Tiger Eyes

Director of essay-like films, Frank Scheffer created the film Tiger Eyes especially for the IFFR's anniversary edition. It is a mosaic based on a number of portraits of international filmmakers (largely selected by the IFFR's directors) who are representative of the past four decades of the festival.
With: Jim Jarmusch, already present at the festival in 1980 with his debut film Permanent Vacation; Wim Wenders, long-time festival attendant and fan; Abbas Kiarostami, international award-winning director; Michael Haneke, Filmmaker in Focus in 1993 and Golden Palm winner with Das weisse Band; Abderrahmane Sissako, Filmmaker in Focus in 2007 and maker of the game-changing Bamako; Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Golden Palm winner with Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives and HBF celebrity.