IFFR KINO #42: Toute une nuit

We’re back with the second half of IFFR KINO's seventh season, dedicated to the night. From October 2022 to January 2023 we’re screening an IFFR classic in KINO on every first Wednesday of the month. These films deserve to be brought to the big screen in Rotterdam again – a great warm-up for our upcoming festival in January.
We kick off on Wednesday 5 October with Chantal Akerman's Toute une nuit, screened at IFFR in 1982 and 1983.

Night. A door swings open. A woman throws herself into a man’s arms, holding her shoes in hand. A café. A man looks at a woman; as he gets up, so does she. Love at first sight. They plunge into each other’s arms and lose themselves in a dance. A phone rings, a man comes running, out of breath. Grinding music rings through the feverish night. A girl pulls herself against another girl. A woman throws open a door and storms up the stairs. A man grabs hold of a woman. Resistance. Two men break up. A wildly emotional woman hurls herself into a taxi. In a city, during a hot and tumultuous summer night, men, women and children are gripped by lust. Capable of anything, they let themselves get carried away by their delirious feelings, sometimes to the point of madness – as long as the night lasts. Akerman’s Toute une nuit is a film about the night, the night as experienced by the people of Brussels in many different ways.

Wednesday 5 October, 19:30, KINO Rotterdam