Films
Film
29e
Hurikán
Jan Saska
Slovakia, France, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Animation
Hurikán rushes out to save his favourite beer stand from closure by fetching a new keg to impress the bartender he has a crush on. In a wild Prague district, he faces robbers, cops, and his own thirst.
Film
29e
Ice Merchants
João Gonzalez
France, Portugal, United Kingdom, Animation
Best Animation Film Award winning film
Every day, a father and his son jump with a parachute from their vertiginous, cold house, attached to a cliff, to go to the village on the ground, far away, where they sell the ice they produce daily.
Every day, a father and his son jump with a parachute from their vertiginous, cold house, attached to a cliff, to go to the village on the ground, far away, where they sell the ice they produce daily.
Film
29e
Inkwo for When The Starving Return
Amanda Strong
Canada (British Columbia), Canada (Quebec), Animation
The story of Dove, an Indigenous youth who must embrace the powers bestowed on them to fight creatures with a ravenous hunger, unleashed after two generations of slumber.
Film
29e
Interurbain
Marc-Olivier Huard
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
Philippe-Belley Award winning film offered by Hydro-Québec and La Bande Sonimage
Interurbain delves into a mother’s emotional void as she grapples with the geographical distance and the absence of her son.
Interurbain delves into a mother’s emotional void as she grapples with the geographical distance and the absence of her son.
Film
29e
Juste un toit
Emmanuel Rioux
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
Special Mention of the Canadian Grand Prize
The housing crisis had many faces. Those of Jeannette and Frances drive us into the difficult experience of eviction. During many months of anxiety, brief hopes and uprooting, Jeannette and Frances fight, alone and surrounded, against a growing phenomenon: the forced loss of one’s home.
The housing crisis had many faces. Those of Jeannette and Frances drive us into the difficult experience of eviction. During many months of anxiety, brief hopes and uprooting, Jeannette and Frances fight, alone and surrounded, against a growing phenomenon: the forced loss of one’s home.
Film
29e
Hoofs on skates
Ignas Meilunas
Lithuania, Animation
In a winter wonderland two friends are having a blast ice-skating on a frozen lake when suddenly a strange and unfamiliar world cracks open underneath them. Now they must learn how to deal with the other kind, not letting the fear and preconceptions rule.
Film
29e
L'Ourse et l'Oiseau
Marie CAUDRY
France, Animation
In the North, winter is approaching. Bear thinks of her friend Bird who migrated south. Instead of hibernating like she does every year, she decides to travel the world to join him.
Film
29e
La petite ancêtre
Alexa Tremblay-Francoeur
Canada (Quebec), Animation
On a windswept hill, in a place still young and devoid of all life, an ancestral house is built by itself. The house comes to life and reveals its one hundred and fifty-year-long lifes. Brick by brick and beam by beam, each action, big or small, shows life. Through the years, it leads us to feel the passage of time, the transformations of its surroundings and its vulnerability in the face of the unstoppable frenzy of our urban growth. The house evolves quietly in the heart of a growing and buzzing city that will eventually bring about its end.
Film
29e
La petite ancêtre
Alexa Tremblay-Francoeur
Canada (Quebec), Animation
On a windswept hill, in a place still young and devoid of all life, an ancestral house is built by itself. The house comes to life and reveals its one hundred and fifty-year-long lifes. Brick by brick and beam by beam, each action, big or small, shows life. Through the years, it leads us to feel the passage of time, the transformations of its surroundings and its vulnerability in the face of the unstoppable frenzy of our urban growth. The house evolves quietly in the heart of a growing and buzzing city that will eventually bring about its end.
Film
29e
Le Pouillaouin
Katia Kurtness & Carolyne Kurtness
Canada (Quebec), Animation
Their first time working together on an art project, Katia and Carolyne were accompanied by Carolyne’s eight-year-old granddaughter, Aria, to share a story told by their father, Raymond. Aria’s bold pencil strokes bring to life the characters of a louse and a flea, who go on an adventure in the fur of a young beaver called "Pouillaouin".