Hear from the filmmakers: Tiger Competition
Each year, IFFR’s Festival Director Vanja Kaludjercic speaks with the filmmakers behind the films screening in our Tiger Competition. These interviews are made available throughout the festival. Below you can find videos from previous editions – watch to hear from the filmmakers about the inspiration behind their stories, creative process, themes, and other insights into their works. Please note some interviews include English translation provided by interpreters.
2025
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L’arbre de l’authenticité
Sammy Baloji | 85′ | Congo, Democratic Republic | World premiere
A fascinating film essay exploring the Democratic Republic of Congo’s colonial history and ecology. -
Bad Girl
Varsha Bharath | 115′ | India | World premiere
A coming-of-age comedy which embraces the idea that romantic relationships aren’t everything in life. -
Blind Love
Julian Chou | 145′ | Taiwan | World premiere
A teen’s rebellion and his mother’s rekindled romance expose the cracks in their family’s façade. -
La gran historia de la filosofía occidental
Aria Covamonas | 73′ | Mexico | World premiere
The remarkable history of Western philosophy, as you’ve never seen or heard it. -
Fiume o morte!
Igor Bezinović | 112′ | Croatia | World premiere
A fascinating hybrid documentary dramatises a singular moment in early 20th-century Italian and Croatian history. -
Guo Ran
Li Dongmei | 90′ | China | World premiere
A searching portrait of a young couple’s relationship at a pivotal moment in their lives. -
Im Haus meiner Eltern
Tim Ellrich | 95′ | Germany | World premiere
A timely and uncompromising drama exploring the limitations of caring for those in need. -
Perla
Alexandra Makarová | 108′ | Austria | World premiere
A moving rumination on the power that the past holds over us. -
Primeira pessoa do plural
Sandro Aguilar | 119′ | Portugal | World premiere
An unsettling exploration of the foundations upon which a relationship is built. -
Sunshine Express
Amirali Navaee | 100′ | Iran | World premiere
An exercise in role-playing reinforces the restrictive nature of everyday life in Iranian society. -
Tears in Kuala Lumpur
Ridhwan Saidi | 95′ | Malaysia | World premiere
The Malaysian capital plays a key role in this portrait of lovelorn youth. -
Vitrival – The Most Beautiful Village in the World
Noëlle Bastin, Baptiste Bogaert | 111′ | Belgium | World premiere
Deadpan humour drives this comedy about two cops investigating a spate of suicides. -
Wind, Talk to Me
Stefan Djordjevic | 100′ | Serbia | World premiere
Stefan Djordjevic crafts a poetic reflection and a powerfully moving portrait of his family. -
Wondrous Is the Silence of My Master
93′ | Montenegro | World premiere
A beautifully composed, 19th-century-set drama about an exiled leader longing for home.
2024
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The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire
Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich | 75′ | USA | World premiere
A portrait of the Martinican writer and activist that underscores women’s continued erasure from history. -
Grey Bees
Dmytro Moiseiev | 100′ | Ukraine | World premiere
A moving meditation on the nature of conflict, adapted from the novel by Andrew Kurkov. -
Kiss Wagon
Midhun Murali | 173′ | India | World premiere
Kiss Wagon is a visually dazzling fantasy epic with gorgeously constructed worlds. -
Moses
Jenni Luhta, Lauri Luhta | 94′ | Finland | World premiere
Freud and Moses in dialogue across space and time, using the psychoanalyst’s final work. -
La Parra
Alberto Gracia | 90′ | Spain | World premiere
Damián finds himself the subject of mistaken identity in this eerie portrait of smalltown life. -
Praia Formosa
Julia De Simone | 90′ | Brazil | World premiere
Julia De Simone’s first foray into fiction looks to life in Rio’s de Janeiro’s port. -
She Fell to Earth
Susie Au | 92′ | Hong Kong | World premiere
Science, romance and rocks from space collide in this candy-coloured sci-fi confection. -
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Lea Hartlaub | 103′ | Germany | World premiere
A meditative, multi-faceted essay on human activity spanning centuries and continents, with one recurring motif: the giraffe. -
Swimming Home
Justin Anderson | 99′ | Brazil | World premiere
A taut study of family dynamics as a summer holiday takes a dark turn. -
Rei
Tanaka Toshihiko | 189′ | Japan | World premiere
A sublime exploration of human relationships from visionary new filmmaker Tanaka Toshihiko. -
Reise der Schatten
Yves Netzhammer | 87′ | Switzerland | World premiere
A striking, free-form animation that questions the very nature of being and our lived experience.