Black Box
An innocent youth is abducted and tortured without any culpability. This seminal No Wave film is a terrifying allegory of societal repression.
21'
USA
IFFR 2020
Shut Up and Suffer
Combined Programme
IFFR 2020
Through a close examination of the taboos, fears and degradation inflicted upon our bodies, these violent, raging films cry out the need for reinvention.
Combined Programme
IFFR 2020
In this combined programme
Don't Light My Fire (Otoboke Beaver Music Video)
Japanese punk rock group Otoboke Beaver is a female quartet from Japan. This video illustrates a song that stems from their recent album, Itekoma Hits.
3'
Japan
IFFR 2020
Interior Scroll
In a vast underground cave, Schneemann and seven nude women read a text as each woman slowly extracts a scroll from her vagina.
8'
USA
IFFR 2020
Menses
Women act out their own dramas in a red-filtered ritual of mutual bonding. A wry comedy on the ironic aspects of menstruation.
4'
USA
IFFR 2020
Sewing Circle
Performance artist Kembra Pfahler invited a camera to witness one of her most radical and angry gestures: sewing her vagina shut.
7'
USA
IFFR 2020
Thriller
This playful feminist murder mystery, a rewrite of Pucini’s La Bohème, has become a classic in feminist film theory.
34'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2020
Programme IFFR 2020
Beth B: War Is Never Over
Filmmaker Beth B personally provides context to her recent portrayal of provocative artist Lydia Lunch, from the vantage point of female identity, power and sexuality.
Read more about this programmeAmnesia
A chilling cautionary tale, Amnesia is a stark and uncompromising portrayal of the escalation of xenophobic sentiment in a neo-conservative climate.
1'
USA
IFFR 2020
Barbie
Barbie returns from shopping. She takes her groceries out of the bag and takes out a little Barbie doll which she then fries and eats.
10'
USA
IFFR 2020
Belladonna
A number of somber talking heads frankly describe their most personal and perverse attitudes on sex, violence and other family matters.
13'
USA
IFFR 2020