Being Strong Is Hard
A barrage of images of Kurdish women activists, journalists and fighters, scored to electronic music.
4'
Germany
IFFR 2024
This silent, 8mm film combines two camera procedures: time lapse and the zoom lens. It aims not for technical smoothness but a beguiling abruptness. Starting at the same time each evening, the camera records, in jerky leaps, the moment when the sky darkens and an urban streetlight turns on, illuminating the screen. Alternating zooms-in and zooms-out, Ranmaru Usui – part of a Japanese 1970s movement that explored 'cinema of the soul' – offers transcendence within the everyday.
– Adrian Martin
IFFR 2024
A barrage of images of Kurdish women activists, journalists and fighters, scored to electronic music.
4'
Germany
IFFR 2024
Satellite images of spectacular solar phenomena, with artefacts intact, evoke the mysteries of the universe.
3'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2024
Tender remembrance of the filmmaker’s dog Caballito on the last day of his life.
4'
Spain
IFFR 2024
A dense, shape-shifting scrapbook of ideas exploring the mechanisms of knowledge production.
11'
Finland
IFFR 2024
Programme IFFR 2024
Just as long as it takes. The Short & Mid-length film programme offers a unique showcase of films under 63 minutes.
Read more about this programmeDeborah S. Philips' touching analogue collage is a tribute to her deceased mother.
9'
Germany
IFFR 2024
Daily life from a filmmaker's family home in Manila tenderly oscillates between personal and political.
22'
Netherlands
IFFR 2024
Two young boys follow their curiosity as they skip Sunday school.
17'
India
IFFR 2024