Aahuti
A ritualised choreography of hands and simple objects above a section of soil offers a phenomenological journey to the essence of the cycle of life.
15'
India
IFFR 2020
Combined Programme
IFFR 2020
Combined Programme
IFFR 2020
A ritualised choreography of hands and simple objects above a section of soil offers a phenomenological journey to the essence of the cycle of life.
15'
India
IFFR 2020
An ingenious visualisation of a real-life story, focusing on the inner world of this soldier, killed in an explosion while greeting a civilian.
11'
China
IFFR 2020
200 kilometres from Beijing, men live among rocks that wait to be hacked, cut and sanded. Once the stone monument is in place, nobody remembers these actions.
12'
France
IFFR 2020
During the annual celebration of Fisherman's New Year, Iranian trade, tradition and customs, past and present, are still very much felt today in Qeshm.
16'
Kuwait
IFFR 2020
How to overcome the locked-in syndrome of the computer screen? A meditative reflection on the urban jungle, with the colour blue as main protagonist.
5'
Germany
IFFR 2020
Family, Feminism, LGBTQ, Love: Come Coyote evokes the reproductive challenges of same-sex couples with sensual poetry, humour and a hint of despair.
7'
Canada
IFFR 2020
A close reading of the characteristics of perfume in advertisements leads to criticism of the celebrity cult. The rich get richer, but everyone smells poorer.
8'
USA
IFFR 2020
After receiving his last wage and sending it off to his home country, a house painter deliberately abandons his mobile phone on a park bench.
13'
Argentina
IFFR 2020
Surrounded by the sound of nocturnal animals, a girl falls into a deep sleep. Gradually her dream unfolds into a cosmic journey through a rural village.
21'
Belgium
IFFR 2020
This disruptive video invites the viewer to drift through a string of surreal scenes from a sabotaged nature documentary with a quietly unsettling atmosphere.
6'
Switzerland
IFFR 2020
A 3D programme generates a strange configuration of residential units in a utopian field. An attempt to create a brand-new community defined as 'neutral daily life'.
18'
China
IFFR 2020
You see the girl or you don't. But it is clear she is afraid of touching people, and now she is going on a journey to overcome her fears.
5'
Taiwan
IFFR 2020
How different is online chatting from talking to a sock puppet? A rather absurd cartoon-like animation raises issues such as self-analysis and social relations.
9'
Belgium
IFFR 2020
Schizophrenia is the creative principle here, splitting up realities and reassembling them anew. Wieland evokes the hidden ruins of the psyche.
12'
Germany
IFFR 2020
Magda has been captive in her own life for a long time. Her psychiatrist Dr Eyre wants to wake her up, but Magda's mind is stronger than anyone expects.
15'
Canada
IFFR 2020
Quotes from Sigmund Freud, C.G. Jung, and L. Ron Hubbard form a conversation on technology and identity, and societies with religious foundations.
14'
Sweden
IFFR 2020
An electric fan, a boy with eerily fast-growing eyebrows and a penchant for apocalyptic reverie: the psychological portrait of a 21st-century child?
8'
USA
IFFR 2020
Good heavens! Airline safety instructions can be highly ambiguous. John Smith delivers a biblical interpretation of Ryanair's in-flight safety card.
3'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2020
This monument to Sharon Stone is entirely based on 15 chemically treated film stills. An abstract remake of the remake of the thriller Les diaboliques.
6'
Japan
IFFR 2020
An unusual collaboration between curator Harald Szeemann and artist Rudolf Herz was set in motion in the summer of 2003: 'Lenin on Tour'.
19'
Germany
IFFR 2020
Through a stream of consciousness, the film reflects a woman's contradictory feelings while far away from home during Brazil's recent socio-political crisis.
10'
Belgium
IFFR 2020
A conversation between two olive trees about nothing at all. And the farmer carried on ploughing.
6'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2020
Programme IFFR 2020
Waiting for a film to start, it has already begun – in our mind. This programme cultivates the viewer’s patience, both in the cinema and outside.
Read more about this programmeA camera-shy film journalist decides to inflict an experiment on himself: to film himself for 15 days. Halfway through his ordeal he opens up.
90'
Japan
IFFR 2020
A ritualised choreography of hands and simple objects above a section of soil offers a phenomenological journey to the essence of the cycle of life.
15'
India
IFFR 2020
Six gene-positive people share how they cope with the onset of Huntington's disease and how it affects their life – past, present and future.
42'
Belgium
IFFR 2020