IFFR 2015

Tommy Hartung

A captivating, dynamic mix of animation, news footage and music, ranging from real-world images of terrible violence to nearly abstract scenes of hallucinogenic beauty.

Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films

THE BIBLE

Tim Leyendekker

Dutch artist Tim Leyendekker's fresh 16mm film gives us nouns, dry facts and retina-scouring light whilst resisting telling us what to do with these things.

Blinder

Safia Benhaim

The history of decolonisation and political turmoil provides the background to a hallucinatory tour of today's Morocco where a new wave of resistance is emerging.

La fièvre

Ben Russell

Equal parts documentary, ethnography and dream cinema, Ben Russell presents the third part in a trilogy examining the ecstatic limits of utopia in the present. See also Atlantis in compilation programme Arcadian Field Notes.

Greetings to the Ancestors

The Propeller Group

Visual, musical tour of eccentric funerary traditions and rites in Southern Vietnam. Loss and joy meet on the threshold of life and death.

The Living Need Light, the Dead Need Music

Jonathan Rafman

A compelling mix of attraction and repulsion, Mainsqueeze is entirely composed of footage found online, surfing the deep web.

Mainsqueeze

Basim Magdy

A mysterious and melancholic take on our fate as mortal beings, the film contemplates the details lost in the construction of history and memory.

The Many Colors of the Sky Radiate Forgetfulness

Rainer Kohlberger

Abstract video ingeniously captures and controls the viewer's gaze. From staring to toying with focus and depth. Breathtaking visual experience.

Moon Blink

Melanie Bonajo

Study into the hallucinatory ayahuasca plant's healing power for modern man. On the limits of Western medicine, love, feminism and eco-consciousness.

Night Soil - Fake Paradise

Dane Komljen

Modernism's breath of fresh air is no more than a spirit from the recent past in the declining world of Our Body. Can it be re-awakened with a purification ritual?

Our Body

T. Marie

T. Marie continues her exciting search for the boundaries of cinema and painting with three short time-based, pixel-paintings.

Panchrome I, II, III

Karl Lemieux

David Bryant

Fear of Wi-Fi and mobile phones can take over your life if you are electromagnetically sensitive. Exceptionally depicted search for a radiation-free place.

Quiet Zone

James Richards

The 2014 Turner Prize nominated artist James Richards’ video is a looping, fizzing and sensually apocalyptic study of the elements.

Raking Light

Nina Yuen

Nina Yuen raises the question of whether you can approach and comprehend the world in a purely rational manner. Does something exist if it cannot be quantified?

Raymond

Terence Nance

Intensely musical film about the spiritual anchorages of life in and around Miami. Drenched in the heat, spirit and landscape of Southern Florida.

Swimming in Your Skin Again

Ben Rivers

A four seasons' fable, we see a kaleidoscope of magic and uncertainty in Things, incredibly Ben Rivers' fifteenth film at IFFR since his 2007 debut.

Things

Martijn Veldhoen

A film about the melancholy of reconstruction. The story of the filmmaker's mother told in an unexpected, compassionate and visually inventive way.

Tijd en plaats, een gesprek met mijn moeder

Ane Hjort Guttu

Fascinating study into the life's work of an anonymous artist with an archive of abstract drawings; scores to his nightly walks. See also This Place Is Every Place in compilation programme Somewhere, Sometime.

Untitled (The City at Night)

Roy Villevoye

In the rainforest Papuans build a traditional sculpture for their deceased family member Omomá. In the meantime, the filmmaker has a business conflict elsewhere.

Voice-Over

Ting Min-Wei

Spiritual character cares for a tropical rainforest cemetery. Urbanisation stands to end the peace and quiet.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025