After Trinidadian director Damian Marcano won the Yellow Robin Award for his feature God Loves the Fighter at IFFR Curaçao 2014, he spent two months in Rotterdam, where he made the short film Giants. A moving story about youngsters in Rotterdam and who they look up to, their giants. IFFR project in collaboration with A View with a Room.
Also in this combined programme
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Playground
American football is played on rectangular fields, 120 yds long and 160 ft wide. A battle between nature and culture, between organic grass and artifi -
A Copa do Mundo no Recife
The football World Cup disrupted public life in Recife in June 2014. An astonished yet perceptive look at this sporting event by Tiger winner Mendonça -
The Day After
The death of a poet. Everything has been documented. The loss must be enormous, but restraint is demonstrated. With a legendary actress in the lead… -
Crowds
This rousing video shows the essence of crowd mentality, the fury and the ecstasy; the visceral thrill of being part of something bigger than yourself. -
Waiting for News
Only a boy from Papua could hang from a climbing frame like this. He’s elated because his big brother Hans called. Elegant glimpse of real… -
Quantum.
Spotlighting this small Italian mountain village brings a variety of hidden activities to light. -
Angelus Novus
Afghan Ali has just arrived in Turkey where he has to start a new life surrounded by other refugees. -
Goodbye Utopia
Short yet grand animation symbolically depicts the rise and tragedy of various utopias in nine tableaus.
Film details
- Country of production
- Netherlands
- Year
- 2015
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2015
- Length
- 15'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
