90-year-old poet Jana Beranová was only a teenager when she left Czechoslovakia for Rotterdam. Abdallah Marega is a 27-year-old freerunner who has lived in both Mali and Paris. Filmmaker Laura Stek juxtaposes their stories in Vluchtval. Both tales are about a free fall and the recovery after landing. But where one finds resilience in words, the other uses movement to recover.
– Christiaan Boesenach
Also in this combined programme
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The Disaster Cannot Be Contained كان يمكن أن لا أكون
Beirut seems far away from Rotterdam – but the explosion’s shock wave can’t be stopped.
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Film details
- Country of production
- Netherlands
- Year
- 2022
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 28'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
