Beginning
Jehovah’s Witness Yana refuses to be oppressed by her husband, church and the police. She commits the ultimate act of resistance against patriarchal society.
126'
France
IFFR 2021
Avant-premieres of some of the cinematic highlights of the year: eagerly anticipated festival favourites and international award-winners.
Still: Dear Comrades!
Jehovah’s Witness Yana refuses to be oppressed by her husband, church and the police. She commits the ultimate act of resistance against patriarchal society.
126'
France
IFFR 2021
After a weird night, five super-rich friends find out they are vampires. Panic! Is this really what they have become?
98'
Netherlands
IFFR 2021
A workers’ strike is violently put down by Soviet troops in this current, urgent historical drama by master director Konchalovsky.
120'
Russia
IFFR 2021
Beautiful, thoughtful western focusing on friendship rather than strife. And on the diversity of the American frontier around 1820.
122'
USA
IFFR 2021
Two easily-distracted layabouts find a Labrador-sized fly in this new film from master absurdist Dupieux.
74'
France
IFFR 2021
A traumatised mother gets the opportunity to avenge her daughter’s execution in Iran. Is her victim really the perpetrator?
107'
Netherlands
IFFR 2021
The power of storytelling underpins this stifling, inventive film from Côte d’Ivoire about life inside a gigantic prison.
93'
France
IFFR 2021
Bosnian UN interpreter Aida is trapped between factions in this moving, urgent drama about the genocide in Srebrenica in 1995.
101'
Bosnia and Herzegovina
IFFR 2021
Act of revenge devised by grumpy widower (Mads Mikkelsen) gets out of hand – with therapeutic consequences. Bittersweet, absurdist tragicomedy.
116'
Denmark
IFFR 2021
When a tense, deprived Copenhagen neighbourhood violently explodes, two cops have to save their own skins.
108'
Denmark
IFFR 2021
You follow our lead and are kept in the dark until the film starts. Let us take you by surprise!
98'
IFFR 2021
Effective, minimalist, supremely French film adaptation of a play by Marguerite Duras about a wealthy woman (Charlotte Gainsbourg) receiving her lover.
88'
France
IFFR 2021
Psychological drama about fitness influencer Sylwia, who is forced to adjust her perfect impression of herself after encountering a stalker.
102'
Poland
IFFR 2021