Mountains May Depart

Fantastic, unusually realistic, stop-motion animation by the maker of Synecdoche, New York. Everyone looks the same. At a soulless business hotel, a run-down author of customer service books sees a single exception. A psychologically nuanced, tender meeting - including the best sex scene at IFFR 2016.

Two women lost in the vastness of global culture. One is a corporate worker sent to research the amusement park industry. The other is an outsider working and living in a shopping mall. A hypnotic and disturbing investigation of the contemporary world as an artificial desert where everything is the same. Not only malls, hotels and theme parks but also humans.

A disengaged Japanese couple living in a design house. A Lithuanian wrestler who works in Japan and feels like an outsider there. An Iranian architect who wanders through the streets of Tokyo. Greater Things beautifully explores a special feeling when you fall out of yourself and start to be someone else and live somewhere in between.