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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I Am a Horse
Chaerin Im | 8' | Denmark | International premiere
Feminist rendering of a Korean birth dream through the tin-foil lithographic imagining of a mighty she-horse. -
Ingresso animali vivi
Igor Grubic | 15' | Croatia | World premiere
Subtle but effective hybrid of animation, documentary and experimental film dealing with animal rights issues. -
Issues with My Other Half
Anna Vasof | 6' | Austria | World premiere
Dividing the body and the tools it uses: Anna Vasof’s neo-Švankmajer avalanche of digital gags. -
El jardín de los faunos
Pol Merchan | 24' | Germany | International premiere
An ode to queer artist Nazario Luque, who devoted his life to love and freedom. -
Le jour où j’étais perdu
Soufiane Adel | 29' | France | World premiere
Le jour ou j’étais perdu seduces the audience with its ambiguity and continuous shifts of perception. -
Kajanaqtuq
Ella Morton | 11' | Canada | International premiere
Faded Super-8 images accompany an Inuk Elder’s memories in this powerful invocation of Inuit life and mythology. -
Keeping Time
Darol Olu Kae | 32' | USA | World premiere
Mekala Session takes on the role of bandleader for the legendary Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra in LA. -
KLITCLIQUE – Zu zweit
Anna Spanlang | 2' | Austria | Dutch Premiere
Not exactly a music video, but a queer-anarchist audio-visual manifesto from radical Austrian duo KLITCLIQUE. -
Lingua morta
Jean Ruggirello | 10' | France | World premiere
Ruggirello’s absurdist cross between cinema and sculpture is a slapstick comedy made with strange objects. -
Loose Corner
Anita Thacher | 10' | USA | Dutch Premiere
A simple corner turns into a generative space with plenty of surprises for our senses. -
Lotus-Eyed Girl
Rajee Samarasinghe | 6' | Sri Lanka | World premiere
A hauntingly evocative, experimental rumination on the effects of colonialism on human desire. -
Mama dan so que sorriso
Cyrielle Raingou | 18' | Belgium | World premiere
Relationship between a woman and her deceased mother illuminates the strength, struggles and transcendence of black womanhood.