15 days
An affecting meditation on the pain experienced by refugees forced to live in limbo.
12'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2023
An affecting meditation on the pain experienced by refugees forced to live in limbo.
12'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2023
Timeless, silent film vignettes based on songs from Robert Schumann’s Dichterliebe. A tribute to early film.
7'
Germany
IFFR 2023
Flowers are stuck down and covered by tape: a wry comment on 20th-century modernist art.
3'
United States
IFFR 2023
An incisive monologue about the ways violence, terror, and contradiction reveal themselves at borders and checkpoints.
15'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2023
A parody of disco music and dance treated with live video multiplications of images.
4'
Israel
IFFR 2023
Our protagonist cuts the power on customers in arrears, until a new signal is transmitted.
12'
Dominican Republic
IFFR 2023
Online war game becomes a battle ground for a female gamer, but the violence isn't virtual.
21'
Chile
IFFR 2023
Two exiled beings exchange tales of kin, connection, and loss while awaiting reincarnation in a forest.
22'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2023
A look into a novel economy of online domination and the new faces of sex work.
15'
United States
IFFR 2023
A young Bolivian shoeshiner mythologises his own story to cope with a harsh, everyday reality.
9'
Bolivia
IFFR 2023
An exploration of how architecture shapes the relationship between two students from different social backgrounds.
30'
Spain
IFFR 2023
A faux-folklore lullaby to revive two dead volcanoes discovered in the Waddenzee.
10'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
Steeped in black and white, Palestinian soprano Nour Darwish confronts conflict, maternal loss, and intergenerational sorrow.
21'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2023
Pensive impressions of landscape, religion and ancestry give texture to this deeply meditative exploration of a homeland.
20'
Germany
IFFR 2023
A six-year-old boy uses the power of his imagination to protect himself against a harsh reality.
15'
Kenya
IFFR 2023
Hsu Che-yu blends digitally animated crime scenes with the tale of Taiwanese terrorist Yung Ru-Men.
20'
Taiwan
IFFR 2023
An exploration of the phantom island San Borondón, taking us above the earth and underwater.
17'
Spain
IFFR 2023
A bowl of blueberries slowly disappears: light, colour, action, time – cinema. Gottheim’s first one-take film.
9'
United States
IFFR 2023
Unglamorous beach work in Riga is poignantly juxtaposed with the extravagant promises of self-help gurus.
19'
Latvia
IFFR 2023
Three prophets of pink seduce us with their glistening bodies and dark desires. Squish. Slap.
16'
Brazil
IFFR 2023
Cave textures fused with filmic materiality. A ride for the senses, bridging primitive and avant-garde.
15'
Austria
IFFR 2023
A dreamy 16mm triptych about the lost promises of urbanity.
18'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
Two crocodile-people are cooling down at a swimming pool. But are they even the same species?
12'
Singapore
IFFR 2023
Booker's unannounced homecoming to South Central L.A. arouses ambivalent feelings, especially within himself.
19'
United States
IFFR 2023
The unassuming, poetic portrait of a domestic space during pandemic times: a rotoscopic, yin-yang dance.
11'
Argentina
IFFR 2023
An intimate, animated migration through the difficult, emotionally uneven roads in the search for self.
4'
India
IFFR 2023
An immersion into the surreal dreams and visions of a young woman haunted by loneliness.
7'
United States
IFFR 2023
Dystopian cyberpunk sci-fi, Russian-style, returns with a vengeance in this inventive, allusive, experimental, morbid tale.
33'
Russia
IFFR 2023
With the arrival of a successor, a lonely surgical-assistant robot is confronted with its waning relevance.
16'
Belgium
IFFR 2023
A report from the frontlines of everyday life in the USA, replete with guns and joy.
20'
United States
IFFR 2023
‘Professional dog walker’ Rose invites a film crew to tour the home she has been squatting.
15'
Brazil
IFFR 2023
When a great love leaves her, Odina must reorient herself and learn to live without looking back.
43'
France
IFFR 2023
A surprisingly whimsical and humorous tale of displacement caused by an earthquake in Indonesia.
19'
Indonesia
IFFR 2023
A reflection on the perils triggered by cultural appropriation and stereotypical representations of black bodies.
12'
Canada
IFFR 2023
A study of the interaction between landscape and military technology in the San Francisco Bay.
24'
United States
IFFR 2023
Five wildly different stories about people displaced from their village.
51'
India
IFFR 2023
A cosmic, textured study of flowers via photochemical reaction.
8'
South Korea
IFFR 2023
A peasant woman in rural China faces the repressive bindings of her environment.
18'
Hong Kong
IFFR 2023
Monserrat takes her friend Francia along on a quest to find housing (and cause trouble).
21'
Chile
IFFR 2023
In the aftermath of death, what becomes of the books we leave behind?
22'
Finland
IFFR 2023
Cinema as sound-and-light show: Grasshopper enchants empty urban spaces via a mysterious machine.
9'
Finland
IFFR 2023
Rotterdam regular John Gianvito with a sensitive, homebound film diary recorded in the pandemic years 2020-2022.
19'
United States
IFFR 2023
Intriguing porno erotica: a woman picks up grieving people at funerals and overwhelms them further.
19'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2023
A disinterment of College F (aka Tolstoy College), an anarchist pedagogical space operating between 1969 and 1985.
15'
United States
IFFR 2023
A silent meditation on a woman's fingers by Super-8 master Jaap Pieters.
3'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
Observational meditation on growing militarisation of today’s society shot by acclaimed experimental documentary filmmaker, Boris Poljak.
24'
Croatia
IFFR 2023
A disturbing study of our subconscious, with a man losing his grip on reality.
23'
Japan
IFFR 2023
Between figurative and abstract, this one-man show is like Busby Berkeley for the digital age.
7'
Belgium
IFFR 2023
Feminist rendering of a Korean birth dream through the tin-foil lithographic imagining of a mighty she-horse.
8'
South Korea
IFFR 2023
Subtle but effective hybrid of animation, documentary and experimental film dealing with animal rights issues.
15'
Croatia
IFFR 2023
Dividing the body and the tools it uses: Anna Vasof’s neo-Švankmajer avalanche of digital gags.
6'
Austria
IFFR 2023
An ode to queer artist Nazario Luque, who devoted his life to love and freedom.
24'
Germany
IFFR 2023
Le jour ou j'étais perdu seduces the audience with its ambiguity and continuous shifts of perception.
29'
France
IFFR 2023
Faded Super-8 images accompany an Inuk Elder's memories in this powerful invocation of Inuit life and mythology.
11'
Canada
IFFR 2023
Mekala Session takes on the role of bandleader for the legendary Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra in LA.
32'
United States
IFFR 2023
Not exactly a music video, but a queer-anarchist audio-visual manifesto from radical Austrian duo KLITCLIQUE.
2'
Austria
IFFR 2023
Ruggirello’s absurdist cross between cinema and sculpture is a slapstick comedy made with strange objects.
10'
France
IFFR 2023
A simple corner turns into a generative space with plenty of surprises for our senses.
10'
United States
IFFR 2023
A hauntingly evocative, experimental rumination on the effects of colonialism on human desire.
6'
Sri Lanka
IFFR 2023
Relationship between a woman and her deceased mother illuminates the strength, struggles and transcendence of black womanhood.
18'
Portugal
IFFR 2023
In a dream, a woman becomes an animal. In a memory, another recalls her abortion experience.
20'
Cuba
IFFR 2023
The filmmaker navigates between a trans identity forged in the city, and rural family roots.
13'
Spain
IFFR 2023
A comical tale of vampires hitchhiking to Spain, and the woman who encounters them.
50'
France
IFFR 2023
A disquieting exploration of the Salton Sea – haunted by traces of catastrophic US nuclear testing.
10'
Germany
IFFR 2023
A collection of photographs of Marseille dockworkers; a compelling homage to Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène.
11'
United States
IFFR 2023
A humorously tragic animation about a post-graduate job search amid the ennui of hometown culture.
45'
China
IFFR 2023
An immense and interconnected network of subterranean natural phenomena is illuminated using analogue film techniques.
10'
Canada
IFFR 2023
An impressionistic animation conjuring kitchen culture and the distance between a Chinese mother and an American daughter.
5'
United States
IFFR 2023
A woman alone inside her high-rise Doha apartment: a stylised depiction of experiences and longings.
17'
Lebanon
IFFR 2023
Playful, unconventional black-and-white film that sees a man undergoing a transformation after his wife’s death.
29'
Myanmar
IFFR 2023
Dominique van Olm combines home movie footage from her Dutch grandfather with contemporary, poetic images.
10'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
A meditation on creativity and childhood as universal human bonds transcending time and space.
4'
France
IFFR 2023
The bombing of Pantelleria during WWII triggers a compelling investigation into truth and fabrication.
19'
Italy
IFFR 2023
Disquieting, found-footage collage of heroic images of modern warfare – depictions that obscure the reality.
19'
Palestine
IFFR 2023
Subtle, funny, cynical, yet deeply human look at guests in a small-town pâtisserie in Moravia.
12'
Austria
IFFR 2023
The dark forest beloved of poets, cinematically recreated in a timely, materialist and apocalyptic vein.
8'
France
IFFR 2023
A young man broadcasts poses from an urban ruin: a portrait of our times.
13'
Belgium
IFFR 2023
Brazil, 1870. A tangled story of power, lust and freedom unfolds, where nothing is tangible.
21'
Brazil
IFFR 2023
Archival poetic analysis of the aesthetics of football conceived through the image of Robert Prosinečki.
21'
Ireland
IFFR 2023
A documentation of indigenous flora and fauna that builds on personal relationships, going beyond just observation.
10'
United States
IFFR 2023
Deeply meditative, poetic ode to Iran’s silenced history of poetry, performance, artistic freedom and expression.
30'
Iran
IFFR 2023
Warm, intimate portrait of two separate lives coming together in a night-time moment of hope.
38'
Japan
IFFR 2023
An experimental dance choreography that goes beyond human bodies and into a micro-universe of relational aesthetics.
6'
Germany
IFFR 2023
A found footage road trip with two sisters who run wild before their paths diverge.
2'
Canada
IFFR 2023
A typical sleepover sequence involving a group of teenage girls transformed into a mysterious ritual.
7'
United States
IFFR 2023
Members of the Indonesian art collective ruangrupa approach official monuments and strike up a conversation.
50'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
A couple candidly converses about art while the filmmaker’s animated drawings parade on the screen.
5'
Singapore
IFFR 2023
A poet anticipates the removal of a colonial statue, while anti-racist demonstrators occupy Brussels streets.
10'
Belgium
IFFR 2023
An abandoned garment factory is reconstituted and reimagined as a labyrinth of labour.
8'
United States
IFFR 2023
A ghost story with nightmarish echoes concerning the traumatic memories of the Nigerian Civil War.
7'
Nigeria
IFFR 2023
Our hapless wanderer is caught up in a Christian sect with hellish ambitions.
13'
United States
IFFR 2023
A work of strange, almost perverse sensuality, organised in clusters of analogies and contrasts.
10'
Japan
IFFR 2023
Images of Bamiyan in Afghanistan alternate with children telling crazy stories. A chronicle of displacement.
6'
Afghanistan
IFFR 2023
A lo-fi tech folkloric tale about a naïve student stranded on volcanic shores.
25'
United States
IFFR 2023
Nature beckons Keisi, driving a sensuous, vivid and liberating exploration of identity and queer expression.
18'
Colombia
IFFR 2023
The desire to expand physical frontiers links the age of expeditions with contemporary virtual reality.
16'
Brazil
IFFR 2023
A process of learning where empathy and self-awareness are intertwined in a beautiful feminine-universe fresco.
25'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
The sensations and perceptions experienced in parasomniac states are brilliantly rendered in this hypnotic dream exploration.
9'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
A jewel of irony and a precise satire of the almighty Catholic Church.
9'
Portugal
IFFR 2023
Contemporary gastarbeiter comedy with a strong feminist undercurrent, an homage to Yugo-land.
23'
Germany
IFFR 2023