IFFR 2011

F.J. Ossang

A bookmaker is cross-examined about prostitution and clandestine gladiator fights by a police commissioner who has a complete file, but no hard evidence. Set in a world where pseudo-punks have turned their backs on bourgeois society and flirt with death.

Signals: F.J. Ossang

L'affaire des divisions Morituri

A journey by a man and a woman along the borders of continents. The water, the medicine, the ice, the fire. Heaven is extinguished!

Ciel éteint!

Inspired by Gianfranco Sanguinetti's On Terrorism and the State. Shots of the orbital road, the Arc de Triomphe and rebellious blindfolded youths in a gunfight. Screens before The Case of the Morituri Divisions.

La dernière énigme

This film opens with a beautiful scene: a speedboat, steered by a woman, races at high speed over the water. Behind it a water-skier, who suddenly crashes. The man wakes from a coma to discover that genealogists are looking for an individual whose identity matches his.

Dharma Guns

Angstel trades in forged paintings, under the guidance of his mother, Milady. Their network extends into other murky affairs, provoking the wrath of a rival gang. Angstel falls in love with Ancetta, a prostitute, and flees with her to the north of Chile.

Docteur Chance

Trees, the sea, megaliths, an iron bridge and a woman, filmed during the first and last hour of the day. With music by Throbbing Gristle.

Silencio

The world after the atomic age. An engineer disappears, together with his consortium (Kryo'Corp) and his discovery: a new energy source powered by the fusion of two primary substances. Ulysses, Kryo'Corp's heir, organises an expedition to the only place these substances occur.

Le trésor des îles chiennes

In the tradition of silent film. A sea, a voyage, a new life? Then Vladivostok: city of images. Featuring a cameo by director Paul Cox.

Vladivostok

A dirty deal between cowboys. The fight between the Texan Benz, head of a gang of assassins, and Captain Mort, his right-hand man. Screens before Ossang: Tryptique du paysage.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025