IFFR 1999

Daoud Aoulad Syad

Stylish feature début is an excellently acted film with beautiful rhythm and photography that is a bitter-sweet homage to the last travelling fairground showmen in Morocco: musicians, story-tellers, animal tamers, jugglers.

tiger competition

Adieu, Forain!

Fernando León de Aranoa

The maker sketches life in a grey suburb with a sense of humour and a sharp eye for detail. The kids Rai, Manu and Javi each try to escape the concrete jungle in their own way.

Barrio

Kim Sion

Three young criminals and three young women visit the same isolated, abandoned school at different times. A strong evocation of atmosphere, off-screen lives, frustration and time passing. New Korean talent with a hint of Hou Hsiao-hsien.

Fly Low

Christopher Nolan

Following

Michael Bindlechner

Realistic but also dreamy feature carried by two young actors and a striking actress. Boy learns about life through unruly girlfriend and chastened buddy.

In Heaven

Alexander Bashirov

Social extravaganza in which the last of the Communist propagandists tries to turn the clock back to the old days in Russia. With beautiful, loving and surrealist footage of industrial complexes.

The Iron Heel of Oligarchy

Lodewijk Crijns

Lodewijk Crijn's feature début is a parody of fashion fads in Western culture. The different themes - euthanasia, spirituality, self-mutilation - come together in an apocalypse in the year 2000. With Hans Teeuwen and Kim van Kooten playing the lead.

Jezus is een Palestijn

Laurent Achard

Fatehr is a drunkard, mother is strong, teenage daughter Françoise loves her nephew and an attractive Arab lives in the garden shed. In a controlled visual style with lyrical moments, the melodramatic elements of the story are limited by detached camera work and excellent portrayals.

Plus qu'hier, moins que demain

Barbara Albert

Michael Grimm

Reinhard Jud

Taut trilogy about misspent youths by three young directors. Not everyone survives unscathed the acquaintance with the nocturnal world of sex and drugs.

Slidin' Alles Bunt und Wunderbar

Radwan El Kashef

'Palm sweat' is a colourful metaphor for the changing situation in the Egyptian countryside. In an oasis village, all the healthy men follow a caravan, leaving young Achmed as the only man.

La sueur des palmiers

Paul Middleditch

Middleditch's confrontational and expressive début film is about a traumatised young woman who tries to start a new life in a coastal lodging house (with eccentric inhabitants).

Terra Nova

Sandrine Veysset

Victor... pendant qu'il est trop tard

Ana Torfs

Stylised and tranquil film about the details of the latter years of Beethoven, based on his 'Konversationshelfte'.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025