Wait and See and See and See

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.

Perspectives

Wait and See

Magdaleena

This disruptive video invites the viewer to drift through a string of surreal scenes from a sabotaged nature documentary with a quietly unsettling atmosphere.

escape goat

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'.

Everyone Is Welcome Here

An electric fan, a boy with eerily fast-growing eyebrows and a penchant for apocalyptic reverie: the psychological portrait of a 21st-century child?

Smile Driver

An unusual collaboration between curator Harald Szeemann and artist Rudolf Herz was set in motion in the summer of 2003: 'Lenin on Tour'.

Szeemann and Lenin Crossing the Alps

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.

Water and Salt

Quotes from Sigmund Freud, C.G. Jung, and L. Ron Hubbard form a conversation on technology and identity, and societies with religious foundations.

Not an Irrelevant Trifle

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.

La enorme presencia de los muertos

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.

A Girl Who's Afraid of Touching People

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.

In the Hands of Puppets

An ingenious visualisation of a real-life story, focusing on the inner world of this soldier, killed in an explosion while greeting a civilian.

Action, Almost Unable to Think

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.

Aahuti

This monument to Sharon Stone is entirely based on 15 chemically treated film stills. An abstract remake of the remake of the thriller <strong>Les diaboliques</strong>.

Stone

A camera-shy film journalist decides to inflict an experiment on himself: to film himself for 15 days. Halfway through his ordeal he opens up.

Suzuki Shiroyasu could easily appear an ideal subject for an autobiographical film. As a critic he is clearly in demand, he has plenty of connections with the art scene and he likes to shoot films. The self-imposed exercise of recording his thoughts daily on camera however turns out to be an existential ordeal.

15 Days

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.

Erpe-Mere

Schizophrenia is the creative principle here, splitting up realities and reassembling them anew. Wieland evokes the hidden ruins of the psyche.

Ink in Milk

Good heavens! Airline safety instructions can be highly ambiguous. John Smith delivers a biblical interpretation of Ryanair's in-flight safety card.

Reputed for his playful subversions of documentary imagery, Smith this time zooms in on one simple piece of paper, only to decode it in a most enlightening manner. The existential fear of flying is here sublimated into a tongue-in-cheek self-analysis, as well as a parody on the Christian value system.

A State of Grace

Waiting for a film to start, it has already begun &ndash; in our mind. This programme cultivates the viewer&rsquo;s patience, both in the cinema and outside.

Family, Feminism, LGBTQ, Love: <strong>Come Coyote</strong> evokes the reproductive challenges of same-sex couples with sensual poetry, humour and a hint of despair.

Come Coyote

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.

Absolute Beginners

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.

All Movements Should Kill the Wind

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.

Blue

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.

Curious Fantasies

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.

At the Time of the Ebb

A conversation between two olive trees about nothing at all. And the farmer carried on ploughing.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

A State of Grace

Also in this combined programme

Aahuti

Action, Almost Unable to Think

All Movements Should Kill the Wind

At the Time of the Ebb

Wait and See

15 Days

Aahuti

Absolute Beginners