Hubert Bals Fund
Programme IFFR Unleashed
Overview of films
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Year Without a Summer
A sensitive film, constructed as ebb and flow. In the first part, old friends look back on their childhood by the light of the moon. In the second
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Verano de Goliat
Pereda is rapidly acquiring admirers for his equally rapidly expanding, cohesive oeuvre. The fifth film is a beautiful mix of fiction and documenta
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The Island Funeral
A couple of young people drive out of town for a long journey. It could well be a Thai Jules and Jim. On the way, it however becomes clear that the
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The Fever
Hypnotic drama about a native Amazonian whose life is disrupted when his daughter tells him she wants to study in Brasilia.
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Leones
Five young people wander through a forest.It unfolds beautifully and mysteriously, like a puzzle.
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La vida útil
Ode to love and a melancholy lament about fading film culture go hand in hand in this old-fashioned precise black-and-white jewel. About a man whos
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Black Blood
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
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Yo
Yo, a strong man with a childlike spirit, lives with his mother in a chicken restaurant by a Mexican highway. He adores her, but not her guy. The f
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Vanishing Point
A serious film about serious, complex issues (including a dramatic car crash), presented in a light, playful way. The film follows two very differe
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The Orphanage
Bollywood-film nostalgia colours the experiences of fifteen-year-old Qodrat, who ends up in an orphanage during Afghanistan’s 1980s Soviet-or
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The Joy
Luiza (16) has had enough of stories about the end of the world. On Christmas Eve, her cousin is shot; a few weeks later she bumps into him as a gh
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The Day I Lost My Shadow
A young Syrian mother’s search for bottled gas ends in a panic-stricken journey. Awarded Best Debut in Venice.