IFFR 2014

Dénes Nagy

One of the leading lights of the Hungarian contemporary art scene, Imre Bukta, resettles in his home village, which is in decline and makes for a dramatic contrast with the modern world. A poetic, melancholic essay on a disappearing culture and the traces it leaves on landscapes, faces and people's lives. Semi-feature: new presentation format that foregrounds the mid-length film.

Signals: My Own Private Europe

Another Hungary

Knut Åsdam

A petrol station on the outskirts of Oslo as an intersection of the arteries of contemporary Europe: consumption, migration, class hierarchies, alienation and fear of violence hide beneath a calm surface. A conceptual thriller from one of the most prominent European visual artists. Semi-feature: new presentation format that foregrounds the mid-length film.

Egress

Cynthia Beatt

A woman discovers that she has a distant but personal relationship to a historic building in Berlin and embarks on a journey into the past. One that turns out to be much more alive, ambiguous and unpredictable than expected. A contemporary visual quest at the intersection between fiction and non-fiction.

A House in Berlin

Boris Lehman

Seven apartments, seven times of life: one film. A classic diary film, Boris Lehman intimately chronicles his own existence and that of objects and places that became an essential part of his life. A truly cinematic experience that gives us a highly European sense of space, time and history itself.

Mes sept lieux

Gonçalo Tocha

Vila Cha is the only place on Earth where traditions of fishing formed exclusively by women still live. Despite their age, the old ladies keep on entering the sea to catch fish. A purely cinematographic portrait of an invisible, already mythical Europe that is fading away, like waves on the sea.

The Mother and the Sea

Peter von Bagh

Peter von Bagh takes us on a trip to his homeland and Oulu, a small Finnish town, tracing the turbulent changes it has undergone in the 20th century. A life of the filmmaker, a history of his home and a history of cinema intersect in this magical film that works like a time machine.

Remembrance - A Small Movie About Oulu in the 1950s

Anna Odell

Anna Odell was not invited to the reunion party by her former classmates, twenty years after graduation. Nevertheless, she pays them an unexpected, disastrous visit which is only part of her gripping experiment on identity, truth, falsehood, reality and fiction.

The Reunion

Valéry Rosier

Radio Puisaleine is not just a small radio station, but also an unusual social network that connects locals in a very humane way. Each has personal joys and sorrows to share by broadcasting a certain old song. A charming, almost tangible portrait of old provincial Europe, where even loneliness can be shared. Semi-feature: new presentation format that foregrounds the mid-length film.

Silence radio

Peter Liechti

Peter Liechti rediscovers his family by filming his parents after more than 60 years of marriage. He puts the questions children are afraid to ask their parents, examining the relationship between them and between his generation and theirs. An unsentimental, loving, brave family portrait from an insider's viewpoint.

Vaters Garten - Die Liebe meiner Eltern

Joaquim Pinto

Joaquim Pinto has been filming his struggle against HIV for a year, but this 'natural history of a disease' is surpassed by his highly poetic, if not imaginative, view of physical existence. A multilayered self-portrait that gradually turns into a striking snapshot of our times.

What Now? Remind Me

Vlad Petri

Vlad Petri followed the Romanian protesters who occupied the streets of Bucharest two years ago. A poignant documentary about people who are devastated and impulsive, lost and encouraged, all at once. And about a revolution that becomes a tragic absurdity.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025