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FEB 18, 2026
20h00 - KILL THE ARCHIVE
Traces

آثار
Traces

by Chantal Partamian

Beirut 1980: Amid the rubble of a torn building, a reel of film. An unlikely unraveling of queer bodies taking shape and form, while the war-torn city around and its spectacle of toxic masculinity glitches and disintegrates.

8min., 2023, 16mm, 8mm, Found Footage, Lebanon/Canada

Towards the Sun

نحو َ الشمس
Towards the Sun

by Nour Ouayda

An audio guide with fading authority and growing interpretative autonomy takes us around the National Museum in Beirut.

17min., 2019, Mini DV, Lebanon

The Right to See

The Right to See

by Mahmoud Alhaj

After years of using Google Maps as his only window to the world, Mahmoud discovers that these images of Palestine are outdated. Twenty-five times less detailed than anywhere else, they erase essential elements, like the apartheid wall.

6min., 2021, HD, Palestine

Renegade Retrospective

What Farocki Taught

by Jill Godmilow

A shot for shot remake of German filmmaker Harun Farocki’s film Inextinguishable Fire exploring division of labour in the development of Napalm B by Dow Chemical during the Vietnam War.

29min., 1998, 16mm, USA

FEB 19, 2026
20h00 - MISSED MESSAGES
A program of films exploring the impossibility of language and the crisis of communication. Presented by the artist and filmmaker OK Pedersen*
Lips

Lips

by Dir. Karina Garcia Casanova and Olivier Alary

As the Musée d’art contemporain in Montreal installs an artwork on its roof, the filmmaker, living across the street from the museum, calls to point out a small mistake.

3min., 2008, DV, Canada

Il Faudra en Revenir

Il Faudra en Revenir
There Must Be a Way Back

by Katia Gosselin

“No reason to fear wild animals—‘wild’ means ‘free, untamed’,” said François Sarano, the oceanographer who spent years observing and recording sperm whales. Does humanity’s misfortune stem from distancing itself from nature? Are we doomed to self-destruction?

9min., 2021, Canada

09/05/1982

09/05/1982

by Camilo Restrepo & Jorge Caballero

A deteriorated film, shot in 1982 in a Latin American country, presents a series of everyday images, among which a few stand out that testify to the violent events that took place on May 9 of that year. Interspersed between images, a man's voice presents the official version of the events. Beneath its apparent banality, the film raises suspicion that what really happened was covered up.

10min., 2025, Spain/Mexico

La salle d’attente

La Salle d’Attente

by OK Pedersen

In this speculative documentary, present-day Nation borders have collapsed into vast privatized housing complexes. Epitomizing advanced capitalism’s financialization and incarceration, the citizens of “Condo World” live in a so-called dream where it’s illegal and punishable to leave. Out on a virtual vacation, a citizen of Condo World loses touch with her sister, or possibly, herself.

12min., 2024, Canada

Dickinsonia. Les archives sensibles

Dickinsonia. Les archives sensibles

by Charline Dally & Gabrielle Harnois-Blouin

The dickinsonia is a 550-million-year-old sea organism whose soft body has left very few fossils. The rare traces of its existence have left the scientific community doubtful. Using video glitch, the film burrows into our hazy memories which, like dickinsonia, leave but vague impressions.

11min., 2023, Canada

Point and Line to Plane

Point and Line to Plane

by Sofia Bohdanowicz

Devastated after the death of a friend, a young woman attempts to find meaning from this intense loss as she discovers signs in her daily life and through encounters with the art of Hilma af Klint and Wassily Kandinsky. As the woman peers deeper into the invisible, the resurrecting potential of perception helps illuminate the power of how we choose to look and, moreover, how we see.

18min., 2020, Canada/Iceland/Russia/USA

23h00 - MOVIE TRIVIA
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FEB 20, 2026
20h00 - INNER & OUTER SPACE
Roswell

Roswell

Bill Brown

A starboy gets lost in space and an intrepid traveler goes looking for answers and a cheap motel room.

19min., 1994, 16mm, USA

Sous le Soleil Exactement

Sous le Soleil Exactement

by Noa Blanche Beschorner

Inspired by the inhabitants, streets, and her German language exercies, artifacts from the filmmakers return trip to her native city of Berlin, take the form of a city symphony.

14min., 2024, 16mm, Germany/Canada

Amarillo Ramp

Amarillo Ramp

by Sabine Gruffat and Bill Brown

Two filmmakers explore Robert Smithson’s sculpture and land artist “Amarillo Ramp” and place of the artists death, where his plane crashed whilst conducting an arial survey of the site.

24min., 2017, 16mm/HD, USA

Principle Meridian

Principle Meridian

by Nathaniel Cummings-Lambert

Exploring the landscape of Harney and Lake county of Southeastern Oregon, the filmmaker reconfigures the invisible divisions of State, Federal and Tribal lands into a collaged landscape.

3min., 2017, 16mm, USA

Une Marégraphie Suspendue

Une Marégraphie Suspendue
A Suspended Tide

by Félix Caraballo

Strange auditory anomalies lead a sound artist through landscapes of the Bas-Saint-Laurent that blur the line between reality and imagination.

13min., 2025, 16mm, Canada

23h00 - AWARD CEREMONY
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