During the 2012 Maple Spring, many figures took to the streets. One of them was Batman Tremblay, real name Raphaël, who had just been diagnosed as bipolar.

Is creativity the only thing that defines an artist? Visual arts teacher Julien De Garie is an insatiably curious, self-confessed screen printing geek and texture junkie. This documentary is a glitch-art-inspired plunge into the world of a singularly passionate human and his equally singular vision of creativity, the art of teaching, and what it means to be an artist. What if teaching were our true masterwork?

Special Mention Short & Queer Award

In the midst of their deteriorating intimate relationship, a dancer wishes to break free from his unfaithful choreographer.

This personal silent film delves into the intricate dynamics of inspiration, domination, and dependence within the LGBTQ+ dance world.

A post-queer fantasy realized in the form of a disturbing paradocumentary tale. The film centers around collective practices of support and care allegorically alluding to survival strategies in a hostile socio-political environment.

Often feeling alone in her waking life, the young Alanis Obomsawin found friendship with the Green Horse, a benevolent being she visited regularly in her dreams. Together with other animal spirits, the Green Horse guided Alanis to realize the immensity of the gift of life and the power of kindness.

"Born ash, Die weeds” is a video performance in which an anonymous body with a covered face is present in a certain area of ??the city of Santiago, Chile. This body, born in rage and ash, rejects its own masculine traits, those that biologically govern it. There is a corporal, sexual and verbal story along with a central weed without sex that is dying. Mobilizing along a non-heterosexual path, under a seismic collective and personal wound. The space is an explicit setting where gazes murdered by power and the state that does not protect lie. Likewise, it is an area of ??memories, concern, memories and constant impetus expressed under a sad but resistant and present garden. Here, the metaphor of desires is seismic. There is a crossing of various desires for justice and dislocation towards the political, moral and social structure, although many times they find themselves in the midst of a dream that may never arrive.

No God No Father is a docufiction where a young man, fatherless, turns to Google as a mentor, blurring the lines between daily learning, reality, and the virtual world.

In the 15th century, in Portugal, a group of monks built a wall around a forest and prevented the entry of women. But the hands of the living cannot control everything: in the invisible world, where night reigns and only souls light up the forest, women have built their kingdom of invisibility, without walls.

Booker is far from home but close to friends and mentors as he hosts an exuberant party. But when the noise of the party dies down and the last guests go home a listlessness returns to him. Only the next morning, while playing his trumpet, does he find his place in the stillness of the soft early light.