來自彼端｜共棲的風景——當代加拿大紀錄片選

本單元與蒙特婁國際紀錄片影展（RIDM）共同籌劃，精選近年於該影展放映之作品。選片核心呼應RIDM獨有的創新精神，以魁北克創作社群為起點，將視野延伸至安地斯山脈、澳洲山脊、因紐特棲居地及黎巴嫩街區。

十部作品試圖翻轉傳統框架，使地景、植被與動物皆成為敘事主角。創作者們穿梭於膠卷顯影與聲影實驗之間，手法時而揉合口述歷史與音樂舞蹈，時而跨越國界與物種的界線，看見天地萬物間所承載的歷史、記憶及生命。

協同策展｜蒙特婁國際紀錄片影展（RIDM）

共同合作｜加拿大駐台北貿易辦事處

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【2026TIDF】來自彼端｜共棲的風景－當代加拿大紀錄片選Encounters｜The Living Landscape of Contemporary Canadian Documentaries

The Truss Arch

In a Canadian border city, set against the imposing backdrop of factory chimneys and a truss arch bridge, this autobiographical ode to freedom moves through reflection and experimentation. A dance film rich in poetry and symbolism, it is also a heartfelt tribute to an immigrant mother whose fate lies beyond her control.

Ode to Loneliness

A woman lives alone in a hotel room, filming herself, the city and her dreams over the course of a month. Suspended in time, she drifts through the city’s intricate geometries, where sharp architectural edges subtly reshape her sense of scale, intimacy and desire. As days and nights blur into dream-time, shifting rhythms and fleeting light trace a quiet passage from loneliness to aloneness.

Rawane Nassif: ‘This film started years ago when I first left Lebanon and got attached to mundane objects that filled my ever-changing spaces ever since.

Tuktuit: Caribou

An experimental documentary made with handmade and industrial emulsions, exploring enduring relations between Inuit, caribou, lichens and land. Lichen-based developers animate the images, while caribou hide becomes gelatin for hand-crafted emulsion. Filmed largely on Nunavut land, the film bears witness to caribou lifeways under ecological strain.

The Soldier's Lagoon

The Soldier’s Lagoon, the second film in a trilogy, retraces Simón Bolívar’s 1819 liberation campaign across Colombia’s high-altitude marshlands. Moving through the Andean páramo as a living archive, the film reflects on oral history, contested land, and the lingering presence of the Liberator, suspended between past and present.

Geographies of Solitude

Geographies of Solitude immerses viewers in the rich ecosystem of Sable Island, a remote Atlantic outpost, guided by naturalist Zoe Lucas, who has lived there for over forty years. Shot on 16mm, this playful yet reverent experimental documentary follows wild horses, seals, weather, and tides, while quietly recording a lifetime of care, observation and marine debris collection.

Like a Spiral

Like a Spiral unfolds as a dialogue between Beirut and five female migrant domestic workers living under the Kafala system. After the 2020 Beirut port explosion, many of the women were abandoned by fleeing employers, left without shelter or protection. Rising through grainy images, their voices carry memories shaped by oppression and resilience, reclaiming presence through testimony and movement.

Archipelago of Earthen Bones — To Bunya

Shot on 16mm, this film transforms Australia’s eastern ranges into a breathing geological dreamscape. Through superimpositions and in-camera edits, stone, flora and sky pulse across mythic time, glowing in gold, orange, black and green, with Lawrence English’s field recordings and sonified atmospheres deepening the terrain’s ancient resonance.

The Blueberry Blues

In Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec, summer brings the blueberry harvest, as workers from different walks of life bend side by side before the first frost. Through gentle observation, the film celebrates land, labour, storytelling and music, connecting generations and cultures, and reflecting on resilience and renewal — like blueberries rising from ashes of a forest fire.

Holiday Native Land

In a split-screen diptych, this montage experiment revisits a collection of tourism films from the 1920s to the 1970s that advertised holidays in the Canadian outdoors, exposing the underlying violence towards land and Indigenous people, and the colonial myths inscribed in idyllic representations of nature and leisure.

Traces

Beirut, 1980: Amid crumbling walls, a salvaged reel of 1980s lesbian pornography becomes an excavation. As militarised images of the civil war glitch and disintegrate, queer women’s bodies surface and take shape, revealing desires and memories buried beneath war’s spectacle of toxic masculinity.

Encounters｜The Living Landscape of Contemporary Canadian Documentaries

Co-curated with the Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM), this programme brings together recent works presented at the festival, reflecting RIDM’s spirit of innovation. Beginning with Québec’s filmmaking community, the programme’s perspective extends to the Andes, the mountain ranges of Australia, Inuit homelands and the streets of Lebanon.

Subverting conventional narrative hierarchies, these ten films foreground landscapes, plants and animals as protagonists. Moving between photochemical processes and audiovisual experimentation, the filmmakers weave oral histories with music and dance, traversing borders of nations and species to attend to the histories, memories and forms of life carried across the living world.

Co-curator: Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM)

Partner: Canadian Trade Office in Taipei