A European man goes naked to an American beach. A clothed American beachgoer takes offense, and a brawl ensues.

Mona is an imaginative teenager who— like her brother — struggles with ASD. She is on the eve of a giant step in her life: she will make the transition to mainstream education. She has to say goodbye to her classmates and make new friends. An exciting new world is opening up for her, but that creates extra tension.

International FIPRESCI Critic’s Award winning film offerd by Bureau du Cinéma de Saguenay and SLA Location
Public Award of the Focus Competition winning film offerd by Outpost MTL

EXT. DAY - A sunny Sunday morning on a café terrace: Isabelle, an actor whose career is in a rut, meets Johanne, her agent, who might have a new part for her. Tension mounts both at the table and in the surroundings. Will expectations be met?

Inuk Elder Levinia Brown tells how she was born while her family was travelling by dog team across the open tundra. Hand-stitched cutout stop motion animation illustrates her oral history.

With movement inspired by Merce Cunningham's iconic piece "50 Looks," a group of dancers move together through a vast landscape seemingly plucked from an alternate future. Just as changing light infiltrates the choreography, so do 35mm negative manipulations, compelling the dancers to engage with forces beyond time.

Friends on the Outside tells the story of an incarcerated man called Jamie who finds joy and comfort inside by foraging for weeds and caring for birds. It questions why the UK prison system is currently in its biggest expansion in more than a century, exposing naturalising language around this expansion.

Ferret, a guy who gets his nickname from escaping debt collectors, arrives at the Piccolo bar for his first shift. Leather booths, live jazz singer, exotic cocktails : the type of place that appeals to him... that's why he doesn't really want to work there, but rob the the establishment's safe!

A bird hits a window of a café and disrupts its customers. A woman faces a decision on whether to ignore nature or to react.

A young undocumented Guatemalan woman dreams of joining a Country Club swim team in the American South.

Special mention of the Best Youth Short Film Award

Thirteen-year-old Gaby arrives in the Magdalen Islands to spend the summer with her father, as she does every year. She is thrilled to find the sea she loves so much, the childhood friends, the winding hills on the horizon, and the warm joy of her dad's home. But this time something is different: she hit puberty, and her life will never be the same.