IFFR 2000

Penelope Spheeris

Saturday Night Live comic Chris Farley, who died too young, played the embarrassing younger brother of a politician who wants to be governor: he doesn't seem to know how to respect the rules of Western civilisation.

bad teenage taste

Black Sheep

Betty Thomas

The incredibly healthy Brady family from the seventies wakes up in a world of hostile neighbours, sharp businessmen, grunge and social decay, but manage to keep on their feet by clinging on like maniacs to their sweet and sunny way of life.

The Brady Bunch Movie

Alexander Payne

The most ideal pupil in the school wants to be president of the school club. Election is a sneaky metaphor for the American political process, in the form of a commercial high-school film.

Election

Matthew Bright

Little Red Ridinghood in 1996 becomes bogged down in bizarre and realistic world of white trash, sexual abuse, drug addiction and serial killers. Obscure satire with a poker face - a jewel from the straight-to-video forest.

Freeway

George Armitage

Freelance hitman starts developing a conscience and, on the advice of his therapist, visits a reunion at his secondary school in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. With by far the cleverest dialogues in today's American comedies.

Grosse Pointe Blank

Peter Farrelly

Bobby Farrelly

The best bowler in the world loses his bowling hand. Crude, tasteless, ruthless comedy filled with unemployed drunkards, Amish kids and the boring Mid West (the critics get panned too). Unqualified nineties classic.

Kingpin

Trey Parker

South Park, land of high-school murders and medieval anti-gay laws. Filled with dirty jokes and crazy double entendres. Already a milestone in the history of the animation film, the musical genre and social polemics. Biting commentary on censorship, patental guidance, political correctness and the media.

South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut

Sarah Kernochan

Behind the noisy façade of good, gory high-school fun, Strike looks at early feminism, sex roles, juvenile sexuality, eating disorders and the effect of big money on American schools.

Strike

Sofia Coppola

An average American suburb in the seventies: five attractive teenager daughters start to investigate the finer details of puberty, but perfect family life is disrupted by the inexplicable suicide attempt by the youngest daughter.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025