The Canadian feature documentaries The Blueberry Blues and Ki-Bé –Giš will make their world premieres at Maine’s Camden International Film Festival (CIFF), which revealed its full 2025 lineup on Monday (Aug. 18).

Directed by Argentine-born filmmaker Andrés Livov, The Blueberry Blues (Les blues de bleuet) chronicles the annual blueberry harvest in northern Quebec. Long a cherished tradition in the region, the picking season is slowly fading away in the face of modern farming practices, shifting demographics, and the ever-present threat of wildfires, which has been exacerbated by climate change.

The doc is produced through Montreal-based shingle Les Glaneuses, with Livov also serving as producer along with filmmaker Iphigénie Marcoux-Fortier, one of his partners in the prodco. Indie film co-op Spira is handling Canadian distribution.

CIFF’s other Canadian world premiere, Ki-Bé –Giš (pictured), is a multimedia essay film from Iraqi Canadian filmmaker Sama Waham that frames the 2019 campaign of protests and civil disobedience in Iraq through reminiscences of a forgotten fable.

The film marks the feature directorial debut of veteran director, producer, cinematographer and editor Waham, who previously helmed a number of short documentaries. Her 2015 experimental doc Sing for Me won a number of prizes at international film festivals.

Also screening at this year’s CIFF is Amalie Atkins’ Agatha’s Almanac, which won the Best Canadian Feature Documentary prize at this year’s Hot Docs following its world premiere at CPH:DOX in March. Another CPH:DOX world premiere, the U.S.-Canada copro Perishable Idol by Majid Al-Remaihi, will screen in CIFF’s shorts section.

The Camden International Film Festival runs from Sept. 11 to 14.

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