Films
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28e
Kidnappé
Thomas Corriveau
Canada (Quebec), Animation
Made in a highly fragmented style, Kidnapped uses techniques as diverse as photography, drawing, painting, collage and live action. Beyond the detective story it tells, the film becomes an open reflection on the power of imagination.
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28e
Kodam Khaneh, Kodam Doost
Abbas Taheri
Iran, France, Fiction
Sarah & Mehri, are two close friends who drank alcohol at school. Their friendship is challenged when Mehri's father, an influential government agent, confronts them.
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28e
Krush The Wrestler
Alex Megaro
United States, Documentary
Exploring the innate intimacy of submission wrestling, a lifelong wrestler turns his talents into an on-demand fetish video service.
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28e
L'Envoyée de Dieu
Amina Mamani Abdoulaye
Burkina Faso, Rwanda, Niger, Fiction
Here, God's envoy is chosen by chance and is subjected to funeral rites. Fatima, 12, laid in a market, wearing an explosive belt activated 10 minutes to kill Allah's enemies. For 9 minutes, it is an inner jounrey during which, she goes from the present to the past. Fatima remembers that her mother sells in this market.
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28e
L'Esquisse
Cali Tomas
France, Documentary
Arriving in Paris, I start learning two languages, French and drawing. In an artist's studio, I meet Linda Demorrir, a live model. Like me, she is transgender and an immigrant. As I draft her outlines, it is also myself that I learn to draw.
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28e
L'artifice
Isabelle Grignon-Francke
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
Kim and Billy work at carnivals. This summer, Kim procrastinates. He plans to leave this family of colleagues to devote himself to his passion, the search for precious stones. The layoff of Billy, his best friend, accelerates his disenchantment. We always dream of elsewhere.
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28e
La Perra
Carla Melo Gampert
France, Colombia, Animation
Being a daughter, being a mother, becoming a woman.
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28e
La Timidité des Cimes
Loup-William Théberge
Canada (Quebec), Experimentation
« The Crown Shyness » is a dance short film about a man’s introspective gaze at his artistic identity.
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28e
La distance entre le ciel et nous
Vasilis Kekatos
France, Greece, Fiction
Night, national road. Two strangers meet for the first time at an old gas station. One has stopped to gas up his bike, while the other is just stranded. Lacking the 22.50€ he needs to get home, he will try to sell him the distance that separates them from the sky.
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28e
La fille au béret rouge
Janet Perlman
Canada (Quebec), Animation
A girl takes a ride on the Montreal metro, which becomes the unlikely venue for a strange and wonderful musical journey.