For the eleventh consecutive year, the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma de Montréal continues its exploration of new technological trends with the FNC eXPlore strand.
All the immersive works can be seen on HTC Vive's Viveport platform.

Virtual reality works are therefore in the spotlight for this online edition: 19 films in total, including 8 of French nationality, grouped under the FNC eXPlore banner. All titles will be eligible for two awards. The first Prix Horizon will be awarded to the most innovative work in 6doF format. The Prix Panorama VR will be awarded to the best 360-degree work. Two French titles, Meet Mortaza and Recoding Entropia, are competing for this prize. Both prizes each have a value of $1000.

Meanwhile, four French works have been programmed in the Les Nouveaux Alchimistes strand, which presents more experimental works hovering between classical short films and immersive works.

All the French short films selected for the 49th FNC de Montréal

International Competition

• L'Effort commercial by Sarah Arnold
• Aquí y allá by Melisa Liebenthal
• This Means More by Nicolas Gourault
• The Return of Tragedy by Bertrand Mandico
• Maalbeek by Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis

Les Nouveaux alchimistes

• The Selkie by Monade Li
• Aquí y allá by Melisa Liebenthal
• Les roses de Damas by Yasmina Touzani and Gabriel Gonzalez Guirola
• Recoding Entropia by François Vautier

FNC eXPlore: short films

• Missing Pictures : Birds of Prey by Clément Deneux
• The Passengers  by Ziad Touma
• Dreamin'Zone by Fabienne Giezendanner
• Meet Mortaza VR by Joséphine Derobe
• Minimum Mass by Raqi Syed and Areito Echevarria
• Mirror: The Signal by Pierre Zandrowicz
• Recoding Entropia by François Vautier
• The Hangman at Home - VR (Single User) by Michelle Kranot and Uri Kranot

Short films

• Northern Lights by Caroline Attia
• Boriya by Sung Ah Min
• Dorothy the Rambler by Emmanuelle Gorgiard
• The Last Day of Autumn by Marjolaine Perreten
• The Horn Quartet: Up to the Mountain by Arnaud Demuynck
• The Kindergarten Show by Loïc Bruyère
• The Tiger and His Master bye Fabrice Luang-Vija
• No-No Shrinks! by Wassim Boutaleb
• Umbrellas by José Prats, Álvaro Robles
• Under the Ice by Ismaïl Berrahma, Milan Baulard, Flore Dupont, Laurie Estampes, Quentin Nory, and Hugo Potin
• A Lynx in the Town by Nina Bisiarina
• To the Dusty Sea by Héloïse Ferlay
• À la mode by Jean Lecointre