Director Randy Moore delivers an assured debut with ‘Escape From Tomorrow’, a scandalous neo-noir delight that is destined to become essential cinematic fare.

As far as low-budget but high-concept B movies are concerned, Cody Calahan‘s directorial debut (co-written with Chad Archibald), Antisocial, is a cache of gauche and gruesome delights.

So glacially-paced as to make Warhol films look like The Fast and the Furious, Tsai Ming-liang‘s Stray Dogs is an operation of conscious, cold-blooded constraint. That said, for the patient viewer, wonderment awaits.

That Burning Feeling, a VIFF film that pleased many, is frequently predictable, undercut by sure-fire familiarity and so overdone that it becomes little more than a charred banquet with only a few good bites.

Writer/director Nathan Silver delivers ‘Exit Elena’, a film of inspired naturalism in a ball of fire comedy that is a small-scale triumph of cinematic form.

The cool directorial debut of Raymond Zürcher’s The Strange Little Cat is a Kafkaesque comedy of wry observance and cruel domesticity.