La bala de Sandoval
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
Ultramarine is a visual poem, narrating the 'exile blues' through spoken word performance, improvised rhythms and textile display. It is a poetic essay in repoliticising one of the most universal colours, which also has colonial references. Objects and documents are rendered in words by the Afro-American poet Kain, voiced in music improvised by drummer Lander Gyselinck and animated in images by Vincent Meessen. Ultramarine is composed like a spectrum: it unfolds and intertwines fragments of meaning.
Winner Ammodo Tiger Short Award, IFFR 2019.
Winner Ammodo Tiger Short Award, IFFR 2019.
Also in this combined programme
Mum's Cards
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
Red Film
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
- Director
- Vincent Meessen
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Countries of production
- Belgium, France, Canada
- Year
- 2019
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 42'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- English
- Producer
- Vincent Meessen
- Production Company
- Jubilee
- Sales
- Jubilee
- Screenplay
- Vincent Meessen
- Cinematography
- Vincent Pinckaers
- Editor
- Inneke Van Waeyenberghe
- Sound Design
- Laszlo Umbreit
- Cast
- Kain The Poet, Lander Gijselinck
Programme IFFR 2019
Ammodo Tiger Short Competition
The power of short. Twenty-four films from the short film selection compete for one of three equal awards.
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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
ALTIPLANO
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
Anteu
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