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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O Mar Também É Seu
Michelle Coelho | 20' | Brazil | International premiere
In a dream, a woman becomes an animal. In a memory, another recalls her abortion experience. -
Mar(i)cona
Cande Lázaro | 13' | Spain | International premiere
The filmmaker navigates between a trans identity forged in the city, and rural family roots. -
Marinaleda
Louis Séguin | 50' | France | World premiere
A comical tale of vampires hitchhiking to Spain, and the woman who encounters them. -
Marine Target
Lukas Marxt | 10' | Austria | International premiere
A disquieting exploration of the Salton Sea – haunted by traces of catastrophic US nuclear testing. -
Marseille après la guerre
Billy Woodberry | 11' | USA | Dutch Premiere
A collection of photographs of Marseille dockworkers; a compelling homage to Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène. -
No Changes Have Taken In Our Life
Xu Jingwei | 45' | China | World premiere
A humorously tragic animation about a post-graduate job search amid the ennui of hometown culture. -
La noirceur souterraine des racines
Charles-André Coderre | 10' | Canada | World premiere
An immense and interconnected network of subterranean natural phenomena is illuminated using analogue film techniques. -
Now I’m in the Kitchen
Yana Pan | 5' | China | Dutch Premiere
An impressionistic animation conjuring kitchen culture and the distance between a Chinese mother and an American daughter. -
Ode to Loneliness
Rawane Nassif | 17' | Canada | International premiere
A woman alone inside her high-rise Doha apartment: a stylised depiction of experiences and longings. -
Once Upon a Time There Was a Mom
Lin Htet Aung | 29' | Myanmar | World premiere
Playful, unconventional black-and-white film that sees a man undergoing a transformation after his wife’s death. -
One Home to Another
Dominique van Olm | 10' | Canada | World premiere
Dominique van Olm combines home movie footage from her Dutch grandfather with contemporary, poetic images. -
Onfim
Damien Tran | 4' | France | Dutch Premiere
A meditation on creativity and childhood as universal human bonds transcending time and space.