45th Parallel
An incisive monologue about the ways violence, terror, and contradiction reveal themselves at borders and checkpoints.
15'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2023
Between 1969 and 1985, College F (aka Tolstoy College), was an anarchist educational space operating within the University of Buffalo. Standing as a utopian vision of radical and alternative pedagogy, Growing Up Absurd interviews formative and foundational members of the Tolstoy College community, offering a window into a more equitable and horizontal way of exchanging knowledge and educating people.
– Cristina Kolozsvary-Kiss
IFFR 2023
- 15'
- United States
- 2023
- Directors
- Ben Balcom, Julie Niemi
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Country of production
- United States
- Year
- 2023
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 15'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- English
- Producer
- Ben Balcom
- Sales
- Ben Balcom
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
- Directors
- Ben Balcom, Julie Niemi
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Country of production
- United States
- Year
- 2023
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 15'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- English
- Producer
- Ben Balcom
- Sales
- Ben Balcom
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