IFFR 2014

Fanta Ananas

A small Hitler clone. A goat with a swastika. A neighbourhood bar somewhere in Addis Ababa.

Signals: Grand Tour

Chigger Ale

Diane Rabreau

After her trips throughout Europe, in search of the facts behind curious destinations that were found on Google Maps, the artist presents her observations as an intriguing research lab for alternative travel.

Diane Goes for You

Thomas Bellinck

‘A disturbing exhibition that gets deep under the visitor's skin. An intelligent argument against rising nationalism and EU sceptics without reverting to EU propaganda. On the contrary, Bellinck delivers harsh criticism of the European Union.’ de Volkskrant [Dutch daily newspaper]

Domo de Eŭropa Historio en Ekzilo

Robin Campillo

Scriptwriter/editor for Laurent Cantet (L'emploi du temps, Entre les murs) directs overwhelming second film. Wealthy man in his 50s approaches a young Eastern European at the Gare du Nord for gay sex and the whole gang comes to visit. Three for the price of one: home invasion film, love story and thriller.Please note, all public screenings of this film will be with Dutch subtitling only.

Eastern Boys

Griet Teck

Age brings infirmity. Dementia is on the rise in Europe's greying population. Observational Flemish documentary touchingly shows how the pre-war generation and their caregivers deal with disappearing memories and how music is often the last means of expression.

Feel My Love

Frauke Finsterwalder

There is no country in Europe that is so difficult to reduce to digestible clichés as contemporary Germany: <strong>Finsterworld</strong>, a mosaic of bizarre stories and humorous dialogues is like a distorting mirror with fairy-tale sarcasm and pessimism alongside surprises and hope. A ‘masterpiece’, according to <em>Die Zeit</em>.

Finsterworld

Luis López Carrasco

Back to the Future, Spain 1982: at a euphoric party, young people celebrate the election victory of the Socialist Party. López Carrasco stages the past with stunning precision and shows the future as a surprising result: well, the present.

El futuro

Pawel Pawlikowski

Poland, early 1960s. Devout novice Ida visits her sole family member, having been warned by the Mother Superior. The chain-smoking, cynical Wanda reveals dark family secrets to her. Pawlikowski (My Summer of Love) confirms his talent in stunning black-and-white. Please note, all public screenings of this film will be with Dutch subtitling only.

Philippe Garrel

The ever-romantic Paris of Philippe Garrel. In this biographically inspired drama, his son Louis Garrel plays his grandfather (Maurice, also an actor), who left his wife and child for another woman. Timeless, beautifully shot by the cameraman for Godard’s Masculin féminin (1966), Willy Kurant.

La jalousie

Götz Spielmann

Attractive screenplay in the European film tradition of the psychology of family life. Two sisters have taken different paths: one is a successful actress in Berlin, the other a mother in their native village in the Alps. Their father’s illness brings them together - but not necessarily closer.

Oktober November

Julian  Radlmaier

Hope for cinema and the rejected of Europe! This comic/absurd fairytale offers a way out of despair in our harsh post-capitalist age. Georgian cleaners in a castle in East Germany preparing a party for the elite consider their proletarian options. Shown twice, along with Redemption.

Ein proletarisches Wintermärchen

Miguel Gomes

Highlight of the film year: collage film featuring intimate thoughts from well-known Europeans in bombastic/ironic 'letters' from Portugal, Milan, Paris and Leipzig.

Redemption

Gianfranco Rosi

Impressionistic mosaic showing the very diverse Romans who live and work along the ring road (the GRA) around the eternal city. Fascinating, stimulating and charming succession of dramatic and humorous scenes won Rosi a Golden Lion at the Venice festival.

Sacro GRA

Clio Barnard

Young teenager and his best friend are kicked out of school and start a career in scrap metal. Realistic, heart-breaking look at the British underclass, stylishly made by debut filmmaker with young actors who could only be found in England. Multiple award-winner.

The Selfish Giant

Christoffer Boe

Spies and Glistrup really existed - their wild adventures and extravagant ideas are thus based on fact. This bio-pic is satisfyingly unclassifiable. A free-thinking travel entrepreneur and an ugly lawyer with radical tax plans become friends in the 1960s. Please note, all public screenings of this film will be with Dutch subtitling only.

Spies & Glistrup

Albert Serra

Serra won a Golden Leopard in Locarno with this peculiar, at times amusing, always painterly and philosophical film. In his latter days, rationalist and hedonist Casanova travels to a region 'south of the Carpathians', where the dark, romantic Dracula awaits him.

Story of My Death

Corneliu Porumboiu

Third feature by Romanian master starts with the year's best film lesson: filmmaker seduces his supporting actress - in one take during a short car journey - without her realising. The whole film is like that: no contemporary filmmaker combines form and function more tellingly.

When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism

Pablo Sigg

Nietzsche's crazy sister married an anti-Semite and in 1887 emigrated to Paraguay with him and 14 families of pure Aryan blood to found Nueva Germania. An engaging, contemplative film about the Schweikhart brothers - the last living descendants of this social experiment.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025