"I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians"
Idealistic theatre-maker discovers that not everyone wants to be reminded of Romania’s kick-off of the Holocaust.
140'
Romania
IFFR 2019
Documentary about the creation of the chamber opera Si Fan, composed by Chinese composer Guo Wenjing in 2015 for the Nieuw Ensemble. In Si Fan (‘yearnings of love’), Guo combines traditional opera from his native Sichuan with his own music. "I don’t think when composing, I follow my heart", Guo says to Ed Spanjaard, head conductor of the Nieuw Ensemble, who comes to visit him in China to learn about the secrets of Sichuan opera. In this painstaking film, Shen Tiemei, the star singer of the Sichuan opera, speaks about the differences between East and West, and between tradition and the modern age.
Inner Landscape is the second part of a tetralogy, the first part of which premiered at IDFA in 2011 (Gozaran – Time Passing, about Iranian composer Nader Mashayekhi). Director/producer Frank Scheffer made a 'work in progress' with the same title in 2015.
On Fri 1 Feb with live Chinese opera.
IFFR 2019
- 90'
- Netherlands
- 2019
- Director
- Frank Scheffer
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Countries of production
- Netherlands, China
- Year
- 2019
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 90'
- Medium
- DCP
- Languages
- Chinese, English, Dutch
- Producers
- Niek Koppen, Jan de Ruiter, Pieter van Huystee, Jia Zhao
- Production Companies
- Selfmade Films, Pieter van Huystee Film & TV, Muyi Film
- Sales
- Selfmade Films
- Screenplay
- Frank Scheffer
- Cinematography
- Melle van Essen, Joewi Verhoeven, Benito Strangio, Jean Cournet, Frank Scheffer
- Editor
- Menno Boerema, Theo Raben, Jos Driessen, Frank Scheffer
- Sound Design
- Mark Glynne
- Music
- Guo Wenjing
- Local Distributor
- Cinema Delicatessen
- Director
- Frank Scheffer
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Countries of production
- Netherlands, China
- Year
- 2019
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 90'
- Medium
- DCP
- Languages
- Chinese, English, Dutch
- Producers
- Niek Koppen, Jan de Ruiter, Pieter van Huystee, Jia Zhao
- Production Companies
- Selfmade Films, Pieter van Huystee Film & TV, Muyi Film
- Sales
- Selfmade Films
- Screenplay
- Frank Scheffer
- Cinematography
- Melle van Essen, Joewi Verhoeven, Benito Strangio, Jean Cournet, Frank Scheffer
- Editor
- Menno Boerema, Theo Raben, Jos Driessen, Frank Scheffer
- Sound Design
- Mark Glynne
- Music
- Guo Wenjing
- Local Distributor
- Cinema Delicatessen
Programme IFFR 2019
Voices Main Programme
A harvest of outstanding features – the future classics of arthouse cinema.
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Eight-part series based on the first of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels, a history of post-war Italy told through the fates of two young women who are best friends.
469'
Italy
IFFR 2019
Belmonte
At the age of 43, painter Javier Belmonte can no longer camouflage his fear of life and insecurity with bohemian bravura.
75'
Uruguay
IFFR 2019