An old man in Saint Martin prepares to return to the island of Curaçao, but an onset of dementia prevents him from leaving. As we stare out of a tropical porch at the changing light of dawn, we listen to his increasingly fragmented conversations with his unresponsive son. Lost on Arrival paints a bleak, heartrending portrait of a fading consciousness slowly losing its connections to the past and the world.
– Srikanth Srinivasan
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Pepper Steak
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God Moves on the Water
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Överföringsdiagram Nr 1
Destroyed books and reconstituted state documents produce new knowledge in this densely associative political essay. -
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Lanesville UFO Incident
Cheerful locals play witnesses in this humorous faux report about UFO sightings in backwoods America. -
Surface Tension #2
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Dossier of Tentacular
A dense, shape-shifting scrapbook of ideas exploring the mechanisms of knowledge production. -
Black Rain
Satellite images of spectacular solar phenomena, with artefacts intact, evoke the mysteries of the universe. -
Being Strong Is Hard
A barrage of images of Kurdish women activists, journalists and fighters, scored to electronic music.
Film details
- Country of production
- Netherlands
- Year
- 2020
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2024
- Length
- 8'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
