27 thoughts about my father
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
Real life invades the theatrical bubble in this urgent drama about street protests in Brazil. Two theatre student activists cut classes to demonstrate against slashes in the culture budget. History is being written in the streets, but their teacher prefers Shakespearean texts. Primeiro ato dives into the current unrest in Brazil: "Stop the world, I want to get off."
IFFR 2019
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
Frantic re-cataloguing of a personal archive and a vehicle for the re-birth of forgotten images in 35mm still photographs, obsessively tape-spliced together in evolving rhythmic patterns.
13'
Hong Kong
IFFR 2019
Moroccan sci-fi using augmented reality, humour and a dose of frenzied Chaabi music to tell a story of displacement, biotechnology and privacy.
26'
Morocco
IFFR 2019
Programme IFFR 2019
The power of short. Twenty-four films from the short film selection compete for one of three equal awards.
Read more about this programmePoignant 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
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
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