Tiger and Big Screen interviews
During this year’s festival, 28 films had their world premiere in the Tiger Competition and Big Screen Competition. Ahead of the festival, IFFR’s Festival Director Vanja Kaludjercic spoke with the filmmakers behind the films, to hear more about the inspiration behind their stories, creative process, themes and other insights into their works. Click on the links below to access the individual film pages and watch the interviews.
Tiger Competition
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L’arbre de l’authenticité
A fascinating film essay exploring the Democratic Republic of Congo’s colonial history and ecology.
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Bad Girl
A coming-of-age comedy which embraces the idea that romantic relationships aren’t everything in life.
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Blind Love
A teen’s rebellion and his mother’s rekindled romance expose the cracks in their family’s façade.
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Fiume o morte!
A fascinating hybrid documentary dramatises a singular moment in early 20th-century Italian and Croatian history.
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La gran historia de la filosofía occidental
The remarkable history of Western philosophy, as you’ve never seen or heard it.
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Im Haus meiner Eltern
A timely and uncompromising drama exploring the limitations of caring for those in need.
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Primeira pessoa do plural
An unsettling exploration of the foundations upon which a relationship is built.
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Sunshine Express
An exercise in role-playing reinforces the restrictive nature of everyday life in Iranian society.
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Vitrival – The Most Beautiful Village in the World
Deadpan humour drives this comedy about two cops investigating a spate of suicides.
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Wind, Talk to Me
Stefan Djordjevic crafts a poetic reflection and a powerfully moving portrait of his family.
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Wondrous Is the Silence of My Master
A beautifully composed, 19th-century-set drama about an exiled leader longing for home.
Big Screen Competition
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The Assistant
A bookbinder becomes an inventor’s assistant, navigating ambition, servitude, and the machinations of contemporary neo-liberal society.
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Back to the Family
A magnetising and quietly devastating portrait of family life defined by regret and recrimination.
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Bad Painter
A knowing portrait of painter Albert Oehlen, in the near future, by the painter himself.
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¡Caigan las rosas blancas!
A transgressively funny and radically queer road movie that challenges the mainstream queer agenda.
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Gowok: Javanese Kamasutra
A tale of sexual awakening from one of Indonesia’s most acclaimed filmmakers.
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Orenda
A beautifully restrained drama and portrait of two women grappling with guilt and the possibility of redemption.
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L’oro del Reno
Channelling the carnivalesque spirit of Fellini, this is the story of a lesser-known, Italian Rhine.
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Our Father – The Last Days of a Dictator
A fading dictator clings to illusions of power as his world quietly collapses around him.
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The Puppet’s Tale
An urbane doctor struggles with his destiny in a classical, deeply felt period drama.
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Yasuko, Songs of Days Past
A rapturous portrait of a pivotal moment in the life of Japanese poet Nakahara Chūya.