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In a small Moroccan bakery, widow Abla gradually opens her heart to Samia, an young unmarried pregnant woman she takes into her home.
98'
Morocco
IFFR 2020
In the near future in Ukraine, former soldier Sergey tries to recover from the trauma of war. When the foundry where he works closes down, he volunteers for Black Tulip, an organisation that recovers the bodies of fallen soldiers. This brings him into contact with archaeologist Katya, who is literally and metaphorically digging up the consequences of her own history.
Filmmaker Valentyn Vasyanovych's background as a director of photography, including on The Tribe (IFFR 2015), can clearly be felt. Using often static tableaux, he creates a beautiful, bleak mise-en-scène − full of raging fires, icy mud and grim snowscapes. Not only do the psychological consequences for Sergey and Katya become painfully clear, but also the economic degradation and above all the ecological catastrophe for the Donbass region, transformed into an uninhabitable desert of Chernobyl-like proportions. Atlantis presents an urgent, searing portrait of a Ukraine living with the disastrous consequences of the war with Russia: a Ukraine in crisis, verging on the apocalyptic.
IFFR 2020
Programme IFFR 2020
Avant-premieres of some of the cinematic highlights of the year: international award-winners and festival favourites which will be released in Dutch cinemas after IFFR.
Read more about this programmeIn a small Moroccan bakery, widow Abla gradually opens her heart to Samia, an young unmarried pregnant woman she takes into her home.
98'
Morocco
IFFR 2020
Lyrical road movie and coming-of-age story about twelve-year-old Paul, who falls in love with young psychiatric patient Gloria.
98'
Belgium
IFFR 2020
In Dakar, two young lovers have a star-crossed relationship. Fate may bring them together in this beautiful, darkly romantic tale.
104'
France
IFFR 2020