Some IFFR films polarize audiences like no other: you either love them or hate them. Where some see a work of a genius, others get lost in an impenetrable maze of experimentation. On Sunday 3 February, the last day of the festival, five of these impetuous, opinion-splitting titles will be screened KINO Rotterdam, this year for the very first time. Also in EYE, Amsterdam we screen masterly cinema for the hard-core cinema-lover.
These wayward films are often either marked ‘exceptionally good’ or ‘exceptionally bad’ in the audience surveys – they leave little room for ambivalence, but always stimulate debate. These are the festival’s pieces of cinematographic bravado, the masterful experiments. The ‘Dag van de Dwarse Film’ salutes these innovative, daring, original and exceptional films.
