15 days
An affecting meditation on the pain experienced by refugees forced to live in limbo.
12'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2023
Screen pornography has always taken many forms – Grief Encounter is an intriguing narrative variation. It proceeds from a kinky premise: a woman regularly picks up people (young, old, male, female) at funerals. They are open to her advances because they are, as she informs us in voice-over, emotionally “overwhelmed” – and she proceeds to overwhelm them further. Slickly shot, with a touch of the Alain Cavalier portraiture style.
– Adrian Martin
IFFR 2023
Programme IFFR 2023
Just as long as it takes. The Short & Mid-length film programme offers a unique showcase of films under 63 minutes.
Read more about this programmeAn affecting meditation on the pain experienced by refugees forced to live in limbo.
12'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2023
Timeless, silent film vignettes based on songs from Robert Schumann’s Dichterliebe. A tribute to early film.
7'
Germany
IFFR 2023
Flowers are stuck down and covered by tape: a wry comment on 20th-century modernist art.
3'
United States
IFFR 2023