Before container ships leave port, lashers secure the containers using heavy metal bars. They are the last port workers to do such dangerous jobs. In an equally physical cinematic style, each body tells its own story: from grieving for a colleague who died on the job to just keeping going.
Prelude to Under Tomorrow’s Sky. Part of RTM, the Rotterdam selection.
Also in this combined programme
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Bare Bones
Earth has limited resources and collective consciousness is reduced to survival. A disconcerting examination of what makes us human.
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Aasivissuit
Two park rangers introduce us to the rapidly changing landscape in Aasivissuit, West Greenland.
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PINPIN
A young man returns home. A cashier rewatches CCTV footage of him. Do the moments they share have real significance?
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Le Boug Doug
Only the mouth of the mysterious woman who appears in Doug’s life is visible. What does she want? Idiosyncratic hip hop musical.
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Veronica
São Paulo, 2018. In a gentrifying neighbourhood, activist cleaner Veronica stands up for her profession like an influencer.
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UNEARTH – In Between States of Matter
Resource extraction, mining machines and material transformations, with conversations recorded in the Russian Ural region.
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P-9830
The natural and technological landscapes of the Rotterdam port area, captured with a handblown-glass camera eye.
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Scylos
On the Sahara’s rim, a man ponders the turn his life has taken. Meanwhile, German scientists unravel the earth’s history.
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The Trees
Warm, blackly comical film in which a son pays more attention to the sick olive trees than the rituals surrounding his father’s death.
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Easter Eggs
Funny, moving animation about two boys whose lives seem inextricable. Together they go in search of themselves.
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Lata
The daily routine of an employee at a Mumbai apartment complex provides insight into the social structures influencing her life.
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Riff-Raff
Struggling to get on with her day, Carmen faces up to a city tense with conflict, brutality and looming violence.
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More Happiness
“Teach me how to be a person”, the daughter asks her mother. An honest look at how memories interrupt the present.
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À la recherche d’Aline
A young woman embarks on a quest to understand the story of Senegalese symbol of resistance, Aline Sitoe Diatta.
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Kaimos
Eli has a plan for her return home after the death of her mother. Life has other plans though.
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The Old Child
In this brief daydream, a monk and a child each embrace modern technology in their own way.
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Improvised Objects
In a world where billions are spent on state-of-the-art weaponry, the deadliest weapon is still a low-budget DIY device.
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In the Air Tonight
Andrew Norman Wilson sheds his fascinating light on the meaning of Phil Collins’ 1980 hit ‘In the Air Tonight’.
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Film details
- Country of production
- Netherlands
- Year
- 2021
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2021
- Length
- 21"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
