Boyz in the Wood
A group of half-stoned teenagers find out they are being hunted in this crazy comedy full of bizarre plot twists.
87'
USA
IFFR 2020
For fifty years, a man has been walking the dusty path through the woods between his isolated farm and the nearby village, accompanied by a taciturn ghost. As a teenager he witnessed her death, and she has been connected to him ever since. When he discovers that the spirit is able to take him back to the past, he returns to his youth to rid himself of the millstone around his neck: his mother's death from tuberculosis, which he had to watch helplessly as a child.
In her third feature film, Laotian filmmaker Mattie Do creates an ingenious mix of lo-fi science fiction and melancholy ghost story. From his adult life in the near future, sketched in small gestures, the old man jumps back to his youth, in our present. But every action he takes has unexpected consequences. The more he interferes with the fabric of time, the more he becomes caught up in loose ends.
IFFR 2020
Programme IFFR 2020
Rotterdam goes hardcore genre, with an eclectic mix of films that brashly bend, blend or respect conventions, each in their own distinctive way.
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87'
USA
IFFR 2020
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IFFR 2020
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IFFR 2020