Tiger Competition
Programme IFFR 2026
IFFR’s trademark competition celebrates the innovative and adventurous spirit of up-and-coming filmmakers from all over the world.
Overview of films
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La belle année
Angelica Ruffier | 95' | Sweden | World premiere
A filmmaker revisits a crush, probing memory, desire and the possibilities of returning to past love. -
A Fading Man
Welf Reinhart | 100' | Germany | World premiere
Hanne, her partner Bernd, and her returnee ex-husband make the best of a complicated situation. -
The Gymnast
Charlotte Glynn | 84' | USA | World premiere
The contours of resilience and sacrifice are traced when a teenage gymnast’s Olympic dreams shatter following injury. -
A Messy Tribute to Motherly Love
Dan Geesin | 85' | Netherlands | World premiere
After his life is surreally and spontaneously exploded, a man’s mother and friend guide him through healing. -
My Semba
Hugo Salvaterra | 90' | Angola | World premiere
A batida-driven rap symphony of Luanda, seen through those chasing dignity and their dreams. -
Nangong Cheng
Shao Pan | 197' | China | World premiere
As death closes in, a steelworker with martial healing skills aids a stranger driven by grief and vengeance. -
O profeta
Ique Langa | 94' | Mozambique | World premiere
An unflinching look at everyday ugliness as a priest loses faith and turns to witchcraft to reclaim it. -
Roid
Mejbaur Rahman Sumon | 109' | Bangladesh | World premiere
In rural isolation, a husband tries abandoning his volatile wife, but fate relentlessly returns her. -
Supporting Role
Ana Urushadze | 139' | Georgia | World premiere
A faded Georgian film star confronts pride and renewal when a new role poses to quietly reshape him. -
Unerasable!
Socrates Saint-Wulfstan Drakos | 97' | Belgium | World premiere
An exiled filmmaker confronts repression, dislocation and bureaucracy, forging a serenely poetic resistance against all odds. -
Variations on a Theme
Jason Jacobs, Devon Delmar | 65' | South Africa | World premiere
A gentle and insightful portrait of Afrikaner Ouma Hettie, awaiting the compensation due her father. -
Yellow Cake
Tiago Melo | 97' | Brazil | World premiere
In Brazil’s Northeast, experiments with uranium spawn sci-fi folklore as workers battle mosquitoes and capital.