Le cinéma
“A film for those who know nothing about cinema... what it is, and how it is made.”
5'
Japan
IFFR 2023
In Praise of Okuyama Jun'ichi
Combined Programme
IFFR 2023
One documentary about and three short films by Okuyama Jun'ichi, an icon of Japanese avant-garde cinema!
Combined Programme
IFFR 2023
In this combined programme
Film Fetish
A portrait of key Japanese avant-garde figure Okuyama Jun'ichi, obsessed by analogue film – a vanishing art.
66'
Japan
IFFR 2023
A Man Playing Movie
A brief meditation on film's fundamental frailty as a key condition for cinema's unique beauty.
10'
Japan
IFFR 2023
My Movie Melodies
We hear for the first time / The sound of the image itself.
7'
Japan
IFFR 2023
Programme IFFR 2023
Cinema Regained
A sphere of collective remembrance and imagination offering restored classics, documentaries on film culture, and explorations of cinema’s heritage.
Read more about this programmeThe Age of the Barbarians
A gaudy vision of our modern age’s gruesome grimness, done as a funky picture-collage animation.
10'
Hungary
IFFR 2023
Amar Akbar Anthony
A song, dance, action, laughter and romance-packed Hindi spectacle as a paean to religious tolerance.
175'
India
IFFR 2023
Autobiography of a Princess
Little-seen teleplay on memory and displacement – perhaps the model for Ivory’s A Cooler Climate!
58'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2023