In the underground world of diffing, a community finds solace in their passion, as they navigate personal struggles and challenges both on and off the road.

Jury's Price Award winning film offerd by Post-Moderne and Cinema Moderne

Samir and Nadyn, a Lebanese couple, spend a sleepless night anxious and fearing an Israeli airstrike could shatter the glass walls of their home. With their children peacefully asleep, they battle with whether to flee or risk the worst and stay.

Louis II of Bavaria has been petrified in the ice since time immemorial. We find him in a forest, luckily he is alive! Three witch sisters try to defrost him and unravel its musical mystery. We are propelled with them in a colourful and surreal fairy tale.

After putting her daughter to bed, Aura finds that an elderly woman has broken into her house. The intruder, who acts strangely familiar, begins a ritual, summoning something dark into the living room. Aura tries to keep her daughter safe and grasp just what the hell is going on

Best Documentary Short Film Award winning film offered by Doc Québec.

In war-torn northern Syria, Who Loves the Sun delves into the world of makeshift oil refineries and the stark realities of life within this post-apocalyptic landscape. Mahmood is a prominent figure in these operations, navigating harsh working conditions and complex local dynamics.

Shot in sports video games, the film "A World At Stake" turns the ordering principles of victory and defeat upside down and negotiates social roles between individual sovereignty and collective passivity. In the face of catastrophe, a feeling of political powerlessness remains.
Nothing less than the world is at stake.

The power of stories, told over many nights, over many years, through all the languages across the world, are encapsulated in an intimate story between a grandmother and her children’s children on a clear winter night in the teepee. This short is exhibited at the Indigenous Peoples Experience cultural centre in Fort Edmonton Park.

A unique slideshow documenting two long-haired trans men falling madly in love. Over the course of one year, the artist couple Samira Elagoz & Z Walsh gathered photographs from real-life events such as their first kiss, meeting each other's parents, long-distance thirst traps, a beach wedding, and top surgery and its subsequent recovery. A sweet and steamy celebration of T4T love with life and art all tangled up.

A sheet of music was left on a composer's work desk. A music-loving fly comes to place its leg there. She twirls and begins to sow discord. At the other end, a spider does not intend to miss such a great opportunity to feast.

The remaining shreds of Zoe's mind desperately cling to her vague memories of better feelings.