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This short animation explores the “canon”, a form of musical "round" in which each singer picks up the words and tune of a song after the preceding singer. Through a...

Category Out of competition
Section "Norman McLaren" Retrospective
Tipology Short Film

A chicken, sometimes Leghorn sometimes Plymouth Rock, performs walzer steps to music.

Category Out of competition
Section Official Competition
Tipology Animation, Short Film

This short experimental animation tempts the eye with gradually unfolding yet increasingly complex movement, colour and sound. Reminiscent of the mid-20th-century style of “op...

Category Out of competition
Section "Norman McLaren" Retrospective
Tipology Animation, Short Film

Two men, Jean-Paul Ladouceur and Grant Munro, live peacefully in adjacent cardboard houses. When a flower blooms between their houses, they fight each other to the...

Category Out of competition
Section "Norman McLaren" Retrospective
Tipology Short Film

The movie shows a ballerina (Margaret Mercier) dancing by herself (or rather, with images of herself), before being joined by a male dancer (Vincent Warren), to perform...

Category Out of competition
Section "Norman McLaren" Retrospective
Tipology Short Film

A young, unmarried teenager finds herself pregnant. The film mirrors the state of her mind as she worries about the possible positive and negative reactions of her parents,...

Category Official Competition
Section Official Competition
Tipology Short Film

Fiction film for children that presents a band of boys that refuse to divide a secret with girls.

Category Official Competition
Section Official Competition
Tipology Short Film

This animated short by Norman McLaren and René Jodoin is a play on motion set against a background of multi-hued sky. Spheres of translucent pearl float weightlessly in the...

Category Out of competition
Section "Norman McLaren" Retrospective
Tipology Animation, Short Film

This short children's film by Co Hodeman tells the story of 2 children and their encounter with an angry dragon, all represented by colourful building blocks.

Category Official Competition
Section Official Competition
Tipology Animation, Short Film

Through the coming of age of a 20-year-old man, this film symbolizes the political coming of age of the people of Québec.

Category Official Competition
Section Official Competition
Tipology Feature Film