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 |