Films
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.
Film
23e
Belly Flop
Jeremy Collins
South Africa, Animation
Persistence pays off when a fearless young girl learning to dive is unperturbed by a talented diver who steals the spotlight.
Film
23e
Biidaaban
Amanda Strong
Canada (British Columbia), Animation
Biidaaban, a gender-fluid Indigenous youth, and Sabe, a Sasquatch shape shifter, set out to harvest sap from sugar maples in a city’s private neighbourhoods.
Film
23e
Blast Beat
Pascal Plante
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
It ain't easy singing for a black metal band…
Film
23e
Bloeistraat 11
Nienke Deutz
Belgium, Netherlands, Animation
Inseparable best friends spend their last summer holiday of childhood having fun around the house. But their incipient puberty interferes in their relationship. Summer goes by as their bodies transform and their friendship goes downhill. Puberty seems determined to interrupt their bond.