Special Presentations
A meticulous collection of precise, devastating witness accounts of Chinese re-education camps, Les âmes mortes is a crucially important historical document.
Les âmes mortes
- Wang Bing
- 2018
- France, Switzerland
- s.t. English and French
- 495 min
Special Presentations
A close look at the days before and after the Catalan independence referendum in 2017: a tribute to a popular movement, raising important questions about the idea of democracy.
Avec un sourire, la révolution
- Alexandre Chartrand
- 2018
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French
- 87 min
Special Presentations
An immersive experience inviting us to re-establish contact with the intensely tactile character of nature, and to think about the origins and evolution of human behaviour.
Becoming Animal
- Peter Mettler, Emma Davie
- 2018
- Switzerland, United Kingdom
- s.t. French
- 79 min
Special Presentations
Performances and testimonials make for an unforgettable film that cuts to America’s dark heart, through a re-enactment of the tragic deportation of striking miners in 1917.
Bisbee '17
- Robert Greene
- 2018
- United States
- s.t. English
- 113 min
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 and French
- 86 min
Special Presentations
Nicolas Philibert takes us inside a nursing school, where we meet the students and see their stressful lives, captured with deep empathy.
De chaque instant
- Nicolas Philibert
- 2018
- France, Japan
- s.t. English
- 105 min
Special Presentations
A deadpan documentary fable about a Romanian bureaucrat obsessed with changing the rules of soccer.
Football infini
- Corneliu Porumboiu
- 2018
- Romania
- s.t. English and French
- 70 min
Special Presentations
In small-town Arkansas, Christian fundamentalism and flamboyant gay culture get along as best they can, building fragile bonds and defying stereotypes.
The Gospel of Eureka
- Donal Mosher, Michael Palmieri
- 2018
- United States
- 73 min
Special Presentations
Claire Simon lets us share in the turmoil of an uncertain age by filming the private conversations of a group of teenagers from a Paris suburb.
Special Presentations
Weaving together intimate testimonies and mesmerizing animation, acclaimed filmmaker Stefano Savona retraces the destruction of the Samouni family’s life in Zeitoun, Gaza.
Samouni Road
- Stefano Savona
- 2018
- France, Italy
- s.t. English and French
- 126 min
Special Presentations
Sergei Loznitsa’s precise gaze captures the fascinating annual commemoration of the Soviet triumph over the Nazis, marked in Berlin for 72 years and counting.
Special Presentations
During the Austrian presidential election campaign of 1986, Kurt Waldheim’s reputation is seriously attacked – and suffers no damage. The episode foreshadowed our reactionary future.
The Waldheim Waltz
- Ruth Beckermann
- 2018
- Austria
- s.t. English and French
- 94 min