International Audience Award

Heartbreaking Brechtian melodramas of Douglas Sirk, whose "All That Heaven Allows," another key intertext, hovers above and behind our crazy whirlwind of a love story that spans more than 30 years.

Inspired by 2 poets, one from Quebec, Gilles Cyr and the other from France, Francis Ponge and his Parti pris des choses, Successeur des herbes is the second collaboration between Mériol Lehmann and Sylvain Campeau. 

This poem is a tragic monologue: that of a woman mourning her dead love. It is a melancholy dialogue between Arabic music (enveloping the dance) and Jewish calligraphy (translating the english text we can hear into signs we can see). Both are about beauty, proximity, love and death. Failed rendezvous, land, uprooting and exile. In this context, "May peace be with you", which opens the poem, and "May love be with you" which closes it, are invitations to resist the death drive within us.

Shades of Gray is a short poetry film that explores the complex experience of being mixed race in a white-dominated society. The film captures the feelings of isolation and confusion that arise when one is not fully accepted by either their family or their wider community. The protagonist, a mixed-race person, feels like an outsider in both worlds.

A magpie is thrown out of its nest. It falls onto hard asphalt. A Coming of age film.

Touches are journeys - a film poem about the multi-faceted journey of interpersonal, intercultural encounters. How are we connected with each other? Based on a poetic text collage by Marion Steinfellner, which brings together Indian, Japanese, German, and Austrian texts by Yuko Kaseki, Savita Rani, Mersolis Schöne, and Marion Steinfellner. * The film is shown out of competition.

A woman in her 30s remembers the neighborhood where she grew up before the war, When she stands in front of a large tree, its smell takes her on a trip to a neighborhood that is devoid of any life.

A traumatised soldier runs away from the trenches and finds healing in his old familiar haunts.