Four visually and formally distinctive narratives in animation, fiction and documentary offer a kaleidoscopic view of what makes us human.

Regular Programme

Just as long as it takes. IFFR puts the mid-length film, experimental and artists&rsquo; short films and narrative-driven short stories in the spotlight.Still: Bare Bones

Short & Mid-length

Stories of Persistence and Truce

IFFR 2021

A young woman embarks on a quest to understand the story of Senegalese symbol of resistance, Aline Sitoe Diatta.

A young woman embarks on a quest to understand the story of Senegalese  symbol of resistance, Aline Sitoe Diatta.

À la recherche d’Aline

Earth has limited resources and collective consciousness is reduced to survival. A disconcerting examination of what makes us human.

Bare Bones

Fleeting impressions from the lives of two friends at the fragile time when nothing is set in stone and everything is still possible.

Chain-smoking, daydreaming and lazing around is how Xia and Jie spend the majority of their days at Jie’s apartment in Boston. Fleeting impressions with lashings of sweet C-pop evoke the lives and emotional worlds of young Asians attempting to get into the film or TV industry in the USA.

200 Cigarettes from Now

Two park rangers introduce us to the rapidly changing landscape in Aasivissuit, West Greenland.

Aasivissuit

Struggling to get on with her day, Carmen faces up to a city tense with conflict, brutality and looming violence.

Struggling to get on with her  day, Carmen faces up to a city tense with conflict, brutality and looming violence.

Riff-Raff

In this brief daydream, a monk and a child each embrace modern technology in their own way.

The Old Child

When everyone left, Vitaliy stayed. A man and his island − a visual testimony to life, death and human kindness.

When everyone  left, Vitaliy stayed. A man and his island − a visual testimony to life, death and human kindness.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025