Alma Pöysti delivers a captivating performance in Malin Ingrid Johansson's alternately exhilarating and heart-rending story of a woman torn between the needs of her young son and her own desires.

Drawn and animated along a single piece of paper by artist and filmmaker Nicolas Piret, this piece combines the real sounds heard by two campers with a stunning visual rendering of the natural world at its most surprising and magical.

Worlds and genres collide one summer afternoon as a young woman and her horse make a surprising and eventful odyssey in this richly cinematic drama by Montreal's Halima Elkhatabi (also at the Festival with the TIFF Docs selection Living Together).

During the World Cup final in 1998, a football-loving Japanese Brazilian teenager in São Paulo copes with rising tensions, in André Hayato Saito's poignant and powerful drama.

Drawing once again from her family history, Academy Award–winning animator and filmmaker Torill Kove reflects on an especially rich chapter in her past to create a film that's engaging, delightful, and poignant in equal measure.

Shifting their perspective away from the fascinating female-centric spaces the team explored in Smoke Sauna Sisterhood, directors Anna Hints and Tushar Prakash offer a thoroughly enthralling view of what goes on between two men who inhabit the same steamy places.

The picking of sweetgrass becomes an action — and word — with profound meaning in this gently mesmerizing piece by multidisciplinary writer and artist shalan joudry.

A mysterious case of sleepwalking becomes a tentative means of connection between two boarding school students in Connor Jessup's elegantly rendered story of adolescent longing.