IFFR 2000

Mariana Rondón

A town in Latin America is threatened by a tidal wave. A few people stay behind, including the photographer Ana and the cynical Sebastian. With the transformation of the characters, the photography of the film also changes.

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A la medianoche y media

Tata Amaral

A terrifying tragedy about a woman who is unable to free herself from her 22-year-old son Raimundo. Throughout the six days covered by the film, events disrupt the intimate routine of their living together. The film shows that people are capable of gruesome crimes in their blind selfishness.

Atraves de janela

Olivier Debroise

A contemporary reconstruction of events surrounding the incomplete episode film Que viva Mexico! (1931) by Sergei Eisenstein. Sixty-seven years later Debroise brought a group of today's artists together on the hacienda where Eisenstein's crew combatted boredom way back then.

Un banquete en Tetlapayac

Marianne Eyde

A surreal portrait of a fisherwoman in Peru. Maria was washed ashore on the coast and always retained a special bond with the sea. With her stormy emotions and her traditional views on fishing, she challenges the conventions of the villagers.

La carnada

Tang Danian

Dasheng is a window cleaner in the city, where he has substitute parents and a girlfriend. His real parents and his wife still live in his home village. The problems that cause are typical of the experiences of countless rural Chinese who seek their fortune in the city.

City Paradise

Ricardo Larraín

Epic story about the consequences of Pinochet's 'capitalist' dictatorship in Chile. Ten years after their first encounter, Isabel, Fernando and Guillermo are confronted with their old loves, decaying ideals and dreams for the future in a country in the throes of modernisation.

El entusiasmo

Michael New

A folk-tale about the Venezuelan hero Florentino who defeated the devil with his voice, legend has it. His sensual songs still symbolise the independence of the wayward nomad people that inhabits the bare plains of Venezuela.

Florentino y El Diablo

Cheick Oumar Sissoko

Film version of a story from Genesis moved to the stunning landscape of Mali. The African master Cheick Oumar Sissoko made a profound, stylish and topical epic about land, modernity and ethnic origins.

La Genèse

Parviz Kimiavi

Masterful film about a young Iranian writer from Kerman who has written a hefty tome about classic Persian poetry. He has to ask for permission to publish it in Teheran. Halfway there his car breaks down in the desert. Felled by hunger, thirst and exhaustion, poets from the past appear to him, all with their own wise advice.

Iran Is My Land

Pankaj Butalia

A Pakistani woman in middle age who grew up in India in the fifties and sixties returns to the spot she knew in her youth. On her return to her former parental home in New Delhi, she is caught up in reminiscences with which she reconstructs her life.

Karvaan

Valdas Navasaitis

Navasaitis reveals himself to be a talented Impressionist with a great sense of mood in his observations of several inhabitants of an apartment block in a minimal and quiet film style embued with melancholy.

Kiemas

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Various Thais are invited to tell an episodic story. We soon see aliens, flying balls and kidnappings. Funny, intelligent debut by  Weerasethakul.

In this semi-documentary, various Thais are invited to tell an episodic story. We soon see aliens, flying balls and kidnappings. What starts off as a personal drama is transformed into fantasy, horror and romance. Funny, intelligent debut by later Golden Palm winner Weerasethakul.

Mysterious Object at Noon

Marselli Sumarno

Sri is a young Javan dancer, married to a seventy-year-old nobleman who is dying. She puts all her dancing talent into moving the god of death and seducing him to delay her husband's fate. Serene, stylised film with major Javan dancer.

Slamet Rahardjo Djarot

A young Balinese bachelor lives with his daughter in Jakarta. When he receives a telegram from Bali saying his mother has died, he finds himself in an identity crisis. He can no longer distinguish truth from lies.

Telegram

Ding Jiancheng

During the cultural revolution a boy finds out that an old man makes paper figures intended as sacrifices to be burnt for the dead, a ritual that is forbidden. A bond is built up between them. Sad film in colourful, baroque style full of poetry.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025