Previously On
Programme IFFR Unleashed
Overview of films
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By the Time It Gets Dark
Anocha Suwichakornpong | 105' | Thailand |
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.… -
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… -
The Joy
Felipe Bragança, Marina Meliande | 100' | Brazil |
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… -
Kékszakállú
Gastón Solnicki | 72' | Argentina |
This highly praised first fiction film by Argentine talent Solnicki (Papirosen, IFFR 2012) is a beautifully filmed portrait of several young daughters of rich industrialists,… -
Las lindas
Melisa Liebenthal | 77' | Argentina |
Melisa, filmmaker and character in The Pretty Ones is young, intelligent and funny, but also critical and ironic. She interviews her friends, reconstructs herself as a… -
Lucía
Niles Atallah | 80' | Chile |
A beautifully made portrait of the seamstress Lucia, who lives with her father in an old house in Santiago, that offers an unexpected glimpse of… -
La mujer de los perros
Laura Citarella, Verónica Llinás | 95' | Argentina |
Co-director Llinás plays an intriguing, unique character in this existentialist fable about a woman who lives with a pack of dogs on the very edge… -
Prologue to the Great Desaparecido
Lav Diaz | 30' | Philippines |
Great filmmaker prepares for a historical masterpiece set in an inhospitable, black-and-white jungle. A taster. -
La vida útil
Federico Veiroj | 67' | Uruguay |
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 whose…