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Strobus / Banksiana : les racines d'un opus double

A first look at Strobus / Banksiana: a musical and visual work supported by two important protagonists of the Quebec forest: the white pine and the jack pine. Duu's second album, first double album : each half is distinguished by its sonic palette, its writing style, and the type of conifer that surrounds it. This short documentary offers an intimate glimpse into the creator's journey through the paths that led him to conceive this personal diptych, where he embraces his duality in this visceral desire to celebrate nature every day.

Strobus / Banksiana : les racines d'un opus double

NR 2026
Prophet of Ecstasy

THE PROPHET OF ECSTASY explores themes of art, politics and consciousness through the improbable life of Michael Clegg, the former Catholic priest who introduced MDMA to the world - a drug he would later dub ‘Ecstasy’. The documentary will take viewers on a wild ride, from Clegg’s life as an MDMA drug kingpin, to his present-day transformation as an enlightened yogi. It also examines how the destinies of Michael Clegg, chemist Carina Leveriza, and psychedelics advocate Rick Doblin, are inexorably bound with that of the socio-cultural explosion of MDMA through its epic journey of discovery, criminalization, and re-emergence from the shadows.

Prophet of Ecstasy

NR 2026
Requiem For a Play

Lev, a brilliant but hot-headed playwright, finds himself exiled from New York's Broadway scene after a series of costly failures and tumultuous relationships with cast and crew. Seeking redemption, he relocates to a small, struggling theatre in Toronto, where he must stage his most ambitious work yet. Surrounded by a ragtag team of aspiring actors, overworked technicians, and Alec, an unyielding young stage manager, Lev grapples with his own demons and the pressure to succeed. As tensions rise during rehearsals, personal conflicts threaten to unravel the production, forcing Lev to confront the ghosts of his past and find a way to lead his team to opening night. A raw and intimate exploration of artistry, ego, and second chances, Requiem's Veil shines a spotlight on the human spirit's ability to persevere under the weight of failure and ambition.

Requiem For a Play

NR 2026
Otium

Hanna is a real estate photographer from Mississauga who commutes daily to Toronto to snap pictures of luxury apartments for a network of shady, elusive corporations. With his debut feature, director Christopher Beaulieu provides an illuminating insight into the notion of liminality and the economic dispossession of younger generations. Favouring a detached approach, where the warmth of his celluloid images clashes with the cold functionality of Hanna’s digital photographs, where the nostalgia of past prosperity seamlessly seeps into the film material, Otium shows a rare kind of lucidity. Probing the spacious depths of empty dwellings, it tells of the contemporary Tantaluses of Hanna’s generation, for whom the gig economy provides dreams of wealth that it will make sure to keep unfulfilled.

Otium

NR 2026