# 2022 Festival du nouveau cinéma

The 2022 edition of the Festival du nouveau cinéma, the 51st edition in the event's history, took place from October 5 to 16, 2022 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was marked by a return to full in-theatre staging following the COVID-19 pandemic having forced the festival to proceed fully or partially online in 2020 and 2021.
The festival opened with Charlotte Le Bon's film Falcon Lake, and closed with Léa Mysius's The Five Devils (Les Cinq diables).

## Awards

Award winners were announced on October 15 at the conclusion of the festival.
| Award | Film | Filmmaker |
| National Competition, Grand Prize | The Maiden | Graham Foy |
| National Competition, Honorable Mention | Before I Change My Mind | Trevor Anderson |
| National Competition, Prix de la diffusion Québécor | Late Night Walks (Promenades nocturnes) | Ryan McKenna |
| International Competition, Grand Prize | Aftersun | Charlotte Wells |
| International Competition, Prix de l’innovation Daniel Langlois | This House (Cette maison) | Miryam Charles |
| International Competition, Best Acting Performance | Aftersun | Paul Mescal |
| International Competition, Best Acting Performance Honorable Mentions | A Piece of Sky | Elin Zgraggen |
| International Competition, Best Acting Performance Honorable Mentions | Love According to Dalva | Zelda Samson |
| International Competition, Best Acting Performance Honorable Mentions | Aftersun | Frankie Corio |
| International Competition, Best Acting Performance Honorable Mentions | Stone Turtle | Samara Kenzo |
| International Competition, Best Acting Performance Honorable Mentions | The Worst Ones (Les Pires) | Ensemble cast |
| International Competition, FIPRESCI Prize | How to Save a Dead Friend | Marusya Syroechkovskaya |
| New Alchemists Prize | Super Natural | Jorge Jácome |
| Temps 0 Public Prize | 2012/Through the Heart (2012/Dans le cœur) | Rodrigue Jean, Arnaud Valade |
| P'tits Loups | Le Garçon et l'éléphant | Sonia Gerbeaud |
| P'tits Loups, Special Mention | La Naissance des oasis | Marion Jamault |
| P'tits Loups, Special Mention | Ice Merchants | João Gonzalez |
| FNC Explore Panorama Prize | 21-22 China | Thierry Loa |
| FNC Explore Horizon Prize | From the Main Square | Pedro Harres |
| National Competition, Short Film | Standardized Patient Program (Programme d'utilisation des patients standardisés) | Yan Giroux |
| National Competition, Short Film Honorable Mention | Dhulpa | Kunsang Kyirong |
| National Competition, Short Film Public Prize | Simo | Aziz Zoromba |
| International Competition, Short Film | Will My Parents Come to See Me | Mo Harawe |
| International Competition, Short Film Honorable Mention | Twin Lakes Haven | Philbert Aimé Mbabazi Sharangabo |
| New Alchemists, Animated Short Film | Backflip | Nikita Diakur |
| New Alchemists, Animated Short Film Honorable Mention | All My Scars Vanish in the Wind | Angelica Restrepo, Carlos Velandia |
| New Alchemists, National Dada Prize | I Thought the World of You | Kurt Walker |
| New Alchemists, National Dada Prize Honorable Mention | In the Heavens and on Earth (Dans les cieux et sur la terre) | Erin Weisgerber |
| New Alchemists, International Dada Prize | The Sower of Stars | Lois Patiño |
| RPCÉ Grand Prize | Going Back to Meet the World | Santi Henderson |
| RPCÉ Honorable Mention | Bedroom People | Vivien Forsans |
| RCPÉ Jeune Loup Prize | Avant de partir, repeins ma joue | Cassandra Minisini, Marilou Labbé |
| Pitch Première Oeuvre | Ce qui hante Marlène | Camille Trudel |
| Pitch Première Oeuvre, Special Mention | La Professeure | Eva Kabuya, Catherine Boily, Rosalie Chicoine Perreault |
| Nouveau Marché | Demba | Mamadou Dia |

## Official selections
### International Competition

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Aftersun | Aftersun | Charlotte Wells | United Kingdom |
| How to Save a Dead Friend | How to Save a Dead Friend | Marusya Syroechkovskaya | Sweden, Norway, France, Germany |
| Love According to Dalva | Dalva | Emmanuelle Nicot | Belgium, France |
| Mutzenbacher | Mutzenbacher | Ruth Beckermann | Austria |
| A Piece of Sky | Drii Winter | Michael Koch | Germany, Switzerland |
| Stone Turtle | Stone Turtle | Woo Ming Jin | Malaysia, Indonesia |
| This House | Cette maison | Miryam Charles | Canada |
| Will-o'-the-Wisp | Fogo-Fátuo | João Pedro Rodrigues | Portugal, France |
| The Worst Ones | Les Pires | Lise Akoka, Romane Gueret | France |

### National Competition

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Before I Change My Mind | Before I Change My Mind | Trevor Anderson | Canada |
| Coyote | Le Coyote | Katherine Jerkovic | Canada |
| Diaspora | Diaspora | Deco Dawson | Canada |
| Late Night Walks | Promenades nocturnes | Ryan McKenna | Canada |
| The Maiden | The Maiden | Graham Foy | Canada |
| Night Detour | Détour de nuit | Ariane Falardeau St-Amour, Paul Chotel | Canada |
| Queens of the Qing Dynasty | Queens of the Qing Dynasty | Ashley McKenzie | Canada |
| So Much Tenderness | So Much Tenderness | Lina Rodriguez | Canada |
| Soft | Soft | Joseph Amenta | Canada |

### International Panorama

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Alcarràs | Alcarràs | Carla Simón | Spain, Italy |
| Alma Viva | Alma Viva | Cristèle Alves Meira | France, Portugal, Belgium |
| Broadway | Broadway | Christos Massalas | Greece, France, Romania |
| Butterfly Vision | Butterfly Vision | Maksym Nakonechnyi | Ukraine, Czech Republic, Croatia, Sweden |
| Call of the Mountain | La Montagne | Thomas Salvador | France |
| Dos Estaciones | Dos Estaciones | Juan Pablo González | Mexico, France |
| Kite Zo A: Leave the Bones | Kite Zo A: Laisse les os | Kaveh Nabatian | Haiti, Canada |
| Klondike | Klondike | Maryna Er Gorbach | Ukraine |
| Leila's Brothers | Barādarān-e Leilā | Saeed Roustayi | Iran |
| Liturgy of Anti-Tank Obstacles | Liturgy of Anti-Tank Obstacles | Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk | Ukraine, United States |
| The Middle Ages | La Edad Media | Alejo Moguillansky, Luciana Acuña | Argentina |
| Pamfir | Pamfir | Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk | Ukraine, Poland, France, Luxembourg |
| Plan 75 | Plan 75 | Chie Hayakawa | Japan, Philippines, France |
| Rule 34 | Regra 34 | Julia Murat | Brazil, France |
| Shall I Compare You to a Summer's Day? | Bastaalak sa'at | Mohammad Shawky Hassan | Egypt, Germany, Lebanon |
| Small, Slow But Steady | Small, Slow But Steady | Shô Miyake | Japan, France |
| The Strange Case of Jacky Caillou | Jacky Caillou | Lucas Delangle | France |

### The New Alchemists (Les Nouveaux alchimistes)

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Anyox | Anyox | Ryan Ermacora, Jessica Johnson | Canada |
| De Humani Corporis Fabrica | De Humani Corporis Fabrica | Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Véréna Paravel | France, Switzerland |
| Human Flowers of Flesh | Human Flowers of Flesh | Helena Wittmann | France, Germany |
| Killing the Eunuch Khan | Killing the Eunuch Khan | Abed Abest | Iran |
| Phi 1.618 | Phi 1.618 | Theodore Ushev | Bulgaria, Canada |
| Super Natural | Super Natural | Jorge Jácome | Portugal |
| W | W | Anna Eriksson | Finland |
| A Woman Escapes | A Woman Escapes | Sofia Bohdanowicz, Blake Williams, Burak Çevik | Canada, Turkey |

### The Essentials (Les Incontournables)

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| The Banshees of Inisherin | The Banshees of Inisherin | Martin McDonagh | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States |
| Coma | Coma | Bertrand Bonello | France |
| Continental Drift (South) | La dérive des continents (au sud) | Lionel Baier | France, Switzerland |
| Decision to Leave | Decision to Leave | Park Chan-wook | South Korea |
| EO | EO | Jerzy Skolimowski | Poland, Italy |
| No Bears | Jafar Panahi | Iran |
| The Novelist's Film | Soseolgaui Yeonghwa | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea |
| Pacifiction | Tourment sur les îles | Albert Serra | France, Spain, Germany, Portugal |
| Petrov's Flu | Petrovy v grippe | Kirill Serebrennikov | Russia, France, Switzerland, Germany, United States |
| Rimini | Rimini | Ulrich Seidl | Austria, France, Germany |
| Sparta | Sparta | Ulrich Seidl | Austria, France, Germany |
| Tchaikovsky's Wife | Zhena Chaikovskogo | Kirill Serebrennikov | Russia, France, Switzerland |
| Tori and Lokita | Tori et Lokita | Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne | Belgium, France |
| White Noise | White Noise | Noah Baumbach | United States |
| Women Talking | Women Talking | Sarah Polley | United States |

### Temps 0

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| 2012/Through the Heart | 2012/Dans le cœur | Rodrigue Jean, Arnaud Valade | Canada |
| Dead for a Dollar | Dead for a Dollar | Walter Hill | United States |
| Everything Will Be OK | Everything Will Be OK | Rithy Panh | France, Cambodia |
| Extreme Prejudice | Extreme Prejudice | Walter Hill | United States |
| Grand Paris | Grand Paris | Martin Jauvat | France |
| Harmony | Harmony | Céline Gailleurd, Olivier Bohler | France |
| Holy Spider | Ankabut-e moqaddas | Ali Abbasi | Germany, Denmark, France, Sweden |
| Inexorable | Inexorable | Fabrice Du Welz | France, Belgium |
| Jerk | Jerk | Gisèle Vienne | France |
| Love Is a Dog from Hell | Love Is a Dog from Hell | Khavn De La Cruz | Philippines, Germany |
| Made in Ugana: The Very Special Seance | Made in Ugana: The Very Special Seance | Kenichi Ugana | Japan |
| Man Bites Dog | C'est arrivé près de chez vous | Rémy Belvaux, Benoît Poelvoorde, André Bonzel | Belgium |
| November | Novembre | Cédric Jimenez | France |
| Smoking Causes Coughing | Fumer fait tousser | Quentin Dupieux | France |
| Sticking Together | En même temps | Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern | France |
| Unicorn Wars | Unicorn Wars | Alberto Vázquez | Spain, France |
| The Warriors | The Warriors | Walter Hill | United States |

### Special Presentations

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| About Sasha | Chair tendre | Jérémy Mainguy, Yaël Langmann | France |
| Baby Driver | Baby Driver | Edgar Wright | United States, United Kingdom |
| Call Jane | Call Jane | Phyllis Nagy | United States |
| Drive | Drive | Nicolas Winding Refn | United States |
| The Driver | The Driver | Walter Hill | United States |
| Ever Deadly | Ever Deadly | Tanya Tagaq, Chelsea McMullan | Canada |
| For the Sake of Peace | For the Sake of Peace | Thomas Sametin, Christophe Castagne | France |
| Motel Paradis | Motel Paradis | Sophie Deraspe | Canada |
| Reign Supreme | Le Monde de demain | Katell Quillévéré, Hélier Cisterne | France |
| Somewhere Boy | Somewhere Boy | Alex Winckler, Alexandra Brodski | United Kingdom |
| Tampopo | Tampopo | Juzo Itami | Japan |
| Theodore Ushev: Unseen Connections | Théodore Ushev: liens invisibles | Borislav Kolev | Bulgaria, Canada |
| The Velvet Queen | La panthère des neiges | Marie Amiguet, Vincent Munier | France |

### History of Cinema

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Escape to the Silver Globe | Ucieczka na srebrny glob | Kuba Mikurda | Poland |
| Flickering Ghosts of Loves Gone By | Et j'aime à la fureur | André Bonzel | France |
| Italia, Fire and Ashes | Italia. Il fuoco, la cenere | Céline Gailleurd, Olivier Bohler | France, Italy |
| The Mother and the Whore | La maman et la putain | Jean Eustache | France |
| On the Silver Globe | Na srebrnym globie | Andrzej Żuławski | Poland |
| Samurai Wolf | Samurai Wolf | Hideo Gosha | Japan |
| The Sex of the Stars | Le Sexe des étoiles | Paule Baillargeon | Canada |
| Violent Streets | Violent Streets | Hideo Gosha | Japan |

### Retrospective: Bruce LaBruce, Tender and Transgressive

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| The Affairs of Lidia | The Affairs of Lidia | Bruce La Bruce | Canada |
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| Bruce and Pepper Wayne Gacy's Home Movies | Bruce and Pepper Wayne Gacy's Home Movies | Bruce La Bruce, Candy Parker | Canada |
| Défense de fumer | Défense de fumer | Bruce La Bruce | Canada |
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| Interview with a Zombie | Interview with a Zombie | Bruce La Bruce, Candy Parker | Canada |
| It is Not the Pornographer That is Perverse... | It is Not the Pornographer That is Perverse... | Bruce La Bruce | United States, Germany |
| United States, Germany ||
| The Misandrists | The Misandrists | Bruce La Bruce | Germany |
| Pierrot Lunaire | Pierrot Lunaire | Bruce La Bruce | Canada, Germany |
| Saint-Narcisse | Saint-Narcisse | Bruce La Bruce | Canada |
| Sexbombs | Sexbombs | Bruce La Bruce, Candy Parker | Canada |
| Skin Flick | Skin Flick | Bruce La Bruce | Canada |
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| The Thing from the Lake | The Thing from the Lake | Éric Falardeau | Canada |
| Ulrike's Brain | Ulrike's Brain | Bruce La Bruce | Canada, Germany |
| Valentin, Pierre and Catalina | Valentin, Pierre and Catalina | Bruce La Bruce | Spain |

### International Competition for Short Films

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Airhostess-737 | Airhostess-737 | Thanasis Neofotistos | Greece |
| Anabase | Anabase | Benjamin Goubet | Switzerland |
| Big Bang | Big Bang | Carlos Segundo | France, Brazil |
| Cherries | Uogos | Vytautas Katkus | Lithuania |
| Datsun | Datsun | Mark Albiston | New Zealand |
| Everything At Once | Everything At Once | Henryk Dyb Zwart | Norway |
| Fence | Fence | Hilke Rönnfeldt | Denmark, Germany |
| Fire at the Lake | Le feu au lac | Pierre Menahem | France |
| Haulout | Haulout | Evgenia Arbugaeva, Maxim Arbugaev | United Kingdom, Russia |
| I Am Good at Karate | I Am Good at Karate | Jess Dadds | United Kingdom |
| Insieme Insieme | Insieme Insieme | Bernardo Zanotta | France, Netherlands |
| Manta Ray | Raie Manta | Anton Bialas | France |
| On Xerxes' Throne | Ston throno tou Xerxi | Evi Kalogiropoulou | Greece |
| Poitiers | Poitiers | Jérôme Reybaud | France |
| Tea and Time | Le thé et le temps | Salah El Amri | Switzerland |
| Trap | Trap | Anastasia Veber | Russia, Lithuania |
| Twin Lakes Haven | Twin Lakes Haven | Philbert Aimé Mbabazi Sharangabo | Rwanda |
| Watch the Fire or Burn Inside It | Il faut regarder le feu ou brûler dedans | Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel | France |
| Will My Parents Come to See Me | Will My Parents Come to See Me | Mo Harawe | Austria, Germany, Somalia |
| Worth Your Weight in Gold | O Teu Peso em Ouro | Sandro Aguilar | Portugal |

### National Competition for Short Films

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Province |
| III | III | Salomé Villeneuve | Quebec |
| À la vie à l'amor | À la vie à l'amor | Émilie Mannering | Quebec |
| About Memory and Loss | Notes sur la mémoire et l'oubli | Amélie Hardy | Quebec |
| At Dusk | Au crépuscule | Miryam Charles | Quebec |
| Bird's Nest | Nid d'oiseau | Nadia Louis-Desmarchais | Quebec |
| Blond Night | Nuit blonde | Gabrielle Demers | Quebec |
| Danny Greenwood U Shitface | Danny Greenwood T laid | Guillaume Laurin | Quebec |
| Dhulpa | Dhulpa | Kunsang Kyirong | British Columbia |
| Ditch | Ditch | Nellie Carrier | Quebec |
| Down the Orchard | Le Long du verger | William Hayes-Dulude | Quebec |
| Invincible | Invincible | Vincent René-Lortie | Quebec |
| It's What Each Person Needs | It's What Each Person Needs | Sophy Romvari | Ontario |
| Late Summer | Late Summer | Ryan Steel | Manitoba |
| Lay Me by the Shore | Lay Me by the Shore | David Findlay | Quebec |
| The Lauzon Theory | La théorie Lauzon | Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre | Quebec |
| Little Deaths | Petites morts | Terence Chotard | Quebec |
| Most of the Time We Are Just Waiting | Most of the Time We Are Just Waiting | Molly Shears | Ontario |
| Mother's Skin | Mother's Skin | Leah Johnston | Nova Scotia |
| Nanitic | Nanitic | Carol Nguyen | Quebec |
| No Ghost in the Morgue | No Ghost in the Morgue | Marilyn Cooke | Quebec |
| Oasis | Oasis | Justine Martin | Quebec |
| Pleasure Garden | Pleasure Garden | Rita Ferrando | Ontario |
| Rocket Fuel | Rocket Fuel | Jessie Posthumus | Ontario |
| Scaring Women at Night | Scaring Women at Night | Karimah Zakia Issa | Ontario |
| See You in My Dreams | Visites nocturnes silencieuses | Ariane Louis-Seize | Quebec |
| Simo | Simo | Aziz Zoromba | Quebec |
| Standardized Patient Program | Programme d'utilisation des patients standardisés | Yan Giroux | Quebec |

### Special Presentations Short Films

The short films of Trevor Anderson.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
| Carpet Diem | Carpet Diem | Trevor Anderson | Canada |
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### The New Alchemists, Short Films

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Against Reality | Against Reality | Olivia Peace | United States |
| All My Scars Vanish in the Wind | All My Scars Vanish in the Wind | Carlos Velandia, Angelica Restrepo | Colombia |
| Arrest in Flight | Arrest in Flight | Adrian Flury | Switzerland |
| Backflip | Backflip | Nikita Diakur | Germany, France |
| A Body Is a Body Is a Body | A Body Is a Body Is a Body | Eiméar McClay, Cat McClay | United Kingdom |
| Bye Bye Now | Bye Bye Now | Louise Bourque | Canada |
| Fenix | Fenix | Olivia Lathuillière | Canada |
| Gods of the Supermarket | Les Dieux du supermarché | Alberto Gonzales Morales | Switzerland |
| Happy New Year, Jim | Happy New Year, Jim | Andrea Gatopoulos | Italy |
| Hardly Working | Hardly Working | Total Refusal | Austria |
| Horizons | Horizons | Charlie Marois | Canada |
| I Thought the World of You | I Thought the World of You | Kurt Walker | Canada |
| In the Heavens and on Earth | Dans les cieux et sur la terre | Erin Weisgerber | Canada |
| Instant Life | Instant Life | Andrew Kim, Anja Dornieden, Juan David Gonzalez Monroy | Germany, United States |
| It's Raining Frogs Outside | It's Raining Frogs Outside | Maria Estela Paiso | Philippines |
| Lake of Fire | Lake of Fire | Neozoon | Germany |
| Lockdown Dreamscape | Lockdown Dreamscape | Nicolas Gebbe | Germany |
| Message of an Endless Night | Message of an Endless Night | Tiago Minamisawa, Barcabogante | Brazil |
| Municipal Relaxation Module | Municipal Relaxation Module | Matthew Rankin | Canada |
| Par vents et marées | Par vents et marées | Bogdan Anifrani-Fedach | Canada |
| Rien ne sera plus comme avant | Rien ne sera plus comme avant | Elina Lôwensohn | France |
| Sirens | Sirens | Ilaria Di Carlo | Germany |
| Sometimes I Don't Know Where the Sun | Manchmal weiss ich nicht wo die Sonne | Samantha Aquilino | Switzerland |
| Songs for Living | Songs for Living | Alex Gvojic, Korakrit Arunanondchai | United States, Thailand |
| The Spiral | The Spiral | Maria Silvia Esteve | Argentina |
| The Sower of Stars | The Sower of Stars | Lois Patiño | Spain |
| Tomorrow Is a Water Palace | El mañana es un palacio de agua | Juanita Onzaga | Colombia, Belgium, Mexico, Italy |
| Tongue | Tongue | Kaho Yoshida | Canada, Japan |
| Under the Lake | Under the Lake | Thanasis Trouboukis | Greece, Finland |
| Under the Microscope | Under the Microscope | Michaela Grill, Sophie Trudeau | Canada, Austria |
| Very, Very Tremendously | Very, Very Tremendously | Guangli Liu | France, China |

### RPCÉ Canadian Student Short Film Competition

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Province |
| After Today | Après aujourd'hui | Quebec |
| Animal | Animal | Félix-Olivier Fiset | Quebec |
| Bedroom People | Bedroom People | Vivien Forsans | Quebec |
| The Camel | Le Chameau | Emma Jacquerez | Quebec |
| Canti Vi | Canti Vi | Emil Vargas | British Columbia |
| Core | Avant de partir, repeins ma joue | Marilou Labbé, Casandra G. Minisini | Quebec |
| The Death of the Lovers | La mort des amants | Élisabeth Groulx | Quebec |
| Dirty | Dirty | Farah Moreau | Nova Scotia |
| Eat Me | Mange-moi | Maël Zaïd, Océane Richer | Quebec |
| Embrace | Pour t'enlacer | Alicia Tremblay | Quebec |
| Garden of Shadows | Jardin d'ombres | Aurélie Galibois, Nicolas Roy, Éliot Ducharme, Philippe Carrier, Frédéric Blanchard | Quebec |
| Going Back to Meet the World | Going Back to Meet the World | Santi Henderson | British Columbia |
| Granny and Grandpop | Mamie et Grand-Pôpa | Émilie Lapierre | Quebec |
| Homesick | Homesick | Alexandre Thériault | Quebec |
| Il n'y avait rien | Il n'y avait rien | Alexandre Lavigne | Quebec |
| Kaleidoscope | Kaléidoscope | Carol-Ann Champagne, Oussama Fetoui, Pierre Desbois, Thomas Faso, Arnaud Wurm-Munoz, Lucie Humbert | Quebec |
| Kung Flop | Kung Flop | Luc Savu-Massé, Yuri Lacombe | Quebec |
| Mathieu | Mathieu | Victoria Lévesque, Annabelle Jacques, Justine Michaud | Quebec |
| Mommy Milk | Crème maman | Juliette Maurice | Quebec |
| Nimbus | Nimbe | Lili Francke-Robitaille | Quebec |
| Nunavut: Changing Times | Nunavut: Changing Times | Timothy Harrison | Nunavut |
| Problems of Synchronization | Problèmes de synchronization | Charles Gourde Talbot | Quebec |
| Project Paradise | Project Paradise | Aida Solorzano | Quebec |
| Slush | Gadoue | Charlie Côté | Quebec |
| The Sorrow of a Confined | Sonata d'une confinée | Bruno Savard | Quebec |
| Uncovering | Uncovering | J.P. Bergeron | Quebec |
| Unwanted Photons | Unwanted Photons | Kasia Beloussov | Ontario |
| Volitantes | Volitantes | Matt Gillott | Alberta |
| We Are Not Speaking the Same Language | We Are Not Speaking the Same Language | Danika St-Laurent | Quebec |
| We Were Never There | On n'existe plus | Louca Lefebvre, Maïcha Lazo-Mackay, Rose Robert | Quebec |

### Student short films not in competition

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
| L'Atelier | L'Atelier | Namaï Kham Po | Canada |
| Le bonheur est comme du sable | Le bonheur est comme du sable | Gaëlle Azzam | Canada |
| Casse couille | Casse couille | Philémon Antoine | Belgium |
| Cinq octobre | Cinq octobre | Élise Labelle | Canada |
| Esquisse | Esquisse | Namaï Kham Po | Canada |
| Maman fait dodo | Maman fait dodo | Solenn Crozon | Belgium |
| Paradoxe | Paradoxe | Aimé Majeau Beauchamp | Canada |
| La Prova | La Prova | Toni Isabella Valenzi | Belgium |

### P'tits loups

Short film program of animation for children.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Anscht | Anscht | Matthias Huber | Switzerland |
| Autosaurus Rex | Autosaurus Rex | Marcel Barelli | Switzerland |
| Birth of the Oases | Naissance des oasis | Marion Jamault | France |
| The Boy and the Elephant | Le garçon et l'éléphant | Sonia Gerbeault | France |
| The Butterfly | Le Papillon | Lola Khattou | France |
| Émerveillement | Émerveillement | Martin Clerget | France |
| Granny's Cookies | Les Biscuits de Mamy | Frits Standaert | France, Belgium |
| Guard of Honour | Guard of Honour | Edmunds Jansons | Latvia |
| Hello Stranger | Hello Stranger | Julia Ocker | Germany |
| Hush Hush Little Bear | Cuci cuci | Māra Liniņa | Latvia |
| Ice Merchants | Ice Merchants | João Gonzalez | Portugal, France, United Kingdom |
| La Kitouge | La Kitouge | Emma Brun | France |
| Laika & Nemo | Laika & Nemo | Jan Gadermann, Sebastian Gadow | Germany |
| Luce and the Rock | Luce et le rocher | Britt Raes | Belgium, France, Netherlands |
| Mora Mora | Mora Mora | Jurga Šeduikytė | Lithuania |
| Mouse House | Mišja hiša | Timon Leder | Slovenia |
| My Tiger | Mon tigre | Jean-Jean Arnoux | France |
| No-No Goes to Space | Non-Non dans l'espace | Wassim Boutaleb Joutei | France, Belgium |
| Piropiro | Piropiro | Miyoung Baek | South Korea |
| The Queen of the Foxes | La Reine des renards | Marina Rosset | Switzerland |
| Slipping Away | L'air de rien | Gabriel Hénot Lefèvre | France |
| Tales of the Salt Water | Chroniques de l'eau salée | Tamerlan Bekmurzayev, Antoine Carre, Rodrigo Goulão de Sousa, Alexandra Petit, Martin Robic | France |
| The Tiger Who Came to Tea | The Tiger Who Came to Tea | Robin Shaw | United Kingdom |
| When I Am Sad | Quand je suis triste | Lilit Altunyan | Armenia, France |

### FNC Explore

Virtual reality projects.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| 21-22 China | 21-22 China | Thierry Loa | Canada |
| Biolum | Biolum | Abel Kohen | France, Germany |
| Blood Relations | Blood Relations | Analee Weinberger | Canada, Israel |
| Ceci n'est pas une cérémonie | Ceci n'est pas une cérémonie | Ahnahktsipiitaa | Canada |
| Clap | Clap | Keisuke Itoh | Japan |
| Diagnosia | Diagnosia | Mengtai Zhang | United States |
| From the Main Square | From the Main Square | Pedro Harres | Germany |
| Genesis | Genesis | Faber Courtial | Germany |
| Laïka | Laïka | Asif Kapadia | United Kingdom |
| Lockdown Dreamscape VR | Lockdown Dreamscape VR | Nicolas Gebbe | Germany |
| Montegelato | Montegelato | Davide Rapp | Italy |
| On the Morning You Wake | On the Morning You Wake | Pierre Zandrowicz, Mike Brett, Steve Jamison, Arnaud Colinart | France, United Kingdom |
| Plastisapiens | Plastisapiens | Miri Chekhanovich, Édith Jorisch | Canada, Israel |

### Estival

Film screenings that were held at an outdoor venue in August, several weeks before the regular festival program.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Dune | Dune | Denis Villeneuve | United States |
| Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song | Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song | Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine | United States, Canada |
| The Hand of God | È stata la mano di Dio | Paolo Sorrentino | Italy |
| Unfinished Infonie | L'Infonie inachevée... | Roger Frappier | Canada |