Special Presentations
Five years after the shocking Leviathan, Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor return with a disturbing portrait of Issei Sagawa, the infamous Japanese cannibal.
Caniba
- Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Véréna Paravel
- 2017
- France
- s.t. English
- 95 min
Sense of Place
On a desolate, inhospitable island, people and animals improvise a way of life by recycling artifacts of modern technology, become strangely decrepit in a post-apocalyptic world.
Carcasse
- Gústav Geir Bollason, Clémentine Roy
- 2017
- Iceland, France
- 61 min
Michka Saäl (1951-2017) tribute evening
A fascinating, complex, historical, philosophical and sociological portrait of China, as seen through chance impressionistic encounters with its people, including one of its poets.
China Me
- Michka Saäl
- 2013
- France
- s.t. French
- 89 min
Canadian Feature Competition
In Chile’s Atacama Desert, the starry sky inspires both astronomers and local legends. The filmmaker takes us on a poetic and spiritual journey.
Cielo
- Alison McAlpine
- 2017
- Canada (Quebec), Chile
- s.t. English and French
- 79 min
Sense of Place
A semi-abandoned mining town in the Republic of Georgia is transformed, thanks to superb direction, into a theatre of the absurd and an inspiring example of human perseverance against all odds.
City of the Sun
- Rati Oneli
- 2017
- Georgia, United States, Qatar, Netherlands
- s.t. English
- 100 min
James N. Kienitz Wilkins : Vessels / Containers
A mix of artists struggle to perform their roles, at once connected and alienated by the plague of modern life.
Common Carrier
- James N. Kienitz Wilkins
- 2017
- United States
- s.t. English
- 78 min
