UK
Director: Craig McCall

In a career spanning 70 years, Jack Cardiff was widely considered to be the best cinematographer in the world

86 min.

Argentina
Director: Pablo Trapero

Sosa, widely known as a carancho (vulture), makes his living as an ambulance-chasing lawyer for an unscrupulous outfit in Buenos Aires, taking advantage of the city’s sky-high rate of road accidents. His budding romance with an ER doctor prompts him to try to help the people he once preyed on, but, in the grand tradition of film noir, Sosa soon finds just how hard it is to make a clean break from his unsavory past.

Spanish with subtitles, 107 min.

Cameroon/France
Director: Lionel Meta

A taxi driver flirts with his passenger only to have the tables dramatically turned in The Cassava Metaphor.

15 min.

Austria
Director: Christoph Rainer

Two brothers attempt to hide from their tyrannous father in the shadows of a dark basement in Catafalque.

12 min.

Japan
Director: Kôji Wakamatsu

Horribly maimed while fighting on the Japanese front in China during WWII, a Japanese lieutenant returns home a war hero. But his loss of limbs has not made him any less of a brute, especially to his wife. Required to satisfy his every need, she feels her anger quietly boiling over. Based on a short story that was banned for its extreme subject matter, Caterpillar is a howl of rage against blindness to the atrocities of war.

Japanese, Chinese with subtitles, 84 min.