In dit programma nieuw werk van Simon Liu, Pom Bunsermvicha en Alejandro Pérez Serrano &amp; Alejandro Alonso Estrella.

This programme features new works by Simon Liu, Pom Bunsermvicha and Alejandro Pérez Serrano &amp; Alejandro Alonso Estrella.

Competitions

Ammodo Tiger Short Competition 6, 

Ammodo Tiger Short Competition

Ammodo Tiger Short Competition 6

This programme features new works by Daïchi Saïto, Riar Rizaldi and Ghita Skali.

Ammodo Tiger Short Competition 4, 

Ammodo Tiger Short Competition 4

This programme features new works by Christelle Lheureux, Mateo Vega, Basir Mahmood and Catarina de Sousa &amp; Nick Tyson.

Ammodo Tiger Short Competition 1, 

Ammodo Tiger Short Competition 1

This programme features new works by Ane Hjort Guttu, Eva Giolo, Newsha Tavakolian and Fox Maxy.

Ammodo Tiger Short Competition 2, 

Ammodo Tiger Short Competition 2

This programme features new works by Suneil Sanzgiri, Félix Blume, Laura Weissenberger and Su Hui-yu.

Ammodo Tiger Short Competition 3, 

Ammodo Tiger Short Competition 3

This programme features new works by Ruth Höflich, Việt Vũ, Morgan Quaintance and Marwa Arsanios.

Ammodo Tiger Short Competition 5, 

Ammodo Tiger Short Competition 5

Europe in 1913, seen through the prisms of ideological extremism, dangerous sex, existential doubt and psychoanalysis.

A doorman from Riga sets off roaming through Europe and encounters a motley collection of extremists, all of whom want to recruit him. He has a romance with Mata Hari and is psychoanalysed by Freud. The year is 1913, and the world is about to be engulfed by catastrophe.

Year Before the War, The

Big Screen Competition

The Year Before the War

Plato, dildos, an injected tulip: reconstruction of a troubling case by idiosyncratic cinephile and talent from Rotterdam, Tim Leyendekker.

Plato, dildos and an injected tulip meet in this layered work by an idiosyncratic filmmaker from Rotterdam, based on the disturbing Groningen HIV case whereby men were purposely injected with contaminated blood at parties. True, beautiful, courageous cinema with a hint of philosophy.

Feast, 

Tiger Competition

Feast

Kind-hearted thirty-something Sebastián hops listlessly from job to job in this pleasing mix of empathetic drama and the slightly absurd.

Thirty-something Sebastián hops listlessly from job to job in this tragicomic story, each scene in which is a jump forward in time. Lead actor Daniel Katz beautifully portrays his character’s unease in this black-and-white film that strikes a pleasing balance between empathetic drama and the slightly absurd.

perro que no calla, El

El perro que no calla

Revived wrecked cars prove more evil than expected in highly original film about steel, sex, populism, ecology and humanity.

Revived wrecked cars gain speech and consciousness. The mechanic who builds them dreams of a motorised revolution with fascist overtones. His younger nephew senses danger. A bitter struggle follows in which populism, sex, steel, absurdism, ecology and hormones fight for precedence.

Carro Rei, 

Carro Rei

Monochrome impressions reveal the traumas that keep an influential Thai family imprisoned in emotional paralysis.

Thailand’s eventful past 50 years seep through into this doom-laden, associative portrait of a troubled family with army and political connections. Past and present meld into one long nightmare built on psychological trauma and violence.

Edge of Daybreak, The

The Edge of Daybreak

Hallucinogenic film about a Hollywood crew making a Western that goes off the rails in Peru. With Samuel Fuller and Dennis Hopper.

This fever dream tells the engagingly insane story of a Hollywood crew shooting an aggressive Western in an unspoiled area in Peru. A hallucinogenic film about the making of a film going off the rails. Samuel Fuller plays the director, Dennis Hopper the stuntman.

Last Movie, The

The Last Movie

Jehovah’s Witness Yana refuses to be oppressed by her husband, church and the police. She commits the ultimate act of resistance against patriarchal society.

Yana is assailed from all sides. The Jehovah’s Witness church to which she belongs is burned to the ground. Her husband, a church elder, says she is crazy. The police make unwanted advances. But Yana fights back uncompromisingly, in this rock-solid debut that picked up awards at various international film festivals.

Regular Programme

Beginning, 

Limelight

Beginning

After a weird night, five super-rich friends find out they are vampires. Panic! Is this really what they have become?

To fill the inner void, five super-rich, bored twenty-somethings in a big Asian city take turns giving each other unique experiences. After one weird night, however, they are shocked to discover they have become vampires. Can they still trust one another, in this clever take on the classic genre?

Dead & Beautiful, 

Dead & Beautiful

Cross-section of life in a Corsican village where tradition is revered, observing the locals throughout one summer.

Corsican theatre-maker Pascal Tagnati’s debut film, set in a Corsican village in summer. The locals flirt, swim, party, chat and fight. Using a static camera, Tagnati observes the residents of a village where – despite individual differences – the sense of community is greatly revered.

Comete − A Corsican Summer, I

I Comete − A Corsican Summer

Psychological drama about fitness influencer Sylwia, who is forced  to adjust her perfect impression of herself after encountering a stalker.

Psychological drama about stunning young fitness influencer Sylwia whose perfect Instagram life starts to develop cracks the more she shares with her myriad fans. An encounter with a lonely stalker forces her to realise that she has more in common with him than she’d care to admit.

Sweat, 

Sweat

A workers’ strike is violently put down by Soviet troops in this current, urgent historical drama by master director Konchalovsky.

In 1962, the Soviet Army brutally suppressed a workers’ strike in Novocherkassk, Russia. Russian master director Konchalovsky has made this well-kept secret into an urgent black-and-white historical drama that devastatingly reveals how citizens’ protests frequently meet with violence.

Dear Comrades!, 

Dear Comrades!

Photography, sex, reproduction and the power of minerals merge into one in this aesthetic alleviation of fear of the finite.

Using a combination of painterly images, form experimentation, mythical motifs and philosophical commentary, Agate mousse forms an aesthetic antidote to fear of the finite. Film frame, camera movement and narrative threads become circular in a film essay that constantly references itself and its maker, like a snake swallowing its own tail.

Agate mousse, 

Agate mousse

Animation, imagination and reality merge in this enchanting search for the soul of the French-Canadian province of Quebec.

Creative animation, imagination and documentary combine with unparalleled candour in this odyssey along the Saint Lawrence, the Canadian river bisecting the region where Félix Dufour-Laperrière was born. Does a community only really exist in our dreams and stories? An exploration as pugnacious as it is poetic.

Archipel, 

Archipel

When a tense, deprived Copenhagen neighbourhood violently explodes, two cops have to save their own skins.

A hellish day in the lives of two cops in a deprived neighbourhood the day after a young inhabitant dies during his arrest. When the pressure cooker explodes, Høyer and Pederson only want one thing: to get out alive with their arrestee. Easier said than done.

Shorta, 

Shorta

Mysterious, suggestive, often humorous drama about the suppressed needs of women in a small town in a depopulated rural part of Spain.

In a quiet Spanish village, gossip runs rife among the women when one of them leaves her husband. Maybe they too want to escape the choking patriarchal ties imposed by this traditional community. In this documentary-style drama, spiced up with magic realism and a dash of surrealism, nothing is quite as it seems.

Destello bravío, 

Destello bravío

Effective, minimalist, supremely French film adaptation of a play by Marguerite Duras about a wealthy woman (Charlotte Gainsbourg) receiving her lover.

Were it not for Niels Schneider’s significant role, this could almost be a one-woman acting masterclass by Charlotte Gainsbourg. Millionaire’s wife Suzanna receives her lover in a holiday villa on the French Riviera. She has a decision to make about her life as a mother, a wife, a friend and a lover.

Suzanna Andler, 

Suzanna Andler

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

There’s precious little to do in the Kosovan village where teenager Venera lives. And even when there is, her father is unlikely to allow her to do it. With patience and precision, this fiction film with a documentary feel shows how difficult it is to make your own choices when everyone is always interfering.

Looking for Venera, 

Looking for Venera

A penetrating mix of parody and desperation, about a Norwegian woman and a critical play that simply refuses to become reality.

A young Norwegian theatre-maker tries to get her socially critical play ‘The White Inflammation’ produced, but everything is against her. Along the way, the film’s burlesque undertone transforms into a desperate clinging onto life. It’s difficult to make contact with what we perceive as reality.

Gritt, 

Gritt

A succession of awkward interactions involving two rudderless millennial protagonists results in a wryly comical presentation of contemporary solipsism.

Wry humour and a spiky narrative style characterise this portrait of rudderless millennials in search of something to hold on to. Twenty-somethings Ray and Alice lack little in life, and maybe this is their biggest problem. Awkward interactions at the intersection of the mundane and the absurd illustrate their struggles with reality.

Friends and Strangers, 

Friends and Strangers

Cemil wants to be an actor so badly he becomes the villainous character he vainly auditioned for.

Darkly comical, slightly absurd drama about a young Turkish wannabe actor who refuses to give up after being dismissively rejected for his dream role in a film. He immerses himself in the life of a once-famous actor and loses himself in his greatest role – a villain.

Cemil Show, The

The Cemil Show

Chinese road movie with Western elements in crisp black-and-white about a woman, a lobster and a great sorrow.

In the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, a young woman encounters a lobster that will change her life. She came here to forget the pain, but in this road movie she first has to return the magical lobster to the lighthouse on Ming Island, more than a thousand kilometres away.

Bipolar, 

Bipolar

Agricultural traditions are in danger of being lost when an aged farmer is imprisoned. Highly original Indian drama about their importance.

Striking drama full of drily comic, Kafkaesque elements and fairy-tale lessons in life about the last remaining farmer in a remote Indian village. No one realises the importance of his traditional agricultural know-how until he is wrongly imprisoned: a long period of drought ensues, and the gods demand a sacrifice.

Last Farmer, The

The Last Farmer

Sophisticated, layered drama about breaking out of your social bubble and looking for love in contemporary Japan.

The boundaries between love and friendship blur in this sophisticated drama in which up-and-coming Japanese director Sode Yukiko examines contemporary Tokyo’s various social bubbles. Two women meet because of the same aristocratic man. The result: a subtle, merciless critique of class, identity and origin.

Aristocrats, 

Aristocrats

Triptych on sex, aphrodisiac foods and secret desires. No explicit sex, but plenty of very sensual close-ups of women eating.

A Japanese triptych about sex, aphrodisiac foods and perhaps unusual sexuality. Although Sexual Drive contains no explicit sex, it is definitely an erotic film. Yoshida Kota’s sensual close-ups of women who eat their food with relish, becoming increasingly aroused, are reminiscent of the Japanese classic Tampopo (1985).

Sexual Drive, 

Sexual Drive

Volleyball like you’ve never seen it before. Playful documentary that combines fantastic anime with 1960s Japanese Olympic volleyball stars.

Volleyball like you’ve never seen it before. The Japanese women’s volleyball team that won gold at the 1964 Olympic Games were so popular that a whole raft of manga and anime series grew up around the sport. This sparkling documentary interweaves fantastic anime with blood-curdling archival footage and great music.

Sorcières de l’Orient, Les

Les Sorcières de l’Orient

A poverty-stricken father and son wander a southern Indian landscape where anger and frustration burn hotter than the sun.

A 13 km trek through the suffocating heat of the day brings the violent drunk Ganapathy and his son’s relationship to a head. They wander across a desolate landscape that symbolises their poverty and attendant emotional deprivation.

Pebbles, 

Pebbles

A traumatised mother gets the opportunity to avenge her daughter’s execution in Iran. Is her victim really the perpetrator?

Can the desire for revenge get the better of reason, asks Dutch-Iranian director Kaweh Modiri in this atmospheric political thriller. Flashbacks to Iran in 1982 illuminate the story of traumatised Haleh, who –  37 years later –  gets the chance to avenge her daughter’s execution.

Mitra, 

Mitra

Energetic, colourful reworking of Shakespeare’s love story, in which the lovebirds are now played by women. Set in the bustling metropolis of Taipei.

Colourful, energetic reworking of Shakespeare’s play set in the bustling metropolis of Taipei. Orlando and Rosalind are in love with each other, but unaware of this. In Shakespeare’s time all the roles were played by men; now the lovebirds are played by women.

As We Like It, 

As We Like It

The power of storytelling underpins this stifling, inventive film from Côte d’Ivoire about life inside a gigantic prison.

To save his skin, a brand-new inmate has to entertain his fellow prisoners until sunrise by telling them a story. Director Philippe Lacôte from Côte d’Ivoire builds this into an inventive, stifling prison drama in which stories, film styles and narrative forms playfully interweave.

nuit des rois, La

La nuit des rois

Stylised, dark thriller about a young Tunisian woman leading a double life: a contemporary Medusa for the #MeToo era.

Young, silent Nada operates as an avenging angel in nocturnal Tunis. A dark thriller offering a stylised view of contemporary Tunisia, where a disillusioned generation clings onto hope in the wake of the Arab Spring. Featuring an electronic soundtrack reminiscent of Italian giallo films.

Black Medusa, 

Black Medusa

Sensory story of the Dominican messianic figure Papá Liborio and the community he inspired.

A poor Dominican farmer disappears during a hurricane and returns as a prophet. His commune soon arouses the authorities’ suspicions. Liborio tells the story from multiple perspectives of a movement that combines spirituality with the struggle for self-determination.

Liborio, 

Liborio

The landscape gains a voice when elderly Sonja talks about being in the anti-fascist resistance and escaping from Auschwitz.

A beautiful song and a field of poppies, testaments to bygone bloodshed, start this unorthodox journey through Sonja’s memories. The friendly elderly lady fought the German occupiers as a partisan in Serbia and was a resistance member at Auschwitz.

Landscapes of Resistance, 

Landscapes of Resistance

Feminist fable in which Ana ends up in a war between the sexes. Unruly adventure film in a gritty dream world.

Feminist fable in which girls get the opportunity for revenge in a war on men – or are they innocent, overgrown boys in oversized uniforms? Feature debut director’s idiosyncratic adventure epic nod to Alice in Wonderland and Lord of the Flies. Dreamy and brutal.

Mayday, 

Mayday

Hong Kong’s homeless fight for their rights in the shadows of the high-rises. A politically committed look at a precarious existence.

“I may be homeless, but I'm not worthless.” Treated like garbage, Hong Kong’s homeless protest under this slogan. Among them is Fai, who really wants to kick his heroin habit – but something is eating away at him. Poignant, committed portrayal of a marginalised group that foregrounds their humanity.

Drifting, 

Drifting

A young model returns to the Georgian countryside, where a confrontation with her past offers hope for the future.

Young model Ariadna’s return to the village in Georgia where she was born to attend her grandmother’s funeral is a painful but liberating experience, as she is finally able to shake off the trauma of her past. A sensitive, atmospheric drama with a touch of poetry, captured in magnificent black-and-white.

Bebia, à mon seul désir, 

Bebia, à mon seul désir

A loving, painstaking study of the dilemmas of a girl facing an unwanted pregnancy and the woman helping her.

The story of a passionate architect and a girl confronting an unwanted pregnancy unfolds calmly and gently, without any big drama: but this doesn’t lessen the dilemmas the characters face. Julia and Luisa each have something the other needs – they could quite easily form some kind of family.

Aurora, 

Aurora

The matriarchal Margarita struggles to keep the power over her family’s future after her son is hit by a tragedy.

The powerful matriarchal clan led by charismatic Margarita is deeply shaken when her son loses his beloved fiancée. An offbeat and visually stunning fairy-tale set during the endless New Year’s Eve when all miracles are about love, eternity and death. Get ready to be blown away by The North Wind.

North Wind, The

The North Wind

An intriguing thriller made up of images from hidden cameras, phone taps, Skype sessions and other Australian-government surveillance footage.

Australia in the near future. The government uses cameras and extensive bugging technology to spy on its citizens − especially a group of environmental activists. Using little more than surveillance footage, director Jonathan Ogilvie keeps up a relentless pace. An edge-of-the-seat thriller that works on both political and emotional levels.

Lone Wolf, 

Lone Wolf

The death of a trans woman links three lives in Brazil’s agrarian heartland. An ingenious debut, bursting with visual flair.

While the body of a murdered trans woman lies in a soya field, Madiano Marcheti follows the lives of three people whose only connection to one another is her. With this assured debut bursting with visual surprises, he pays gentle homage to all lives and bodies that deserve to coexist.

Madalena, 

Madalena

Two easily-distracted layabouts find a Labrador-sized fly in this new film from master absurdist Dupieux.

You are more likely to catch flies with honey than vinegar, but a few cans of cat food go a long way too, discover Manu and Jean-Gab. In the new film by master absurdist Quentin Dupieux, these two layabouts find a Labrador-sized fly and anticipate a windfall.

Mandibules, 

Mandibules

Bosnian UN interpreter Aida is trapped between factions in this moving, urgent drama about the genocide in Srebrenica in 1995.

UN interpreter Aida is caught between factions in this moving drama about the Srebrenica genocide in 1995. Director Jasmila Žbanić’s detailed shots of the conflict meticulously dissect what went wrong in the communication between the Dutch UN soldiers, the Bosnian Muslim population and the advancing Serbian army.

Quo vadis, Aida?, 

Quo vadis, Aida?

You follow our lead and are kept in the dark until the film starts. Let us take you by surprise!

With the Surprise Film, you follow our lead and are kept in the dark until the film starts. Never fear though, you can trust IFFR to always make a great choice. Be carried away and let the festival take you by surprise!

Surprise Film, 

Surprise Film

Beautiful, thoughtful western focusing on friendship rather than strife. And on the diversity of the American frontier around 1820.

A timid cook and a Chinese immigrant find solace together in a harsh world. This thoughtful western by Kelly Reichardt has already picked up several awards with its focus on friendship rather than strife, on the power of the domestic and the diversity of the American frontier.

IFFR 2021
1 – 7 Feb | 2 – 6 June 2021

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Special Online Pitch Prep Workshop 2 - 90 Minutes in the Art of Presenting

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Opening IFFR Pro Days 2021

Spotlight CineMart

RSVP Only: Festival Programmers: Where Are We Now? (including round table)

Festival Programmers: Where Are We Now?

Plenary Session: Marketing Strategies with Mathias Noschis

Press Conference Tiger Competition Part 1

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Opening Night 2021: Riders of Justice

Party & Specials

Opening Night 2021: Riders of Justice