They Parlaient Idéale
A quirky cast of intergenerational performers embark on a road trip through France, embodying a utopian possibility of a communal society.
29'
France
IFFR 2020
An art professor tells the peculiar story of her student E., a strange young woman whose conceptual performance pieces and singular existence leave the professor increasingly adrift. Combining fictional narrative, personal anecdote and private conversation, Communicating Vessels explores how we influence each other in ways that are sometimes good, sometimes bad, yet always urgent and necessary. An unusual tribute to art and its creation, channelling seminal performances by Joan Jonas and Lygia Clark.
Winner IFFR 2020 Ammodo Tiger Short Award.
Maïder Fortuné, Annie MacDonell
IFFR 2020
- 35'
- Canada
- 2020
- Directors
- Maïder Fortuné, Annie MacDonell
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Country of production
- Canada
- Year
- 2020
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 35'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- English
- Producer
- Maïder Fortuné
- Sales
- Maïder Fortuné
- Screenplay
- Maïder Fortuné, Annie MacDonell
- Cinematography
- Iris Ng, Claire Harvey, Annie MacDonell, Maïder Fortuné
- Editor
- Annie MacDonell, Maïder Fortuné
- Cast
- Madelyne Beckles, Deragh Campbell, Fiona Reid
Also in this combined programme
Tyrant Star
With an electric fan as her microphone, a young woman gives it her all in a bedroom karaoke for this tantalising poem coloured in loneliness.
16'
Vietnam
IFFR 2020
- Directors
- Maïder Fortuné, Annie MacDonell
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Country of production
- Canada
- Year
- 2020
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 35'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- English
- Producer
- Maïder Fortuné
- Sales
- Maïder Fortuné
- Screenplay
- Maïder Fortuné, Annie MacDonell
- Cinematography
- Iris Ng, Claire Harvey, Annie MacDonell, Maïder Fortuné
- Editor
- Annie MacDonell, Maïder Fortuné
- Cast
- Madelyne Beckles, Deragh Campbell, Fiona Reid
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.
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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