Fantoomwijk
A lively working-class neighbourhood is forced to make way for luxury homes. Fantoomwijk shows the destructive consequences for its former residents.
14'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
Without warning, and with no charges or a trial, a man is suddenly thrown into jail – in appalling conditions. Filmmaker Ewan Macbeth took a letter from his father to Amnesty International as the starting point for Prison with Songbirds, and tells the story through gripping, nightmarish images.
– Christiaan Boesenach
IFFR 2023
- 12'
- Netherlands
- 2022
- Director
- Ewan Macbeth
- Premiere
- Dutch Premiere
- Countries of production
- Netherlands, United Kingdom
- Year
- 2022
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 12'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- English
- Producers
- Ewan Macbeth, Salvador Miranda
- Sales
- Eye Filmmuseum
- Screenplay
- Ewan Macbeth
- Cinematography
- Christiaan van Leeuwen, Abel van Dijk
- Editor
- Ewan Macbeth, Lotte Louise de Jong
- Production Design
- Ewan Macbeth
- Sound Design
- Filip Degernäs
- Cast
- Ewan Macbeth, Mathieu Wijdeven, Ugo Petronin
Also in this combined programme
Promised Land
Five Americans meet to contemplate the departure of the Pilgrim Fathers from Delfshaven 400 years earlier.
19'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
We Are Strange
A cinematic collage that shows humankind in all its beauty, ugliness and strangeness.
15'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
Zingen vogels ook in oorlogstijd?
A young woman explores her grandmother’s past. Fragments of her diary hark back to the war.
4'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
- Director
- Ewan Macbeth
- Premiere
- Dutch Premiere
- Countries of production
- Netherlands, United Kingdom
- Year
- 2022
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 12'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- English
- Producers
- Ewan Macbeth, Salvador Miranda
- Sales
- Eye Filmmuseum
- Screenplay
- Ewan Macbeth
- Cinematography
- Christiaan van Leeuwen, Abel van Dijk
- Editor
- Ewan Macbeth, Lotte Louise de Jong
- Production Design
- Ewan Macbeth
- Sound Design
- Filip Degernäs
- Cast
- Ewan Macbeth, Mathieu Wijdeven, Ugo Petronin
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.
Read more about this programmeThe Antarctic Gardener
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