{"id":211321,"date":"2022-12-08T17:23:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T16:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iffr.com\/en\/?p=211321"},"modified":"2025-10-03T17:33:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T15:33:24","slug":"competition-juries-and-first-short-mid-length-titles-at-iffr-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iffr.com\/en\/competition-juries-and-first-short-mid-length-titles-at-iffr-2023","title":{"rendered":"Competition Juries and first Short & Mid-length titles at IFFR 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"
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India-focused programme asks: The Shape of Things to Come?<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As the 52nd edition of International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) draws nearer, the festival announces the names of its competition juries alongside its latest programme confirmations. Highly lauded American producer Christine Vachon and Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz are amongst the Tiger Competition jurors, whilst IFFR 2023 filmmaker in focus Stanya Kahn is part of the Ammodo Tiger Short Competition jury. The first titles in the Short & Mid-length strand are announced, next to a programme which reflects on the socio-political development of India over the past 30 years. Press and industry are now invited to apply for their accreditations.\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Festival director\u00a0Vanja Kaludjercic: \u201cAfter launching our\u00a0new visual campaign<\/a>\u00a0that celebrates\u00a0our home city with our return in full force, the 52nd edition is now really taking shape. These latest confirmations are testament of\u00a0the broadening and deepening of our programme<\/a>, from the delights of the Short & Mid-length programme, to a vital delve into contemporary India \u2013 surprising our audiences with great films that underline relevant and pressing issues.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Short & Mid-length<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

IFFR presents the first confirmations in its non-competitive space for short and mid-length work in all its diversity.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finnish filmmaker Laura Rantanen reflects on the end of life through the books we leave behind in the wistful documentary\u00a0Goodbye Words<\/strong>. Chinese filmmaker Gao Wei presents a photochemical, x-ray journey through the compositions of flowers and leaves in\u00a0Flower Rain<\/strong>. Since 2008, Austrian filmmaker\u00a0Siegfried A. Fruhauf<\/a>\u00a0has been showing his tactile explorations of cinematic frames and movement at IFFR. He returns to present the world premiere of his latest film\u00a0Cave Painting<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amsterdam-based Argentine filmmaker\u00a0Sebastian Diaz Morales<\/a>\u00a0presents the festival world premiere of the mid-length\u00a0Smashing Monuments<\/strong>, where members of the Indonesian art collective ruangrupa converse with city statues. Morales\u2019s films and installations have been shown all over the world, including at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Tate Modern in London, and at IFFR since 2002.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

See the first\u00a0Short & Mid-length<\/a>\u00a0lineup.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Clockwise, stills from the films:\u00a0Goodbye Words, Flower Rain,\u00a0Smashing Monuments,\u00a0Cave Painting<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Focus: The Shape of Things to Come?<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

IFFR presents a programme of documentaries and fictional narratives that reflect on the socio-political development of India over the past 30 years, focusing on the institutional ascent of right-wing Hindu-nationalist groups and the persecution of dissenting voices.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The programme stretches back to Sanjiv Shah\u2019s 1992 musical political satire\u00a0Love in the Time of Malaria<\/strong>, to the world premiere of\u00a0Which Colour?<\/strong>\u00a0by Shahrukhkhan Chavada. Survival in the first four months of the pandemic-induced lockdown in Mumbai is the focus of Mihir Fadnavis\u2019s documentary\u00a0Lords of Lockdown<\/strong>, which screens in Europe for the first time.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

See the first titles in\u00a0Focus: The Shape of Things to Come?<\/a><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Competition juries\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The\u00a0Tiger Competition<\/a>\u00a0Jury includes filmmaker\u00a0Lav Diaz<\/a>, producer and director of the Udine Far East Film Festival, Sabrina Baracetti, film critic Alonso D\u00edaz de la Vega, and actress and filmmaker Anisia Uzeyman (Neptune Frost<\/a><\/strong>, IFFR 2022). Celebrated producer Christine Vachon (Safe<\/a><\/strong>, IFFR 1996;\u00a0Boys Don\u2019t Cry<\/a><\/strong>, IFFR 2000;\u00a0The World to Come<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0IFFR 2021), completes the lineup. Together they will choose the winners of the Tiger Award, worth \u20ac40,000, and the Special Jury Awards, worth \u20ac10,000.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The jury for the\u00a0Ammodo Tiger Short Competition<\/a>\u00a0consists of writer, cultural programmer and organiser Simone Zeefuik, programmer, art curator and writer Herb Shellenberger, and film and video artist Stanya Kahn \u2013 whose work is also presented in a\u00a0Focus programme<\/a>\u00a0at IFFR 2023. The jury will determine which three titles will receive three equal Ammodo Tiger Short Awards, each worth \u20ac5,000.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lineup for both competitions, as well as the\u00a0Big Screen Competition<\/a>\u00a0which is decided on by an audience jury, will be announced at the online IFFR 2023 Press Conference on Monday, 19 December at 11am.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tiger Competition Jury, left to right:\u00a0Lav Diaz, Sabrina Baracetti, Alonso D\u00edaz de la Vega<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(photo credit: Javier Azuara),\u00a0Anisia Uzeyman, Christine Vachon<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Further programme confirmations<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The festival continues to announce selections in its largest and broadest programme,\u00a0Harbour<\/a>, including the international premiere of Australian documentary filmmaker Sari Braithwaite\u2019s candid portrait of a neurodiverse family\u00a0Because We Have Each Other<\/strong>. Also making its international premiere is\u00a0Revolution der Augen<\/strong>, the cinematic comeback of Austrian 70s feminist video art and film legend Friederike Pezold \u2013 a tranquil, sound-free flow of images.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brazil\u2019s cinema marginal pioneer J\u00falio Bressane returns to IFFR to present the world premiere of an extensive reflection on his six decades of filmmaking,\u00a0The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus<\/strong>, made in tandem with Rodrigo Lima. In 2000, IFFR honoured Bressane with one of the first comprehensive retrospectives on his work outside of Brazil.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latest confirmation in the\u00a0Limelight<\/a>\u00a0programme of eagerly anticipated festival favourites is the international premiere of\u00a0Wir sind dann wohl die Angeh\u00f6rigen<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Hans-Christian Schmid\u2019s film on the 1996 kidnapping of millionaire academic Jan Philipp Reemtsma.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the\u00a0Bright Future<\/a>\u00a0strand of debut features, Peruvian filmmaker Felipe Esparza P\u00e9rez brings the world premiere of the delicate\u00a0Cielo abierto<\/strong>, after screening shorts at IFFR in\u00a02020<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a02021<\/a>.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Clockwise, stills from the films:\u00a0Because We Have Each Other,\u00a0The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus,\u00a0Wir sind dann wohl die Angeh\u00f6rigen,\u00a0Cielo Abierto<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Press and industry at IFFR 2023<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The full lineup for IFFR 2023 including the Tiger, Big Screen and Ammodo Tiger Short competitions will be announced at the IFFR 2023 Press Conference, which takes place online at 11am CET on Monday, 19 December. Press and industry are invited to apply for their accreditations, and should do so before 23 December.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Go to\u00a0accreditations<\/a>.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Line-up<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Bright Future latest confirmation<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n