IFFR 2015

Cindy Jansen

A portrait of two brothers who start out being close and very similar, but end up on either end of the social spectrum. Calm, loving film subtly makes you ponder life's choices and the accompanying expectations.

As Long As It Takes: Mid-Length

Auld Lang Syne

Daniel V. Villamediana

Villamediana uses his family history to unravel hidden memories of kabbala in Spain. With contemporary images, found footage, archival material, film, literature and ancient Hebrew texts, he creates a new cinematic language for unearthing cultural history.

Cábala caníbal

Garrett Bradley

A young musician tries to find her place in New Orleans, city of musical dreams and failures. Bradley expresses the musician's inner life with remarkable editing and a moving soundtrack that reinforces the city's slow pace.

Cover Me

Ruben Desiere

Impressive documentary with fictional elements that stays close to the characters and their environment. Roma Kevin Mroc and his family's struggles - threatened by eviction from their squatted home - are freely combined with the story Kosmos by Witold Gombrowicz.

Kosmos

Eyad Aljarod

Aliaa Khachouk

Lovers’ Notebooks takes you on the night-time adventures of the men who write on the walls in the Syrian village of Saraqeb. Their slogans and other texts are used to document the revolution for three years, both its euphoria and failure. The walls are the book.

Lovers' Notebooks

Guto Parente

A murder mystery in which a young woman loses herself in loneliness and nostalgia in an old apartment. Her fear slowly turns into a situation in which dream, reality and fantasy merge. Time, space and characters seem to disappear thanks to the paintings and classical music in the house.

The Mysterious Death of Pérola

Steve Reinke

Reinke's excess of images, language, connections and suggestions creates a cinematic essay on life's questions. Philosophy, archiving, disease cells, nocturnal animals and art are just a few of the ingredients of his work, which is replete with humour and self-deprecation, and concludes with watercolour animation.

Rib Gets in the Way

Céline Baril

An exceptional road movie that deals with the loss of the American Dream and the reality of the American Nightmare. Cityscapes are lent a bitter, absurd aftertaste by the soundtrack that excerpts films and protest speeches from the 1960s and 1970s.

Room Tone

Thierry Knauff

A poetic record of an afternoon on the Tisza river. Mayflies emerge and thousands of them whir across the river while a girl watches. Knauff was inspired by jazz legend Jimmy Giuffre, who is famous for his development of free interplay between musicians.

Vita brevis

Ognjen Glavonić 

Like Don Quixote, Zivan Pujic Jimmy fights for his annual punk festival. A film about failure, ambition, friendship and clinging to your dreams. Glavonic received much praise for this exceptional film that doesn't reveal what's fact and what's fiction.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025