Programme
Aid for selecting filmsGet to know our 4 sections
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
09:00
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Coureur
Kenneth Mercken 09:30 - 11:00 at Doelen Jurriaanse Zaal • 90′This equally intoxicating and critical take on professional cycling makes the competitive, destructive lives of the pro cyclists almost physically tangible.
Critical, semi-autobiographical feature film about professional cycling’s dark underbelly. Flemish up-and-coming talent tries to reach the pinnacle of his sport. It seems impossible without EPO and growth hormones. The focus on doping creates a intoxicating film with cycling as the ultimate drug.
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Nuestro tiempo
Carlos Reygadas 09:45 - 12:38 at Pathé 5 • 173′Virtuoso filming and confrontational scenes from an open marriage. With director Carlos Reygadas and his wife in the leading roles.
Visually overwhelming scenes from an open marriage, with director Carlos Reygadas and his wife playing the lead. Poet-rancher Juan wrestles with jealousy and his status as an alpha male who always has everything under control when his wife Esther starts having an affair with horse trainer Phil.
10:00
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Sons of Denmark
Ulaa Salim 10:00 - 12:00 at Doelen Willem Burger Zaal • 120′Claustrophobic political thriller in which two young men cornered by xenophobia become embroiled in a devilish dilemma.
Cornered by xenophobia, two young men become embroiled in a devilish dilemma. In response to intimidation, Zakaria decides it's time to act, violently if need be. In Copenhagen, a member of the intelligence community tries to professionally combat the threat.
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Blackout Installations
10:00 - 17:00 at KunsthalRevolving around the carousel slide projector,Blackout spotlights how we often forget. Despite Kodak terminating its production in 2004, slide projectors continue to be used by artists – often exploring history from a personal perspective. In the age of swipe and scroll, the slide projector calls for us to remember.
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VPRO Previewdag 2019
10:00 - 23:24 at Pathé 1A successful component of IFFR for many years: the VPRO Preview Day. A full day from 10:00 to 23:30 hours, with guaranteed festival hits selected by IFFR programmers and the VPRO film editors.
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VPRO Previewdag 2019
10:10 - 23:34 at Pathé 7A successful component of IFFR for many years: the VPRO Preview Day. A full day from 10:00 to 23:30 hours, with guaranteed festival hits selected by IFFR programmers and the VPRO film editors.
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VPRO Previewdag 2019
10:10 - 23:34 at Pathé 2A successful component of IFFR for many years: the VPRO Preview Day. A full day from 10:00 to 23:30 hours, with guaranteed festival hits selected by IFFR programmers and the VPRO film editors.
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The Mountain
Rick Alverson 10:15 - 12:04 at Pathé 6 • 108′Grimly sober impression of America in the 1950s. Young orphan Andy sees all forms of humanity surgically removed.
Grimly sober, tragically loveless journey through American psychiatric institutions in the 1950s, seen through the eyes of an orphaned boy who travels as a photographer with an unscrupulous brain surgeon. Every sign of life Andy dares show is ruthlessly suppressed. An ice-cold, emotionally void male world, with roles for Jeff Goldblum and Denis Lavant.
11:00
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La Flor (Parte 1)
Mariano Llinás 11:30 - 15:02 at LantarenVenster 5 • 220′Monumental masterpiece in two episodes: a B-film about a scary mummy and a musical drama mixed with a real mystery.
First part of a monumental masterpiece that, as a whole, is an ode to pleasure in cinematographic narrative, or rather a rediscovery of this. Part one comprises two episodes: a B-film with a cursed mummy and a musical-romantic drama combined with a mystery, both without any real ending.
12:00
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Hashtag No Filter
12:00 - 13:46 at KINO 4As social media warps our understanding of the corporeal, the environmental and even the spiritual, whose stories go viral, and why?
As social media warps our understanding of the corporeal, the environmental and even the spiritual, whose stories go viral, and why?
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No coração do mundo
Gabriel Martins, Maurílio Martins 12:30 - 14:30 at Doelen Willem Burger Zaal • 120′Surprising Brazilian mosaic film follows the inhabitants of a poor neighbourhood while they try to make ends meet.
Fascinating characters inhabit the poor district of Contagem where Gabriel Martins and Maurelio Martins also grew up. No coração do mundo is their declaration of love for this district and its inhabitants: a surprisingly filmed mosaic story about people who continue to work for a better life – against their better judgement.
13:00
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Capharnaüm
Nadine Labaki 13:15 - 15:24 at Pathé 5 • 123′Twelve-year-old Zain takes his parents to court. His complaint: they brought him into the world.
Twelve-year-old Zain is growing up without any hopes for the future in a crowded, dilapidated apartment in Beirut. After running away from home following a crisis, he finds shelter with an ‘illegal’ Ethiopian who takes him on to look after her baby. An energetic, poignant portrait of the expanding ‘precariat’ in this Lebanese metropolis.
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Winter's Night
Jang Woojin 13:30 - 15:02 at Pathé 6 • 91′During a long, ice-cold and alcohol-fuelled night, two disillusioned fifty-somethings have a series of sobering, confrontational and disillusioning encounters.
During a long, ice-cold and alcohol-fuelled night, set against frozen waterfalls and neon-lit snow landscapes, the disillusioned fifty-somethings Eun-ju and Heung-ju – both separately and together – have a series of sobering, confrontational and disillusioning encounters. Jang Woojin captures their languishing love in very precise shots.
14:00
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Belmonte
Federico Veiroj 14:00 - 15:23 at LantarenVenster 3 • 75′At the age of 43, painter Javier Belmonte can no longer camouflage his fear of life and insecurity with bohemian bravura.
What’s wrong with Belmonte that makes him repel people with his divergent behaviour, even risking losing his young daughter? He wants both a free artist's life and normal family life, but on the other hand he doesn't. The director of A Useful Life and The Apostate takes warm, ironic pleasure in wrong-footing the viewer.
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No More Reality Whereabouts
Philippe Parreno 14:00 - 16:01 at Pathé 3 • 89′A hallucinatory trip through time and space, also thanks to the briljant camera work by Darius Khondji. With live piano by Mikhail Rudy.
Philippe Parreno revives the many short films from his installation work as a visual artist by blending them into one feature-length mesmerising new project. Extra ingredients are a live piano score, an Indonesian puppet master and 3D glasses. The result is a hallucinatory trip through time and space, also thanks to the briljant camerawork by Darius Khondji.
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The Wind
Emma Tammi 14:15 - 15:42 at Schouwburg Grote Zaal • 86′An original Horror/Western about loneliness on the prairie. Is a woman being tormented by demons, or is her isolation creating delusions?
The early 19th century: life is harsh on the Frontier of the New West. While her husband is out working, Lizzie stays home alone in their house, on the deserted prairie. Is the loneliness making her slowly paranoid, or is a devilish spirit floating around? A unique mix of Western and horror.
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The Proposal
Jill Magid 14:15 - 16:04 at Pathé 4 • 83′Strange things happen in the struggle to make the hidden archives of architect Luis Barragán public again.
It’s an unusual wedding gift: the archives of Mexican architect Luis Barragán. Federica Zanco asked her fiancé for them in 1995, and has kept them since then from the rest of the world. Artist Jill Magid tries to regain this piece of heritage through flattering letters and a strange proposal.
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The Baron
Edgar Pêra 14:30 - 16:27 at LantarenVenster 2 • 91′A Dracula-esque nobleman reigns with terror over his fiefdom's commoners. Universal horror meets Demy-style musical comedy in this disquieting political allegory.
A Dracula-esque nobleman reigns with terror over his fiefdom's commoners. Universal horror meets Demy-style musical comedy in this disquieting political allegory based on two works by Branquinho da Fonseca, a writer especially dear to Pêra and the source of three feature masterpieces – the latest being Magnetik Pathways.
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Abolição
Zózimo Bulbul 14:45 - 17:44 at KINO 4 • 153′Bulbul made this powerful historical analysis of racial issues in Brazil in 1988, one hundred years after slavery was abolished there.
Bulbul’s historical analysis on 'race' and racism in Brazil in the context of the celebration of the centenary of the abolition of slavery in 1988. Based on accurate research, this epic documentary points to the importance of acknowledging the racism that still confronts the black Brazilian population.
15:00
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Camino, een feature-length selfie
Martin de Vries 15:00 - 16:25 at Doelen Willem Burger Zaal • 85′Martin de Vries walks the pilgrims’ way to Santiago de Compostela in north-west Spain, wondering all the while why.
Aching feet and moments of despair – but also minor miracles and growing strength. Doggedly stepping along the pilgrims’ way to Santiago de Compostela in north-west Spain, Martin de Vries films himself with his iPhone, in the hope of putting his life back on a firm footing. A self-portrait in two million steps.
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The Man Who Surprised Everyone
Natasha Merkulova, Aleksey Chupov 15:45 - 17:31 at LantarenVenster 6 • 105′A terminally ill forest ranger wants to live his final months as a woman. In a remote Siberian community he pays dearly.
Contemporary version of a Siberian folk tale in which a man cheats Death by pretending to be a woman. A terminally ill Siberian forest ranger decides to live out his life as a woman. He is shunned by his small village community. How vulnerable is our position in society?
16:00
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Pájaros de verano
Cristina Gallego, Ciro Guerra 16:00 - 18:06 at KINO 1 • 125′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.
A fascinating mix of native drama and hard-boiled crime film about the age-old traditions of the Colombian Waayu people and the destructive effects of the drugs trade. Once their lives were simple and clear, but in the late 1960s drugs introduced money – and violence.
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Vox Lux
Brady Corbet 16:30 - 18:28 at Pathé 5 • 112′Satirical drama about superstar Celeste (Natalie Portman) who is famous thanks to a terrible incident and who symbolises a society in moral decline.
Unconventional, visually spectacular drama about superstar Celeste (Raffey Cassidy ánd Natalie Portman), whose fame is due to a violent incident in high school and her elder sister’s talent. An incisive analysis of the violence and fame that turns people into cynical narcissists.
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Divine Wind
Merzak Allouache 16:30 - 18:07 at KINO 2 • 95′Two jihadists preparing for an attack on an oil refinery in the Algerian desert wrestle with existential questions.
An inexperienced young jihadi grapples with doubts while awaiting an attack on an oil refinery in the Algerian desert. His unbending partner for the attack – she is determined to die a martyr – makes every effort to keep him on board. This black-and-white drama full of contrasts tackles existential questions in an explosive situation.
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Your Face
Tsai Ming-liang 16:45 - 18:03 at LantarenVenster 1 • 77′Study of life and the human face in 13 close-ups. Minimalist, intimate, candid, and a unique watching experience.
Less is more definitely applies to this lovingly crafted experimental documentary featuring 12 people from Taipei, and Tsai Ming-liang’s preferred actor and muse Lee Kang-sheng. 13 long close-ups that feel like intimate meetings. Meditative moments and candid revelations from the world behind a fleeting smile.
17:00
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Romantic Comedy
Elizabeth Sankey 17:00 - 18:19 at Doelen Willem Burger Zaal • 79′Romantic comedies are a beloved yet conservative genre. What do thousands of excerpts say about a genre that simultaneously attracts and repels?
The romantic comedy colours how we think about love and relationships. But why is this genre so conservative? Sankey uses many film clips to analyse the unrealistic picture the genre sketches of male-female relationships with white, heterosexual, middle-class characters. Yet the romcom continues to move us: Why is this so?
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Lazzaro felice
Alice Rohrwacher 17:00 - 19:11 at Pathé 4 • 130′A fable of contemporary Italy in which the endless patience of the innocent Lazzaro is sorely tried.
Award-winning Italian director Alice Rohrwacher’s modern fable concerns the innocent Lazzaro and the other villagers who live like Medieval serfs on a tobacco plantation. Following a dramatic incident, they are dragged kicking and screaming into the modern world – whether they’ll be better off there or not remains to be seen.
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The Juniper Tree
Nietzchka Keene 17:00 - 18:44 at LantarenVenster 4 • 78′Björk landed her first enchanting role in this rediscovered feminist allegory, shot in the deeply mysterious nature of Iceland. Now restored on 4K.
Aged 20, Björk played her first enchanting role in this rediscovered, feminist version of one of Grimms’ fairy tales, shot in the deeply mysterious Icelandic nature. Director Nietzchka Keene created a powerful allegory on witchcraft and misogyny, where the worlds of the living and the dead intertwine. Restored on 4K.
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No More Reality Whereabouts
Philippe Parreno 17:00 - 19:01 at Pathé 3 • 89′A hallucinatory trip through time and space, also thanks to the briljant camera work by Darius Khondji. With live piano by Mikhail Rudy.
Philippe Parreno revives the many short films from his installation work as a visual artist by blending them into one feature-length mesmerising new project. Extra ingredients are a live piano score, an Indonesian puppet master and 3D glasses. The result is a hallucinatory trip through time and space, also thanks to the briljant camerawork by Darius Khondji.
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Rafiki
Wanuri Kahiu 17:15 - 18:46 at Schouwburg Grote Zaal • 82′Romeo and Juliet, but in Kenya and with two Juliets. A sparkling adventure about Kena and Ziki fighting for their love.
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O homem-pykante – Diálogos com Pimenta
Edgar Pêra 17:45 - 19:26 at LantarenVenster 2 • 75′A multifaceted tribute to polymath Alberto Pimenta: poet, translator (Thomas Bernhard, among others), performer/performance artist, provocateur, porn proselytiser, political dissenter.
Alberto Pimenta is Pêra’s kind of polymath: experimental poet, inspired translator (Thomas Bernhard), fearless performance artist (who made happenings happen in Portugal), merry porn proselytiser, provocateur with a cause, and, as the only logical sum total of all this, a political dissenter at loggerheads with any 'status kwo'. A documentary paean.
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No Data Plan
Miko Revereza 18:00 - 19:37 at Pathé 6 • 70′Living in the USA illegally for over 20 years, Miko Revereza takes the train from Los Angeles to New York.
Living in the United States illegally for over 20 years, Miko Revereza takes the Amtrak train from Los Angeles to New York in this critical moment of hostility against migrants in the country he has come to know as home. The journey seems daring, perhaps reckless, yet urgent and necessary.
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House of My Fathers
Suba Sivakumaran 18:00 - 19:36 at LantarenVenster 5 • 95′Magic-realist fairy tale about the Sri Lankan civil war captures the fear and trauma with its poetic, acerbic tone.
The conflict between two villages symbolises the civil war in Sri Lanka, which ended in 2009. A man and a woman from each camp are sacrificed to lift a fertility curse. The fears and traumas of the war lurk in the woods. A highly relevant magic realist fairy tale with an acerbic undertone.
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Another Day of Life
Raúl de la Fuente, Damian Nenow 18:30 - 19:57 at KINO 3 • 86′Adaptation of war reporter Ryszard Kapuscinski’s most famous book mixes hyper-realistic animation, documentary, hallucinatory impressions and literary soul searching.
Ryszard Kapuscinski was the sole foreign reporter in Angola when a civil war erupted that developed into a new front in the Cold War. This animated adaptation of his book on that struggle does justice to his writing style, combining stark realism and literary subjectivity. Its news value is supported by documentary footage.
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Oppositional Blackness
18:45 - 20:46 at KINO 4Decolonising identities by means of creative opposition.
Decolonising identities by means of creative opposition.
19:00
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The Best of Dorien B.
Anke Blondé 19:00 - 21:12 at Oude Luxor • 106′One day, Dorien’s happy life is transformed into smoking ruins in this dry comedy drama.
What to do if your parents' marriage is in crisis, your husband is behaving suspiciously and you discover a lump in your breast? Dorien experiences many misfortunes, one after another, but courageously carries on. Fabulously paced, warm, comedic drama.
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Dishonored
Josef von Sternberg 19:00 - 20:32 at LantarenVenster 6 • 91′Frisian double agent Mata Hari was the inspiration for Von Sternberg and his star Marlene Dietrich in this atmospheric thriller where espionage is principally a higher form of flirting, with huge interests at stake. During the First World War, a seductive widow is recruited by Austria as spy 'X27'.
Frisian double agent Mata Hari was the inspiration for Von Sternberg and his star Marlene Dietrich in this atmospheric thriller where espionage is principally a higher form of flirting, with huge interests at stake. During the First World War, a seductive widow is recruited by Austria as spy 'X27'.
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Animal indireto
Daniel Lentini 19:15 - 20:50 at KINO 2 • 51′Moments of modest happiness amongst the tension of today's Brazil. A subtle, personal report on dealing with fear and depression.
To escape fear and depression, the filmmaker picks up his camera and allows it to lead him. In the tension of contemporary Brazil, he focuses on the everyday and creates moments of happiness. He also makes room for stories of fellow-sufferers from Cuba and Haiti.
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Thirty Years of Motion Pictures (The March of the Movies)
Terry Ramsaye, Otto Nelson 19:15 - 21:17 at LantarenVenster 3 • 96′When Ramsaye embarked on this endeavour, he wanted to summarise film's first two decades – but cinema developed faster than he could edit.
When Terry Ramsaye embarked on this endeavour, he intended to sum up film’s first two decades. But then, the art evolved so fast that he spent ten years catching up. The result is one of the first attempts at explaining cinema to a mass audience – a milestone of meta-moviemaking.
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The Seven Last Words with Live Score by Callino String Quartet
19:30 - 21:15 at Doelen Jurriaanse ZaalOmnibus film inspired by Joseph Haydn's composition around the last words of Jesus. With live score by the Callino String Quartet.
Enjoy The Seven Last Words with a live performance of the Haydn piece that is the star of this film.
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Camino, een feature-length selfie
Martin de Vries 19:30 - 21:21 at LantarenVenster 1 • 85′Martin de Vries walks the pilgrims’ way to Santiago de Compostela in north-west Spain, wondering all the while why.
Aching feet and moments of despair – but also minor miracles and growing strength. Doggedly stepping along the pilgrims’ way to Santiago de Compostela in north-west Spain, Martin de Vries films himself with his iPhone, in the hope of putting his life back on a firm footing. A self-portrait in two million steps.
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Meme Night
19:30 - 00:00 at Het Nieuwe InstituutThe programme opens on 24 January during Thursday Night Live! with a special Meme Night from 19:30 to 0:00 hours in the Meme Café in Het Nieuwe Instituut. Clusterduck wil give a talk on how meme characters are used on the social web and by the press as (political) mascottes. Their secret internet space by Superinternet will be opened for the duration of the festival. And don’t miss the big meme battle.
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A Meme Characters Story Tale
19:30 - 00:00 at Het Nieuwe InstituutTalk about two meme characters or reaction memes which can be regarded as each other’s opposites: Pepe the Frog and Gondola. Pepe is the world's best-known and most controversial reaction meme. Gondola is fairly unknown for most memers. Two stories, two symbols, and a million implications that tell us something online about our social life
Thu 24 Jan, 19:30, Meme Café in Het Nieuwe Instituut, admission freeTalk about two meme characters or reaction memes which can be regarded as each other’s opposites: Pepe the Frog and Gondola. Pepe is the world's best-known and most controversial reaction meme. Gondola is fairly unknown for most memers. Two stories, two symbols, and a million implications that tell us something online about our social life.
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Sons of Denmark
Ulaa Salim 19:45 - 22:39 at Pathé 5 • 120′Claustrophobic political thriller in which two young men cornered by xenophobia become embroiled in a devilish dilemma.
Cornered by xenophobia, two young men become embroiled in a devilish dilemma. In response to intimidation, Zakaria decides it's time to act, violently if need be. In Copenhagen, a member of the intelligence community tries to professionally combat the threat.
20:00
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Tarde para morir joven
Dominga Sotomayor 20:00 - 22:16 at LantarenVenster 4 • 110′Coming-of-age story about three Chilean teenagers reflects the growing pains of Chile’s new democracy in the early 1990s.
Through the eyes of teenagers Sofia, Lucas and Clara, we see life in a Chilean commune in the summer of 1990, as the residents prepare to celebrate the new year. The experiences of the three teenagers reflect the growing pains of Chile’s new democracy, after almost two decades of military dictatorship.
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Ammodo Tiger Short Competition 1
20:00 - 21:50 at KINO 1The power of short: films compete in the short film selection to three equivalent prizes, The Ammodo Tiger Short Awards.
The power of short: films compete in the short film selection to three equivalent prizes. Short films can be found at many places during IFFR: as part of video installations, preceding feature films at Pathé premieres and, naturally, in combined programmes. The short films compete for three equal Ammodo Tiger Short Awards, each worth €5,000.
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The Heart of the Matter
20:00 - 21:19 at UBIK (WORM)Cinq minutes de cinéma pur, Prima Materia, the internationale premiere of Pwdre Ser: the rot of stars and the magic lantern performance The Tears of a Mudlark.
Cinq minutes de cinéma pur, Prima Materia, the internationale premiere of Pwdre Ser: the rot of stars and the magic lantern performance The Tears of a Mudlark.
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The Day I Lost My Shadow
Soudade Kaadan 20:15 - 21:51 at LantarenVenster 2 • 95′A young Syrian mother’s search for bottled gas ends in a panic-stricken journey. Awarded Best Debut in Venice.
At the start of the war in Syria, young pharmacist Sana tries to buy some bottled gas, but her search quickly gets out of hand. Sana’s panic-stricken journey is told with striking hyper-realism and an excursion into magic realism. Winner of the Luigi De Laurentiis Award for Best Debut in Venice.
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Beats
Brian Welsh 20:15 - 22:17 at Schouwburg Grote Zaal • 96′Summer 1994: two Scottish teens share a final night out together before life sends them in different directions.
Summer 1994, with rave culture on the rise, teens Johnno and Spanner have a final night out together in a Scottish town before they each go their own way in life. A raw, black-and-white portrait of a United Kingdom in transition, set to pounding techno beats.
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Domains
Kusano Natsuka 20:30 - 23:26 at Pathé 6 • 150′Drifting apart as adult women, childhood friends Aki and Nodoka's story is told through line-readings, whose structures reveal the complications of friendship.
Aki and Nodoka are childhood friends who are drifting apart as adults. The familiar plot is told in an unexpected way: through actors line-readings. The suffocation of role patterns in friendship and family are conveyed through repeated lines that are occasionally dislodged to show that life can take unexpected turns.
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Asako I & II
Hamaguchi Ryūsuke 20:45 - 22:45 at Pathé 4 • 119′In this gender-flipped Vertigo set in Japan, Asako’s encounter with her ex-lover’s lookalike sees her confronting the messiness of love.
Two years after the love of her life disappeared without a trace, Asako falls in love with another man who looks identical to him, although his personality couldn’t be more different. Calm everyday life and raging passions mix seamlessly in this study of love in all its complex contrariness.
21:00
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No More Reality Whereabouts
Philippe Parreno 21:00 - 23:01 at Pathé 3 • 89′A hallucinatory trip through time and space, also thanks to the briljant camera work by Darius Khondji. With live piano by Mikhail Rudy.
Philippe Parreno revives the many short films from his installation work as a visual artist by blending them into one feature-length mesmerising new project. Extra ingredients are a live piano score, an Indonesian puppet master and 3D glasses. The result is a hallucinatory trip through time and space, also thanks to the briljant camerawork by Darius Khondji.
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You Have the Night
Ivan Salatić 21:15 - 22:38 at LantarenVenster 5 • 82′Montenegrin debut about a bankrupt shipyard and the locals, who literally see their life ebbing away. Or: the anatomy of a community.
Devastation dominates everything in this Montenegrin feature debut about a bankrupt shipyard and the locals, who see their lives ebbing away, literally and metaphorically. Many silences, dramatic twists and characters that are mercilessly isolated in their grey surroundings: the disconsolate mood is of a post-apocalyptic order.
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sound//vision: Thu 24 Jan
21:30 - 01:30 at WORMsound//vision is IFFR’s innovative, experimental late-night programme, made up of four evenings and nights of live A/V performances in WORM.
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Black Mother
Khalik Allah 21:30 - 23:00 at KINO 3 • 77′Life’s key elements come together in this visual film symphony and ode to today's colourful Jamaica.
Life’s key elements come together in the colourful Jamaica portrayed by Khalik Allah. In this polyphonic film symphony, every inhabitant views their island paradise differently, be they prostitutes, graybeards, rappers, Rastafarians or pregnant women.
22:00
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Der Unschuldige
Simon Jaquemet 22:00 - 23:55 at Oude Luxor • 114′Tense, enchanting Swiss drama about religion, science, delusion and reality. Is radical Christian Ruth possessed by a demon, or not?
Laboratory worker Ruth, an evangelical Christian, derails when an ex who served twenty years in jail suddenly reappears in her highly regulated life. And this is just the start of a series of incredible, disruptive events. A clever piece of creepy filmmaking from Swiss talent Simon Jaquemet.
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Harpoon
Rob Grant 22:00 - 23:48 at KINO 4 • 82′When a boat breaks down at sea, a triangular relationship becomes a nerve-wracking struggle to survive, sparing no one’s secrets – or blood.
A love triangle gets out of hand when Richard, armed with a harpoon, Sasha and Jonah are marooned at sea due to engine failure. A struggle for survival quickly unfolds, sparing no one’s secrets – or blood. Tense thriller based on a story by Edgar Allan Poe, which also leaves space for laughs.
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Symphony of the Ursus Factory
Jaśmina Wójcik 22:15 - 23:42 at KINO 2 • 61′Workers at the closed-down Ursus tractor factory relive their working lives though re-enactments. The symphony they create is an ode to a passionate community.
Proud workers from the closed-down Ursus tractor factory relive their past through re-enactments. The muscle-memory of the movements they made so often is still in their bodies and combined with the sounds of their work a symphony is formed. An ode to a mega-factory where life was all about community and work.
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Rosie
Paddy Breathnach 22:15 - 23:42 at LantarenVenster 6 • 86′A young Dublin family is having trouble finding temporary accommodation. From their car, they search desperately for a place to sleep.
When their landlord sells their home, Rosie and John Paul's world slowly shrinks back to their only possession, the car. While he works in the kitchen, she drives the children back and forth to school, meanwhile searching desperately for a place to sleep. Heartbreaking social-realistic drama, written by Roddy Doyle, with impressive acting performances.
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Soy tóxico
Daniel de la Vega, Pablo Parés 22:30 - 00:12 at LantarenVenster 3 • 81′A splendid post-mega-disaster wasteland zombie film based on a comic book which, in turn, was inspired by an earlier attempt to film the same story.
Following the success of their feature debut Jennifer’s Shadow (2004), Parés & De la Vega worked for a US company on a post-mega-disaster wasteland zombie film that was never made: but the screenplay was turned into a (still unfinished) comic – which they then adapted for this low-budget horror delight!
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The Night Shifter
Dennison Ramalho 22:30 - 00:46 at Doelen Jurriaanse Zaal • 110′A pathologist hears the last words of the dead. An innocent gift until he uses it for revenge.
Stênio doesn’t just work with the dead at São Paolo’s mortuary, he also talks to them. When a gang member who was stabbed to death reveals his wife’s secret, Stênio loses control of his supernatural gift. A haunting, unpredictable horror film about revenge, urban crime and family trouble.
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Rojo
Benjamín Naishtat 22:45 - 01:00 at KINO 1 • 109′Darkly funny crime thriller and a vivisection of the Argentinian national psyche in 1975, the year before Jorge Videla’s military coup.
Atmospheric crime drama set in a provincial town dissects in an almost darkly comical way the mindset of Argentinians in 1975, the year before Jorge Videla’s military coup and the four subsequent juntas. Naishtat’s third feature film adds to his chronicle of recent Argentinian history, ruled by fear and aggression.
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Club IFFR
23:00 - 03:00 at Schouwburg FoyerAfter the film screenings IFFR continues at Club IFFR. Join us every day for exciting live performances and your favourite DJ's at Theater Rotterdam Schouwburg. Admission is free by presenting your film ticket or pass.
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Club IFFR
23:00 - 03:00 at Schouwburg Kleine ZaalAfter the film screenings IFFR continues at Club IFFR. Join us every day for exciting live performances and your favourite DJ's at Theater Rotterdam Schouwburg. Admission is free by presenting your film ticket or pass.
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Lettre à Théo
Élodie Lélu 23:00 - 00:52 at LantarenVenster 2 • 63′The unfinished film recordings Theo Angelopoulos left behind when he died in 2012, finally result in a complete and surprisingly contemporary film.
Even if you have no affinity with the work of Theo Angelopoulos, who died in 2012, this fictional documentary will not leave you unmoved. Lélu paints a portrait of the master filmmaker by contemporizing his recurring themes, such as migration and exile, from his final, uncompleted film to today’s Greece.