Short films

The Montreal Festival du nouveau cinéma (FNC) is pleased to unveil the short films on the lineup of its evolving 49th edition, which will be held online from October 7 to 31 throughout Canada. With over 88 short films from 30 countries, the selection will showcase both established and emerging filmmakers whose work stood out over the last year on the festival circuit.

Compétition internationale

Available online, tickets on sale starting October 1st.

Compétition internationale 1

• HEAVEN REACHES DOWN TO EARTH by Tebogo Malebogo
• SUN DOG by Dorian Jespers
• THE END OF SUFFERING (A PROPOSAL) by Jacqueline Lentzou
• TOWARDS EVENING by Teymur Hajiyev
• RAIN HUMS A LULLABY TO PAIN by Leonardo Mouramateus

Compétition internationale 2

• THIS MEANS MORE by Nicolas Gourault
• DIGITAL FUNERAL: BETA VERSION by Sorayos Prapapan
• BATTLEFIELD by Jannis Lenz
• WHICH IS WITCH? by Marie Losier
• RED ANINSRI; OR, TIPTOEING ON THE STILL TREMBLING BERLIN WALL by Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke
• THE RETURN OF TRAGEDY by Bertrand Mandico

Compétition internationale 3

• L’EFFORT COMMERCIAL by Sarah Arnold
• SUDDEN LIGHT by Sophie Littman
• MOTORWAY65 by Evi Kalogiropoulou
• FILIPIÑANA by Rafael Manuel Mendoza
• MENARCA by Lillah Halla

Compétition internationale 4

• SONG OF CLOUDS by Ankit Poudel
• FISH BOWL by Ngabo Emmanuel
• OUR KINGDOM by Luis Costa
• THE EYES OF SUMMER by Rajee Samarasinghe
• THE UNSEEN RIVER by Pham Ngoc Lan

Compétition internationale 5

• PLACES by Vytautas Katkus
• WHITE GOLDFISH by Jan + Raf Roosens
• ERPE-MERE by Noemi Osselaer
• MAALBEEK by Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis
• LAKE ON FIRE by Jennifer Rainsford
• TALK TO HER by Iwa

Juries: Carmine Pierre-Dufour, Deragh Campbell and Odile Joannette

Prize:
Loup argenté presented by TFO
Best short film of the competition ($5,000 cash)

Compétion nationale

Available online, tickets on sale starting October 1st.

Compétition nationale 1

• VAIVÉN by Nisha Platzer
• COMME LA NEIGE AU PRINTEMPS by Marie-Ève Juste
• AUGUST 22, THIS YEAR by Graham Foy
• L’ÉTANG, LA NUIT by Olivia Boudreau
• ZEN BASKETBALL by Mike Hoolboom
• POINT AND LINE TO PLANE by Sofia Bohdanowicz
• ANIKSHA by Vincent Toi

Compétition nationale 2

• L’ENFANT-TEMPÊTE by Ines Guennaoui
• INUIT LANGUAGES IN THE 21ST CENTURY by Ulivia Uviluk
• ACTING OUT by Jean-Sébastien Beaudoin Gagnon
• SPRING TIDE by Jean Parsons
• COMME UNE COMÈTE by Ariane Louis-Seize

Compétition nationale 3

• À LA MAISON by Renaud Ouimet
• BENJAMIN, BENNY, BEN by Paul Shkordoff
• LUNE by Zoé Pelchat
• FATHER NEPTUNE by Erik Horn
• CHEZ LES HEUREUX DE CE MONDE by Jean-François Sauvé
• ÉCUME by Omar Elhamy

Compétition nationale 4

• SUNKEN CAVE AND A MIGRATING BIRD by Qiuli Wu
• NADIA by Malorie Urbanovitch
• EVERY DAY’S LIKE THIS by Lev Lewis
• FEAR IN MOTION by Jean-Christophe Yacono (yako)
• PARLOUR PALM by Rebeccah Love

Juries: Mathieu Janssen, Sarah Schlüssel and Mathilde Delaunay

Prizes:
Grand prix presented by CINEGROUND
Best short film of the competition
($7,500 in post-production services awarded by CINEGROUND)

Prix du public presented by SLA LOCATION
Best short film of the competition
($5,000 in film equipment rental awarded by SLA LOCATION)

Les nouveaux alchimistes

Available online, tickets on sale starting October 1st.

Compétition Les nouveaux alchimistes 1

• SERIAL PARALLELS by Max Hattler
• THERE MUST BE SOME KIND OF WAY OUT OF HERE by Rainer Kohlberger
• THE SELKIE by Monade Li
• SOMETHING TO REMEMBER by Niki Lindroth von Bahr
• UNTITLED SEQUENCE OF GAPS by Vika Kirchenbauer
• DISSOLUTION PROLOGUE (EXTENDED VERSION) by Siegfried Fruhauf
• IMPERIAL IRRIGATION by Lukas Marxt

Compétition Les nouveaux alchimistes 2

• COLDSHOT by Evin Collis
• MAY 35 by Tina Takemoto
• ONE by Anouk De Clercq
• WHEN WE ARE NOTHING LEFT by Milja Viita
• SFUMATO by Robert Seidel
• NOTES, IMPRINTS (ON LOVE): PART I by Alexandra Cuesta
• INFLORESCENCE by Nicolaas Schmidt
• THE PEEPUL TREE by Sonja Feldmeier

Compétition Les nouveaux alchimistes 3

• INSTRUCTIONS FOR ROBOTS by Mike Hoolboom
• HOW TO DISAPPEAR by Total Refusal (Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner + Michael Stumpf)
• THORAX by Siegfried Fruhauf
• GLIMMER by Dan Browne
• RECODING ENTROPIA by François Vautier
• MOOD HALL by KAWAI+OKAMURA (Takumi Kawai + Hiroki Okamura)

Compétition Les nouveaux alchimistes 4

• ALETSCH NEGATIVE by Laurence Bonvin
• MEINE LIEBE by Clara Jost
• LES ROSES DE DAMAS by Gabriel Gonzalez Guirola + Yasmina Touzani
• ALTÖTTING by Andreas Hykade
• PUSH THIS BUTTON IF YOU BEGIN TO PANIC by Gabriel Böhmer
• AQUÍ Y ALLÁ by Melisa Liebenthal

Compétition Les nouveaux alchimistes 5

• LE LONG CRI DU TRAIN QUI PASSE SE GLISSE AU COEUR DES SPECTRES ET TOUT EXPLOSE EN SILENCE by Anne-Marie Bouchard
• FORWARDS, BACKWARDS by Mitchell Stafiej
• LÈVRES BLEUES by Philippe Hamelin
• LE SILENCE A DISPARU by Sarah Seené
• LA MARCHE by Yoakim Bélanger
• TERRESTRES by Normand Rajotte
• MARCEL BROODTHAERS EN CONVERSATION AVEC HIDEAKI ANNO ET AKHENATON by Julie Tremble
• GRAND-MAMAN PIANO by Guillaume Vallée
• BARCELONA BURNING by Theodore Ushev
• DRINK SOME DARKNESS by Trevor Mowchun
• MR. CARREAUX by Marie-Hélène Turcotte

Juries: Justine Smith, Claire Valade and Julie Vaillancourt

Prizes:
Prix Dada international
Best international short film of the competition
($1,000 cash from FNC)

Prix Dada national presented by MAIN FILM and AQCC
Best short film of the competition
($5,000 in creative residency at MAIN FILM and $500 cash from AQCC)

Prix de la meilleure animation presented by TVPAINT
Best animated short film of the competition
(A professional license worth $1,900)

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