Blue
A woman lies awake at night. Nearby, a set of scrolled theatre backdrops unrolls to reveal two alternate landscapes.
12'
France
IFFR 2019
A woman lies awake at night. Nearby, a set of scrolled theatre backdrops unrolls to reveal two alternate landscapes.
12'
France
IFFR 2019
Everything happens at the edges of the frame here. The action is minimal: two lines build up an undulating pattern and unfurl again.
6'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2019
An observation on sheperd dogs during their training for police work. But these unfathomable dogs also observe us.
23'
Belgium
IFFR 2019
In the countryside of Georgia, many farmers and workers earn an extra income by keeping the bitcoin economy afloat.
70'
Georgia
IFFR 2019
A life-size doll is making a phone call in an entirely black space. A pantomime in which a movie becomes theatre.
4'
Switzerland
IFFR 2019
A man wakes up one day in a world devoid of human presence. How to handle such unlimited freedom?
120'
Germany
IFFR 2019
A reclusive cartographer briefly engages into a dialogue with a woman. The whole world shivers when these two people get close.
44'
Bosnia and Herzegovina
IFFR 2019
Kev is a pale-looking teenager who suffers from a form of autism so severe that most specialised institutions refuse to take him in.
50'
Belgium
IFFR 2019
A voyage of discovery through the history of the ‘musique concrète’ that uses sounds from reality to create auditory poetry.
58'
France
IFFR 2019
Scratched directly on 35mm film stock, this abstract film is a visual interpretation of a violin piece based on a Bosnian popular song.
6'
Canada
IFFR 2019
When Obama dropped the microphone, he knew what he was doing: underscoring his final words in a powerful way.
12'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2019
A film about scientists testing a new device that uses specialised circuitry to transfer data between computer networks and living plants.
13'
Sweden
IFFR 2019
“Make America great again?” Opie’s first film, a silent, black-and-white photo-novel, deals with a pyromaniac who targets modernist landmark buildings.
22'
USA
IFFR 2019
Colour, time, gold and pixels melt and merge in this evocative abstract film, inspired by a fleeting impression of a bird above a river. Screens before The Harvest.
9'
France
IFFR 2019
Exploring geological epochs and kingdoms of life, Realms voyages through deep time from the primeval ocean to a post-human future.
20'
Finland
IFFR 2019
A mesmerising accumulation of floating imagery reverses the relationship between the hypnotised subject and the hypnotist, and between the spectator and the screen.
18'
Germany
IFFR 2019
In the desert, a man extracts stones from a mountain and breaks them. His perpetual labour becomes an act of meditation. Screens before Walden.
12'
France
IFFR 2019
The exploration of the architectural qualities of a modernist house hints at many latent narratives concerning its famous inhabitants.
15'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2019
Found-footage video of a woman opening Pandora’s box. Strange, radioactive sound waves affect the film's surface and the character’s hands.
4'
Switzerland
IFFR 2019
A man digitises audio-visual material and revives obsolete media. Interviewed by his daughter on camera, he tries to heal their relationship.
36'
Netherlands
IFFR 2019
In contemplative, wordless images that rotate through 360 degrees, Zimmermann reveals the absurd journey of a stack of planks.
106'
Switzerland
IFFR 2019
What do you do when you wake up and heaven signals that the end of the world may be nigh?
13'
Brazil
IFFR 2019
A playful blend of landscapes, portraits, fruit, Wong Kar-wai, Raúl Ruiz, cacti, some literary quotes, and power-pop, all in perfect harmony.
11'
USA
IFFR 2019
An ultra-minimalist reduction of a filmscript in My Silence (On Paper) and a small library of brutally, yet cleverly abused books on cinema: Film Reader.
IFFR 2019