Alva
After his children are taken away by social services, a troubled loner seeks revenge and flees into the inhospitable forest.
98'
Portugal
IFFR 2019
After his children are taken away by social services, a troubled loner seeks revenge and flees into the inhospitable forest.
98'
Portugal
IFFR 2019
Fourteen absurd encounters of a melancholy girl with the surrounding world in this post-modern comedy filled with pastel and neon lights.
80'
Germany
IFFR 2019
Life’s key elements come together in this visual film symphony and ode to today's colourful Jamaica.
77'
Jamaica
IFFR 2019
An honest portrait of two young Haitian immigrants on the brink of a dream future in the USA.
76'
Mexico
IFFR 2019
Compassion and rage are not far apart in the life of a troubled vet in the remote Russian countryside.
124'
Russia
IFFR 2019
A young Syrian mother’s search for bottled gas ends in a panic-stricken journey. Awarded Best Debut in Venice.
95'
Syria
IFFR 2019
A delicate self-portrait about aging, maternity and sexuality. Romina Paula fictionalises reality and explores being a daughter and new mother.
84'
Argentina
IFFR 2019
A dead horse; a childhood memory; the Turkish countryside; a nebula. Guileless realism as a prelude to life’s mystery.
73'
Turkey
IFFR 2019
Filipino sports film, melodrama and nightmare about a fallen basketball prospect, shot in glorious black-and-white and starring a Mitsubishi Galant.
124'
Philippines
IFFR 2019
Drifting apart as adult women, childhood friends Aki and Nodoka's story is told through line-readings, whose structures reveal the complications of friendship.
150'
Japan
IFFR 2019
The animated story of Paul Lynde, the flamboyant voice actor behind many Hanna-Barbera cartoon villains from the 1960s and 1970s.
70'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2019
Twenty-four hours in the lives of a group of colourful Berliners in their late twenties/early thirties, oscillating between a carefree existence and emptiness.
120'
Germany
IFFR 2019
An Azerbaijani family’s father, mother and son all desire freedom; or have they in fact become alienated from one another?
92'
Germany
IFFR 2019
Poetic, fictionalised film diary about globalisation and migration, brought back to the essence of human micro-politics: desire, fear and hope.
75'
Brazil
IFFR 2019
As she approaches retirement, a transgender truck driver looks back on her life on the road, with a different sweetheart in every town.
89'
Brazil
IFFR 2019
Artist and photographer UMMMI soaks the frame with melancholia as her characters drive into the night with no destination in sight.
77'
Japan
IFFR 2019
A greedy shepherd searches a holy mountain in the Himalayas for a crashed plane, but is punished for his impure intentions.
97'
India
IFFR 2019
The commemorations in Gallipoli of one of the First World War’s biggest battles elicit nationalism on both sides.
88'
Turkey
IFFR 2019
Documentary maker Karin Cuyul searches for the origin of her name, uncovering painful memories of Chile’s recent past.
78'
Chile
IFFR 2019
Magic-realist fairy tale about the Sri Lankan civil war captures the fear and trauma with its poetic, acerbic tone.
95'
Sri Lanka
IFFR 2019
A personal, cinematic gesture born of sadness over the death of a friend. It's also a unique guide to Viennese culture.
71'
Argentina
IFFR 2019
Kavich Neang documents the final days of the White Building in Phnom Penh, an architectural landmark he had lived in since birth.
75'
Cambodia
IFFR 2019
During the NATO bombardments of 1999, a truck driver has to take a mysterious load to Belgrade. Subtle narrative bursting with menace.
98'
Serbia
IFFR 2019
Past and present intertwine in this visually stunning, partially 3D second film by Chinese talent Bi Gan.
140'
China
IFFR 2019
In this road movie Margaret Rockland prefers drink, drugs and an absurd kidnapping to Christmas depression.
75'
USA
IFFR 2019
A mysterious X-ray of a couple making love leads to an enervating, alienating search for trust and truth.
88'
South Korea
IFFR 2019
A terminally ill forest ranger wants to live his final months as a woman. In a remote Siberian community he pays dearly.
105'
Russia
IFFR 2019
In mysterious coastal woodlands where the souls of deceased refugees wander like will-o'-the-wisps, a Thai fisherman cares for a wounded man.
110'
Thailand
IFFR 2019
Among his deceased grandmother's possessions, Jean finds a report on an almost forgotten murder from 1895.
97'
France
IFFR 2019
During a very dangerous journey through the Congolese jungle, two lost and traumatised soldiers strike up a friendship.
91'
Belgium
IFFR 2019
Living in the USA illegally for over 20 years, Miko Revereza takes the train from Los Angeles to New York.
70'
USA
IFFR 2019
Lyrical film noir about two producers, an investor, a deadline, a woman, a gun and a hopelessly romantic boy.
80'
Netherlands
IFFR 2019
Disturbing visions plague a group of Brazilian teens on a dark island in this spiritual slasher – a metaphor for their lost youth.
102'
Brazil
IFFR 2019
An intimate semi-documentary with a satirical but genuine interest in the problems of millennials in a disintegrating group of friends from Los Angeles.
131'
USA
IFFR 2019
An adventurous road trip through the Georgian countryside allows three old friends to temporarily forget their age.
87'
Georgia
IFFR 2019
Strange things happen in the struggle to make the hidden archives of architect Luis Barragán public again.
83'
USA
IFFR 2019
Challenging and varied omnibus film by seven Canadian filmmakers, inspired by Joseph Haydn's composition around the last words of Jesus.
74'
Canada
IFFR 2019
In southern France, mysterious links appear in the fortunes of five people connected to an elusive young woman called Sophia.
98'
France
IFFR 2019
Coming-of-age story about three Chilean teenagers reflects the growing pains of Chile’s new democracy in the early 1990s.
110'
Chile
IFFR 2019
Waiting for a magic solar eclipse, Indian villagers work on toys that produce sound using 35mm film reels as basic material.
65'
India
IFFR 2019
Tense, enchanting Swiss drama about religion, science, delusion and reality. Is radical Christian Ruth possessed by a demon, or not?
114'
Switzerland
IFFR 2019
Loving, captivating portrait of the director’s father based on the latter’s 1970 round-the-world journey.
110'
Portugal
IFFR 2019
A man’s quest for his runaway son, presented in a stylish narrative in which confusion slowly makes way for realisation.
102'
China
IFFR 2019
A Chinese patriarch is eager to have a grandchild, but that isn’t easy in Manchuria suffering under Japanese occupation.
110'
China
IFFR 2019
During a long, ice-cold and alcohol-fuelled night, two disillusioned fifty-somethings have a series of sobering, confrontational and disillusioning encounters.
91'
South Korea
IFFR 2019
Montenegrin debut about a bankrupt shipyard and the locals, who literally see their life ebbing away. Or: the anatomy of a community.
82'
Montenegro
IFFR 2019
The conversations that Joao has with people: Rohmer meets Hong Sang-soo in this advanced course in narrative in the Brazilian artists' milieu.
118'
Brazil
IFFR 2019