Films that question, twist or simply deride accepted narrative and stylistic conventions. Innovative and assuredly beautiful, these feature films approach their subject (whether it be happy communists or the three wise men) through new forms. Also don’t miss the special screenings of the experimental films of Ben Rivers and Ben Russell and of British film artist Guy Sherwin.

Packages

	GUY SHERWIN: CINEMA OF PERCEPTION, CINE… (UK, 80 min) Like a blast of cinematic conceptual art, film artist Guy Sherwin’s hand-crafted films explore the elements of film’s grain, tone, flicker, sound, light and space. Beautiful, enigmatic an… More >
	WE CAN NOT EXIST IN THIS WORLD ALONE (UK, US, 81 min) Ten visionary cinematic dispatches from two of contemporary experimental film's most uncompromising artists.Ranging from mind-blowing psychedelia to trance film documentary to Scottish hermit ethnogr… More >

Feature Films

	BIRDSONG (Spain, 98 min) "Theatre of the absurd." - filmmaker Albert Serra… With his debut feature Honor de Cavalleria (MIFF 07) - an experimental reworking of the Don Quixote story - Albert Serra proved himself a film… More >
	EAT, FOR THIS IS MY BODY (France, Haiti, 105 min) “A quietly confident visual poem to Haiti and its turbulent history.” – VarietyThe debut feature for Haitian-born director Michelange Quay is a non-narrative visual splendour focuse… More >
	MEMORIES (South Korea, Germany, Portugal, France, 102 min) Originally created for the Jeonju International Film Festival’s Digital Project, Memories is a short film triptych from three very different European directors. German Harun Farocki’s Res… More >
	MY WINNIPEG (M) (Canada, 80 min) “Snowy, sleepwalking Winnipeg… I must leave it… I must leave it now. But how to escape one’s city?” – Guy MaddinA fantasy documentary blurring the lines between … More >
	PROFIT MOTIVE AND THE WHISPERING WIND (USA, 58 min) The other history of modern America.In this ambitious essay-documentary, cemeteries, plaques and monuments give voice to the now silent leftist heroes who championed progressive movements in the Unit… More >
	REVUE (Germany, Russia, Ukraine, 82 min) Newsreels from the 50s and 60s bring Soviet propaganda to life.… Following on from his 2005 film Blockade, director Sergei Loznitsa unearths another collection of newsreels from the Soviet Unio… More >
	SILENCE BEFORE BACH, THE (Spain, 102 min) “There must have been a world… before the partita in A minor, but what was that world like? A Europe of empty spaces with no resonance.”… In an abstract and almost surreal se… More >