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28 Jan – 7 Feb 2027

Overview of articles

  • A Memory for the Present

    Disturbing archival images of World War Two are juxtaposed with Němec’s observations of a post-war ‘liberated’ Czechoslovakia. A montage as a visual p
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  • Transition

    Serbian Jana bids farewell to her bandmates, friends, ex-girlfriend and her family. Only her sister knows the real reason for her departure to Michiga
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  • New Voices in an Old Flower

    Westerners generally view Ethiopia as the mythical land of Rastafarians. However, the contemporary music scene is much richer than that, as this sultr
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  • IFFR remembers John Hurt: The Elephant Man

    In honour of British actor John Hurt, who died January 25 2017, IFFR will screen The Elephant Man, David Lynch’s classic film from 1980. Hurt’s…
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  • Sanctuaire

    1982: The Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party landslide victory in the national elections ends the ‘heroic’ period in ETA history. Once fêted
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  • Amora

    An ink animation on a window. Each painting is photographed and washed away, exposing the unconscious consumption of time. (Ezra Wube)
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  • Wolf and Sheep

    Old traditions, customs and stories live on in a small shepherd community in the mountains of Afghanistan. The experiences of the village children &nd
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  • La ragazza del mondo

    Self-assured, convincing Italian debut about Giulia, whose world is defined by the certainties and limitations of the Jehovah’s Witnesses. When
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  • 36 Quai des Orfèvres

    While chasing a ruthless gang of robbers, two officers from different police forces fight with each other over a soon-to-be vacant position: head of t
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  • And Yet My Mask Is Powerful

    A richly layered film in which 3D-printed Neolithic masks worn in destroyed Palestinian villages in Israel become a counterpoint to the dominant image
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