Programme IFFR 2021

A director returns from New York to Lebanon to research a film. Existential questions arise during a location visit to an institute for the blind.

Intimate virtual reality: two films forcing you to put yourself in someone else’s shoes.

Two virtual reality films bringing you to a dystopian future with a journey through history.

Two virtual reality films bringing you to a dystopian future with a journey through history.

Intimate virtual reality: two films forcing you to put yourself in someone else’s shoes.

A loving exploration of private cinema initiatives as an example of a cinephilia that civilly truly matters.

Intimate virtual reality: two films forcing you to put yourself in someone else’s shoes.

Two virtual reality films bringing you to a dystopian future with a journey through history.

The 2019 Hong Kong protests resonate throughout this critical visual essay on that metropolis, combining fiction, historical sources with contemporary conflict.

Four stories about childhood and youth. A poetic manifesto film of Soviet Lithuanian cinema in a splendidly restored version.

A powerful document of struggle and perseverance on the infamous Minamata disease and its legal battles.

When Nazi Germany invaded the Benelux, Switzerland faced the question: what if we’re next? Restored 1950s masterpiece.

Dance, film and photography give voice to repressed feelings in this soul-stirring hybrid documentary set in Anamizu, Japan.

A making-of turns into a documentary about the troublesome relationship between a star auteur father and his neophyte director daughter.

A journey-of-discovery road movie takes aspiring folk-pop singer Ngawan from the Tibetan plateau to the big city where he meets a goddess.

Homage to everyday Palestinian life in Israel, recorded by a security camera from the house where the filmmaker grew up.

The idiosyncratic Poly Styrene was a phenomenal punk icon, but was she also a good mother? Complex portrait, made by her daughter.

Delicate, observational coming-of-age story about Kosovan teenager Venera, struggling to go her own way in a strongly patriarchal situation.

Self-critical look by Korea’s public broadcaster at its involvement with the military dictatorship, using its own materials and interviews.

These intimate, at times almost magical, portraits of soulmates prove that love comes in all shapes and sizes.

Upset by an anonymous note, a 12-year-old girl from a mountain village and her friends decide to visit her father in Shenzhen.

What happens when a teenage fan meets the actor-object of her desire? A dazzling mix of meta-movie, fairy-tale and coming-of-age story.