The Tyger Burns

A wrecked wedding party makes the guests remember past follies of desire and love. They don't make cultivated comedies like this anymore.

In his characteristic style, Andersson at his existential, succinct best: everything that makes life human, in an hour and fifteen minutes.

Yanis Varoufakis vs. EU financial establishment. A Kammerspiel-style classical political thriller that leaves no doubts about the good and the bad.

Warsaw, 1942: when police investigator Rafał Król starts to dig deeper into the murder of Aneta Holzer, cans of worms galore get opened.

A comparison of two popular uprisings, the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution, by film essay giant Karel Vachek.

Unmistakably Cardoso, this handmade found-footage delirium as a tribute to US independent cinema's original rebel.

Madrid, transición: Cop-turned-gumshoe Germán Areta gets a visit from the kind of dames that spell t-r-o-u-b-l-e. A prime piece of old-school noir!

An elderly Mexican couple, each other's best enemies, discover new, perverse highlights in smooth, beautifully shot psychological game.

A vibrant reworking of René Viénet's very own 1973 situationist comedy monument in a most surprising form: a digitally rotoscoped animation!

In the early 1970s, René Viénet bought a HK martial arts film and transformed it into a monumental Situationist comedy. Alongside a new, animated version, we present one screening of the restored 'original'.

A self-portrait by Italy's documentary grand dame, Cécilia Mangini, triggered by memories of a journey in the 1960s to war-torn Vietnam.

Ishii, the owner of Family Romance, LLC, is hired to play the absent father of a young teenage Japanese girl.

Brother Marie-Victorin, botanist-priest, is bored by heaven. Back among the living, he becomes the unlikeliest of eco-warriors. A gentle yet uproarious farce!

A portrait of pop artist and filmmaker Derek Boshier (1937), while working on major new works, by legendary filmmaker/artist James Scott.

A mellow look back at the Soviet Union when it was sizzling, by Brežnev-era cinema star Andrei Smirnov.

An ambiguous portrait of the famous Israeli sculptor Miriam Chalfi by her equally celebrated daughter, poet Raquel Chalfi.

An elegantly directed, vital update of Rabīndranāth Ṭhākur's seminal 1916 novel about the struggle between tradition and modernity, politics and private life in India.

One man, two lovers, in the same apartment and yet oceans apart from each other. Paranoia is the name of the game.

A cinema is transformed into a time machine. Arguably the most flamboyant, madly inventive movie trip IFFR 2020 has to offer!

In search of a woman with a myriad of faces. But who was Leonie Brandt really? And is there a 'really' here? A documentary thriller.

A playfully personal chronicle of feminism in Denmark that combines research into suffragette history with reminiscences of 1970s hopes and disillusionment.

The return of grandmaster Nakajima Sadao to his most beloved genre: the sword-fighting film. With a twist!

A journey into myths and origins of the Earth: a marble spinning in a sea of eternity.

Cheerfully grim look at the 20th century's follies anchored in Gogol's proto-Surrealist novella The Nose. Milestone by a giant of Soviet/Russian animation.

An eerie erotic short story by Nobel Prize laureate Kawabata Yasunari is turned into a minimalist animation of dazzling beauty.

On the campaign trail with trans woman Yasutomi Ayumi, a professor of economics. An instant epic on political change finished in four months!

A cheerful ritual in praise of Mami Wata, a mermaidlike water spirit of life, sex and healing.

The story of Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés, his Nahua interpreter Malinche, and the conquest of the Aztec empire; as told though artful drawings!

Bittersweet tribute to Japan's biggest post-war comedy-cinema phenomenon and a reflection on times lost, loves regained and laughs remembered.

Two beautiful girls, a lake, trees and an elderly gentleman casually fishing. What happens if the girls go mermaid?

An old monkey prince cast away on an island across the unknown seas triggers a revolution... A spectacular animated fairy tale for adults and children.

Audio-visual slices from the life cinematic of Austrian maverick master Michael Pilz.