Films
Film
23e
Accidence
Guy Maddin & Evan Johnson & Galen Johnson
Canada (Manitoba), Fiction
Accidence, based on the metaphor that we are our own victims, perpetrators and prosecutors, follows a nightmarish and mysterious murder over and over again. Over a gridwork of apartment block balconies, shot in a continuous take, the humdrum and everyday coalesce into a deadly and maddeningly endless loop.
Film
23e
Affannato
Alexa Tremblay-Francoeur
Canada (Quebec), Animation
Living in a surreal universe, Mathilde, a young girl who is studying the violin in a peculiar school, finds her everyday life changed when her hands fuse with her instrument.
Film
23e
All Inclusive
Corina Schwingruber Ilic
Switzerland, Documentary
Under the spell of mass entertainment on the high seas.
Film
23e
All These Creatures
Charles Williams
Australia, Fiction
An adolescent boy attempts to untangle his memories of a mysterious infestation, the unravelling of his father, and the little creatures inside us all.
Film
23e
Applied Pressure
Kelly Sears
United States, Experimentation
Ease the pain from past physical and mental distress. The body remembers. Aches may linger. Lay prone, breathe deeply, release tension. Sequential images sourced from dozens of massage books are activated to reflect on recent public conversation from this past year surrounding bodies, massage, and trauma.
Film
23e
Après la pluie
Valerian Desterne
France, Animation
A dog lives happily with his master, a peculiar shepherd. He doesn’t only shear his sheep’s wool, he creates clouds out of it, to make rain. If the shepherd wasn’t everlasting, what would happen to the valley? The young dog would have to be creative to avoid the worst.
Film
23e
Atomes en quête d'immatérialité
Anne-Marie Bouchard
Canada (Quebec), Experimentation
“There is only one moral worth in this story, one essential fact: we are nothing but ridiculous sparks in the light of the universe.” Hubert Reeves
Film
23e
Aziza
Soudade Kaadan
Syria, Lebanon, Fiction
A dynamic take on the life of Syrian refugees told through black comedy.
Film
23e
Bamboule
Émilie Pigeard
France, Belgium, Animation
After a "minor" operation at the vets, a young cat starts putting on more and more weight. Her owners start calling her "Butterball" instead of her usual name "Bamboo". She then gets the nickname "Butterboo"!
Film
23e
Beautiful Loser
Maxime Roy
France, Fiction
Michel is an ex-punk who spends half his life in his garage and the other half in his flat, a converted cellar. With Leo, his teenage son, he gets up to all sorts of mischief while trying to manage looking after the baby he just had with Hélène, his ex-wife.