Short & Mid-length
Programme IFFR 2023
Just as long as it takes. The Short & Mid-length film programme offers a unique showcase of films under 63 minutes.
Overview of films
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Site of Passage
Lucy Kerr | 7' | USA | Dutch Premiere
A typical sleepover sequence involving a group of teenage girls transformed into a mysterious ritual. -
Smashing Monuments
Sebastian Diaz Morales | 50' | Indonesia | World premiere (festival)
Members of the Indonesian art collective ruangrupa approach official monuments and strike up a conversation. -
SMRT Piece
Charlotte Bee Her Hong | 5' | Singapore | International premiere
A couple candidly converses about art while the filmmaker’s animated drawings parade on the screen. -
Speech for a Melting Statue
Collectif Faire-Part | 10' | Belgium | World premiere
A poet anticipates the removal of a colonial statue, while anti-racist demonstrators occupy Brussels streets. -
Stillness of Labor
Chris Larson | 8' | USA | World premiere
An abandoned garment factory is reconstituted and reimagined as a labyrinth of labour. -
Swimming in a Sea of Trauma
Ugochukwu Azuya | 7' | Nigeria | World premiere
A ghost story with nightmarish echoes concerning the traumatic memories of the Nigerian Civil War. -
Tabernacle
Dante Capone | 13' | USA | International premiere
Our hapless wanderer is caught up in a Christian sect with hellish ambitions. -
Ultramint
Hirose Tadashi | 10' | Japan | Dutch Premiere
A work of strange, almost perverse sensuality, organised in clusters of analogies and contrasts. -
Untitled Part 9: This Time
Jayce Salloum | 6' | Afghanistan | Dutch Premiere
Images of Bamiyan in Afghanistan alternate with children telling crazy stories. A chronicle of displacement. -
Vacation
James Mercer, Yifan Jiang | 25' | USA | Dutch Premiere
A lo-fi tech folkloric tale about a naïve student stranded on volcanic shores. -
Vienen las grietas
Daniel Mateo Vallejo | 18' | Colombia | International premiere
Nature beckons Keisi, driving a sensuous, vivid and liberating exploration of identity and queer expression. -
Visão do Paraíso
Leonardo Pirondi | 16' | Brazil | International premiere
The desire to expand physical frontiers links the age of expeditions with contemporary virtual reality.