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30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

I Wan’na Be Like You

Margit Lukács | Persijn Broersen | Netherlands | 2024 | 13' | | IFFR 2025

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

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Film details

Countries of production
Netherlands, France, Belgium, UK, Germany
Year
2024
Festival edition
IFFR 2025
Length
13"
Medium/Format
DCP

Shows of "I Wan’na Be Like You"

  • Available
    Video on demand
    EN subtitled
    Press & Industry
  • Pathé 3

    Main programme ‘Tiger Short Competition 5’ featuring the films:

    • I Wan’na Be Like You
    • Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
    • The Rock Speaks
    • BAN♡ITS
    In-person
    with Q&A
    EN subtitled
  • Pathé 6

    Main programme ‘Tiger Short Competition 5’ featuring the films:

    • I Wan’na Be Like You
    • Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
    • The Rock Speaks
    • BAN♡ITS
    In-person
    with Q&A
    EN subtitled
  • KINO 3

    Main programme ‘Tiger Short Competition 5’ featuring the films:

    • I Wan’na Be Like You
    • Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
    • The Rock Speaks
    • BAN♡ITS
    In-person
    EN subtitled
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