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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Flower Rain
Gao Wei | 8' | South Korea | World premiere (festival)
A cosmic, textured study of flowers via photochemical reaction. -
The Funeral of Spring
Gao Zee | 18' | Hong Kong | World premiere
A peasant woman in rural China faces the repressive bindings of her environment. -
Geranios
Lou Marino | 21' | Chile | International premiere
Monserrat takes her friend Francia along on a quest to find housing (and cause trouble). -
Goodbye Words
Laura Rantanen | 22' | Finland | World premiere
In the aftermath of death, what becomes of the books we leave behind? -
Grasshopper
Jussi Eerola | 9' | Finland | Dutch Premiere
Cinema as sound-and-light show: Grasshopper enchants empty urban spaces via a mysterious machine. -
The Grave’s Sky
John Gianvito | 19' | USA | World premiere
Rotterdam regular John Gianvito with a sensitive, homebound film diary recorded in the pandemic years 2020-2022. -
Grief Encounter
Ellen Pearson | 19' | United Kingdom | World premiere
Intriguing porno erotica: a woman picks up grieving people at funerals and overwhelms them further. -
Growing Up Absurd
Ben Balcom, Julie Niemi | 15' | USA | World premiere
A disinterment of College F (aka Tolstoy College), an anarchist pedagogical space operating between 1969 and 1985. -
Haar handen
Jaap Pieters | 3' | Netherlands | World premiere
A silent meditation on a woman’s fingers by Super-8 master Jaap Pieters. -
Horror Vacui
Boris Poljak | 24' | Croatia | World premiere
Observational meditation on growing militarisation of today’s society shot by acclaimed experimental documentary filmmaker, Boris Poljak. -
Howling
Kawazoe Aya | 23' | Japan | World premiere
A disturbing study of our subconscious, with a man losing his grip on reality. -
HUMUS (multiplexing)
7' | Belgium | Dutch Premiere
Between figurative and abstract, this one-man show is like Busby Berkeley for the digital age.