IFFR 2006

Jordan Belson

Henry Jacobs

White Light

Allures

Glenn McKay

Altered States (60's excerpt)

Philippe Garrel

With the son of the maker playing the leading role, the mythical month of May 1968 is invoked as if it happened yesterday. Everything is present: from drugs to barricades and from court cases to court to gloves, and nowhere can you trap the director using a cliché.

Les amants réguliers

Special White Light performance by the charming Taiwanese veejay Sunny Hu. With music by Hou Hsiao-Hsien's composer Lim Giong. It becomes hypnotic and hallucinogenic. But above all stylish.

Close to a Breeze

Michael Tully

An addicted man drifts further and further away from reality. He looks to be close to a normal existence, but his demise is inevitable. And we still haven't given me under way.

Cocaine Angel

Christelle Gualdi

According to the female maker, ideal for a drugs programme. We don't contradict her.

Color Writing Me Out

Steve Sanguedolce

A film that does not only tell a grim and sad drugs story, but also seems to have taken quite a bit itself. The images seem almost literally cut out of a drugs intoxication. They ensure that the story of the demise of two abused sisters in an excess of drugs almost becomes frightening. Certainly an unusual experience.

Dead Time

Benedek Fliegauf

A film in the coolest and most stylish form imaginable. And dealer makes his last round to visit his customers. His very last round to occasionally desperate customers. Why is he stopping? Surely he has everything worked out?

Dealer

Epilogue

John Price

Ferry #3

Fire #3

Hara Masato

Road movie through the Japan unknown to us and the film maker. He tries new roads. New stimulants. In this way any landscape can be spectacular. An avant-garde classic, but for us as unknown as the roads and the stimulants.

The First Emperor

Tony Martin

Five Stanzas

Hiratake Shinya

Paris seen through the eyes of a Japanese absinthe drinker. A hallucinogenic world of prints.

French

Phie Ambo

Nicolas Windig Refn, the Danish director of the push a series being shown at this festival, is followed closely in his financially risky undertaking. Now everyone thinks that Refn has made a monumental drugs trilogy, but in advance no one could be convinced.

Gambler

Molly Lynch

And almost cheerful junkie portrayed that is not entirely free of grimness. Julie injects her cocaine with dedication. She thinks snorting is for wimps. Then your orgasms are less fierce.

Gucci Crackheads Battle Nihilism

Hand-processed Color Rolls

Highway #7

David Lebrun

The Hog Farm Movie (excerpt)

Ben De Loenen

Striking documentary about the amazing substance ibogaine. It is harvested in Africa from a route. Everyone is willing to believe that it gives dancing Africans hallucinations, but nobody believes it can heal heroin addiction.

Ibogaine - Rite of Passage

Stylish and occasionally painful portrait of a woman who was demolished by drugs, but also as a result of lack of love. Based on an autobiographical story. The film maker was the partner of the legendary actress and rock musician Nico. Yes, that gravelly voice on the best numbers by The Velvet Underground.

J'entends plus la guitare

Kornél Mundruczó

An opera film with the kind of Joan of Arc as a nurse. A nurse who heals by making love, quite a few patients would dream of that. But only a few would dare to be admitted to this depressing hospital. The ex-junkie nurse has seen the light and is inspired by total sacrifice.

Johanna

Joshua White

Joshua Light Show Liquid Loops

Three week trip with a photographer taking pictures of industrial projects in China.

Making Pictures

Michel Negroponte

Methadone doesn't give a kick. That also the intention, but if you mix it with sleeping pills, it makes you stay awake. A documentary with understanding for incorrigible mixers.

Methadonia

Music of the Spheres

Miklós Acs

During the 1988 festival this personal diary film was a hot item. Film maker camped out in an attic without running water and recorded everything on 8 mm. From girlfriend to defecation.

Nice and Big

Northern Lights

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Part 4: Resurrection from Mysterious Journey

Jon Jost

An enchanting moving painting. Digital colour shifting like a palette knife in oily paint. For those who want to undergo a drugs high without chemicals.

Passages

Nicolas Winding Refn

Out impotence can a great and feared ex-con be? That if you're a small clumsy crook, but your father is a big fish who despises you, then you are less frightening thing you look. Or how everything seems to go wrong for the unguided Missile Tonny, who is more of a drugs victims and drugs criminals. Second (independent) part in incomparable Danish gangster trilogy.

Pusher II

All surpassing last part of a Danish gangster trilogy. It's no problem if you Want To see it without knowing the earlier parts. If you thought the hardest gangsters came from former Yugoslavia then you didn't count on the Albanians. And yes, being a drug dealer is a very risky profession. Before you know you're hanging like a pig on a chain.

Pusher III

About a small-scale dealer who suddenly gets too much and then loses even more. The first part of a phenomenal Danish gangster trilogy in which the parts can also be watched separately. But no one should allow the opportunity to see all three to pass by. The gangster genre may be indestructible, it is still not free of wear. Thanks to the refreshment by Refn, it can go on three years.

Pusher

Andy Fickman

Cheerful and excited musical drugs film, based on an original and successful musical. The inhabitants of a small American town see a propaganda film against drugs, but it has quite the opposite effect. Everything the film warns against in the area of sex and drugs is tried out with verve.

Reefer Madness

Remembrance Day Parade

John Maringouin

Probably unintentionally, this could be one of the ultimate anti-drugs films. 30 years ago, a mother fled her house because her husband tried to kill their child in an intoxicated state on drugs and alcohol. Now the child is a film maker and comes looking for the father. A father who is still a junkie after all these years. An undauntingly personal film.

Running Stumbled

Samadhi

A film about film. A film maker wants to come to terms with the drugs death of his wife by making a film about her addiction. As a warning. At the moment when he accepts a job smuggling heroin to finance the film, the actress who plays his wife also becomes addicted. A sad film in equally sad black &amp; white about the fatality of addiction.

Sauvage innocence

Kurosaka Keita

Fairytale animation fantasy about a fishing village. In reality it is peaceful, but in the hands of this animation master, it becomes an intriguing nightmare.

Sea Roar

Giuseppe Giusti

Beautiful, coloured-in, silent film with grand melodramatic gestures. A woman out for money misleads a doctor and a marquis so she can set up her own opium den. No, it doesn't have a happy ending, but it does remain a surprise right up to the end. In corporation with the Filmmuseum, and accompanied by live music.

Signori Giurati

Single Wing Turquoise Bird Light Show Film

Mark Boyle

Joan Hills

Son of Beyond Image

Fujiwara Osato

Black &amp; white brushstroke images of an appealing souvenir stall. The world comes together in front of this stall. And the old woman sees and dreams everything.

Souvenirs of Japan

Elias Romero

Stepping Stones (excerpt)

Stephen Woolley

Kurt Cobain was the Brian Jones of the 19 nineties. And so was Brian Jones the Kurt Cobain of the 19 sixties.And did Rolling Stone found in his swimming pool. An unsolved mystery, but in this very well documented feature, they get quite a long way.

Stoned

Sunset

Tanaami Keiichi

Aihara Nobuhiro

Cheerfully sketched dream. Abstract, okay, but above all not too serious. Daydream and keep trying at the same time. A surprise.

Trip

Judson L. Yalkut

Turn, Turn, Turn

West Coast Reduction

Jack Stevenson is a legendary collector of curious films. He has the craziest things. Such as a really bizarre American anti drugs films. And he has a very juicy tale to tell.

White Light: Jack Stevenson Programme

Wreck Nation

Kudō Kankurō 

May be the most cheerful drugs film ever made. And the most crazy and absurd film in the festival. All Japanese traditions plus present-day pop culture together in a pressure cooker.

Yaji and Kita - The Midnight Pilgrims

Great scratching. Don't think of a story or significance for a while. And look. Aren't the drawings beautiful.

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