Limelight
Overview of films
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Erbarme dich – Matthäus Passion Stories
Impressive, labyrinthine narrative by Gieling (Johan Cruijff: en un momento dado) on Bach’s St Matthew Passion and the exceptional relationship that e -
The Eternal Daughter
Joanna Hogg | 96' | United Kingdom | Dutch Premiere
Tilda Swinton movingly incarnates both mother and daughter in this atmospheric film by Joanna Hogg. -
L’étranger
François Ozon | 120' | France | Dutch Premiere
Albert Camus’ classic existentialist novel brought dramatically alive by François Ozon as a film noir. -
Evil Does Not Exist
Hamaguchi Ryūsuke | 106' | Japan | Dutch Premiere
Hamaguchi Ryusuke delivers a mesmerising, slow-burning rural fable about the many facets of genius loci. -
L’extraordinaire voyage de Marona
Anca Damian | 92' | Belgium | None
Self-willed drawings in this boundlessly imaginative animation film, in which a dying dog reflects on its owners. -
Big Talk: Srebrenica. Never Again?
Occasioned by Quo vadis, Aida?, a panel will discuss the trauma surrounding the fall of Srebrenica. Can we learn from the past? -
IFFR Young Selectors: Beats
Rotterdam creatives Xiang Yu, Davi, Boaz and Sara are the IFFR Young Selectors. They take matters into their own hands by organising two film events:… -
Big Talk Sacha Polak
Sacha Polak talks about her films, including the English-language production Dirty God, which opens this edition of IFFR. -
Farewell Paradise
Sonja Wyss | 93' | Netherlands | World premiere
Reconstruction of a disrupted dream. The director’s parents and sisters talk about why their family returned from the Bahamas to Switzerland, before f
