IFFR 2015

Nicolas Steiner

A couple who live in an underground tunnel in Las Vegas. A lonely guy who survives in the Californian desert. A girl who seriously plans to move to Mars. All of them are inhabitants of today’s world, both apocalyptic and brand-new. A mind-blowing and super-cinematic exploration of contemporary existence.

Hivos Tiger Awards Competition

Above and Below

Ismail Basbeth

A dreamy, absurdist fantasy film based on Indonesian legends. Asa is the daughter of a seer. To escape her mother’s clutches, she lives hidden in a forest. One day, she is collected by a dog, who turns out to be a man sent by her mother. Sophisticated visions.

Another Trip to the Moon

Jeppe Rønde

Over a 5-year period in Bridgend in Wales, 79 people, many of them teenagers, committed suicide without leaving any clue as to why. This is the starting point for Danish Rønde’s feature debut - an atmospheric, at times mysterious social drama. Hannah Murray convinces as the 'new girl in town'.

Bridgend

Remy van Heugten

A powerful father-son drama plays out in the ignored, impoverished Dutch province of South Limburg, which offers no opportunity for escape. Neither for the characters, who carry on an unequal struggle against their social conditions, nor for the audience. Gluckauf’s chokehold is much too firm for that.

Gluckauf

Lisa Takeba

The craziness of our times, depicted through old television shows. Haruko is a girl who prefers to cuddle up to her old-fashioned TV set. In this wondrous story, a television can transform into a man: and this is by no means the end of the strange cheerfulness. A masterpiece of the imagination.

Haruko's Paranormal Laboratory

Kyros Papavassiliou

A man who doesn’t know who he is meets his former love. She tells him he is a famous poet, Kostas Karyotakis, who killed himself in 1928. Every year he returns on the anniversary of his death. A day that has taken place many, many times before plays out again. Will Kostas again make the same decisions?

Impressions of a Drowned Man

Laura Citarella

Verónica Llinás

Co-director Llinás plays an intriguing, unique character in this existentialist fable about a woman who lives with a pack of dogs on the very edge of the populated world, with minimal contact with other people. The seasons come and go. On life and survival, love and death.

La mujer de los perros

Martin Radich

A father and son live isolated from the outside world. Following a conflict, a painful family story unfolds. Who is in the right and who is wrong remains a mystery, however - also for the audience. The landscape of Norfolk forms the perfect backdrop to this at times disconcerting but always visually stunning drama.

Norfolk

Carlos M. Quintela

Drifting effortlessly between raw psychological realism and dreamy surrealism and loaded with unique Cuban archive footage, this film portrays three generations of Cubans. In their apartment in the workers’ quarters at a half-built nuclear power station, they are forced to simply carry on. A fresh voice from, and about, a country in a stalemate.

La obra del siglo

Lukas Valenta Rinner

Threatened by the end of the world, a group of Buenos Aires residents receive lessons in survival. Bitterly comical stylisation of human failings.

Threatened by the end of the world, a group of Buenos Aires residents receive lessons in survival at a resort in the marshy Tigre delta. The Austrian background of Rinner, who trained in Argentina, shines through in this bitterly comical stylisation of human failings when face-to-face with the apocalypse.

Parabellum

Britni West

At first sight, small towns are not so different from one another: identical shops and identical pleasures. So Tired Moonlight mainly focuses on the inhabitants. Loosely connected to one another, their dreams and desires are what distinguishes them. Intuitive Americana movie gives an atmospheric impression of a small community.

Tired Moonlight

Jakrawal Nilthamrong

A serious film about serious, complex issues (including a dramatic car crash), presented in a light, playful way. The film follows two very different men, each of whom changes his life in his own way. This doesn’t seem to be a direct result of the choices they make. Change can be like that.

Vanishing Point

Juan Daniel  Fernández Molero

Internet cafés and slackers, not-so-innocent schoolgirls and amateur porn using Google Glass, Mayans and the end of the world, acid trips and guinea pigs as extras in an exorcism: things in Lima, the Peruvian capital, are pretty similar to contemporary reality, virtual or otherwise, in the rest of the world.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025