Blue Sky from Pain
A man has been locked up without knowing why. Where is he? And for how long? The camera studies the empty spaces whilst he talks.
15'
France
IFFR 2017
A materialist and animist critique of European colonial history, reading the past as something entangled within the present, made up of living and dead elements. The Sea is History, made in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, is a free adaptation of the poem by Derek Walcott.
All Short films at IFFR 2017
Also in this combined programme
Há terra!
A pamphlet and cinematic poem combined, Há terra! depicts the history of cultural assimilation and displacement on the Brazilian sertão.
13'
Brazil
IFFR 2017
Toutes directions
The ultimate road movie is a hypnotising audiovisual trip by Billy Roisz and Dieter Kovacic, scored by Radian.
13'
Austria
IFFR 2017
- Director
- Louis Henderson
- Countries of production
- United Kingdom, France
- Production Year
- 2016
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2017
- Length
- 28'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- English
- Producers
- Cédric Walter, Olivier Marboeuf
- Production Company
- Spectre Productions
- Sales
- Spectre Productions
- Cinematography
- Louis Henderson
- Editor
- Louis Henderson
- Sound Design
- Louis Henderson, Simon Apostolou
Programme
Bright Future Short
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Red colours the Californian landscape; red is the blood that flows and leaves a trail to the Basque Country. "Everything of value is defenceless."
14'
USA
IFFR 2017
350 MYA
The Tafilalt region in the Sahara Desert was once the Rheic Ocean. 350 MYA conjures the ocean’s presence in the landscape: deep time in the folds of space.
5'
Morocco
IFFR 2017
Abu Ammar Is Coming
A picture shot by a Magnum photographer proves to be a teasing enigma. Arabic newspapers claim it as evidence of Bangladeshi fighters in the PLO (Fatah faction). (LUX)
6'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2017