History Revisited
In this touching portrait filmed in her final days, Marceline Loridan shows that she never lost the energy and desire to talk about history, politics and film.
Marceline, une femme, un siècle
- Cordelia Dvorák
- 2019
- France, Netherlands
- s.t. English
- 77 min
Canadian Feature Competition
In Beirut, Lebanon, two very different women embody the invisible borders of a city still deeply divided by ideology, 25 years after the civil war.
La mer entre nous
- Marlene Edoyan
- 2019
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French or English
- 103 min
The State of the World
To make up for a shortage of ambulances in Mexico City, a family braves traffic, police corruption and competition to offer private services to the wounded.
Midnight Family
- Luke Lorentzen
- 2019
- Mexico, United States
- s.t. English
- 81 min
International Feature Competition
In this experimental hybrid film, the director combines the personal and the political. Having left Lesotho for Berlin, his enraged, impatient cri du coeur is directed at Mother Earth.
Mother, I Am Suffocating. This Is My Last Film About You.
- Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese
- 2019
- Lesotho, Germany, Qatar
- 76 min
Canadian Feature Competition
A young woman, executor to her great grandmother, an exiled Polish poet, faces numerous challenges in this delicate yet hilarious hybrid work.
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
In a school in rural Mexico, we hear the strange story of an adopted Indigenous boy, the starting point for a dreamlike tale about race and childhood rituals.
My Skin, Luminous
- Nicolás Pereda, Gabino Rodríguez
- 2019
- Mexico, Canada
- s.t. English
- 40 min