The Antarctic Gardener
A woman creates life where it cannot be while the forces of Antarctic nature rage all around.
24'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
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.
A woman creates life where it cannot be while the forces of Antarctic nature rage all around.
24'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
Culinary shadow play, where three women and a restaurant follow various recipes to prepare soto/saoto.
15'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
Six-episode, silent documentary about the construction of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen between 1932 and 1935.
82'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
Be carried by the waves, until they break. A woman muses on her fear of falling.
27'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
Documentary about the construction of Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, in which present, past and future converge.
86'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
Cosmic love story beyond space and time, about resonance and dissonance in the relationship between three people.
18'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
Beirut seems far away from Rotterdam – but the explosion’s shock wave can’t be stopped.
26'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
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
In this blend of documentary and science fiction, a society prepares for the end.
8'
Spain
IFFR 2023
Amie and Victor wander off into the woods, where people and nature move together.
10'
Germany
IFFR 2023
A young man has a date at a restaurant. Once seated, he can’t distinguish fantasy from reality.
8'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
Who is Tjon Rockon? Grandeloge Filantropia explores the myth behind a talented theatre maker and mysterious hero.
44'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
An ambitious businesswoman travels the galaxy with a truck driver, conversing about ordinary, hard-working people.
14'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
Unpolished, intimate documentary about four male models on the brink of adulthood on retreat in Thailand.
25'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
For the lion dance, Jimmy is determined to hold the lion's head. First, he needs to overcome himself.
85'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
Drily comedic film essay about Henk Sneevliet, Rotterdam’s housing crisis, Shanghai skyscrapers and Chinese restaurants in Katendrecht.
93'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
Max is young and non-binary. As Maxi-Pad, they use experiences to explore the concept of femininity.
12'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
Filmmaker Jeske Maas searches for Nani Kamphuis, member of 1970s Dutch feminist group Dolle Mina.
15'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
Sensual film about sexual freedom and safety. Images, sound and movement coalesce in a luscious choreography.
15'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
Serene natural wonder within the glass walls of a greenhouse, with volunteers creating the sounds of the tropics.
15'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
Myth of Persephone rebooted in a 3D-animated world. What is mortality in a virtual world?
28'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
A man is suddenly thrown into jail. His story is told through nightmarish images.
12'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
Five Americans meet to contemplate the departure of the Pilgrim Fathers from Delfshaven 400 years earlier.
19'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
Short film by Vincent Boy Kars about two Rotterdam housemates who live separate lives.
10'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
The Greek city of Thebes is backdrop to a cinematic poem about the creation of myth.
9'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
Short documentary about 90-year-old poet Jana Beranová and 27-year-old freerunner Abdallah Marega leaving everything behind.
28'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
While his mother was hoping for a better future, Ewald left everything behind.
10'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
A cinematic collage that shows humankind in all its beauty, ugliness and strangeness.
15'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
Self-taught ethnographer Khrystyna Bunii travels through south-western Ukraine, where she documents the culture of the Hutsuls.
73'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
A young woman explores her grandmother’s past. Fragments of her diary hark back to the war.
4'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023