200 Cigarettes from Now
Fleeting impressions from the lives of two friends at the fragile time when nothing is set in stone and everything is still possible.
45'
China
IFFR 2021
A magical tiger stalks like a phantom. Because no one ever catches more than a glimpse, it is spoken of with the highest esteem. This allegorical fiction starts Pallavi Paul’s attempt to describe systematic police violence in Delhi on the basis of individual events suppressed from official history. She does so in an associative edit of texts, images and sounds, making effective use of the scattered fragments of documentation still extant, including hurriedly safeguarded video and audio recordings of eyewitness accounts as well as those of the police and security forces.
Using fiction is how Paul resolves the scarcity of objective sources, whereby she continually retells her story based on multiple fragmentary recordings of ostensibly unconnected incidents, to ultimately arrive at a coherent study of the abuse of power. Also see Freedom Lecture: Pallavi Paul.
IFFR 2021
Programme IFFR 2021
Just as long as it takes. IFFR puts the mid-length film, experimental and artists’ short films and narrative-driven short stories in the spotlight.
Still: Bare Bones
Read more about this programmeFleeting impressions from the lives of two friends at the fragile time when nothing is set in stone and everything is still possible.
45'
China
IFFR 2021
A young woman embarks on a quest to understand the story of Senegalese symbol of resistance, Aline Sitoe Diatta.
27'
Switzerland
IFFR 2021
Two park rangers introduce us to the rapidly changing landscape in Aasivissuit, West Greenland.
23'
Netherlands
IFFR 2021