Competition 2025 - Festival cinéma du monde de Sherbrooke

Each year, the Festival cinéma du monde de Sherbrooke bestows three Cercle d’or awards and the Prix Coup de cœur du public presented by Radio-Canada.

2025 winners

The Cercle d’or Best Feature Film – Fiction was awarded to Aïcha directed by Mehdi M. Barsaoui.
The Jury also made a special mention of the film The Dog Thief directed by Vinko Tomicic Salinas.

The Cercle d’or Best Feature Film – Documentary, was awarded to Au boulot! directed by Gilles Perret et François Ruffin.

Marqueur de temps directed by Marie-Lou Béland was chosen as the winner of the Prix Pierre-Javaux – Meilleur court métrage de l’Estrie.
The Audience Choice Award went to the film Marqueur de temps, by Marie-Lou Béland.

This year, all the feature films presented during the Festival were elegible for Radio-Canada’s Prix Coup de cœur du public. Festivalgoers voted for Chiennes de faïence directed by Marie-Hélène Panisset as their favourite film.

FILMS IN COMPETITION

PRICES

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

Each year, the Festival’s programming committee submits 5 dramatic features and 5 documentary features for competition. A panel rewards one film chosen in each category.

Prizes awarded:
– Cercle d’or Meilleur long métrage de fiction (Best Dramatic Feature award)
– Cercle d’or Meilleur long métrage documentaire (Best Documentary Feature award)

REGIONAL COMPETITION

Following a call for short films from the region, a panel selects short films from Estrie to be presented during the Festival. Among this selection, the panel awards the Prix Pierre-Javaux – Meilleur court métrage de l’Estrie, and a grant.

Prizes awarded:
– Prix Pierre-Javaux – Meilleur court métrage de l’Estrie (Best short film of Estrie region)

PRIX COUP DE COEUR DU PUBLIC

The Prix Coup de cœur du public presented by Radio-Canada is voted on by festival goers. This award goes to the public’s favourite dramatic feature film.

AWARD:
– Prix Coup de cœur du public, presented by Radio-Canada

Competition - Fiction

Competition - Documentary

Competition - Estrie

JURYS

Discover the members of the panels of the 12th edition

International AND REGIONAL competitions JURY

Rémy Girard | President

Rémy Girard celebrated 50 years of his career in 2020. Showcasing his talent across an eclectic range of genres, from popular comedies to intimate dramas, poetic fables, and crime thrillers, Rémy Girard has portrayed countless characters that are both delightful and endearing. These performances have left a profound mark on Quebec’s collective imagination. Rémy Girard has collaborated with multiple generations of filmmakers and directors of all styles and backgrounds. Whether in front of their cameras or on stage, to the delight of audiences, he has demonstrated his unique sense of humor, his charming warmth, his raw sensitivity, and his remarkable precision in tone.

Sondès Allal

Sondès Allal is coordinator of the Community Intervention Program at the École de gestion de l’Université de Sherbrooke. A very active citizen in the community, she initiated, among other things, the FCMS interdisciplinary screening-debate space at the Université de Sherbrooke, which she organized and hosted for 5 years. For her, cinema is a major tool for awareness-raising and education, and a precious vehicle for dialogue that allows a plurality of perspectives.

Réjean Hébert

Dr. Réjean Hébert is a geriatrician and professor emeritus at the Université de Sherbrooke. He was dean of the Université de Sherbrooke’s Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences from 2004 to 2010 and of the Université de Montréal’s School of Public Health (ESPUM) from 2017 to 2019. He founded the Research Centre on Aging at the Sherbrooke Geriatric University Institute. From 2012 to 2014, he was MNA for Saint-François and Minister of Health and Social Services, as well as Minister responsible for Seniors and the Estrie region.

Marie-Hélène Panisset

Trained in ballet, art history and communication, Marie-Hélène began her career by directing short dance films. In 2010, she co-directed a first dramatic feature entitled Lucidité passagère and then devoted herself to documentary, touching subjects of immigration and sexual diversity. Nominated at the Academy Awards in 2019 for having produced the short film Marguerite, the pandemic allowed her to perfect her art of filming the performing arts through a series of 9 half-hours of dance and music. Chiennes de faïence, her dramatic feature as solo director will be opening at this year’s Festival Cinéma du monde in Sherbrooke.

Sarah Rocheville

Sarah Rocheville is a writer and a tenured professor of literature at the University of Sherbrooke. She has published Tu vis à Paris, je pense (Varia, 2023), Go West, Gloria (Leméac, 2014, Alfred-desRochers Prize), as well as the essay Vingt-et-une études de voix – Sur Louis-René des Forêts (VLB, 2009). She leads the interdisciplinary research group Qu’est-ce qu’une vie humaine – désormais? Enjeux éthiques des écritures contemporaines. She regularly publishes short stories and articles in Quebec and French journals dedicated to the connections between literature, cinema and philosophy.

Angela Sukic | Jury Member - Public

Communications and marketing advisor at Promutuel Assurance Centre-Sud, Angela Sukic cultivates a deep appreciation for art and admires the aestheticism of cinema in the service of storytelling. Her studies in art, politics and communications enrich her analytical and sensitive outlook.

Winners of previous editions

2025 | Aïcha, by Mehdi M. Barsaoui.
2024 | Àma Gloria, by Marie Amachoukeli
2023 | Le Bleu du caftan, by Maryam Touzani
2022 | Freda, by Gessica Geneus
2021 | La nuit des rois, by Philippe Lacôte
2019 | Les Chatouilles, by Andréa Bescond and Éric Métayer
2018 | Une famille syrienne, by Philippe Van Leeuw
2017 | Home Care, by Slávek Horák
2016 | Trois fenêtres et une pendaison, by Isa Qosja
2015 | Ex aequo : Cañada Morrison (Sciences Naturelles), by Matías Lucchesi et Jimmy P., by Arnaud Desplechin

2025 | Au boulot !, by Gilles Perret et François Ruffin
2024 | La Mère de tous les mensonges, by Asmae El Moudir
2023 | Au-delà du papier, by Oana Suteu Khintirian
2022 | Chère Audrey, by Jeremiah Hayes
2021 | Prière pour une mitaine perdue, by Jean-François Lesage
2019 | Amal, by Mohamed Siam
2018 | Des rêves sans étoiles, by Mehrdad Oskouei
2017 | A Flickering Truth, by Pietra Brettkelly
2016 | Les 18 fugitives, by Amer Shomali and Paul Cowan
2015 | Le Sel de la Terre, by Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado

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