Materia explores stones and minerals in my surroundings with a close-up and tactile approach.
Saskatchewan Premiere
Final Sale (Vente Finale)
A young woman tries to grieve by emptying her deceased mother's house.
HALVED
Set in 2006 on a fishing island in the Philippines, Maya bears the weight of her family’s survival while longing for college. Love sparks with Nilo, a fisherman, but poverty overshadows their joy. When a friend suggests seeking a foreign sponsor, Maya must choose between family, survival, and the fragile love she’s found.
Motel Grand-Pre
In Gaspésie, a remote region of Quebec, a quirky Chinese motel owner navigates his quiet routines between fixing rooms and casting lines into the sea—until his filmmaker son visits for a week. What begins as an interruption gradually unfolds into an exploration of distance, care, and the delicate ways a father and son learn to share time together.
Diamond Belly
Alex’s grandfather is dying of stomach cancer. When the old man starts claiming those aren’t tumours in his belly, but pilfered diamonds from a long-forgotten heist in the old country, family secrets and myths collide as Alex grapples with her newfound inheritance resting in a dying man’s stomach.
My Grandmother is a Skydiver
Alfyia, a joyful young woman in 1960s Central Asia, is actively parachuting and studying to become a midwife, when she receives an extraordinary phone call from her granddaughter in 2022. She is worried about her grandmother’s safety amid the invasion of Ukraine. In this intergenerational conversation across time and space, the granddaughter tries to rethink family memory and her own ethnic identity, break the endless cycle of collective trauma and reflect on the meaning of human life.