Melissa van Middelaar
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Melissa van Middelaar at IFFR
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Wadjda
Haifaa Al Mansour | 100' | Germany | None
Wadjda is 10 years old, lives in Saudi Arabia and wants a green bicycle. Her conservative surroundings think that a girl should not be on… -
Post tenebras lux
Carlos Reygadas | 120' | France | None
Dreamlike, extremely personal and visually surprising film by the Mexican master. Also puzzling. What do those rugby playing kids have to do with that -
Beyond Sleep
Boudewijn Koole | 108' | Netherlands | World premiere
A robust yet sensitive adaptation of W. F. Hermans’s famous novel Beyond Sleep (Nooit meer slapen), about a vain, struggling geology student dur -
Arabian Nights: Volume 3 – The Enchanted One
While Scheherazade wonders how much longer she’ll be able to distract her cruel husband with stories, we discover how the love of birdsong came to… -
Arabian Nights: Volume 1 – The Restless One
Magical realism, documentary and political satire coalesce in this contemporary Arabian Nights. Scheherazade tells stories about the dismal state of P -
Full Contact
An introverted soldier enters his own tormented subconscious, respectively portrayed as an island and a boxing school, desperately looking for full co -
Arabian Nights: Volume 2 – The Desolate One
In which Scheherazade continues to tell of the tormented Portuguese people, who turn away from the authorities and look for new heroes. Just as in… -
Ich seh, Ich seh
Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala | 99' | Austria | None
A (head) trip with a mother and her twin sons into an abyss of humiliation and torture, where it’s never clear who’s actually (still) living… -
Gluckauf
Remy van Heugten | 102' | Netherlands | World premiere
A powerful father-son drama plays out in the ignored, impoverished Dutch province of South Limburg, which offers no opportunity for escape. Neither fo
