Un amour impossible
Empathy-arousing French adaptation of Christine Angot’s bestseller in which Rachel can’t seem to escape her doomed love affair.
134'
France
IFFR 2019
Event
IFFR 2019
A stimulating panel debate with Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa after the screening of his latest feature Donbass. Loznitsa's fourth feature (he has also made many celebrated documentaries) provides an equally grotesque and macabre picture of life in the Ukrainian war zone. Criminal gangs, the local army and Russian troops fight each other in the streets. There is fear and suspicion everywhere, but what is real and what is fake news?
With actors and real inhabitants of the region, Loznitsa recreated with ink-black humour short films that are circulating on YouTube and other social media, in order to show yet again that truth is often more miraculous than fiction. It brought him the prize for the Best Director in the Cannes programme Un Certain Regard. After the film, Absaline Hehakaya (head of cinema at De Balie) will talk to Loznitsa and the audience about themes such as national and cultural identity and what films and filmmakers can mean for political reality in Russia and Ukraine.
Event
IFFR 2019
Programme IFFR 2019
Avant-premieres of some of the cinematic highlights of the year: international award-winners and festival favourites which will be released in Dutch cinemas after IFFR.
Read more about this programmeEmpathy-arousing French adaptation of Christine Angot’s bestseller in which Rachel can’t seem to escape her doomed love affair.
134'
France
IFFR 2019
Adaptation of war reporter Ryszard Kapuscinski’s most famous book mixes hyper-realistic animation, documentary, hallucinatory impressions and literary soul searching.
86'
Poland
IFFR 2019
In this gender-flipped Vertigo set in Japan, Asako’s encounter with her ex-lover’s lookalike sees her confronting the messiness of love.
119'
Japan
IFFR 2019