All This Victory
When Israel invades Lebanon, five people take refuge from the violence in a house. Israeli soldiers take up positions on the floor above.
94'
Lebanon
IFFR 2020
Haiti, 1962. Clairvius Narcisse dies suddenly, is buried immediately and comes back to life. Caught in a limbo between life and death, Narcisse works as a slave on a sugar plantation, a degraded man without freedom or consciousness. Narcisse’s fate as told in this parallel narrative is said to be based on a true story. Anthropologist Wade Davis described this case in The Serpent and the Rainbow (1985), the book on which Wes Craven based his zombie film of the same title.
In Zombi Child, director Bertrand Bonello also returns to the folklore and colonial roots of zombie mythology, interweaving these with a contemporary story about Haitian teenager Mélissa. At boarding school in Paris, her traumatic past contrasts starkly with the mundane concerns of the privileged girls claiming to be dying of a broken heart. Expect an ambitious, original zombie film that carefully balances historical and cultural themes, with hypnotic images by cameraman Yves Cape (Holy Motors) and a captivating synth soundtrack by Bonello himself.
IFFR 2020
Programme IFFR 2020
A harvest of outstanding features – the future classics of arthouse cinema. Including VR works.
Read more about this programmeWhen Israel invades Lebanon, five people take refuge from the violence in a house. Israeli soldiers take up positions on the floor above.
94'
Lebanon
IFFR 2020
Modern Greek tragedy: sixteen-year-old Antigone, Algerian immigrant to Canada, primarily wages the struggle against authorities using social media.
109'
Canada
IFFR 2020
The rise and fall of an opportunistic money changer who has to get his hands dirty to finance his luxurious lifestyle.
97'
Uruguay
IFFR 2020