Mum's Cards
Hand-written index cards, filmed on 35mm: the key to stories where personal history is linked to a love of sociology.
9'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2019
A near-death experience can be a Rorschach test for how much weight we place on coincidence. Two such incidents would make anyone consider the existence of fate. Jean-Jacques Martinod’s camera finds quiet contemplation in a tropical rainforest in Ecuador, while we hear death-defying Isidro Varga (and his brother) recollect the times when a bullet and a broken bottle nearly ended his life. The tone of Martinod's film hovers between carefree nonchalance and pensive caution: as if to say that chance and destiny are unexpected neighbours.
IFFR 2019
- 18'
- Ecuador
- 2019
- Director
- Jean-Jacques Martinod
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Country of production
- Ecuador
- Year
- 2019
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 18'
- Medium
- DCP
- International title
- Sandoval's Bullet
- Language
- Spanish
- Producer
- Jean-Jacques Martinod
- Sales
- Jean-Jacques Martinod
- Cinematography
- Jean-Jacques Martinod
- Editor
- Jean-Jacques Martinod
- Sound Design
- Alex Lane, Jean-Jacques Martinod
- Website
- https://jjmartinod.com
Also in this combined programme
Red Film
A dizzying array of colours, textures and literary quotations point to the perfidious capitalist pressures on women to conform and consume.
13'
USA
IFFR 2019
Ultramarine
A visual poem narrating the 'exile blues' through spoken-word performance, improvised rhythms, historical objects, documents and a universal colour.
42'
Belgium
IFFR 2019
- Director
- Jean-Jacques Martinod
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Country of production
- Ecuador
- Year
- 2019
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 18'
- Medium
- DCP
- International title
- Sandoval's Bullet
- Language
- Spanish
- Producer
- Jean-Jacques Martinod
- Sales
- Jean-Jacques Martinod
- Cinematography
- Jean-Jacques Martinod
- Editor
- Jean-Jacques Martinod
- Sound Design
- Alex Lane, Jean-Jacques Martinod
- Website
- https://jjmartinod.com
Programme IFFR 2019
Ammodo Tiger Short Competition
The power of short. Twenty-four films from the short film selection compete for one of three equal awards.
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Poignant portrait of the filmmaker’s father, who died last year, told in 27 brief contemplations, including personal moments and exceptional archive footage.
25'
Canada
IFFR 2019
ALTIPLANO
Ancestral salt flats, volcanic deserts and coloured lakes transform into a vibrating Ektachrome landscape full of evocative visual rhythms in color and form.
16'
Chile
IFFR 2019
Anteu
Aesthetically pleasing, playful narrative about a boy left as the last survivor in his village. Who will bury him when he dies?
29'
Portugal
IFFR 2019