IFFR 2003

Diederik van Rooijen

Thriller-like drama about a young mother and a babyphone.

dutch perspective

BabyPhoned

Ron Termaat

A burglar has tummy trouble in the middle of a night-time job.

Bad Luck

Frank Jan Kat

A black comedy that is set where the animal in man and the human in the animal meet.

Marco Knijnenburg

Dry comic portrait of Henk and Brigitte, who run their dentists' surgery and their marriage with the same routine.

Cavity

Sytske Kok

About a 72-year-old lady who is a regular customer at a Chinese restaurant.

The Chinese Wall

P&S Film

Report of a tour by a Chechen youth dance company that rehearses at home in the devastation and then performs in the most beautiful theatres of Europe.

The Damned and the Sacred

Margien Rogaar

Melancholy coming-of-age drama set in the 1980s.

Girl Boy Icecream

Mischa Kamp

What happens when a little girl finds a corrugated condom in the toilet.

The Lankworm

Paula van der Oest

Thirteen year-old Claire (Laurien van den Broek) has just got her first period when she discovers a boy her age in the shed behind her parents' house. This Afghan drug smuggler is bleeding heavily, and is on the run. The film is an indictment of the way the capitalist system deals with people who have no value.

Moonlight

Janneke van Heesch

Nora and Anthony form a strange couple who suffer unreasonable fears.

Mustang

Chris W. Mitchell

Suspense filled portrait of a child who is no longer the only recipient of parental love.

Nightbiter

Abdi Ismail Jama

Sober portrait of an uprooted young man from Somalia who sees ghosts.

Nolocha

Hubert Pouille

Anton (11) falls really in love for the first time in his life.

Rita Koeling

Mohammad Farokhmanesh

In this black comedy, the city girl Loes literally bumps into nature when she runs over a duck.

Roadkill

Chris Relleke

Jascha de Wilde

Documentary about young girls forced to work in a circus in India.

Starkiss - The Indian Circus Girls

George Sluizer

Spectacular film about the adventures of three people when the Iberian peninsula tears free of Europe and threatens to become a raft.

The Stone Raft

Michiel van Jaarsveld

Film about adultery. Or how deceptive the senses can be.

Tonino

Ben Sombogaart

Powerful film of the book about the twin sisters Lotte and Anna who grow up separately, also through World War Two.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025