the names have changed, including my own and truths have been altered
Digging into personal, colonial and televisual archives, Onyeka Igwe trudges through the muddled biography of her grandfather.
26'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2020
The past is always out of reach, yet we’re always pulled towards it. Ismaïl Bahri's poetic film plays with this paradox. We see two hands holding a photograph which is illuminated by strong light from two sides, blinding us to its contents. Only the shadows cast by the hands reveal what is hidden by the light: a crowd gathering on 20 March 1956, Tunisia's independence day. A synaesthetic gesture, where seeing is enabled by touch.
Winner IFFR 2020 Ammodo Tiger Short Award.
IFFR 2020
- 3'
- France
- 2019
- Director
- Ismaïl Bahri
- Premiere
- World premiere (festival)
- Country of production
- France
- Year
- 2019
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 3'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- no dialogue
- Producer
- Ismaïl Bahri
- Sales
- Ismaïl Bahri
- Screenplay
- Ismaïl Bahri
- Cinematography
- Ismaïl Bahri
- Editor
- Ismaïl Bahri
Also in this combined programme
Sayōnara
Could saying goodbye cure the feeling of being lost? An intimate exploration of the complexity of an individual.
32'
Denmark
IFFR 2020
Wong Ping’s Fables 2
What does an ex-activist cow and a three-headed rabbit have in common? They’re both doomed in Wong Ping’s political animated fable.
13'
Hong Kong
IFFR 2020
- Director
- Ismaïl Bahri
- Premiere
- World premiere (festival)
- Country of production
- France
- Year
- 2019
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 3'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- no dialogue
- Producer
- Ismaïl Bahri
- Sales
- Ismaïl Bahri
- Screenplay
- Ismaïl Bahri
- Cinematography
- Ismaïl Bahri
- Editor
- Ismaïl Bahri
Programme IFFR 2020
Ammodo Tiger Short Competition
The power of short. Twenty-one films from the short film selection compete for one of three equal awards.
Read more about this programme3 Logical Exits
A claustrophobic sociological contemplation of the escape routes open to young Palestinians from their dead-end lives in refugee camps.
15'
Denmark
IFFR 2020
Aggregate States of Matters
Rosa Barba shows the slow disappearance of a glacier and its effect on the Quechuan population in the Andes of Peru.
18'
Peru
IFFR 2020
Apiyemiyekî?
An archive of drawings made by the Waimiri-Atroari, a people native to the Brazilian Amazon, document and narrate their encounter with 'civilised man'.
28'
Brazil
IFFR 2020