Limelight
Programme IFFR 2023
Avant-premieres and cinematic highlights of this year’s festival circuit: eagerly anticipated audience favourites and international award-winners.
Overview of films
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Goodbye Stranger
Aaron Rookus | 82' | Netherlands | World premiere
When Paul’s promotion is put on hold, he analyses the life choices he has made. -
A House in Jerusalem
Muayad Alayan | 103' | Germany | World premiere
A heartfelt exploration of personal and historical memory through the perspective of a bereaved girl. -
I can’t stop biting you
Oshii Mamoru | 80' | Japan | International premiere
Celebrated anime creator Oshii Mamoru’s delightfully goofy, live-action tale about four schoolgirls and a vampire. -
Kira & El Gin
Marwan Hamed | 175' | Egypt | European premiere
Action-packed anti-colonial epic about an underground resistance unit in Cairo in the 1920s. -
Lonely Castle in the Mirror
Hara Keiichi | 116' | Japan | International premiere
Lonely teenager magically discovers an empowering community in a therapeutic young-adult fantasy. -
Mediterranean Fever
Maha Haj | 108' | Cyprus | Dutch Premiere
A depressed writer sparks an unlikely friendship with his new neighbour, leading to unsettling results. -
Medusa Deluxe
Thomas Hardiman | 101' | United Kingdom | Dutch Premiere
A flamboyant whodunnit set at a high-fashion hairdressing competition, permeated with dialogue as sharp as a coiffeur’s scissors. -
No Dogs or Italians Allowed
Alain Ughetto | 70' | Belgium | Dutch Premiere
A splendid family chronicle of 20th-century work and migration told in inventive stop-motion animation.
