Limelight
Overview of films
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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. -
Fackham Hall
Jim O’Hanlon | 107' | United Kingdom | Dutch Premiere
Downton Abbey goes haywire in this irresistibly silly, joke-packed spoof of English country house dramas. -
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 -
The Farewell Party
Sharon Maymon, Tal Granit | 90' | Germany | None
An older married couple in an old people’s home in Jerusalem see friends and acquaintances suffering unnecessarily in the last days of their lives. Th -
Father Mother Sister Brother
Jim Jarmusch | 110' | USA | Dutch Premiere
Jim Jarmusch’s intimate elegy on familial relations unfolds across three star-studded vignettes, earning him the Golden Lion at Venice. -
Filles de joie
Frédéric Fonteyne, Anne Paulicevich | 90' | Belgium | None
Even when life offers little hope, at least these three very different ‘working girls’ have one another in this cleverly constructed Walloon drama. -
Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool
Paul McGuigan | 105' | United Kingdom | None
In this stylish film set at the end of the 1970s, 55-year old Hollywood diva Gloria Grahame has what proves to be a unique affair with… -
Fire Will Come
Oliver Laxe | 85' | France | None
Convicted arsonist Amador returns to the village of his birth. Fire breaks out – does it mean the end of this bucolic community?
