Perspectives
Overview of films
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Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made
It took the likes of Eli Roth, Harry Knowles and Steven Spielberg himself to make the dream of three Mississippi teenagers come true: a shot-for-shot
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The Childhood of a Leader
Impressive debut by young American director (and actor) Brady Corbet – with a small yet striking (double) role by Robert Pattinson – sketches the rise
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Inner Man
Juxtaposing a dancing naked man and a woman dressed in a traditional kimono, the playful film sees Japanese feminist artist Idemitsu Mako encourage cr
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News
Sardonic short by ‘Beat’ Takeshi (aka Kitano Takeshi), made for his latest TV show. Two cops in a car mull over some evidence.
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A Crackup at the Race Riots
Set in Florida and inspired by Harmony Korine’s homonymous book, Leo Gabin’s film consists of a collage of YouTube videos, mostly self-mad
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Letters from Ethiopia
It had not yet been done, a film about making films in Ethiopia. So IFFR had it made by the youngest talent we could find.
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Happy Hour
Four thirty-something housewives in Kobe are closely bonded by friendship and trust, until one of them breaks those ties. A patient five-hour saga of
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Sakala
This study of the forgotten statue of Sakala, the first African boy to visit Belgium in 1884, critically analyses Western perspectives.
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The Thaw
A Russian Mad Men? Isn’t that as contradictory as it gets? From the New York advertising world of the 60s to the Moscow film industry seems a giant le
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Facebookistan
What is Facebook’s true face like? What hides behind Mark Zuckerberg’s baby face? This documentary tries – in vain – to put a face to the immensely po
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Congo Beat the Drum
Ariel Tagar (Kalbata) and Uri Wertheim (Mixmonster), two musicians from Tel Aviv, go to Jamaica to record an album with forgotten reggae greats. Once
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100 Yen Love
Take Masaharu’s Neo-Noir centres on a stupendous performance by Ando Sakura. She plays a seeming no-hoper whose doomed romance with a failed boxer lea