Hubert Bals Fund
Programme IFFR Unleashed
Overzicht van films
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Alba
Ana Cristina Barragan | 98' | Ecuador | -
Alba is a shy girl who goes to live with her solitary father when her mother has to go to hospital. A moving debut from… -
Black Blood
Zhang Miaoyan | 128' | China | -
Not everything is progress in China. Less and less rain means that the inhabitants of Inner Mongolia have to do everything to survive. For instance,… -
By the Time It Gets Dark
Anocha Suwichakornpong | 105' | Thailand | None
Powerful second feature by Anocha Suwichakornpong, who won a Tiger in 2010 with Mundane History, starts with the Thammasat University massacre of 1976 in Bangkok.… -
A Corner of Heaven
Zhang Miaoyan | 94' | China | -
With elegant camera movements in apt black-and-white, cameraman/writer/director Zhang enchants the viewer: a gripping phantasmagoria of modern slavery, opium pushers and youth gangs in an… -
The Day I Lost My Shadow
Soudade Kaadan | 95' | Syria | None
A young Syrian mother’s search for bottled gas ends in a panic-stricken journey. Awarded Best Debut in Venice. -
The Fever
Maya Da-Rin | 98' | Brazil | None
Hypnotic drama about a native Amazonian whose life is disrupted when his daughter tells him she wants to study in Brasilia. -
La Flor (Parte 1)
Mariano Llinás | 220' | Argentina | None
Monumental masterpiece in two episodes: a B-film about a scary mummy and a musical drama mixed with a real mystery. -
La Flor (Parte 2)
Mariano Llinás | 313' | Argentina | None
Some time in the 1980s, in the Argentine pampas, four female spies have to successfully complete ‘Operation Hercules’. In the morning, a life-and-death confrontation awaits… -
La Flor (Parte 3)
Mariano Llinás | 290' | Argentina | None
It starts with a brilliant exercise in self-parodying metafiction and evolves into something completely different. Followed by a remake of Jean Renoir’s Partie de campagne… -
Los hongos
Oscar Ruiz Navia | 103' | Colombia | None
Personally and autobiographically inspired drama about two skater friends who are at the heart of the colourful, noisy street and youth culture of Cali, Colombia.… -
La idea de un lago
Milagros Mumenthaler | 82' | Argentina | None
Milagros Mumenthaler returns with a playful family drama set amongst stunning Argentinian mountains. Photographer Inès is pregnant and wants to find out about her father,… -
In April the Following Year, There Was a Fire
Wichanon Somumjarn | 76' | Thailand | -
A poetic title, almost a film description, that demands some close reading. Just like the film, which – as a visual poem – doesn’t immediately…