27 thoughts about my father
Poignant portrait of the filmmaker’s father, who died last year, told in 27 brief contemplations, including personal moments and exceptional archive footage.
25'
Canada
IFFR 2019
Poignant portrait of the filmmaker’s father, who died last year, told in 27 brief contemplations, including personal moments and exceptional archive footage.
25'
Canada
IFFR 2019
Ancestral salt flats, volcanic deserts and coloured lakes transform into a vibrating Ektachrome landscape full of evocative visual rhythms in color and form.
16'
Chile
IFFR 2019
Aesthetically pleasing, playful narrative about a boy left as the last survivor in his village. Who will bury him when he dies?
29'
Portugal
IFFR 2019
In a rainforest in Ecuador, Isidro Varga and his brother recollect the times when a bullet and a broken bottle nearly ended his life.
18'
Ecuador
IFFR 2019
Paying tribute to an iconic university gathering spot, black students chant and dance to the memories of the past.
9'
USA
IFFR 2019
Frantic re-cataloguing of a personal archive and a vehicle for the re-birth of forgotten images in 35mm still photographs, obsessively tape-spliced together in evolving rhythmic patterns.
13'
Hong Kong
IFFR 2019
In the Olympic marathon in Rome 1960, Ethiopian Abebe Bikila won Africa’s first gold medal, running barefoot.
30'
Germany
IFFR 2019
In his characteristic style of slow-motion camp, Su Hui-yu invokes lost scenes from a glitter-scattered, blood-splattered orgy from a 1985 cult film.
15'
Taiwan
IFFR 2019
In 2012, Kodak went bankrupt. Enter the mind’s eye of a blind former Kodak film technician, reconstructing the past in hallucinatory detail.
33'
USA
IFFR 2019
Enchanting audio performance in which musicians play a long note on a harmonium, as a counterpoint to religious fanaticism in Bangladesh.
13'
Bangladesh
IFFR 2019
A touching and observant portrait of an annual family gathering and the absurd odyssey the grandmother embarks on after her death.
37'
Germany
IFFR 2019
The Mental Traveller meditates on the passing of time, external behavior and sensory realities on a psychiatric ward in Thailand.
18'
Thailand
IFFR 2019
Hand-written index cards, filmed on 35mm: the key to stories where personal history is linked to a love of sociology.
9'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2019
A portrait of Christian, who migrated from the city to the jungle village of Cocachimba, Peru, where he finds himself an outsider.
16'
Netherlands
IFFR 2019
Paranon revolves around the idea of juxtapositioning fundamental elements of sound and image, by manipulating various parameters in shifting canon structures.
15'
Netherlands
IFFR 2019
Moroccan sci-fi using augmented reality, humour and a dose of frenzied Chaabi music to tell a story of displacement, biotechnology and privacy.
26'
Morocco
IFFR 2019
Real life invades the theatrical bubble in this urgent drama, in which two Brazilian theatre students swap acting lessons for street protest.
19'
Brazil
IFFR 2019
A dizzying array of colours, textures and literary quotations point to the perfidious capitalist pressures on women to conform and consume.
13'
USA
IFFR 2019
In 1972, Charles Duke lands on the Moon. The Sasha deals with humanity’s constant struggle with temporal and spatial limitations.
20'
Netherlands
IFFR 2019
Kafka's reimagining of the deadly sirens is the inspiration behind this intimate portrait of a young woman struggling with her identity.
34'
France
IFFR 2019
Set in Noah Purifoy’s Outdoor Desert Art Museum, artist Cauleen Smith re-imagines this unique space as a radical feminist utopia.
22'
USA
IFFR 2019
Madiha Aijaz’s observational documentary on public libraries in Karachi, Pakistan, contemplates the slow disappearance of the Urdu literary tradition.
15'
Pakistan
IFFR 2019
A visual poem narrating the 'exile blues' through spoken-word performance, improvised rhythms, historical objects, documents and a universal colour.
42'
Belgium
IFFR 2019
Slightly frenetic, poppy animation featuring a Buddhist elephant, a social media addicted chicken and a tree trunk with insect phobia.
13'
Hong Kong
IFFR 2019