Esther de Groot

Esther de Groot at IFFR

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  Bloody Marie

  • Limelight

  Guido van Driel, Lennert Hillege | 83' | Netherlands | World premiere

  Tortured graphic novelist drowns her days in Amsterdam’s Red Light District in vodka, unwittingly coming into conflict with criminals.
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  Beats

  • Limelight

  Brian Welsh | 96' | United Kingdom | World premiere

  Summer 1994: two Scottish teens share a final night out together before life sends them in different directions.
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  Rojo

  • Limelight

  Benjamín Naishtat | 109' | Argentina | None

  Darkly funny crime thriller and a vivisection of the Argentinian national psyche in 1975, the year before Jorge Videla’s military coup.
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  Asako I & II

  • Limelight

  Hamaguchi Ryūsuke | 119' | France | None

  In this gender-flipped Vertigo set in Japan, Asako’s encounter with her ex-lover’s lookalike sees her confronting the messiness of love.
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  Pearl

  • Limelight

  Elsa Amiel | 80' | France | None

  Shortly before an important competition, a female bodybuilder is confronted with the son she hasn’t seen in years. Her world shifts.
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  Pájaros de verano

  • Limelight

  Cristina Gallego, Ciro Guerra | 125' | Colombia | None

  A fascinating mix of native drama and hard-boiled crime film about the age-old Colombian Waayu people, who are being destroyed by the drug trade.
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  Continuer

  • Limelight

  Joachim Lafosse | 84' | Belgium | None

  A modern-day, intimate Western in which a mother and her estranged son try to make up in the middle of Kyrgyzstan.
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  The Beast in the Jungle

  • Limelight

  Clara van Gool | 85' | Luxembourg | World premiere

  Melancholy contemplation on the elapse of time mixes costume drama with dance. After a 1903 Henry James novella.
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  Matthias et Maxime

  • Limelight

  Xavier Dolan | 119' | Canada | None

  A pretend kiss between two childhood friends elicits serious emotions in this energetic portrait of 20-something friendships and 30-something issues.
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  Goud

  • Limelight

  Rogier Hesp | 90' | Netherlands | World premiere

  A young gymnast’s ultimate dream – gold at the Olympic Games – is jeopardised when he meets with the slightly older physiotherapist Irene.