International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
Samuel's home port is in Gaspesia, eastern Quebec, in Saint-Maxime-du-Mont-Louis. It is winter and the fishing boats have been put into dry dock. Samuel makes the most of this respite to implement his...
International Feature Film Competition
In the Podhale region in Poland, the Halny wind blows several times a year in spring and in autumn, in cycles. It is unpredictable, so you never know if—and when—it will metamorphose into a...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
When the colourful ice-cream van rides through the deserted streets of the village, there are no children trailing behind it. In Plazuela, a peaceful hamlet lost in a mountainous region of Ecuador,...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
Bathed in light announcing the arrival of dusk, the setting of hills in the east of Bosnia is crossed by a flock guided by a stooped silhouette. A new day begins for the protagonists of Then Comes...
Burning Lights International
In the south of Chile on the Chiloé Island, Carlos Ruiz works as an operator in an industrial cannery. He is one of the cogs that makes the machine turn, except when he is a machine himself,...
Opening Scenes
An unsettling look at a group of young people that seem to linger in a kind of perpetual twilight, while playing and getting high. Like dancing on the brink of an abyss that stares defiantly at you. A...
International Feature Film Competition
Rebels without a cause in a globalized world. Kevin, David and Dominik, three troubled teenagers who were deemed too difficult to be “re-educated” at home, are shipped off to Romania by the German...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
Film newsreels show a mixed crowd enjoying seaside fun. Every summer however, a man appears on the beaches. Meticulously dressed, announcing himself with a blast on a whistle. He is the Stranger....
National Competition
45,000 patients died in French psychiatric hospitals between 1939 and 1945. A single site escaped this carnage: the asylum in Saint-Alban, an isolated village in Lozère. What happened there for it to...
Burning Lights International
Forget everything you think you know about storytelling! And get ready for a very surreal trip. Narges Kalhor plunges us in a funny and deconstructed joyful apocalypse of a web of stories while...
National Competition
Listening, observing, touching, tasting. Moving through a space that is still pristine, undomesticated, that of the state of nature. He is there to reconnect with that state, she is doing a course on...
Grand Angle
In a world where fantasy meets reality, Tengkwa leads a band of Dutch wrestlers and tries to train a new generation. But with slim chances of fame and glory and little money to speak off, only the...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
The film begins with an amorous promise: I can change. A promise heard too often, a promise we know to be false in advance. Amie-Sarah has fallen deeply in love with Boby, a young Romanian Romani who...
National Competition
Nathalie cannot cope with her son Gobran, who is having difficulties with the police and at school. Together, they go to see Naïma Serroukh, instigator and facilitator of the project called...
Opening Scenes
When Tamara encounters Syzmon, she thinks it is true love. But things turn out to be more complicated than planned and even more so when religion interferes with their relationship. Driven by the...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
On the northern coast of Scotland, Dounreay is a nuclear research site built at the end of the 1950s and whose reactors have been gradually shut down. Following in the footsteps of Walter Glass—a...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
We are somewhere in the north of Spain. After crossing a town, in the rain, at the end of a tunnel, the valley of Solana opens up. The grain and the flickering of the film add a dreamlike quality to...
Opening Scenes
What is daily life like for those who are growing up in the outskirts? How is the future being considered? With a sharp sense of observation, Arantxa Hernández Barthe sketches the...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
While his previous film addressed the question of rural life via the major health crisis of the 20th century (mad cow disease) and in the form of a fiction ( Bloody Milk , César for Best First...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
Hanqi and her friends drift through the suburban area of Hangzhou. Strolling through the concrete and neon-lit landscape of the city, they experience the transformations it undergoes daily. As they...