IFFR 2017

Khavn

Whirlwind mix of humour and grotesque violence by the productive Khavn, this time with young kids from the slums of Manila in the leading roles as robbing and murdering gang members with nicknames like Pork Chop, Bull Dog, McAbnormal and Snowman. And a smoking toddler, Day-Old Chick, walking round with a gun in his hand.

Perspectives

A Band Apart

Alipato: The Very Brief Life of an Ember

Pieter Van Hees

With Belgium in economic turmoil, youths are the first to be hit, forced to live in squatter areas and literally beg for jobs. The homeless Jonas devises surreal strategies to survive. This satirical comedy imagines a dystopia that feels very close to home.

Generatie B

Martine Doyen

After the terrorist attack at the Jewish Museum in 2014, people in Brussels  are plagued with a very peculiar disease — they can’t help dancing in  the streets. Modern trauma is dealt in a raw, poetic way in this film,  part-documentary on a neighbourhood, part-urban-magical-spell.

HAMSTERs

Matsui Daigo

A young woman disappears in Tokyo and a group of female street artists paint her face on walls all over the city. A gang of teenage girls attack men in the streets. All this fuels a dazzling mix of delicate moments and chaotic outbursts championing lively Japanese girls irked by machismo.

Japanese Girls Never Die

Karl Lemieux

Young musician Vincent is targeted by the mob and flees to his small hometown. There, he unexpectedly reconnects with his older brother, a tortured soul who embodies everything he wanted to escape. A somber and raw drama with an intensity reminiscent of the films of Philippe Grandrieux.

Maudite Poutine

Bertrand Bonello

A group of young people from every corner of French society coordinates a series of bombings in Paris. This timely premise is pushed here to its best and most thought-provoking treatment in a radical action movie on millennial radicalism, a dreamy experiment in terror.

Nocturama

Mars Roberge

A young hipster fights for his sanity as he joins a telemarketing company, full of crazy workers, ex-convicts and murderers. It’s anarchy on the phone line and in this dark comedy on self-fulfilment under extreme conditions, showcasing a plethora of legendary faces from the US underground culture.

Scumbag

Morgan Simon

Vincent (24 and Parisian) is an impressive figure on stage, where he screams out his frustrations as the singer in a metalcore band. The flames of his fury are fanned by a difficult love-hate relationship with his father. Their smouldering conflict erupts when they fight for the same woman.

IFFR 2024
25 Jan – 4 Feb 2024