Programme
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Our programmers curate four main sections. Each of them has a unique feel and tone. Explore them.
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Bright Future
Our main competitions and tomorrow’s film talent
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Voices
Celebrating great storytelling and bold cinema
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Deep Focus
Retrospectives, film art and an in-depth look at filmmaking
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Perspectives
Explore the theme programmes of this year’s edition
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AAA Cargo
Solveig Suess IFFR 2018 34′Part-fiction documentary tracing the movements of the New Silk Road. AAA Cargo follows distribution networks which are expanding across vast regions between China and Europe.
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Absent Wound
Maryam Tafakory IFFR 2018 10′Transforming public spaces women are prohibited from entering into a stage, Maryam Tafakory’s poetic film depicts the rituals involved in women and men coming of age.
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ACTUA I
Philippe Garrel IFFR 2018 6′A collage of scenes from the Paris barricades in May 1968. The 16mm and 35mm footage thrusts the audience right into the heart of the revolutionary fever. (Re:Voir)
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Açúcar
Sérgio Oliveira, Renata Pinheiro IFFR 2018 90′Against her better judgment, elegant Bethania refuses to relinquish her heritage, instead reviving the past. The old sugar mill is on an estate currently controlled by the descendants of slaves. Are these merely Bethania's dreams, or is candomblé (voodoo) involved?
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Adrift
Cath Le Couteur IFFR 2018 11′Starting with the first satellite launch in 1958, there are now millions of larger and smaller artefacts orbiting Earth. A floating museum of space exploration above our heads.
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After Reality
Zhou Tao IFFR 2018 15′In this soothingly sedated work, dragon-boat rowers train in heavily vegetated areas of the city. We are transported between seasons and continents without us realising.
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After the Exhibition
Suzuki Yohei IFFR 2018 24′A deadpan oddity that captures the awkwardness of social interactions. Local artist Qualia finds himself unable to leave his exhibition after its closure.
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Afterparty IFFR Live
IFFR 2018Following the IFFR Live screening at 21:00, the afterparty will get going with live music by Rotterdam DJs.
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Agua Viva
Alexa Lim Haas IFFR 2018 7′With beautiful, emotionally resonant line drawings, Agua Viva captures the loneliness of a nameless Chinese manicurist working in a Miami salon.
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Airtime Overload
IFFR 2018A talkshow? A sitcom? A variety show? Song and dance? Check! Never before has the TV format been so colourful and overwhelming. Stay tuned in!
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Ajji
Devashish Makhija IFFR 2018 104′A 9-year-old girl has gone missing. She was taking granny's stitching to a sex worker in her slum. Once discovering what happened that night, granny quickly realises that the only satisfactory justice lies in her own hands. Masterful atmosphere, full of dread and twists.
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Aldeia dos Rapazes – Orfanato Sta. Isabel de Albarraque
Bárbara Virgínia IFFR 2018 15′Bárbara Virgínia's only short film is about an orphanage. She adopted a perspective exceptional for her era by filming at the children’s eye level.
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Aleatoria
Christopher Spencer-Lowe IFFR 2018 5′Disorder incarnate, the lady of the wheel. Randomness, chance, and the unpredictability of being are at her command. (Winnipeg Film Group)
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Aliens
Luis López Carrasco IFFR 2018 23′Tesa Arranz, a key figure in the 1980s Madrid scene and the lead singer of The Zombies, has painted over 500 portraits of outer-space creatures.
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All the Way to Te Rerenga Wairua
Ana Iti IFFR 2018 4′The work asks "what happens to a spirit after death?", between māori and pākehā identity, on the path to heaven or hawaiki. (Circuit)
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All You Can Eat Buddha
Ian Lagarde IFFR 2018 84′A mysterious stranger fascinates the clients of a South-American holiday resort. He starts performing miracles on the spot. Who is he? A weird, funny, Zen-like satire on mass tourism, as if simultaneously directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Monty Python (circa The Meaning of Life).
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The All-Seeing Sun
IFFR 2018The sun brings light in the darkness. Five films that challenge us to look at things differently, to see knowledge we have obtained from a new perspective.
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Almost Nothing: So Continues the Night
Davor Sanvincenti IFFR 2018 12′Ode to the light in the darkness. The eye on one side and the sun on the other are intimately connected.
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AlphaGo
Greg Kohs IFFR 2018 90′When an algorithm repeatedly beats the holder of 18 international titles Lee Sedol at the board game Go, that isn’t just an anecdote for the sport’s annals. Google’s ambitions for the DeepMind software are to not only equal, but to outdo human thinking. Is that a good idea though?
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Als je terugkomt woon ik aan het water
Petra Noordkamp IFFR 2018 14′A young architect embarks on a difficult task: to turn his client's fallen dreams and unreciprocated desires into an elegant eco-home.
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L'amant d'un jour
Philippe Garrel IFFR 2018 76′A philosophy lecturer houses his 23-year-old daughter with a broken heart and his mistress of the same age. He tries to be a father to one and lover to the other. French filmmaker Philippe Garrel’s Lover for a Day concludes a trilogy of anecdotal, black-and-white films on the vagaries of love.
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Amateurs
Gabriela Pichler IFFR 2018 100′A slick marketing film or two teenagers messing with a smartphone and selfie sticks: how do you pitch the colourless Swedish town of Lafors as best candidate for the new branch of discount store Superbilly? The tragicomic Amateurs by Gabriela Pichler (Eat Sleep Die) shows that a slick picture is less interesting than threadbare reality.
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Ambiguous Places
Ikeda Akira IFFR 2018 93′Comprised of a series of dream-like episodes beginning with a woman waking up with an insect stuck to her head, Tiger Award winner Ikeda Akira (Anatomy of a Paper Clip) balances otherworldly strangeness with Japanese social pressures in this offbeat comedy that amuses and bewilders in equal measure.
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Ammodo Tiger Short Competition 1
IFFR 2018This programme features new works by Adrian Paci, Tanguy De Donder, Alina Kotova, Vladlena Sandu and Heather Phillipson.
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Ammodo Tiger Short Competition 2
IFFR 2018This programme features new works by Maryam Tafakory, Yto Barrada, Tobias Zielony, Araki Yu and Daniel Jacoby.
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Ammodo Tiger Short Competition 3
IFFR 2018This programme features new works by Zhou Tao, Monira Al Qadiri and Manuel Knapp.
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Ammodo Tiger Short Competition 4
IFFR 2018This programme features new works by Nazlı Dinçel, Wim Catrysse, Hiwa K and Diogo Baldaia.
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Ammodo Tiger Short Competition 5
IFFR 2018This programme features new works by Artur Żmijewski, Mel O'Callaghan, Sara Cwynar and Korakrit Arunanondchai.
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Ammodo Tiger Short Competition 6
IFFR 2018This programme features new works by Isabelle Tollenaere, Maeve Brennan and Rainer Kohlberger.
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Analysis of Emotions and Vexations 2
Wojciech Bąkowski IFFR 2018 10′Sober, yet ingenious pencil drawing animation with poetic comment and haunting sound capturing the filmmaker's spirit's volatile state. Another year passing by.
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Anchor and Hope
Carlos Marqués-Marcet IFFR 2018 111′Contemporary, bittersweet drama on the classic thirty-something dilemma – to have children or not? Eva and Kat’s relationship is disrupted when Kat can't contain her desire for a child anymore. Kat's best friend is prepared to donate sperm, but Eva isn’t sure being a parent is for her.
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Angkar
Neary Adeline Hay IFFR 2018 71′The filmmaker, daughter from a forced marriage in a Khmer Rouge detention village, returns with her father to meet his former persecutors in the obscure intimacy of the village in which they lived together for four years. Between past and present, the forgotten spectres re-emerge and the story, face-to-face, is finally told.