I Wan’na Be Like You
The viewer is lured deep into a dilapidated glasshouse, a place where nature is traditionally tamed and studied, by a ghostly figure, dancing to a variation on the popular song from Disney’s The Jungle Book (1967). As the music fades out, he makes way for the vocal group Black Harmony, offering a reinterpretation of the song in their own language. I Wan’na Be Like You deconstructs and reconstructs the novel, film, that song and their legacies.
– Koen de Rooij
Also in this combined programme
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Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
Docufiction about a depopulating island village and an important journey the last nine inhabitants must make. -
The Rock Speaks
The ecological degradation caused by the neo-colonial extraction of coveted Cobalt minerals. -
Film details
- Countries of production
- Netherlands, France, Belgium, United Kingdom, Germany
- Year
- 2024
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2025
- Length
- 13'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
