Trauma Porn Club
Looking for more life experience, an aspiring artist stumbles into a world of dark fetishes.
46'
Netherlands
IFFR 2024
Guilty of having allowed greedy businessmen to take over her city and wipe the memories of its residents clean, mayor Teo conspires with a motley bunch of outsiders to set things right. Armed with homemade hallucinogens, the gang sets out to free citizens from their painless, amnesiac existence.
Mila van der Linden’s neon-drenched dystopian fantasy Memory Dealers presents a tongue-in-cheek political fable in which voracious non-conformists liberate a blissful, sober society that are under the thrall of a corporate technocracy. The film’s emphatic visual style, influenced by both graphic novels and silent cinema, reflects an attitude of pure play that belies the repressive universe of the narrative. Shot in psychedelic colours and scored to trance music, Van der Linden’s intoxicating film invites the viewer on a literal trip down memory lane.
– Srikanth Srinivasan
Memory Dealers screens as part of the 'Koolhoven presenteert' programme.
IFFR 2024
- 45'
- Netherlands
- 2024
- Director
- Mila van der Linden
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Country of production
- Netherlands
- Year
- 2024
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2024
- Length
- 45'
- Medium
- DCP
- Languages
- Dutch, English
- Producers
- Layla Meijman, Maarten van der Ven
- Production Company
- Studio Ruba
- Sales
- Studio Ruba
- Screenplay
- Nena van Driel
- Cinematography
- Sam Vis
- Editor
- Maarten Ernest
- Production Design
- Desiree Brands
- Sound Design
- Meghan van der Meer
- Music
- Mila van der Linden
- Cast
- Milou van Duijnhoven, Kanea Indigo, Sammy Does, Bebe Berat Bebek, Leon Vervoort, Bieneke Ehrhardt, Roy Kaneza
Also in this combined programme
Venus
A bereaved woman struggles to navigate a world post-men in an intense dystopian psychodrama.
43'
Netherlands
IFFR 2024
- Director
- Mila van der Linden
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Country of production
- Netherlands
- Year
- 2024
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2024
- Length
- 45'
- Medium
- DCP
- Languages
- Dutch, English
- Producers
- Layla Meijman, Maarten van der Ven
- Production Company
- Studio Ruba
- Sales
- Studio Ruba
- Screenplay
- Nena van Driel
- Cinematography
- Sam Vis
- Editor
- Maarten Ernest
- Production Design
- Desiree Brands
- Sound Design
- Meghan van der Meer
- Music
- Mila van der Linden
- Cast
- Milou van Duijnhoven, Kanea Indigo, Sammy Does, Bebe Berat Bebek, Leon Vervoort, Bieneke Ehrhardt, Roy Kaneza
Programme IFFR 2024
Harbour
Echoing Rotterdam’s port city identity, Harbour offers a safe haven to the full range of contemporary cinema that the festival champions.
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66'
Spain
IFFR 2024
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A candid grassroots record of the non-violent protests against India’s controversial farm laws.
151'
India
IFFR 2024
100 Yards
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108'
China
IFFR 2024