Films
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26e
Pickel
Frédéric Lavigne
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Because of a totally innocuous culinary statement, a man must stand trial in a hirsute atmosphere governed by Kafkaesque laws.
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26e
Plody mraků
Katerina Karhankova
Czech Republic, Animation
In a clearing surrounded by dark woods, Furry lives with his friends. The animals fear the wood, so to feed themselves, they resignedly wait fruits falling from the sky. Furry does not want to wait. He is curious about the woods. He wants to know what is hiding in there.
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26e
Pouvoir
Paul Tom
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
A group of high school students newly arrived in Montreal invent superheroes inspired by their personalities and the social issues that affect them. Imbued with a personal mission, these larger-than-life characters carry the cultural roots of each of the children. Together, they dream of a fairer and freer world.
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26e
Pre-Drink
Marc-Antoine Lemire
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Alexe is a young trans woman, and Carl a gay man. Best friends since forever, an evening spent together destabilizes Alexe, when both decide to have sex together for the first time.
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26e
Precious Hair & Beauty
John Ogunmuyiwa
England, Fiction
An ode to the mundanity and madness of the high street, told through the window of an African hair salon.
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26e
Progressive Touch
Michael Portnoy
Netherlands, Austria,
Can you fu*k to an irregular beat? Progressive Touch depicts three futuristic, absurdist love scenes in which the goal is to "improve" sex by complicating its rhythm and choreography. Sex as dance, as comedy. Enacted by three real life couples, the dancers' every explicit move is synchronized to the propulsive, unpredictable score.
Film
26e
Prouve-le
Geneviève Dunn & Carol-Anne Vallée
France, Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Tonight, they are crazy about each other.
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26e
Ready for Love
Lauren McCune & Dylan Pasture
United States, Fiction
Amber knows that the right man is out there. Maybe he’s on The Bachelor? Ready for Love covers a decade of a woman's life, as told only through her own video submissions to be a contestant on The Bachelor.
Film
26e
Réminiscences
Virginie Brunelle
Canada (Quebec), Experimentation
This dance short film brings three sensual and brutal duets to the screen. Three stories overlap to tell the memory; what remains of the nostalgic feelings of their union. The choreographies sublimate the cracks that human experience generates and which settle in us like so many emotional vestiges.
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26e
SHE|/I
Shaun Clarke
United States, Experimentation
A meditation on the human body, identity and movement. Directed by Shaun Clarke. Featuring Maria Alvarez (Boston Ballet) and John Lam (Boston Ballet).