BY VINCENT MOON AND PRISCILLA TELMONWITH RADWAN GHAZI MOUMNEHEach evening, Moon and Telmon create a new film. They edit, in real time, their own ethnographic films on sacred rituals from Brazil and around the world, adding improvised songs and instruments.http://hibridos.cc/Radwan Ghazi Moumneh ©...

The festival’s Short & Sweet night is back for a second time. The best shorts from the International Competition, Focus and New Alchemists will be crowned during this animated ceremony.

A virtual reality performance in which a large audience is tele-transported into the perspective of one person live on stage.Presented by THE EMBASSY OF SWEDEN IN OTTAWA

A virtual reality performance in which a large audience is tele- transported into the perspective of one person live on stage.

With the rise of VR technology in film, short film directors are being asked to try this new storytelling form. Insight into how the medium is being used, a discussion with creators, and a presentation of shorts.

Informal networking session for the festival’s industry guests, designed to create contacts and further discussion.Presented by BCTL — BUREAU DU CINÉMA ET DE LA TÉLÉVISION DES LAURENTIDESBy invitation only

South of Marrakech, a community frozen in time is jostled by the socio-political tumult of a country undergoing profound change.

An offbeat thriller steeped in influences from both East and West: the latest sensation in Thai cinema....

Spellbinding traditional music and lush natural settings are the raw materials of this unconventional hybrid on the roots of Irish music.

Audiences will laugh through gritted teeth at this withering satire that attacks elitism, arrogance and vanity of every stripe.

Breath of fresh air from Brazil in this debut that embraces desire and sensuality freely expressed....

A single mother and her rebellious son make some bad judgment calls, only to discover precious little light at the end of the tunnel.

Using home movies collected around the world, Gustav Deutsch (Shirley, Film Ist) creates a captivating reflection on migration

A colourful odyssey leading to reconciliation for a brother and sister who accidentally kill a goat with their father’s truck.IN COMPETITION CANADIAN PREMIERE...

Journey through the Cameroonian jungle, where ancestral beliefs lin- ger while the local population resists....

Modern-day ramble against a backdrop of prejudice and hostility between a group of German workers and some ornery Bulgarian villagers.

Following up Une jeunesse allemande (2015), Jean-Gabriel Périot continues exploring history’s ghosts with this tribute to the victims of the bombing of Hiroshima.

The beautiful if complicated love story between an invisible boy and a blind girl. A phantasmagorical fairytale or the sensitive reappropriation of a sublime sensibility....

Two clans on either side of a river have a visceral hatred for each other. The conflict turns ugly, everyone is on edge and going out means risking your life.

Plunge into 70s Montreal with this vibrant, lyrical collage of sounds and images from a bygone era.

Bruno Dumont is back with an off-the-wall musical about... Joan of Arc!

After Ceux de la colline, Berni Goldblat films the coming-of-age ofa Burkinabe teen. After his father sends him to live with his uncle onthe other side of the Mediterranean, young Ady, who lives on the roughoutskirts of Paris, is forced to learn his family’s way of life. In a style evocativeof his...

From Brazil to Africa, a coming-of-age tale about an idealistic travel- ler and his voyage of self-discovery triggered by culture shock.

Cory Bowles (Trailer Park Boys) presents a brilliant social satire explo- ring racism, police abuse and social media.

An unusual film dedicated to the maker of La Jetée, the most legendary of unknown filmmakers. With his experimental, evocative, poetic documentaries, Chris Marker (1921-2012) was one of the true innovators of the cinematic essay. A “Marker mystery” obsessive, Syned Sindrajed has made an...

At the crossroads of genres, a complex cinematic portrait that sets out to give a voice to the people the system forgot.IN COMPETITION...

Highly political film about the meeting between a journalist exiled to France (Karl Marx) and the rebellious son of a wealthy German industrialist (Friedrich Engels).

A sensitive coming-of-age story from a director who resolutely strips all clichés from her rendering of the heightened emotions of youth.IN COMPETITION

PRESENTED WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES A long healing process is chronicled in this documentary that cap- tures the spirit of a people coming to grips with a traumatic history....

While Manivel appears to have changed his stripes, his sense of poetry remains untouched in this film that screened at the Venice Festival.

A cannibalism tale set around a Vietnamese KFC. Grotesque, absurd, allegorical — and hilariously disturbing....

Winner of the Emerging Canadian Director award at the 2016 Vancouver International Film Festival(VIFF) for her first feature, Never Eat Alone, Sofia Bohdanowicz has just completed her second feature, Maison du bonheur. Under her patient eye, sensitive and intimate portraits take shape, oscillating...

Love hurts. A comic, sexually charged reflection on remorse and freedom. By HPG, a former X-rated star turned hilariously wacky neo-auteur.

Family and passion, past and present intersect in this documentary about one of the most prestigious sports clubs in the world.

A flagship film in the legacy of the unforgettable Polish filmmaker, The Promised Land traces the dawn of industrial capitalism in Eastern Europe

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