Die ArbeiterInnen verlassen die Fabrik
Flashing neon transforms a factory corridor into a stunning light and sound sculpture. The workers move silently towards the exit.
11'
Austria
IFFR 2013
Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films
Programme 2013In 'Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films'
Atropa
Atropa impressively breathes new life into the forgotten world of European shamanism. A trance-inducing film.
30'
Germany
IFFR 2013
By Pain and Rhyme and Arabesques of Foraging
Erudite, aesthetic film sonnet; a love letter to 17th-century naturalist Robert Boyle.
8'
USA
IFFR 2013
Continuity
A couple try to keep the memory of their son alive by constantly replaying a specific scene with various male escorts.
41'
Germany
IFFR 2013
Da Vinci
Exceptional, cinematic take on the amazing world of the modern operating theatre, in which the patient seems to have only a bit part as all eyes are on the monitor.
25'
Italy
IFFR 2013
Dentro
Two friends doggedly build a mysterious artefact in the forest, the function of which remains unclear until the very end.
15'
Mexico
IFFR 2013
Eris
A poetic film that rescues British social realist and documentary traditions with Greek gods, some incredible music and shovel-loads of imagination.
36'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2013
Figs
Captivatingly filmed, very candid story about a now-ended relationship.
5'
Sweden
IFFR 2013
Greystone
Conceptual film about a murder in the Greystone Mansion in 1929 and exploration of structure in Hollywood films that were actually shot here.
29'
USA
IFFR 2013
Immortelle
Experimental dance film in which two ex-lovers deal with their relationship's collapse. While the body dances, the heavy heart follows.
17'
Taiwan
IFFR 2013
Insight
We look at a film crew; the film crew is watching us. Cinema as a mirror of reality that becomes fiction. Or is it vice versa?
12'
Netherlands
IFFR 2013
Janus
About a man from a working-class neighbourhood in Rotterdam-Zuid named Janus, a collector of curiosities who has recently died. And about art.
51'
Netherlands
IFFR 2013
The Lament
Atmospheric, stately Turkish film about man and nature. And about mourning, something every family member does in their own way.
30'
Turkey
IFFR 2013
The Mother
Last day of official mourning for a child. Mother receives her final visitors: the guilty parties. Masterfully captured in a single shot.
15'
Thailand
IFFR 2013
Museum of Imagination
Extraordinary, intriguing and unconventional portrait of art historian and professor B.N. Goswamy.
20'
India
IFFR 2013
Nummer veertien, home
Key, romantic work in Van der Werve's oeuvre for which he himself composed the requiem, in d-e-a-d.
54'
Netherlands
IFFR 2013
Secretion
A dank post-apocalyptic landscape reminiscent of Tarkovsky’s 'Zone'. Amnesia’s impossible, the past inescapable and attempts at decontamination futile.
20'
Ireland
IFFR 2013
Six Day Run
Runner Ashprihanal during the ultimate endurance test, The Six Day Run. Also at the festival, two installations by Taanila and a Short Profile compilation.
15'
Finland
IFFR 2013
Though I Know the River Is Dry
Caught between his brother's past and his child's future, one man's choice triggers catastrophe for his whole family.
20'
Egypt
IFFR 2013
The Tiger's Mind
‘The tiger fights the mind that loves the circle that traps the tiger.’ Cardew’s score informs this abstract, collaborative and prodigious crime thriller.
20'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2013
Tokyo Giants
Last part of the Plot Point Trilogy by Nicolas Provost with the Japanese capital Tokyo and its inhabitants as the leads.
23'
Belgium
IFFR 2013
Unsupported Transit
Set on a construction site in Shenzhen, China's first Special Economic Zone, where a new stock exchange designed by Rem Koolhaas is being built.
15'
Netherlands
IFFR 2013