Edith Jorisch

2023 | Quebec | Fiction | 15 min 

For a very special celebration, a host-mother has gathered mothers and their perfect childrenfor a great banquet. Orchestrated by the host-mother, the banquet is suddenly disrupted bystrange disturbances. What is hiding behind the scenes of this perfect ideal world? Mothers andMonsters is a surrealist satire about modern-day maternity and the ideal of the family at a timewhere capitalism has reached its apex

Edith Jorisch

Edith Jorisch is a Montreal-based screenwriter and director who practices her craft in film and television, both documentary and fiction. Her work offers a human, bittersweet perspective on the vices of our contemporary society.

In 2017, Jorisch’s short film AWE, stood out for its hybrid style, skilfully flirting between fiction and documentary. Tibbits Hill, is an allegorical tale about music as an anti-militarist weapon. Mothers & Monsters is her newest tale on our modern society.

Chadi Bennani

2023 | Quebec | Fiction | 11 min 

Fleeing the illness of his ex-wife, Michael has not set foot in the family home for some time now. Birthday card in hand, he forces himself to return to reconnect with his son Jasmin, who takes care of his mother from home. Jasmin and Michael will face the distance that has grown between them and, for a moment, put an end to their loneliness.

Chadi Bennani

Chadi Bennani graduated in 2022 from the UQAM’s film production program. During his studies, he directed his first short film, “Nicole” (2023), presented at Hot Docs 2023 as part of the Best Short Documentary competition. His love for cinema led him to undertake the cinematography of the feature-length documentary “Elle va crier”, a project spanning more than a year that he approached in parallel to his studies. In 2022, he received the ACCT’s Bourses de l’Académie pour la relève grant. Recipient of the Regard sur Montréal film residency in 2023, Chadi directed his next short documentary film “Here and There” (2023), presented during the RIDM’s 26th edition opening night.

Yann Reynolds

2024 | Quebec | Documentary | 15 min 

The sea will always have our eyes, through our tears and our laughter, we’ll always be together.

Les yeux la couleur de la mer is a film that plunges us into the heart of a family’s intimacy, through the photographic lens of Yann, determined to immortalize those around him. For a moment, the film transports us into a son’s spiritual quest for his father, revealing his reflections on the man he is becoming.

Yann Reynolds

Yann Reynolds is a filmmaker and photographer who grew up between the city and the Quebec countryside. He draws inspiration from his daily life to express himself through a variety of techniques, including glitch art, film photography, documentary filmmaking and more. As a student at Concordia University, he strives to break down the boundaries between different cinematic styles.

Alexandre Lefebvre

2023 | Québec | Fiction | 17 min 

Drowned in a family reunion chaos filled with testosterone and pig roast, REYNALD will try to prove to his nephew, his family but mostly himself that’s he’s still king.

Alexandre Lefebvre

Alexandre Lefebvre is a Quebec director and screenwriter who flirts between fiction and documentary filmmaking. He directed a medium-length televisual documentary and 4 short films that won several prices and competed in multiple international festivals. Focused on quest for self-awareness and ways people escape from themselves, his cinema is constructed around raw characters that tries to navigate through everyday life’s drama that always leave behind a bitter aftertaste.

Halima Ouardiri

2023 | Quebec | Fiction | 13 min 

Mina loves to skate. Today, her father, recently divorced from her mother, accompanies her to her first figure skating lesson. An ordinary day if something hadn’t happened to the skates.

Halima Ouardiri

The Swiss-Moroccan writer and director Halima Ouardiri is a graduate of the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema in Montreal, Canada. Her first short film, MOKHTAR, screened in the top festivals around the world. CLEBS won the Crystal bear in Generation at the 2020 Berlinale. She is currently developing her debut feature film, THE CAMEL DRIVING SCHOOL.