Un amour impossible
Empathy-arousing French adaptation of Christine Angot’s bestseller in which Rachel can’t seem to escape her doomed love affair.
134'
France
IFFR 2019
Empathy-arousing French adaptation of Christine Angot’s bestseller in which Rachel can’t seem to escape her doomed love affair.
134'
France
IFFR 2019
Adaptation of war reporter Ryszard Kapuscinski’s most famous book mixes hyper-realistic animation, documentary, hallucinatory impressions and literary soul searching.
86'
Poland
IFFR 2019
In this gender-flipped Vertigo set in Japan, Asako’s encounter with her ex-lover’s lookalike sees her confronting the messiness of love.
119'
Japan
IFFR 2019
Dancer Qiao and gangster Bin’s violent love story plays out from 2001 to 2017 in a rapidly changing China.
141'
China
IFFR 2019
Julian Schnabel’s portrait of the latter years of Vincent van Gogh (Willem Dafoe), in which he wrestles with his art, illness and friendships.
110'
USA
IFFR 2019
Melancholy contemplation on the elapse of time mixes costume drama with dance. After a 1903 Henry James novella.
85'
Netherlands
IFFR 2019
Summer 1994: two Scottish teens share a final night out together before life sends them in different directions.
96'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2019
Tortured graphic novelist drowns her days in Amsterdam’s Red Light District in vodka, unwittingly coming into conflict with criminals.
83'
Netherlands
IFFR 2019
A single father doesn’t understand his teenage daughters – and the feeling is mutual. Disarming film featuring Bouli Lanners about rolling with the punches and discovering anew.
98'
France
IFFR 2019
Martin de Vries walks the pilgrims’ way to Santiago de Compostela in north-west Spain, wondering all the while why.
85'
Netherlands
IFFR 2019
Twelve-year-old Zain takes his parents to court. His complaint: they brought him into the world.
123'
Lebanon
IFFR 2019
An ecstatic, 90-minute, drink and drug-fuelled dance in a deserted school building. Gaspar Noé sends his regards.
96'
France
IFFR 2019
A modern-day, intimate Western in which a mother and her estranged son try to make up in the middle of Kyrgyzstan.
84'
Belgium
IFFR 2019
This equally intoxicating and critical take on professional cycling makes the competitive, destructive lives of the pro cyclists almost physically tangible.
90'
Belgium
IFFR 2019
Young London mother Jade is scarred for life following an acid attack. Powerful portrait with a beautiful lead role by newcomer Vicky Knight.
105'
Netherlands
IFFR 2019
Grotesque vignettes from the hell that is eastern Ukraine – war is peace; life increasingly seems like death.
121'
Germany
IFFR 2019
Nimble comedy drama where Olivier Assayas (Après mai, Personal Shopper) criticises a generation of French intellectuals struggling to move with the times.
106'
France
IFFR 2019
A sparkling Gloria Bell (Julianne Moore) starts an uneasy romance with the vulnerable Arnold (John Turturro). Shot-for-shot remake of Lelio’s own Gloria.
102'
Chile
IFFR 2019
Super sharp thriller with Jesse Eisenberg and Alexander Skårsgard as two Wall Street geeks with a bizarre yet lucrative plan. Closing film.
111'
Canada
IFFR 2019
When a Chinese building worker disappears without trace in Singapore, an overtired detective is called in to find out what happened.
95'
Singapore
IFFR 2019
A fable of contemporary Italy in which the endless patience of the innocent Lazzaro is sorely tried.
130'
Italy
IFFR 2019
Punky biopic about the legendary band Kino and the Leningrad underground music scene in the early 1980s. Full of surrealistic interludes and rebellious energy.
126'
Russia
IFFR 2019
A fascinating mix of native drama and hard-boiled crime film about the age-old Colombian Waayu people, who are being destroyed by the drug trade.
125'
Colombia
IFFR 2019
Shortly before an important competition, a female bodybuilder is confronted with the son she hasn’t seen in years. Her world shifts.
80'
France
IFFR 2019
Portrait of the legendary war correspondent Marie Colvin (1956-2012), who reported on wars from the inside for 30 years, but it broke her inside.
110'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2019
Romeo and Juliet, but in Kenya and with two Juliets. A sparkling adventure about Kena and Ziki fighting for their love.
82'
South Africa
IFFR 2019
In shades of grey, the feature debut by British photographer Richard Billingham deals with his childhood in drab tenements outside Birmingham.
108'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2019
Darkly funny crime thriller and a vivisection of the Argentinian national psyche in 1975, the year before Jorge Videla’s military coup.
109'
Argentina
IFFR 2019
You can deny a pregnancy for a long time, but not forever. Surprisingly mature feature debut about an unmarried Moroccan girl who suddenly becomes a mother.
80'
Morocco
IFFR 2019
120'
IFFR 2019
Comedy about a TV employee who tries to influence a romantic soap manages to capture the Arab-Israeli conflict in a surprisingly witty way.
97'
Israel
IFFR 2019
Satirical drama about superstar Celeste (Natalie Portman) who is famous thanks to a terrible incident and who symbolises a society in moral decline.
112'
USA
IFFR 2019