Acclaimed Mexican-Canadian auteur Nicolás Pereda (Greatest Hits) returns to the Festival with this lovely, wraithlike fantasy Minotaur, that observes three thirty-somethings as they sleep, dream, read and receive visitors in a Mexico City apartment. [53 minutes]
In Lois Patiño's Night without distance, an hallucinatory portrait of border smuggling in the Gerês Mountains between Portugal and Galicia, the filmmaker casts real townsfolk, some of whom were smugglers in their youth, to extract spellbinding fantasy from the real. [23 minutes]