International Panorama section Screening with filmmaker Daisuke Miyazaki in attendance Fashion and beauty influencer Mito is a superstar, an idol for the young generation. Her every social media livestream goes viral. But a new collaboration linked to an app exploiting her dewy-eyed appeal turns sour when her image is used for illegal purposes. Suddenly, her […]
National Competition What is the contemporary role of museums, institutions that often perpetuate representations of cultural authority? Are these public places complicit in maintaining unequal power relations and existing stereotypes? These are — among other things — the questions posed by Vanessa Wright, a film professor and director. Accompanied by a likable team of doubters, […]
Nouveaux Alchimistes The first documentary feature by the Vancouver-based filmmakers is a foray into a former mining town in northwestern B.C. Every day, the last holdouts salvage scrap metal, a by-product of the copper-smelting process. This symbol of the history of ANYOX reflects the rise of early-20th-century mineral extraction, but also of migrant workers and […]
P’tits loups After a tumultuous trip to Paris, Bébert and his older brother take the train back to their home in the suburbs. Left on his own by his older brother at the train’s rear – the part that sometimes splits off and takes a different direction – Bébert ends up alone at an unfamiliar […]
Panorama international Errol and Sasha are twenty years old and live in Vienna. The former is shy, the latter more extroverted, having just arrived from Russia, but they both find it hard to connect with their surroundings. Between video conference calls, museum visits and fleeting encounters in the city, they cross paths without meeting. Bluish […]
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 […]
National Competition Screening with filmmaker Devin Shears and actor Benjamin Turnbull in attendance Harvey is a young, straight, lonely, overweight man working in a chemistry lab. Shy and reserved, he watches people from a distance, longing for human contact. While browsing magazines in an adult video store, he stumbles upon Cherub, a gay review for […]
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 […]