IFFR 2014

Lucas Leyva

Jillian Mayer

Comic, satirical sci-fi pop musical. A story of two girls from Miami and how they deal with technological singularity, told in filmic tweets.

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Ko Hyun-Chang

Never trust a navigation system. A man follows his sat nav, but finds out too late that it doesn’t have his best interests at heart.

App Sapiens

Marvin Kren

Retreating glacier transforms local fauna into bloodthirsty, greedy monsters. Unfortunately, the researchers at the Alpine weather station are very slow to pick up on this. When the minister arrives for a promotional visit, the horror really begins.

Blutgletscher

Aaron Wilson

An Australian pilot crashes in the inhospitable jungle of Singapore. Disoriented and wounded, he flees from the Japanese troops. Far from civilisation, he finds an ally in a local soldier. Can they both survive? Atmospheric film about intense emotions in wartime.

Canopy

Alfredo Montero

Group of Spanish friends on the tropical island holiday of a lifetime. Discovering a secret cave adds adventure. They enthusiastically go underground with their camera, but soon become hopelessly lost. Nail-biting tension in the tradition of recent Spanish horror films.

La cueva

Shahram Mokri

A group of young people camp by a lake and some woods. There's a restaurant in the village, but how does the owner get his ingredients? This exceptional, Iranian horror was shot in a single take. Not the action, but the suggestion creates the suspense.

Fish and Cat

Abolfazl Saffary

A woman finds a note from her husband on the fridge: I have gone to a place called Heaven. But her fevered search leads her to hell, in a nightmarish pursuit from a surreal Tehran deep into the desert. But who is actually chasing whom?

From Tehran to Heaven

Dominic Gagnon

How do you survive the end of the world? The young people in this exceptional found-footage film discuss their plans and expectations in a series of online videos. Some of them think they can survive, others embrace the end. Sometimes parody, sometimes scarily real.

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A digital campfire showing eight short films about survival. Phire is a place to gather round, think, warm yourself, meet others, share stories, watch films or sing songs.

Phire

Ti West

Family visit to remote sect gets increasingly frightening. Fashion photographer Patrick's sister invites him to her paradisiacal commune. His friends from Vice want to do a documentary and join him. Soon enough things prove less rosy than they seem.

The Sacrament

Jang Cheol-Soo

A strange mix of genres as only the Koreans can. North Korean spies infiltrate the South pretending to be a village idiot, musician and student. When they receive a text message that the mission is aborted and they have to commit suicide, the crazy comedy turns into a full-blooded action thriller.

Secretly Greatly

David Mackenzie

Harsh prison drama about the difficult relationship between a father and son both locked up in the same British prison. Both prisoners and guards try to survive this merciless environment. Violent, heartbreaking and captivating.

Starred Up

Carl Tibbetts

Young woman suddenly finds herself in a terrifying world. Curious bystanders film her. Part of the Emmy Award winning series Black Mirror.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025