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58th Edition May 13-23, 2026

Patrick Bouchard directed his first stop-motion puppet film, Jean Leviériste (1998), as part of his degree and his first professional film, The Brainwashers, in 2002. Then followed Dehors novembre (2005), Subservience (2007) and Bydlo (2012), which was selected at both TIFF and Annecy.