Easter Eggs
Funny, moving animation about two boys whose lives seem inextricable. Together they go in search of themselves.
14'
Belgium
IFFR 2021
Director Rokhaya Marieme Balde returns to Senegal to honour local hero Aline Sitoe Diatta, through re-enactments and interviews with locals. Seamlessly floating between fiction and documentary, she digs up her own roots and presents different angles on the life of a woman who inspires to this day.
IFFR 2021
- 27'
- Switzerland
- 2020
- Director
- Rokhaya Marieme Balde
- Country of production
- Switzerland
- Year
- 2020
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2021
- Length
- 27'
- Medium
- DCP
- International title
- Seeking Aline
- Languages
- Wolof, French
- Producer
- Delphine Jeanneret
- Production Company
- HEAD Geneva University of Art and Design
- Sales
- HEAD Geneva University of Art and Design
- Screenplay
- Delphine Jeanneret
- Cinematography
- Nicolas Gallardo
- Editor
- David Nguyen
- Sound Design
- Akim Beb Abass Sow
- Music
- Hadrien Hepp
Also in this combined programme
Ella i jo
A mother and daughter, caught up in a fragile long-distance relationship. An elegantly depicted duo portrait of two dedicated artists.
20'
Spain
IFFR 2021
El rodeo
A family speaks of the past and dances with their sorrows. The morning brings a strange visitor carrying a cage.
30'
Cuba
IFFR 2021
- Director
- Rokhaya Marieme Balde
- Country of production
- Switzerland
- Year
- 2020
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2021
- Length
- 27'
- Medium
- DCP
- International title
- Seeking Aline
- Languages
- Wolof, French
- Producer
- Delphine Jeanneret
- Production Company
- HEAD Geneva University of Art and Design
- Sales
- HEAD Geneva University of Art and Design
- Screenplay
- Delphine Jeanneret
- Cinematography
- Nicolas Gallardo
- Editor
- David Nguyen
- Sound Design
- Akim Beb Abass Sow
- Music
- Hadrien Hepp
Programme IFFR 2021
Short & Mid-length
Just as long as it takes. IFFR puts the mid-length film, experimental and artists’ short films and narrative-driven short stories in the spotlight.
Still: Bare Bones
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Fleeting impressions from the lives of two friends at the fragile time when nothing is set in stone and everything is still possible.
45'
China
IFFR 2021
À la recherche d’Aline
A young woman embarks on a quest to understand the story of Senegalese symbol of resistance, Aline Sitoe Diatta.
27'
Switzerland
IFFR 2021
Aasivissuit
Two park rangers introduce us to the rapidly changing landscape in Aasivissuit, West Greenland.
23'
Netherlands
IFFR 2021