Perspectives
Overview of films
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Illusion City
Shimamura Tatsuo | 4' | Japan | None
Japanese animator Shimamura Tatsuo captures the energy of city life and its continuous transformation in this lively 1960s animation with a range of g -
Inner Man
Idemitsu Mako | 4' | USA | None
Juxtaposing a dancing naked man and a woman dressed in a traditional kimono, the playful film sees Japanese feminist artist Idemitsu Mako encourage cr -
Inside the Mind of Favela Funk
Elise Roodenburg, Fleur Beemster | 68' | Netherlands | World premiere
Favela funk is pornographic and explicit, both in terms of its lyrics and dance moves. Moreover, the scene is dominated by men, often gangsters. Songs -
L’invitation au voyage
Meggy Rustamova | 13' | Belgium | None
A series of beautiful black-and-white photographs marred by yellow Post-its with their notes erased. An unassuming narrator makes them even more myste -
The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith
Sara Fishko | 88' | USA | European premiere
From 1957 to 1965, Life Magazine photo journalist W. Eugene Smith was obsessed with bebop and free jazz. He aimed his camera almost exclusively at… -
Lamb
Yared Zeleke | 94' | Ethiopia | None
A realistic children’s film with mature undertones. About a boy who grows up without parents in the harsh mountains of northern Ethiopia, but al -
Letters from Ethiopia
Hiwot Admasu Getaneh, Henok Legesse | 12' | Ethiopia | World premiere
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. -
The Light and the Paper
Sara van der Heide | 3' | Netherlands | World premiere
How empty is a blank page? This film carefully studies the prime precondition for seeing: the presence of light. -
Lightkeeping
Elias Heuninck | 12' | Belgium | European premiere
Quotes from photographic pioneer William Fox Talbot’s letters accompany black-and-white images that exude timeless calm. -
Live from UB
Lauren Knapp | 82' | Mongolia | European premiere
Western pop music, from The Beatles to Nirvana, only seeped through piecemeal to Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia, over the last decades. Today it -
The Love Witch
Anna Biller | 120' | USA | World premiere
Elaine enchants men with her charms, consuming them by the net full. Yet this narcissistic witch reverses the traditional roles of the sexes. A sophis -
La montagne magique
Andrei Schtakleff | 68' | France | International premiere
A camera takes us deep underground where Bolivian miners toil in primitive conditions. A time-machine film that takes us through the pitch black to a