Alva
After his children are taken away by social services, a troubled loner seeks revenge and flees into the inhospitable forest.
98'
Portugal
IFFR 2019
The first thing you notice is the framing, with rounded corners and frayed edges. Evoking different eras, not quite as high-definition as today. More homely. This suits the trip back in time director Aya Koretzky takes with her father, Jiro. In 1970, aged 30, he left Yokohama for a year-long, round-the-world trip taking in the Soviet Union, Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and the United States. Koretzky reconstructs the journey using old photographs, journal entries and memories.
Gradually it becomes clear how the trip shaped her father, much more than you might expect when you see him calmly gardening today. Barcelona’s architecture, poverty in Morocco, Tunisia’s chaos, the United States’ freedom: and much more that he saw, that impressed him and drastically shook up his take on the world.
Winner Bright Future Award, IFFR 2019.
IFFR 2019
Programme IFFR 2019
Emerging talent with original subject matter and an individual style. Includes the films nominated for the Bright Future Competition for first feature films.
Read more about this programmeAfter his children are taken away by social services, a troubled loner seeks revenge and flees into the inhospitable forest.
98'
Portugal
IFFR 2019
Fourteen absurd encounters of a melancholy girl with the surrounding world in this post-modern comedy filled with pastel and neon lights.
80'
Germany
IFFR 2019
Life’s key elements come together in this visual film symphony and ode to today's colourful Jamaica.
77'
Jamaica
IFFR 2019