Verena Paravel

Foreign Parts portrays a hidden enclave of auto shops and junkyards fated for demolition in the shadow of a new baseball stadium in Queens. The film observes this vibrant community of immigrants - where wrecks, refuse, and recycling form a thriving commerce - as it struggles for daily survival and contests New York City's development scheme.

in the very waters where melville's pequod gave chase to moby dick, leviathan captures the collaborative clash of man, nature, and machine. shot on a dozen cameras -- tossed and tethered, passed from fisherman to filmmaker -- it is a cosmic portrait of one of mankind's oldest endeavors. (mubi.com)

Caniba is a film that reflects on the discomforting significance of cannibalistic desire in human existence through the prism of one Japanese man, Issei Sagawa, and his mysterious relationship with his brother, Jun Sagawa. (imdb)

Songwriter Dion McGregor became famous in the 1960s for narrating his dreams in his sleep. His flatmate recorded him doing so. In their new film "somniloquies", Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel overcome the boundaries between inner dreamscapes and human bodies. In this case, sleeping in the cinema means pushing forward to its very limits.

A companion film to LEVIATHAN (2012), set inside the Athena, the fishing vessel featured in that film.

Focuses on five hospitals in northern Paris neighborhoods. It reveals that human flesh is an extraordinary landscape that exists only through the gaze and attention of others. (imdb)