Escasso

| IFFR 2023

Rose invites a film crew to check out her house, except it isn’t hers. This hilarious mockumentary is as politically scathing as it is delightful. The undercurrent of the film is a deep critique of housing and food insecurity as a direct legacy of Brazil’s, and indeed the world’s, colonial past. In turns playful and uncomfortable, ‘professional dog walker’ Rose becomes a vector through which inequity and injustice must be reconciled.

– Cristina Kolozsvary-Kiss

Also in this combined programme

Blank Photograph
Short & Mid-length
Hsu Che-yu blends digitally animated crime scenes with the tale of Taiwanese terrorist Yung Ru-Men.
Porcupine
Short & Mid-length
A young man broadcasts poses from an urban ruin: a portrait of our times.
Now I’m in the Kitchen
Short & Mid-length
An impressionistic animation conjuring kitchen culture and the distance between a Chinese mother and an American daughter.
One Home to Another
Short & Mid-length
Dominique van Olm combines home movie footage from her Dutch grandfather with contemporary, poetic images.