VPRO Tiger Awards Competition
Overzicht van films
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La marea
Diego Martinez Vignatti | 83' | Belgium | World premiere
Tranquil story of a young widow who withdraws into complete isolation after she loses her husband and little boy in a traffic accident. Somewhere she -
Las meninas
Ihor Podolchak, Dean Karr | 99' | Ukraine | World premiere
Feature debut by the Ukrainian visual artist Podolchak. He brings to life a claustrophobic and dysfunctional family life as if it were a painting in… -
Miyoko
Tsubota Yoshifumi | 86' | Japan | International premiere
A special, exuberantly designed biopic about a Japanese manga artist, his muse Miyoko who regularly posed nude and the Tokyo artists’ district where t -
Mundane History
Anocha Suwichakornpong | 82' | Thailand | European premiere
A simple story about the hesitant overtures between a bitter invalid and his new nurse is the prelude to a hallucinogenic meditation about our place… -
My Daughter
Charlotte Lim Lay Kuen | 76' | Malaysia | European premiere
Intimate study of the mutual dependence between a slovenly hairdresser and her insecure teenage daughter. Not melodrama, but a brave experiment that e -
R
Michael Noer, Tobias Lindholm | 105' | Denmark | World premiere
Feature debut by Lindholm and Noer about Rune, in his 20s, who tries to survive in a heavily guarded Danish prison. Mercilessly oppressive picture of -
Rock’n’Roll Never Dies
Juha Koiranen | 131' | Finland | International premiere
A dry comic parable about an idealistic and naive late bloomer. He wants a career as guitarist and singer but doesn’t allow himself to be… -
Shanghai Trance
David Verbeek | 120' | China | World premiere
Young Dutch director made an (almost) entirely Chinese film. In a city where everything is new, an outsider is in any case no more out… -
Les signes vitaux
Sophie Deraspe | 87' | Canada | International premiere
A young Canadian woman wants to know what people really need in the last moments of their lives. In a restrained way, without any false… -
Street Days
Levan Koguashvili | 87' | Georgia | World premiere
Sober Georgian drama about Checkie, a jobless and penniless junkie, is a reflection of a generation brought up in the soviet style who were around… -
Strizh
Abai Kulbai | 80' | Kazakhstan | International premiere
The young Kazakh city girl Ainur wrestles with life. Everything and everybody seems to be against her: school, family, her best friend. But Ainur is… -
Sun Spots
Yang Heng | 112' | China | European premiere
Successful Chinese example of minimalist cinema combines beautiful, very sharp HD images without camera movements with a story about a tragic relation