Harbour
Programma IFFR 2023
Echoing Rotterdam’s port city identity, Harbour offers a safe haven to the full range of contemporary cinema that the festival champions.
Overview of films
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1744 White Alto
Senna Hegde | 110' | India | International premiere
A colourful comedy featuring quirky characters, a case of mistaken identity and one hell of a ride. -
2551.02 – The Orgy of the Damned
Norbert Pfaffenbichler | 82' | Austria | World premiere
A wordless, dream-like, post-apocalyptic horror movie full of sounds of fury. A darkly trippy avant-garde scare fest! -
The Abandoned
Tseng Ying-ting | 128' | Taiwan | Dutch Premiere
A suicidal police officer finds a reason to live: catching the killer preying on migrant women. -
Alien Food
Giorgio Cugno | 113' | Denmark | World premiere
A touching, unexpected friendship grounds Alberto amid psychotic visions – blurring reality and hallucination, fantasy and terror. -
Als uw gat maar lacht (If Yes, Okay)
Dick Verdult | 93' | Netherlands | World premiere
A privileged teenager mounts a mock Kabuki performance to lampoon her billionaire parents in this idiosyncratic dark comedy. -
Another Spring
Mladen Kovačević | 89' | Qatar | Dutch Premiere
Merging documentary and thriller, a resounding, archival retracing of the 1972 Yugoslav smallpox outbreak. -
Arnold Is a Model Student
Sorayos Prapapan | 86' | France | Dutch Premiere
Thai students unite to reject the rigid societal norms and traditionalist values in their school. -
Because We Have Each Other
Sari Braithwaite | 89' | Australia | International premiere
A candid film about a remarkable and resilient neurodiverse family who prove that love prevails. -
Beyond the Fences of Lâlehzâr
Amen Feizabadi | 72' | Germany | World premiere
An elliptical, boundary-bending journey through memory, a hypnotic elegy for freedom and art. -
Come pecore in mezzo ai lupi
Lyda Patitucci | 100' | Italy | World premiere
Undercover agent Vera is torn between family and mission in a fierce, gripping crime thriller.
