Communicating Vessels
A peculiar story about the inevitable merging of life and art, channelling seminal performances by Joan Jonas and Lygia Clark.
35'
Canada
IFFR 2020
They Parlaient Idéale reflects on what it means to be a citizen of a nation, especially when one's identity is rather ambiguous. A cross-generational and interracial cast of performers embark on a road trip from Grigny, a suburb of Paris, to the French pavilion at the Venice Biennial. Edited in Prouvost's signature feverish style, she seizes the viewer's attention by her singular use of wordplay and cheeky political commentary.
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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
- Director
- Laure Prouvost
- Premiere
- World premiere (festival)
- Countries of production
- France, Belgium, Italy
- Year
- 2019
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 29'
- Medium
- DCP
- Languages
- English, French, Arabic, Dutch
- Production Companies
- Studio Prouvost, ARTER
- Sales
- Lux
- Screenplay
- Laure Prouvost, Paul Buck, Karim Kattan
- Cinematography
- Laure Prouvost, Ciaran Wood
- Editor
- Tomas Sinkevičius
- Sound Design
- Léopold Roy
- Music
- Flavien Berger, Lafawndah
- Cast
- Arnaud Arini, Alexandre Boumbou, Kader Bueno, Marine Buridant, Nicolas Faubert
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