37 Days
Maria is pregnant and works in a beauty salon. When she gets fired, she decides to go on birth strike.
23'
Greece
IFFR 2019
Tiger Award winner Ikeda Akira returns with a short film in which a village is terrorised by a monster. The local police investigation seems to be getting nowhere. This idiosyncratic film examines social conventions, interaction and bureaucracy.
IFFR 2019
- 30'
- Japan
- 2018
- Director
- Ikeda Akira
- Premiere
- European premiere
- Country of production
- Japan
- Year
- 2018
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 30'
- Medium
- DCP
- Original title
- Bakemono to onna
- Language
- Japanese
- Producer
- Kakuta Tomoo
- Sales
- Visual Industry Promotion Organization - VIPO
- Screenplay
- Ikeda Akira
- Cinematography
- Ikeda Naoya
- Editor
- Ikeda Akira
- Production Design
- Kanda Satoshi
- Sound Design
- Tanaka Hironobu
- Cast
- Kumakura Kazumi
Also in this combined programme
The Juggler
This idiosyncratic animation explores the depths of our subconscious, with uncanny characters and situations ultimately proving to be very human.
11'
Lithuania
IFFR 2019
No me despertéis
2009 in Bilbao. Jone is a teenager during a peak of political unrest which clashes with her father’s government position.
21'
Spain
IFFR 2019
- Director
- Ikeda Akira
- Premiere
- European premiere
- Country of production
- Japan
- Year
- 2018
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 30'
- Medium
- DCP
- Original title
- Bakemono to onna
- Language
- Japanese
- Producer
- Kakuta Tomoo
- Sales
- Visual Industry Promotion Organization - VIPO
- Screenplay
- Ikeda Akira
- Cinematography
- Ikeda Naoya
- Editor
- Ikeda Akira
- Production Design
- Kanda Satoshi
- Sound Design
- Tanaka Hironobu
- Cast
- Kumakura Kazumi
Programme IFFR 2019
Voices Short
Narrative-driven short stories, presented in compilation programmes, competing for the Voices Short Award. Some of these short films also screen before feature films.
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Maria is pregnant and works in a beauty salon. When she gets fired, she decides to go on birth strike.
23'
Greece
IFFR 2019
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A teenage girl runs away from her depressing small town and forms a progressively weirder friendship with a drug dealer.
26'
Poland
IFFR 2019
All These Creatures
An adolescent boy attempts to untangle his memories of a mysterious infestation, the unravelling of his father, and the little creatures inside us all.
13'
Australia
IFFR 2019