IFFR 2001

Kazim Öz

A short film banned in Turkey about an old man who is the only one who refuses to leave a Kurdish village that is cleared by Turkish soldiers.

hubert bals fund

Fanta Régina Nacro

Close Up on Bintou

Oleg Kovalov

Mixture of documentary and fiction about the dictatorial 1930s. With archive footage of 'kino newsreels', a script that is loosely based on the utopian fantasies of Fritz Lang and about the forbidden passionate love affair between a photographer and his model.

The Dark Night

Maria Del Carmen De Lara

Maria del Carmen De Lara

On the same day that Elena receives a video with evidence of her husband Enrique's infidelity, he is kidnapped by two colleagues of his lover. Hilarious comedy about infidelity, corruption and sweet revenge.

En el pais de no pasa nada

Daniel Burman

The paths of two Argentinians cross, two diagonally opposed characters from a different mini-universe of the metropolis Buenos Aires. One wants another life, the other wants his old life back.

Esperando al Mesias

Ana Poliak

Love between two people who are trying to survive in a large Argentinian city: scissor-sharpener Danilo and the girl Annie, assistant in a hairdresser's. Warm, simple film about passion in a world filled with pain.

The Faith of the Volcano

Jean Khalil Chamoun

Rami (12) moves with his family from the countryside to Beirut, to flee the civil war. But in the city too, she is confronted with violence.

In the Shadows of the City

Raja Amari

Ngozi Onwurah

Zulfah Otto-Sallies

Bridget Pickering

Ingrid Sinclair

Five short films by women from five different African countries. However different they may be, they all put an end to all prejudices that exist about African women.

Mama Africa

Albertina Carri

The prostitute Susana tries to help her unemployed boyfriend Rubén by putting him in contact with one of her clients, the businessman Ricardo. His first commission: to rub out a business contact.

No quiero volver a casa

Don Askarian

An old Armenian's memories of his country of birth, mixed with a modern crime story about Armenian terrorists set in Rotterdam. Poetic reflections in the face of harsh reality.

On the Old Roman Road

One Evening in July

Özkan Küçük

Penetrating Turkish-Kurdish drama about two boys who make friends during a twenty-hour bus journey. One is going to do his military service in the Turkish army, the other joins the Kurdish rebels.

The Photograph

Garin Nugroho

The poet Ibrahim Kadir plays himself in a political drama about his arrest and incarceration in Aceh in the 1960s. Kadir survived the mass murder of suspected communists by the Indonesian government that cost between 500,000 and two million lives.

A Poet

Riches

Dang Nhat Minh

Hoa, mentally handicapped after a fall from a guava tree, has one wish: to return to his parental home. A student who lives in the house gives him that chance, to the anger of her father.

The Season of Guaves

Ariel Rotter

Like a series of Polaroids, five young Argentinians are portrayed, who do not get round to realising their dreams and desires. They are too busy with other things like work, sex and talking rubbish.

Solo por hoy

Cristina Fasulino

Dark tango film about the young Susan, who prostitutes herself to get her alcoholic father out of jail. That aim fades as her work turns out to give her an easy and luxurious life.

The South of a Passion

Gabriela David

Man in stolen taxi picks up a wounded girl, but does not dare take her to hospital, afraid as he is of the police. Film in the form of a confession.

Taxi - un encuentro

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

Uno's World

Flávio Frederico

In a mixture of fiction, documentary and archive footage, the voyage of discovery of a blind old man into his past is interwoven with a portrait of today's Sao Paulo.

Urbania

Buddhadeb Dasgupta

The friends Balaram and Nimai work at the level crossing in a village in the countryside of Bengal. Their greatest passion is wrestling with each other. Until Balarem marries the sweet Uttara.

Uttara

Jia Zhangke

The political and social upheavals in the 1980s, as a consequence of Deng Xiao-ping's 'open-door policy', have their effect on the members of a theatre group in a small village in the Chinese countryside.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025