As night falls, Stevie begins his rounds. This ghostly portrait from filmmakers Ariane Falardeau St-Amour and Paul Chotel juxtaposes the uncanny quality of tomorrow’s world with the hidden, evanescent universe of rural Québec and its fading men.

Commissioned by the Cinémathèque québécoise, made from 35mm images of Alexander Sokurov’s first incomplete film, this found footage short attests the incantatory potential of Ralitsa Doncheva’s cinema, drawing on the filmmaker’s recollections of the Bulgarian communist regime to interrogate the traces of history in both body and image.

A century has passed since the factory shut down in Val-Jalbert ghost town that has since converted itself into a tourist attraction. Samuel Terry Pitre’s _D’époques _paints a fragmented portrait of a group of actors tasked with re-enacting an imagined yesteryear.

Mike Hoolboom offers up memories of his mother, who died in March 2020. Through a mix of analog snapshots and video diaries, along with archival material from a life that traversed World War Two, from Indonesia to Canada, the artist brushes the intimate portrait of an activist and feminist, community volunteer and family maven.

A young boy finds himself alone in Nathan Donovan’s brief tonal poem, as thundering as it is succinct, shot in Mexico as part of a program supervised by Pedro Costa.