The Blood of Stars
A woman and a girl discuss the omnipresence of iron that connects our bodies to the earth and the cosmos.
13'
India
IFFR 2019
Origins
Combined Programme
IFFR 2019
From meteor landing sites to a primeval forest, prehistoric sites call for us to reflect on how we got here.
Combined Programme
IFFR 2019
In this combined programme
Forest on Location
A virtual replica of Białowieża primeval forest. Iranian singer Yazdani performs his remake of Nature Boy, a song that originated there.
12'
Netherlands
IFFR 2019
Meteorito
Mysterious ‘bird men’ seek the place the sun rises. In rituals they balance between life and death.
15'
Mexico
IFFR 2019
Pareidolia
Abstract patterns made on 16mm film are used as source material for finding similar figurative images by an online search engine to create visual poetry.
11'
Netherlands
IFFR 2019
Terril
Painstaking analysis of the peculiar geography of Charleroi, forever marked by the 1956 mining disaster and the ecological rebirth that followed.
13'
Belgium
IFFR 2019
Toli Toli
A visual poem linked with Guadalupian colonial heritage, weaving forgotten voices and stories together and bringing them back to light.
10'
France
IFFR 2019
Programme IFFR 2019
Bright Future Short
Experimental short films and sound//vision, with live A/V performances.
Read more about this programmeAbove Us Only Sky
An investigation into a plane crash becomes the entry point to a web of seemingly unrelated events that appear to be deeply entangled.
28'
Netherlands
IFFR 2019
Aykan
Impressions of a city divided: no use trying to keep afloat in the tangle of images stitched together into a stereoscopic whole.
10'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2019
Birds in the Earth
Examination of the deeper questions concerning ownership of Sámi land through dance performances by two young ballet students.
11'
Finland
IFFR 2019