IFFR 2001

Seth Price

An extremely intriguing, funny, fragmented, layered and intelligent film with a very suggestive, intelligent soundtrack.

in praise of folly

American Grafitty

Trent Harris

A documentary and its two idiosyncratic fictional remakes about a fanatical fan of Olivia Newton John and a talent contest in Beaver where he does his act.

Beaver Trilogy

Lourdes Iglesias

Promising début about two girlfriends who are crazy, act crazy or are just themselves.

CAROL, no te dispares

Miguel Arteta

Morbid comedy about the ambiguity of memories. Buck is obsessed by his schoolfriend Chuck, with whom he had his first sexual experience.

Chuck & Buck

Joe Gibbons

Trailer of a larger project about a man - the maker? - who evaluates his life.

Confessions of a Sociopath (trailer)

Tom Danon

Surrealist film filled with snappy dialogues about a policeman investigating a UFO sighting in a small American town.

Cuppa Cabby, Piece o' Pie

A dog is prepared for his approaching demise by his boss.

Final Exit

Dimos Avdeliodis

Mixture of rural comedy and political allegory, in which the Greek character is also looked at, made up of four parts that depict the seasons.

The Four Seasons of the Law

Martin Scorsese

Brilliant satire about the American, media-infested culture in which, according to Scorsese, psychiatric cases can become famous and the famous are psychiatric cases. With Jerry Lewis and Robert de Niro.

King of Comedy

Jakob Hilpert

Father and son turn to go-karting, and spend the summer going from one race to another, without much success. Aesthetic film with ordinary folksy characters against the anonymous backdrop of German dormitory suburbs.

Kleine Kreise

Frans van de Staak

A man performs infectious playlets for his surroundings. A court-jester without a king.

Lastpak

Romuald Karmakar

At the international airport in Manila, a group of German tourists wait for their flight, that is repeatedly delayed for no apparent reason. Influenced by the boredom and the free drink, their true stories come to the surface.

Manila

Ahmed Atef

Fantastic and bizarre drama about Omar, who decides to take radical action a week before his thirtieth birthday: he wants to settle up with everyone who has so far got in his way.

Omar 2000

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard wrote, directed and acted one of the leading roles in this fresh, playful, musical, and experimental feature.

Soigne ta droite

Pierre-Paul Renders

Thomas suffers from agoraphobia and his only contact with the outside world is via his computer. He even has a virtual girlfriend, but his insurance  man and his psychiatrist want to bring him into contact with real women.

Thomas est amoureux

David Kartch

Mini-comedy filled with plot twists about a young gardener and a horny housewife.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025