Jan van Aert

Jan van Aert at IFFR

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  Beyond Sleep

  • Limelight

  Boudewijn Koole | 108' | Netherlands | World premiere

  A robust yet sensitive adaptation of W. F. Hermans’s famous novel Beyond Sleep (Nooit meer slapen), about a vain, struggling geology student dur
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  Arabian Nights: Volume 3 – The Enchanted One

  • Limelight
  • Voices

  Miguel Gomes | 125' | France | None

  While Scheherazade wonders how much longer she’ll be able to distract her cruel husband with stories, we discover how the love of birdsong came to…
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  Arabian Nights: Volume 1 – The Restless One

  • Limelight
  • Voices

  Miguel Gomes | 125' | France | None

  Magical realism, documentary and political satire coalesce in this contemporary Arabian Nights. Scheherazade tells stories about the dismal state of P
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  Full Contact

  • Limelight
  • Voices

  David Verbeek | 105' | Croatia | None

  An introverted soldier enters his own tormented subconscious, respectively portrayed as an island and a boxing school, desperately looking for full co
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  The Idol

  • Limelight
  • Voices

  Hany Abu-Assad | 100' | Netherlands | None

  This heart-warming feature by Abu-Assad (Oscar-nominated for Paradise Now and Omar) tells the true story of Palestinian singer Mohammad Assaf, whose w
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  Arabian Nights: Volume 2 – The Desolate One

  • Limelight
  • Voices

  Miguel Gomes | 131' | France | None

  In which Scheherazade continues to tell of the tormented Portuguese people, who turn away from the authorities and look for new heroes. Just as in…
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  Frank

  • Limelight

  Lenny Abrahamson | 95' | Ireland | None

  Pleasantly absurd comedy about a young musician who, much to his delight, gets a job playing keyboard in the eccentric pop band Soronprfbs. There is…