Hubert Bals Fund
Overzicht van films
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In the Dark
Sergey Dvortsevoy | 40' | Finland | World premiere
Jewel from Moscow. Blind old man makes beautiful string shopping nets, his cat plays with balls of string. But outside, people use plastic bags. -
In the Shadows of the City
Jean Khalil Chamoun | 105' | France | -
Rami (12) moves with his family from the countryside to Beirut, to flee the civil war. But in the city too, she is confronted with… -
Iran Is My Land
Parviz Kimiavi | 90' | Iran | World premiere
Masterful film about a young Iranian writer from Kerman who has written a hefty tome about classic Persian poetry. He has to ask for permission… -
The Island Funeral
Pimpaka Towira | 105' | Thailand | -
A couple of young people drive out of town for a long journey. It could well be a Thai Jules and Jim. On the way,… -
Japón
Carlos Reygadas | 143' | Mexico | World premiere
In the ambitious, stunning debut by Carlos Reygadas (Silent Light, Post tenebras lux), a man leaves the city to die in a remote, majestic valley.… -
Le jardin de papa
Zeka Laplaine | 75' | Congo | European premiere
Neo-post-colonial relations on the dark continent. Honeymoon trip by a French couple to his African birthplace goes wrong as soon as their taxi causes -
The Joy
Felipe Bragança, Marina Meliande | 100' | Brazil | None
Luiza (16) has had enough of stories about the end of the world. On Christmas Eve, her cousin is shot; a few weeks later she… -
Kali salwar
Fareeda M Mehta | 113' | India | International premiere
Colourful film version of a forbidden story about the feelings of an Indian prostitute in the lively slums of Bombay. Filled with references to Indian -
Karvaan
Pankaj Butalia | 104' | India | -
A Pakistani woman in middle age who grew up in India in the fifties and sixties returns to the spot she knew in her youth.… -
Kékszakállú
Gastón Solnicki | 72' | Argentina | None
This highly praised first fiction film by Argentine talent Solnicki (Papirosen, IFFR 2012) is a beautifully filmed portrait of several young daughters of rich industrialists,… -
Kiemas
Valdas Navasaitis | 90' | Lithuania | -
Navasaitis reveals himself to be a talented Impressionist with a great sense of mood in his observations of several inhabitants of an apartment block -
Killed by Lightning
Evgeny Yufit | 65' | Russia | -
A woman does anthropological research into the evolution from ape to man. The story largely unfolds in her subconscious. By the (only) master of Necro