral experience […]
International Panorama section Linda is unfairly grounded by her mother, who’s on the brink of a nervous breakdown. There’s only one way to make up for it: cook the young girl the chicken dish with peppers that was her dead father’s favourite meal. Hailed for his superb adaptation of the Grimm tale The Girl Without […]
Les nouveaux alchimistes section Screening with filmmaker Felipe Esparza Perez in attendance An elderly man in the Peruvian Andes chips away at a blindingly white piece of volcanic stone; his son creates a digital model of a church on his computer. Both stone and building are metaphors for Peru, its identity and its colonial past. […]
National Competition While doing a report, a sports journalist discovers talented skater Violeta Martínez. It’s a revelation. But, overnight, the girl escapes without a trace. Armed only with a love letter penned by a certain Armando, the journalist heads to a small village on the Mexican coast in the hopes of finding her. Carried by […]
Temps 0 The setting: Earth in the near future. Humanity is no more and the world now belongs to the animals. When artifacts of humanity’s past resurface, it sets the stage for a history lesson about our parasitic, destructive and suicidal species as seen by the other mammals. Auteur/writer/director extraordinaire Rithy Panh pursues his quest […]
Les nouveaux alchimistes section In the depths of the woods, a moose senses imminent danger. An arrow pierces its belly and it collapses. As the days and seasons go by, its remains are left out like an open-air buffet: one by one, foxes, racoons, insects, bears and carrion birds come to eat their fill of […]
National Competition section In the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, Victor, a successful underground drag queen, and Tarzan, a homeless teen, take refuge in a half-built tower block in downtown Tbilissi. An homage to the resilience of the Georgian capital’s queer community, this meditative ramble portrays with stunning insight the despair of two young people […]
Temps 0 HARMONY Section Céline Gailleurd, Olivier Bohler France | 2022 | 26 min | French Lalou (Anthony Bajon, excellent in the Boukherma brothers’ Teddy and soon to star in Athena by Romain Gavras) is a shepherd who lives in the mountains. He works with his friend Clara, who’s come to take care of the […]
Nouveaux Alchimistes Ida, an inveterate wanderer, lives on a sailboat with a crew of five men. While anchored off Marseille, she hears of the French Foreign Legion and its former headquarters in Sidi Bel Abbès, Algeria. She immediately charts a course for this new destination, a place as much about colonial history as it is […]
Special Presentations section Aya left Japan to study medicine in Paris. She’s haunted by the painful memory of her best friend Miki, killed in a crush some years previously. When she meets a young Frenchman, the trauma of the past surges back… La Japonaise, a screenplay written by celebrated novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet in 1961, was […]