The Age of the Barbarians
A gaudy vision of our modern age’s gruesome grimness, done as a funky picture-collage animation.
10'
Hungary
IFFR 2023
Scar holds a special place in the development and oeuvre of Ronit Elkabetz: it’s her first work as a co-screenwriter, and her sole work for someone other than herself or her brother, Shlomi.
And the project didn’t even originate with her: Haim Bouzaglo (who after this film wouldn’t work in cinema for some 10 years) had since the 1980s been working on a project called Scar, but with Elkabetz it took a different direction. In contrast to Elkabetz’s own co-directorial efforts, this film is all about abstraction at its most sensual but also allegorical: a man and a woman meet in the dark, to soon lose each other again. He searches for her and sees her in different women who all have her face but live in very different worlds – or maybe it’s just that he sees her in every woman he meets?
With its sense of being in a moment between eras, of looking for a future while trying to make sense of a past that feels disturbingly definite, Scar is very much a mid-1990s film – but also a work of unexpected actuality.
– Olaf Möller
IFFR 2023
Programme IFFR 2023
A sphere of collective remembrance and imagination offering restored classics, documentaries on film culture, and explorations of cinema’s heritage.
Read more about this programmeA gaudy vision of our modern age’s gruesome grimness, done as a funky picture-collage animation.
10'
Hungary
IFFR 2023
A song, dance, action, laughter and romance-packed Hindi spectacle as a paean to religious tolerance.
175'
India
IFFR 2023
Little-seen teleplay on memory and displacement – perhaps the model for Ivory’s A Cooler Climate!
58'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2023