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
A young woman wanders through her grandmother’s house and delves into her past. Fragments of her diary make her memories of the war come alive. With its serene and captivating style, Zingen vogels ook in oorlogstijd? raises questions about what we remember and what we pass on from one generation to the next.
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– Christiaan Boesenach
IFFR 2023
- 4'
- Netherlands
- 2023
- Director
- Gijs van der Meer
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Country of production
- Netherlands
- Year
- 2023
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 4'
- Medium
- DCP
- International title
- Do Birds Sing in Wartime?
- Language
- Dutch
- Producer
- Gijs van der Meer
- Sales
- Gijs van der Meer
- Screenplay
- Gijs van der Meer
- Cinematography
- Cristobal Pereira
- Editor
- Gijs van der Meer
- Sound Design
- Alberto Cendra Woodman
- Music
- Alberto Cendra Woodman
Also in this combined programme
Prison with Songbirds
A man is suddenly thrown into jail. His story is told through nightmarish images.
12'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
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
- Director
- Gijs van der Meer
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Country of production
- Netherlands
- Year
- 2023
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 4'
- Medium
- DCP
- International title
- Do Birds Sing in Wartime?
- Language
- Dutch
- Producer
- Gijs van der Meer
- Sales
- Gijs van der Meer
- Screenplay
- Gijs van der Meer
- Cinematography
- Cristobal Pereira
- Editor
- Gijs van der Meer
- Sound Design
- Alberto Cendra Woodman
- Music
- Alberto Cendra Woodman
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