Harbour
Programme IFFR 2025
Echoing Rotterdam’s port city identity, Harbour offers a safe haven to the full range of contemporary cinema that the festival champions.
Overview of films
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Die Ermittlung
This adaption of Peter Weiss’ monumental play condenses the testimonies of the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials.
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Holy Electricity
A suitcase filled with rusty iron crosses becomes a potential goldmine in this urban fable.
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The Night Is Dark and Colder than the Day
Between sleeping, waking and dreaming, we experience a collective dream of children who seem to be alone in this world.
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Till Death Do Us Part
An isolated housewife’s routine is thrown into chaos when she suspects an intruder in her apartment.
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The Things You Kill
A simmering, long-fuse crime drama reflecting on the far-reaching legacies of familial violence.
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The Slow Man and His Raft
An out of practice circus troupe receives an abandoned, motion-impaired man, whose slowness becomes spectacle.
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Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
A mysterious voyage into a phantasmagoric Carpathian hospice suspended in time.
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John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office
A kaleidoscopic all-archival exploration of the work of intrepid mid-century utopian neuroscientist, John C. Lilly.
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Hear Me: Our Summer
A heart-warming romance and tale of self-discovery beautifully told in Korean Sign Language.
