All the Cities of the North
100'
Serbia
IFFR 2017
Struggling to succeed as an artist, 25-year-old Pia, played by director Anaïs Volpé, returns to her mother’s home. She aims for a fresh start but her twin brother doesn’t support her vision. Volpé voices the concerns of the millennial generation: finding independence. Here, the sincerity and form stand out, as Volpé mashes up footage from formats such as home videos and mobile phones, to deliver a DIY hybrid that is part fiction, part diary, part slam (Volpé’s voice-over is rhythmic and musical).
HEIS (chroniques) pushes the boundaries by also being a cross-media project, including a series and an art installation: HEIS (on the wall). The series of five eleven-minute episodes expands the film’s dilemma (staying/leaving) to others (loving/breaking up), while the installation channels the millennials’ inner landscape through props used in the film, photos and videos shown on cathode TVs. The series can be watched on tablets in the installation.
HEIS (on the wall): Thu 26 Jan to Sat 4 Feb, 11:00-20:30 KINO Rotterdam, free admission
IFFR 2017
Programme IFFR 2017
100'
Serbia
IFFR 2017
93'
Germany
IFFR 2017
Coming-of-age drama in which a Puerto Rican teen girl is living at her strict grandmother’s house, waiting until she can move to America to be with her mom.
98'
Puerto Rico
IFFR 2017