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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • Field Notes from a Mine

    Abstract documentary about a data environment. Based on a list of cities, villages and unnamed places in North Africa that were part of old pilgrim…
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  • Fragments of Kubelka

    An extremely gentle, patient, careful portrait of an iconic film artist, where the subject matter surpasses the biographical to reveal precious insigh
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  • House Party

    Dan organised a wild party while his mum was away from home. The neighbours complain to her about the racket, but was it really that…
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  • O emigrante

    This Angolan filmmaker regularly went awol at the previous IFFR. It turned out he was spontaneously shooting a new film in Rotterdam, about the large
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  • The Search

    Sensitive portrait of a man and his horse in the mountains. About animals’ emotional importance to humans, with a beautiful dream scene. Screened befo
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  • Voice of My Father

    The history of a Kurdish family from 1979-2009, utilising a mix of documentary and fiction. Exquisite images and personal sound recordings (tapes sent
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  • The Story of Elfranko Wessels

    An unusual tale, told in a far from usual manner, featuring an intriguing use of dubbing, song, back projection, and sculptural rearrangements of furn
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  • Francophrenia (or: Don’t Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby Is)

    Ian Olds and Paul Felten wrote a new script to accompany footage of Franco made while shooting the soap General Hospital. The result is an…
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  • Mama

    This can happen to a woman in Rwanda: she has to tolerate her husband’s killer in her immediate surroundings. Reconciliation is too much to ask.
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  • Paraísos artificiales

    The director of the award-winning documentary Shakespeare and Victor Hugo’s Intimacies makes an impressive feature debut with an atmospheric narrative
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