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Cosmic love story beyond space and time, about resonance and dissonance in the relationship between three people.
18'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
A woman contemplates her fear of falling. Because everything falls: cigarette ash, people in funny videos and eventually, gravity even pulls our skin downwards. All we can do is let ourselves be carried along by the waves. Until they too, break and fall – as in a Hokusai print.
– Christiaan Boesenach
IFFR 2023
- 27'
- Netherlands
- 2022
- Director
- Helen Anna Flanagan
- Premiere
- World premiere (festival)
- Country of production
- Netherlands
- Year
- 2022
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 27'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- English
- Producer
- Helen Anna Flanagan
- Sales
- Helen Anna Flanagan
- Screenplay
- Helen Anna Flanagan
- Cinematography
- Nastasja Saerens, Julien Thiébaut, Helen Anna Flanagan
- Editor
- Helen Anna Flanagan
- Production Design
- Helen Anna Flanagan
- Sound Design
- Sebastian Pappalardo, Vitalij Kuzkin
- Music
- moody alien, lesbian horse
- Cast
- Loveday Smith, Emile Jansen, Simone Nuissl, Janneke van der Putten, Louise O’Meara
Also in this combined programme
Fin. Finito. Infinito.
In this blend of documentary and science fiction, a society prepares for the end.
8'
Spain
IFFR 2023
The Glistener
A young man has a date at a restaurant. Once seated, he can’t distinguish fantasy from reality.
8'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
Greetings From Wormhole 61
An ambitious businesswoman travels the galaxy with a truck driver, conversing about ordinary, hard-working people.
14'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
- Director
- Helen Anna Flanagan
- Premiere
- World premiere (festival)
- Country of production
- Netherlands
- Year
- 2022
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 27'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- English
- Producer
- Helen Anna Flanagan
- Sales
- Helen Anna Flanagan
- Screenplay
- Helen Anna Flanagan
- Cinematography
- Nastasja Saerens, Julien Thiébaut, Helen Anna Flanagan
- Editor
- Helen Anna Flanagan
- Production Design
- Helen Anna Flanagan
- Sound Design
- Sebastian Pappalardo, Vitalij Kuzkin
- Music
- moody alien, lesbian horse
- Cast
- Loveday Smith, Emile Jansen, Simone Nuissl, Janneke van der Putten, Louise O’Meara
Programme IFFR 2023
RTM
IFFR puts the spotlight firmly on films and makers from our city on the River Maas. The selection was made by this year's RTM curators: Cheryl Ashruf, Noemi Biro and Nizar el Manouzi. Discover a programme chock-full of short and longer films, documentaries, talks, music and performances. RTM revolves around talented artists and stories from 010 with an impact far beyond, revealing the riches of Rotterdam in all its glory.
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A woman creates life where it cannot be while the forces of Antarctic nature rage all around.
24'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
Book and Knife
Culinary shadow play, where three women and a restaurant follow various recipes to prepare soto/saoto.
15'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
Bouw Museum Boymans
Six-episode, silent documentary about the construction of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen between 1932 and 1935.
82'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023