Growing Up Absurd
A disinterment of College F (aka Tolstoy College), an anarchist pedagogical space operating between 1969 and 1985.
15'
United States
IFFR 2023
A stirring monologue that slices through the noise of the news media to critique modern understandings of separation, violence, terror, and war. Border crossings and checkpoints reveal the privilege and contradictions inherent in ideas of freedom of movement and public space.
– Leonie Woodfin
IFFR 2023
- 15'
- United Kingdom
- 2022
- Director
- Lawrence Abu Hamdan
- Premiere
- Dutch Premiere
- Country of production
- United Kingdom
- Year
- 2022
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 15'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- English
- Producer
- Luke Moody
- Production Company
- LONO Studios
- Sales
- Square Eyes
- Screenplay
- Lawrence Abu Hamdan
- Editor
- Inneke Van Waeyenberghe, Jarred Alterman
- Sound Design
- Adam Laschinger
- Music
- Susan Alcorn Lobato
- Cast
- Mahdi Fleifel
Also in this combined programme
I Am a Horse
Feminist rendering of a Korean birth dream through the tin-foil lithographic imagining of a mighty she-horse.
8'
South Korea
IFFR 2023
Pantelleria
The bombing of Pantelleria during WWII triggers a compelling investigation into truth and fabrication.
19'
Italy
IFFR 2023
Visão do Paraíso
The desire to expand physical frontiers links the age of expeditions with contemporary virtual reality.
16'
Brazil
IFFR 2023
- Director
- Lawrence Abu Hamdan
- Premiere
- Dutch Premiere
- Country of production
- United Kingdom
- Year
- 2022
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 15'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- English
- Producer
- Luke Moody
- Production Company
- LONO Studios
- Sales
- Square Eyes
- Screenplay
- Lawrence Abu Hamdan
- Editor
- Inneke Van Waeyenberghe, Jarred Alterman
- Sound Design
- Adam Laschinger
- Music
- Susan Alcorn Lobato
- Cast
- Mahdi Fleifel
Programme IFFR 2023
Short & Mid-length
Just as long as it takes. The Short & Mid-length film programme offers a unique showcase of films under 63 minutes.
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An affecting meditation on the pain experienced by refugees forced to live in limbo.
12'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2023
3 Lieder
Timeless, silent film vignettes based on songs from Robert Schumann’s Dichterliebe. A tribute to early film.
7'
Germany
IFFR 2023
3 Peonies
Flowers are stuck down and covered by tape: a wry comment on 20th-century modernist art.
3'
United States
IFFR 2023