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28 Jan – 7 Feb 2027

Overview of articles

  • Just 6.5

    Fascinating nail-biter of a police drama about drug dealing in Iran where the number of addicts has increased exponentially in recent years.
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  • Common Birds

    Against a backdrop of economic malaise, two fatalistic friends leave Athens and wander aimlessly, ending up in a magical forest.
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  • At Home But Not at Home

    A personal exploration of identity, liberation and the diaspora from the shores of Goa to Mozambique and Angola.
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  • Love’s Twisting Path

    The return of grandmaster Nakajima Sadao to his most beloved genre: the sword-fighting film. With a twist!
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  • Guisado on Sunset

    Missed connection regret at that one late-night spot. The kind you can’t quite remember right, until it starts to look like something else.
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  • Labyrinth of Cinema

    A cinema is transformed into a time machine. Arguably the most flamboyant, madly inventive movie trip IFFR 2020 has to offer!
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  • The Fever

    Hypnotic drama about a native Amazonian whose life is disrupted when his daughter tells him she wants to study in Brasilia.
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  • the names have changed, including my own and truths have been altered

    Digging into personal, colonial and televisual archives, Onyeka Igwe trudges through the muddled biography of her grandfather.
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  • Shadow of Violence

    Crime and Punishment set in Turkey. Selman holds a gun on torturer Bilal in a cave as revenge for the murder of his sons.
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  • Vitalina Varela

    Locarno Golden Leopard winner portrays the lives of immigrants as a pitch-black vacuum. Life stands still and people wander, silently.
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