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.
26'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
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
IFFR 2023
- 28'
- Netherlands
- 2022
- Director
- Laura Stek
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Country of production
- Netherlands
- Year
- 2022
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 28'
- Medium
- DCP
- International title
- Flightfall
- Languages
- French, Dutch
- Producer
- Laura Verduijn
- Production Company
- Prospektor
- Sales
- Prospektor
- Screenplay
- Laura Stek
- Cinematography
- Jean Counet, Ton Peters
- Editor
- Riekje Ziengs
- Sound Design
- Huibert Boon
- Music
- Lavinia Meijer, Darius Timmer
- Cast
- Abdallah Marega, Jana Beranova
Also in this combined programme
Nani
Filmmaker Jeske Maas searches for Nani Kamphuis, member of 1970s Dutch feminist group Dolle Mina.
15'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
- Director
- Laura Stek
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Country of production
- Netherlands
- Year
- 2022
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 28'
- Medium
- DCP
- International title
- Flightfall
- Languages
- French, Dutch
- Producer
- Laura Verduijn
- Production Company
- Prospektor
- Sales
- Prospektor
- Screenplay
- Laura Stek
- Cinematography
- Jean Counet, Ton Peters
- Editor
- Riekje Ziengs
- Sound Design
- Huibert Boon
- Music
- Lavinia Meijer, Darius Timmer
- Cast
- Abdallah Marega, Jana Beranova
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.
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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