15 Days
A camera-shy film journalist decides to inflict an experiment on himself: to film himself for 15 days. Halfway through his ordeal he opens up.
90'
Japan
IFFR 2020
A camera-shy film journalist decides to inflict an experiment on himself: to film himself for 15 days. Halfway through his ordeal he opens up.
90'
Japan
IFFR 2020
A ritualised choreography of hands and simple objects above a section of soil offers a phenomenological journey to the essence of the cycle of life.
15'
India
IFFR 2020
Six gene-positive people share how they cope with the onset of Huntington's disease and how it affects their life – past, present and future.
42'
Belgium
IFFR 2020
An ingenious visualisation of a real-life story, focusing on the inner world of this soldier, killed in an explosion while greeting a civilian.
11'
China
IFFR 2020
Images on our computer screen allow us to cross borders in a single click. For a young migrant, stranded in an English suburb, the perspective is less bright.
62'
Belgium
IFFR 2020
200 kilometres from Beijing, men live among rocks that wait to be hacked, cut and sanded. Once the stone monument is in place, nobody remembers these actions.
12'
France
IFFR 2020
Bus stops in Armenia appear as small monuments of perseverance on the edge of things, in no man's land. No two bus stops are identical.
IFFR 2020
During the annual celebration of Fisherman's New Year, Iranian trade, tradition and customs, past and present, are still very much felt today in Qeshm.
16'
Kuwait
IFFR 2020
Did you notice that blue car at the side of the road? A minimalistic road movie that mirrors the emotions of the driver through a series of landscapes.
11'
Finland
IFFR 2020
How to overcome the locked-in syndrome of the computer screen? A meditative reflection on the urban jungle, with the colour blue as main protagonist.
5'
Germany
IFFR 2020
Four teenagers quietly improvise modern dance movements in a rehearsal space. Even their body language is subdued.
49'
Belgium
IFFR 2020
We know that elephants mourn. But do we mourn when they disappear? Beyond an exotic excursion, this is a psychological thriller for our subconsciousness.
85'
France
IFFR 2020
From an incident at an observatory in 1894 to the Large Hadron Collider: how can you visualise scientific data?
IFFR 2020
Technology is a mirror for humanity. This human-size installation reintroduces magic into the design of a technical device.
IFFR 2020
Family, Feminism, LGBTQ, Love: Come Coyote evokes the reproductive challenges of same-sex couples with sensual poetry, humour and a hint of despair.
7'
Canada
IFFR 2020
Against a backdrop of economic malaise, two fatalistic friends leave Athens and wander aimlessly, ending up in a magical forest.
84'
France
IFFR 2020
Southern Italy, sometime in the past. An old peasant woman receives a mysterious instruction from a Saint to make a pilgrimage to an unknown destination.
52'
Italy
IFFR 2020
In a modernist house in Los Angeles, a large tortoise speaks and sings about the role empathy plays in times of great ecological and social crisis.
17'
USA
IFFR 2020
A close reading of the characteristics of perfume in advertisements leads to criticism of the celebrity cult. The rich get richer, but everyone smells poorer.
8'
USA
IFFR 2020
An idiosyncratic collection of objects on adhesive tape is brought to life by an old magic lantern. What do these shapes and images tell us about the future?
35'
Belgium
IFFR 2020
Do scientists dream of digital mice? Adventurous film about sensory deprivation and bizarre side effects, based on true story of Michel Siffre.
85'
Netherlands
IFFR 2020
After receiving his last wage and sending it off to his home country, a house painter deliberately abandons his mobile phone on a park bench.
13'
Argentina
IFFR 2020
Surrounded by the sound of nocturnal animals, a girl falls into a deep sleep. Gradually her dream unfolds into a cosmic journey through a rural village.
21'
Belgium
IFFR 2020
This disruptive video invites the viewer to drift through a string of surreal scenes from a sabotaged nature documentary with a quietly unsettling atmosphere.
6'
Switzerland
IFFR 2020
A 3D programme generates a strange configuration of residential units in a utopian field. An attempt to create a brand-new community defined as 'neutral daily life'.
18'
China
IFFR 2020
A remote military garrison has long since lost its defensive function and now serves as a prison. The staff feel no less trapped in the situation.
72'
Italy
IFFR 2020
A quiet observation of an expert griller working at one of the oldest Robatayaki restaurants in Japan. Slow cooking matched with slow-paced editing.
16'
Japan
IFFR 2020
You see the girl or you don't. But it is clear she is afraid of touching people, and now she is going on a journey to overcome her fears.
5'
Taiwan
IFFR 2020
This film, made from digital stills, evokes the utopian project of Egypt's only modernist architect Hassan Fathy, a man committed to ecology and sustainability.
20'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2020
How different is online chatting from talking to a sock puppet? A rather absurd cartoon-like animation raises issues such as self-analysis and social relations.
9'
Belgium
IFFR 2020
Schizophrenia is the creative principle here, splitting up realities and reassembling them anew. Wieland evokes the hidden ruins of the psyche.
12'
Germany
IFFR 2020
The film consists of four new renditions of traditional Thai lullaby tunes in Chehe dialect, focusing on the current religious and cultural disharmony.
8'
Thailand
IFFR 2020
Magda has been captive in her own life for a long time. Her psychiatrist Dr Eyre wants to wake her up, but Magda's mind is stronger than anyone expects.
15'
Canada
IFFR 2020
This remarkably entertaining documentary zooms in on the 'dead moments' in the routine existence of some employees in the Swedish funerary industry.
72'
Sweden
IFFR 2020
A visual exploration of the abandoned site of the former Armed Forces' Hospital in Gwangju, South Korea, through rubble, dust, weeds and one human body.
22'
South Korea
IFFR 2020
Quotes from Sigmund Freud, C.G. Jung, and L. Ron Hubbard form a conversation on technology and identity, and societies with religious foundations.
14'
Sweden
IFFR 2020
In the Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, detecting landmines is a job for women. Inch by inch, they meet the danger with the patience of a saint.
69'
France
IFFR 2020
Looking through the lens of a microscope, the viewer feels as if they are flying over a mysterious surface. A narrator's voice further enhances the experience.
IFFR 2020
Coincidence that the German word for nightmare is Alptraum? Rather surreal documentary observes Swiss engineers anticipating worst-case scenarios.
72'
Austria
IFFR 2020
An electric fan, a boy with eerily fast-growing eyebrows and a penchant for apocalyptic reverie: the psychological portrait of a 21st-century child?
8'
USA
IFFR 2020
Good heavens! Airline safety instructions can be highly ambiguous. John Smith delivers a biblical interpretation of Ryanair's in-flight safety card.
3'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2020
This monument to Sharon Stone is entirely based on 15 chemically treated film stills. An abstract remake of the remake of the thriller Les diaboliques.
6'
Japan
IFFR 2020
An unusual collaboration between curator Harald Szeemann and artist Rudolf Herz was set in motion in the summer of 2003: 'Lenin on Tour'.
19'
Germany
IFFR 2020
In this hallucinatory and dreamlike 360º environment, architectural forms, lights and sounds fold into one another.
2'
Portugal
IFFR 2020
Typical for Benning, in Two Moons the title is an exact description of the film's content – and its governing principle, structure and concept.
42'
USA
IFFR 2020
Deep inside the wild nature of Corsica, a woman leads her lonesome life, with menacing forebodings of the future passing through her dreams.
33'
France
IFFR 2020
Through a stream of consciousness, the film reflects a woman's contradictory feelings while far away from home during Brazil's recent socio-political crisis.
10'
Belgium
IFFR 2020
A musical object is slowly transformed and brought back to its initial state exactly one hour later. A sound installation functioning like clockwork.
IFFR 2020
A fictional film portrait of Victoria Legrand of the band Beach House, set in a vague dystopian space.
7'
USA
IFFR 2020
A conversation between two olive trees about nothing at all. And the farmer carried on ploughing.
6'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2020
Spending four months in total isolation in a tree hut need not result in ultimate boredom; the opposite, in fact.
122'
Spain
IFFR 2020