Kazuhiro Soda: Making Images Speak
Following the chaotic election campaign of a candidate of the Liberal Democratic Party, the director reveals a great observational cinema, methodical, and incisive.
Kazuhiro Soda: Making Images Speak
The filmmaker reconnects with candidate Yamauchi in 2011, as Japan copes with the trauma of the Fukushima disaster to analyze contemporary Japan with its troubling democratic deficits.
International Feature Competition
Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport is now a shelter for migrants awaiting visas. Following Ibrahim, a young Syrian, the filmmaker takes us inside the everyday life of an unusual microcosm.
Central Airport THF
- Karim Aïnouz
- 2017
- Germany, France, Brazil
- s.t. English or French
- 97 min
Short and Medium-Length Competitions
A hilarious, brilliantly critical futuristic fiction presented as a documentary-to-come about Marne-la-Vallée, home to Disneyland Paris.
International Feature Competition
Three women in three cities, in Syria, Sweden and Austria. The filmmaker reveals the profound depression afflicting people broken by war and exile, whether geographical or internalized.
Chaos
- Sara Fattahi
- 2018
- Austria, Syria, Lebanon, Qatar
- s.t. English
- 95 min
International Feature Competition
The daily life of the owner of an all-night restaurant in Taipei becomes a captivating poetic meditation on life after dark.
Special Presentations
An inspiring, humanist ensemble film about the realities of life in Quebec’s Basse-Côte-Nord region.
Les Coasters
- Nicolas-Alexandre Tremblay, Stéphane Trottier
- 2018
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English or French
- 86 min
DOC35: A Look Back, a Future Vision
La bête humaine
Director Cynthia Choucair wanders Lesbos with three Clowns Without Borders, searching for the refugees locked away by local authorities.
Counting Tiles
- Cynthia Choucair
- 2018
- Lebanon
- s.t. English
- 85 min
