Humans are led by their desires and obsessions from birth to death. No wonder many filmmakers never stop creating.

Perspectives

A contemporary film programme about the gaze of the old filmmaker, showing that the creative urge still burns as brightly as 50 years ago.      

The Tyger Burns

Passing Fancies

IFFR 2020

A wrecked wedding party makes the guests remember past follies of desire and love. They don't make cultivated comedies like this anymore.

When the groom abandons the bride, the wedding guests decide not to leave the poor woman alone in her misery. Instead, they tell stories of past follies of desire and love. And we thought they didn't make relaxed, cultivated, airy, unhurried, benign, modest, zephyr-like comedies like this anymore.

À cause des filles..?

A cheerful ritual in praise of Mami Wata, a mermaidlike water spirit of life, sex and healing.

A cheerful ritual in praise of Mami Wata, a mermaid-like water spirit of life, sex and healing.

Sacrificio per la sirena

An eerie erotic short story by Nobel Prize laureate Kawabata Yasunari is turned into a minimalist animation of dazzling beauty.

An eerie erotic short story by Nobel Prize laureate Kawabata Yasunari transformed into a minimalist animation of dazzling beauty.

One Arm

Yanis Varoufakis vs. EU financial establishment. A Kammerspiel-style classical political thriller that leaves no doubts about the good and the bad.

Kammerspiel-style political thriller showing how Greece's finance minister Varoufakis takes on Schäuble, Dijsselbloem, Lagarde and other servants of the political machine. Be aware, ye good people who like their art equivocal and measured: Costa-Gavras (86) is still a gutsy rabble-rouser unafraid to make things look clear-cut, and to drive his point home incisively!

Adults in the Room

Two beautiful girls, a lake, trees and an elderly gentleman casually fishing. What happens if the girls go mermaid?

Uti-Uti-Uti

Unmistakably Cardoso, this handmade found-footage delirium as a tribute to US independent cinema's original rebel.

A truly Cardosoesque appropriated-footage delirium, made as a tribute to US independent cinema's original rebel.

Corman's Eyedrops Got Me Too Crazy

In his characteristic style, Andersson at his existential, succinct best: everything that makes life human, in an hour and fifteen minutes.

Anyone who has ever been enchanted by the empathy, humour and masterly tableaux vivants of Roy Andersson (<strong>Songs from the Second Floor</strong>; <strong>You, the Living</strong>) will know what to expect: a kaleidoscope of vulnerable, comical characters and a melancholy ode to the finite, eternally human.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025