Cinéma Public is proud to partner with the Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal (RIDM) to present some of the award-winning films from the festival's 28th edition. This program features the winners of the short and medium-length film competitions.
MARRATEIN, MARRATEIN
Julia Yezbick | 2025 | United States, Lebanon | 25 min | English
Best International Short or Medium-Length
Marratein, Marratein lingers between Beirut and Detroit, weaving memory and reflection into a meditation on belonging, heritage, and the echoes of diaspora.
LLOYD WONG, UNFINISHED
Lesley Loksi Chan, Lloyd Wong | 2025 | Canada | 29 min | English
Best National Short or Medium-Length
Based on the incomplete work of Lloyd Wong, who died of AIDS over 30 years ago, Lesley Loksi Chan turns the unfinished into a space of memory and transmission.
MOMENTUM
Nada El-Omari | 2025 | Canada | 19 min | no dialogue
Special Jury Prize, National Short or Medium-Length Film
Engaging with images of the Second Intifada shot by her father, filmmaker Nada El-Omari questions the meaning of images, the fragility of memory, and the erosion of the value of truth.


