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An exiled Syrian author travels to a remote island in the North Sea to commit suicide. There he stays at a modest hotel run by a devoted elderly woman whose quiet humanity incites a reawakening of his desires and instincts for life.

Two radically opposed women quickly divide an Indigenous community into two sides who must then come face to face to determine the best path to independence.

The Seven Last Words sounds out the experiential states and rituals particular to humanity, based on seven themes expressed in an oratorio: forgiveness, hope, relation, abandonment, distress, triumph, and life after the death.

Five Indigenous women filmmakers from across Canada challenge one another to make a film under a set of restrictions tailored to each filmmaker. Quebec, Ontario, British Columbia, Nunavut/ Fiction, Documentary/ French, English, Mohawk, Sami, Inuktitut/ 73 minutes/ 2015

Rue de la Victoire is a documentary about hope, a representation of young people trying to rise above their social conditions. Mohamed Dhiaa Garbi, a Tunisian circus artist, gradually reconstructs his identity and gains his independence.

Deco Dawson uses rare audio recording and film footage taken from Jean Benoit's studio in Paris to whimsically illustrate the life of the last official member of the hugely influential Surrealist group.

A filmic fan letter to the Canadian artist Marcel Dzama. Set deep in a fairy-tale forest, a girl and a bear engage in a series of duets that rapidly evolve and escalate in tension.

A white room. The aging bodies of actors Gilles Pelletier and Françoise Graton testify to a love that has triumphed over time and a captivating lover's dialogue emerges between two octogenarian bodies defying inertia, old age and death. With music by the group Forêt, this sensuous short film depicts the tremblings of desire and the most elemental components of love.

Free Fall offers a temporary escape while reminding us that the pull of the earth and our finality are inescapable.

Housewife and grandmother Roberta struggles to fit the conformist society she lives in and turns to amphetamines and booze to cure her boredom.