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28 Jan – 7 Feb 2027

Ghost Children

As crianças fantasmas

João Vieira Torres | Brazil, France | 2016 | 16' | | IFFR 2017

A procession of cheap snapshots, most likely assembled from discarded family albums. Voices reminisce about childhood, while the camera explores the fading colours. Each of the seven voices seems to remember their day of birth. This impossible act suggests that life is an ongoing chain of constructed memories.

All Short films at IFFR 2017

Also in this combined programme

  • Answer Print

    Images on celluloid eventually deteriorate. In fact, a loss of colour is already noticeable in this poetic collage of recycled, predominantly magenta

  • Conseil d’Etat

    Footage from the 1950s evokes memories of both modernist euphoria and the Cold War. The soundtrack however refers to 1980s Belgian paranoia.

  • SERGEI/SIR GAY

    As a teenager, Eisenstein always signed his drawings ‘Sir Gay’. The waggish essayist Rappaport sees clear signs of his sexual orientation throughout t

  • What Happened to Her

    Endless scenes of men staring at female corpses. From beyond the grave an off-screen voice testifies about the forensic fetishisation of her body.
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Film details

Countries of production
Brazil, France
Year
2016
Festival edition
IFFR 2017
Length
16'
Medium/Format
DCP