Adam
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
Once again, Peter Van den Begin plays the dryly comedic focal point of this follow-up to festival smash King of the Belgians, about a wimpy king trying to return to his restless homeland. After viewers have been brought up to speed on the last part's events, King Nicolas ends up in Sarajevo, where the assassination of Franz Ferdinand is being re-enacted. The Belgian head of state is wounded and wakes up in a Croatian sanatorium, where the semi-crazed director (Udo Kier at his best) gives patients the names of former heads of state. From then on he is addressed as Brezhnev. Incidentally: the end of Belgium has led to the collapse of the European Union and the roles for the New Europe need to be assigned.
It's all about theatre and staging in The Barefoot Emperor, making this the opposite number of fake documentary King of the Belgians. Show politics taken to absurd levels with venomous asides proving just how contemporary this satire is.
Peter Brosens, Jessica Woodworth
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