IFFR 2008

Paul Krik

Even in Brooklyn, they don't know exactly what happened on 9/11. But that the truth is not what we were told is obvious in this spoof. Satirical conspiracy thriller disguised as a film noir, full of attractive fast-talking babes, spectacled activists and fetishistic neo-Nazis.

Rotterdämmerung

Able Danger

Aramaki Shinji

Upgrade of the successful <strong>Appleseed</strong> from 2004 and that was already a stunning spectacle. It is set in a post-apocalyptic world where a battle, often only understandable for insiders, continues between people, cyborgs, mecha, bioroids and terrorists of various kinds. Produced by John Woo.

Appleseed: Ex Machina

Matsumoto Hitoshi

Some films can best be described by the word incomparable. 'The big Japanese', because that's what the title means, is a fake documentary about a typical Japanese underachiever who has to work hard to save Japan from monsters: live on television and with plummeting ratings... seeing is believing.

Dainipponjin

Blutch

Charles Burns

Marie Caillou

Pierre Di Sciullo

Lorenzo Mattotti

Richard McGuire

Ambitious animation film in which several of the best of today's illustrators and comic-strip artists take out their imagination and fabulous technique - often in black and white - on the theme of fear. With work by Blutch, Charles Burns, Marie Caillou, Pierre Di Sciullo, Richard McGuire and Lorenzo Mattotti.

Fear(s) of the Dark

George Romero

The meta-media horror film as social commentary is an indestructible genre that is by no means exhausted. And if anyone understands it, it's the legend Romero (67). His fifth Dead film is about film students who find themselves in a world populated by zombies and decide to report on this crisis.

George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead

Tomas Alfredson

While an outer suburb of Stockholm is plagued by ritual murders, 12-year-old Oscar could do with some help coping with bullies. Help arrives in the form of new neighbours. Moving and confusing variation blows new life into the age-old vampire theme. By the Jack of all trades Alfredson (Four Shades of Brown).

Let the Right One in

Jaume Balagueró

Paco Plaza

Enormous horror hit back home in Spain excels in its breathtaking tempo. An enthusiastic TV reporter and her cameraman prepare for a nocturnal glimpse behind the scenes of the fire brigade. The viewer also soon doesn't have any time to think.

Wisit Sasanatieng

A fine old-fashioned horror film, but made by a refined and trendy Thai director. A respectable ghost house and several formidable actresses invoke a fantastic world in which men only seem to play a role as locked-up lovers. Or as ghosts, of course.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025