IFFR 2017

Johannes Nyholm

He might be handicapped, but Rikard Boberg has set his sights on winning an important pétanque championship. He thinks he will then be reunited with his mother. Particularly with the help of the giant from his imaginative fantasies. A Western-like soundtrack accompanies the modern fable of cowboy Rikard and his remarkable quest.

Voices

IFFR Live

The Giant

Fien Troch

Where and with whom do you feel at home? This is the theme the teenage friends and their families grapple with in Fien Troch’s latest drama. Who can you truly trust when you have nowhere left to turn? The tension is always palpable, partly thanks to Johnny Jewel’s seamlessly fitting soundtrack.

Home

Charlotte Sieling

When the unknown son of world-famous artist Simon suddenly turns up and moves in with him, things start getting tense. Is this just a midlife crisis, professional jealously or justified suspicion? What does the enigmatic Casper really want from him? Satire, thriller and fluently filmed drama set in the art world of the always photogenic Copenhagen.

The Man

Tizza Covi

Rainer Frimmel

Young lion tamer Tairo seeks new happiness in this film which – according to the makers – is about rational and irrational forces. A warm, humane work on life on the margins, in an Italian circus, mangled by an economy no one has any control over.

Mister Universo

Alice Lowe

Whereas some pregnant women succumb to a craving for chocolate, Ruth loses herself in bloody murder at the behest of her unborn child. British actress and screenwriter Alice Lowe (<strong>Sightseers</strong>, 2012) makes her directing debut (and plays the lead) with this humorous, feminist horror film that makes mincemeat of romantic notions of pregnancy.

Prevenge

Stephan Streker

The strong bond between Zahira and her parents is tested when an arranged marriage with a Pakistani man is set up as tradition decrees. She faces a heart-rending dilemma. Convincing portrait of the conundrums facing second generation immigrants that unfolds like a Greek tragedy in contemporary Brussels.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025