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An archaeologist returns to Normandy for a dig. There all her doubts, thoughts and memories meld.
28'
France
IFFR 2021
The power of short. Twenty-two films from the Short & Mid-length selection compete for one of three equal awards.
Still: Plant (879 pages, 33 days)
An archaeologist returns to Normandy for a dig. There all her doubts, thoughts and memories meld.
28'
France
IFFR 2021
Impressive, 35mm journey through the Andes is a hypnotic, sensory meditation on ‘our’ earth. Improvised music by Jason Sharp.
30'
Canada
IFFR 2021
An attempt at mourning futures that never arrived. We see urban ruins, consuming fires and microscopic images of bodily decay.
6'
Netherlands
IFFR 2021
A masterful film capturing the essence of Colombian society through stories inspired by the director’s memories.
26'
Austria
IFFR 2021
In a landscape on the brink of extinction, a son and mother trek into a native cave to be revitalized.
26'
Vietnam
IFFR 2021
Everyday occupations, hands that dig in the earth, that cut, touch, squeeze. The sound of domestic spaces and their silence.
9'
Italy
IFFR 2021
An experimental take on a reality intensified by the emotional flare of PMS (Premenstrual Syndrome).
20'
Iran
IFFR 2021
The protests in Hong Kong through the eyes of an exceptional filmmaker. Little things make major changes tangible.
12'
Hong Kong
IFFR 2021
A worn floor in an art institute and the battle for land ownership provide the basis for a playful political satire.
16'
Netherlands
IFFR 2021
The power relations are questioned on a Thai filmset when only one person can apparently ward off the rain.
17'
Thailand
IFFR 2021
In a search for solidarity in sounds and colours, Sanzgiri traces lines of ancestral memory, poetry and history from his birth.
17'
USA
IFFR 2021
This suspenseful film invites us to open our eyes wide in the twilight, and listen to the sounds of the desert darkness.
30'
France
IFFR 2021
A razor-sharp, playful impression of contemporary life, filled with personal stories and with activism dripping from its pores.
30'
United States
IFFR 2021
As an art school is subsumed by a culture of surveillance and administration, small gestures of resistance liberate the creative soul.
27'
Norway
IFFR 2021
Ancestral connections to the site of an 18th-century witch trial surface in a speculative conversation between mother and daughter.
15'
Australia
IFFR 2021
Something sinister and violent is going on at a film set in Lahore, but the action is obscured. What are we not seeing?
15'
Italy
IFFR 2021
An American psychologist raves about LSD’s metaphysical possibilities, while a South London teenager sees his acid-infused friendship unravel.
18'
UK
IFFR 2021
Diving into human-nature relationships at Mount Malabar, Indonesia, this eclectic essay film interweaves competing views on nature and communication.
26'
Indonesia
IFFR 2021
Cities do not repeat themselves; they transmute. Some are philosophical ideas. The Terranova universe was filmed partly with a camera obscura.
50'
Cuba
IFFR 2021
A journey through queer community and safe spaces. A statement for a brighter and fantastically rainbow-coloured future.
27'
Portugal
IFFR 2021
A small, seemingly insignificant seed grows into an exploration of autonomy, collectivity, indigenous struggle and eco-feminism in Colombia.
31'
Germany
IFFR 2021
In a dynamic re-enactment of 1980s Taiwanese sexploitation films, five women go on a vengeful rampage in the fog-filled night.
16'
Taiwan
IFFR 2021