A cinematic collage that shows humankind in all its beauty, ugliness and strangeness. Filmmaker Han Hoezen rearranges and manipulates existing footage, turning it into a mirror. People are not just good or bad, beautiful or ugly – but simply strange.
–Christiaan Boesenach
Also in this combined programme
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Prison with Songbirds
A man is suddenly thrown into jail. His story is told through nightmarish images. -
Fantoomwijk
A lively working-class neighbourhood is forced to make way for luxury homes. Fantoomwijk shows the destructive consequences for its former reside -
Promised Land
Five Americans meet to contemplate the departure of the Pilgrim Fathers from Delfshaven 400 years earlier. -
Zingen vogels ook in oorlogstijd?
A young woman explores her grandmother’s past. Fragments of her diary hark back to the war.
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Film details
- Country of production
- Netherlands
- Year
- 2022
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 15'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
