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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • I Want to Dance

    Extremely charming feature debut with a documentary approach, situated in the ethnically diverse mountains of southern China. 14-year-old Pian wants t
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  • The Dirty Ones

    Alienating, stylish fiction produced by Harmony Korine about two Mennonite nuns whose car breaks down somewhere in the southern USA.
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  • Be Calm and Count to Seven

    Feature début film from Iran tells about people on the country’s southern islands who make their living smuggling a variety of goods, on the run…
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  • Daytime Drinking

    Noh did almost everything himself in his charming, successful low-budget début. A humorous road movie about a young man who drowns his unrequited love
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  • Optra Field IV

    An elegant, dichromatic time-based drawing that explores the propinquity between space, time, movement, perception and opposites.
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  • Waiting for Sancho

    With this title referring to Beckett, VIFF programmer and director Mark Peranson sketches the evolution of Albert Serra’s masterful El cant dell ocell
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  • Exhausted

    Uncompromising and shocking portrayal of the life of a French pimp and his wife exploited by him as a prostitute, who stay together in an…
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  • Los herederos

    For months, Polgovsky’s camera hovered hypnotically above the rough, inaccessible Mexican countryside. He wanted to share his fury and admiratio
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  • Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi

    The nightmare of a documentary maker in Afghanistan: during shooting, the Taliban decapitates your protagonist. Ian Olds (Occupation: Dreamland) wante
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  • This Is Not an Anchor, This Boat Is Not an Anchor

    A misty boat trip evokes both oppression and liberation through disorientation.
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