Movies

2013. Civil war rages and Almourad Aldeeb is imprisoned by the Syrian regime for several months before managing to flee to Germany. After the fall of the dictatorship, he returns to the scene of his torment. Like a silent cry, his emotionless voiceover recounts the horrors that he and his friends endured.

In a Japanese coastal town haunted by the 2011 tsunami, the filmmaker installs her camera inside the city's taxis to capture conversations between the living and, it turns out, the dead.

The natural landscape of Colombia’s Río Cauca Valley, with its mountains, forests, and rivers, has been reshaped and transformed for colonial hydroelectric production. Uprooted by the pursuit of profit, a community celebrates a fascinating ritual to remember and mourn its territory, contributing its own images and sounds to the film’s visual and audio stream.

The voice we hear comes from far off-screen, thousands of kilometres away from the vistas of Toronto unfolding before us. These are countless voicemails from Colombia left by the director’s loving grandmother.

Below the surface, the alien is us. Filmed entirely underwater with natural light and ambient sound, MARE SAPIENS moves through the Bay of Marseille as a space where living forms, infrastructures, and machines coexist. The film assembles a sensory field without commentary or hierarchy, letting the sea appear not as background or resource, but as a milieu that absorbs, resists, and persists.

Mai Gang, the father of the filmmaker, starts making a map, which over the weeks invades the floor of the family living room. The itinerary of his clandestine escape from Communist China to Hong Kong in the seventies resurfaces. From the making of a homemade buoy to sea swimming techniques, this film offers a unique survival guide.

Radio Galère, an independent radio station in Marseille, has been on the air for over 40 years, giving voice to what we hear far too little of: the anger, the struggles, the hopes, and the stories of those whom society renders invisible in their daily lives. Through its volunteers and staff, the station is a place where speaking out becomes a political act and a tool for empowerment.

After being diagnosed with Alzheimer's, Sandro begins writing down his memories—incredible tales previously unknown to his family.

Follow Deimos, a spaghetti hungry inventor, who must traverse the inside of her own mind in order to track down the source of her sudden wormy hallucinations. These horrors threaten the fabric of her mind, and her appetite.

A newspaper gremlin chases someone, straight up.

After agreeing to drive him to a job interview, Dean reconnects with his old friend Travis.

Silence settles over Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré’s frozen landscape, where echoes of a once-thriving religious tourism linger. At the heart of a place in transition, this film takes viewers on a timeless journey through memory and disappearance, weaving together presence and absence.

A small-town beauty pageant queen, trapped by scripted smiles and expectations of perfection, secretly finds freedom in fishing and must decide whether to maintain her poise on stage or reclaim her true identity before the State pageant.

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Santiago was born prematurely, with little hope of survival and the risk of being forgotten by both his biological parents and a system that rarely guarantees a stable home. The documentary follows Víctor and Fernando, the first gay couple to marry in Baja California, as they face years of discrimination and bureaucracy in their fight to adopt. Their struggle sheds light on thousands of children left in institutions and affirms a simple truth: every child deserves to grow up in a loving home. Santiago’s arrival, "love at first sight", transforms a legal battle into an act of justice and tenderness.

A poet who stares at the sun too long goes blind. Plants bend toward the light, and a world brimming with radiance tilts into the dark. From noon to midnight.

Slip stitch, skip stitch, single stitch, and yarn over. Roommates in Switzerland for two years, Yoonsuk and Sunwoo spend Sunwoo's final winter knitting together. Leaving the last stitch unfinished, Yoonsuk at last begins her own "knock back."

After a huge fire has raged, the scorched stone left there is suddenly bewildered by the unfamiliar landscape of the village, and the scorched stone that has been wandering around begins to look around the village.

In the process of reconstructing the memory of her mother, a young woman relives the emotional ravine between them, originating in childhood.

‘The Bridge’ follows a young woman who hears a mysterious phone ringing in the forest and follows it into a surreal world, where inspiration resides but cannot manifest. It is a meditation on the creative act as a passage between fantasy and reality; a concept I was very much in touch with throughout the process of manifesting this film.