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
The north of Colombia in the late 1960s. During a village ceremony on an expanse of desert, Rapayet is captivated by the beautiful Zaida. But in order to marry her, he needs a large dowry. In the first 20 minutes, Pájaros de verano/Birds of Passage seems to be building up to a calm drama about the centuries-old family traditions of the Waayu people. But this is only half the story in this Colombian submission for the Oscars.
While the elderly women continue to pursue their mystic rituals, Rapayet and members of a friendly family see an opportunity to earn money by smuggling and selling large consignments of marijuana. And with the drugs and the money, comes the violence. In five breathtakingly shot chapters, and traditional Colombia changes into an arena of drugs, greed, revenge
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