Special Presentations
The filmmaker turns the camera on recent-immigrant teens in Montreal, whose cultural and emotional baggage, and stories of exile, enrich the host society in profound ways.
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
Special Presentations
DPJ is a direct-cinema examination of Quebec’s child protective services (DPJ) and the thorny dilemmas faced by its social workers every day.
DPJ
- Guillaume Sylvestre
- 2017
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 116 min
Special Presentations
A wrenching poetic essay on the eternal melancholy of Armenian fighters trapped in an endless war.
Les éternels
- Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd
- 2017
- Belgium, France
- s.t. English and French
- 75 min
Special Presentations
For his 42nd feature, Frederick Wiseman takes us inside the New York Public Library; in the process he examines the issues now facing the United States.
EX LIBRIS – The New York Public Library
- Frederick Wiseman
- 2017
- United States
- s.t. French
- 197 min
Special Presentations
A haunted work: a sensory exploration of a politically charged region, the Sonora Desert, a deadly natural barrier shared by Mexico and the United States.
El mar la mar
- Joshua Bonnetta, J.P. Sniadecki
- 2017
- United States
- s.t. English and French
- 94 min
Special Presentations
Acclaimed filmmaker Wang Bing unflinchingly documents the slow death of an old woman. A work with powerful metaphysical and political undertones.
Special Presentations
For five years, a nurse filmed his daily live in a small city in central Iraq. With uncommon intensity, the film provides a unique and heartbreaking perspective on Iraq today.
Nowhere to Hide
- Zaradasht Ahmed
- 2016
- Norway, Sweden, Iraq
- s.t. English
- 90 min
Special Presentations
Alanis Obomsawin takes us inside a Cree school with an innovative system. With her usual rigour and sensitivity, she celebrates actions being taken to build a better future.
Our People Will Be Healed
- Alanis Obomsawin
- 2017
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English and French
- 97 min
Special Presentations
Baltimore is infested with rats. But just who are the rats? That’s the starting point for a darkly comic essay that shines a light on social inequalities.
Special Presentations
The Reagan presidency retold through archival footage documenting the rise of a new form of politics-as-spectacle.
The Reagan Show
- Pacho Velez, Sierra Pettengill
- 2017
- United States
- 74 min
