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The Silent Path
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The Silent Path

Jan. 25, 2024

The Silent Path

Journalist and documentarian Yonri Soesanto Revolt (Mayday! May day! Mayday!, IFFR 2023) returns to IFFR with The Silent Path, an unassuming, ...
yours,
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yours,

Jan. 25, 2024

yours,

The curators invited a group of artists to be inspired by the work of the well-known, Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman. They specifically ...
Failed Emptiness
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Failed Emptiness

Jan. 25, 2024

Failed Emptiness

A three-week vacation in the middle of a heatwave. Failed Emptiness is an existential thriller that describes the familiar experience of ...
Godsterminal
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Godsterminal

Jan. 25, 2024

Godsterminal

Bergmanesque ghosts appear at the bedside of Edward Weki, a 75-year-old Sudanese man suffering from the final stage of Parkinson’s: Alma, the ...
El neceser rojo
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El neceser rojo

Jan. 25, 2024

El neceser rojo

The filmmaker’s mother recalls her own mother and childhood in the 1960s bouncing between Mexico and California. Her mother’s small ...
It’s Ok
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It’s Ok

Jan. 25, 2024

It’s Ok

An intimate look inside the life of Lebanese superstar Elissa as she prepares to drop her first independent album and reflects on her path to stardom.
There Was Nothing Here Before
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There Was Nothing Here Before

A Swiss filmmaker of Palestinian origin travels to the West Bank to make sense of the break-up with a childhood friend who became a Jewish ...
Avant-Drag!
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Avant-Drag!

May. 23, 2024

Avant-Drag!

Avant-Drag! paints portraits of ten drag artists of varying gender expressions and sexualities who take to the streets of Athens to query, ...
Molecular Delusions
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Molecular Delusions

Jan. 25, 2024

Molecular Delusions

For one night, Kika collects audio recordings of orgasms. The acoustic phenomena generated by this hypnotic trance reveal the form that had ...
space_invaders.exe
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space_invaders.exe

Jan. 25, 2024

space_invaders.exe

“How can we cancel this displacement?” Impossible questions are posed to refugees, queries that form the springboard for an ...
Pandora’s Legacy
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Pandora’s Legacy

May. 17, 2024

Pandora’s Legacy

GW Pabst: film director, patriarch, “the Great Unknown”. The giant of German-language cinema, at last told privately and artistically ...
The World According to Carlijn
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The World According to Carlijn

When you see Carlijn Kingma’s impressive artwork The Waterworks of Money, that efficiently illustrates the way the financial sector runs through ...
Pain
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Pain

Jan. 25, 2024

Pain

After being diagnosed with progressive Parkinson’s disease, the legendary Croatian experimental filmmaker Ivan Faktor (b. 1953) decides to ...
Descent
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Descent

Jan. 25, 2024

Descent

The steel and glass jungle of contemporary London, scaffolded and climbing skywards at breakneck speed. With signs of supposed growth at every ...
Line of Sight
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Line of Sight

Jan. 25, 2024

Line of Sight

Repurposing techniques such as spoken word, ASCII art and coding, the protagonist in this film navigates his own conflicted, chaotic memories. ...
The Third World After the Sun
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The Third World After the Sun

In the dense Colombian jungle, eras jump, genders blur and fluids flow freely. The rubber trees, tapped for their viscous sap, take on another ...
The Silence of Iron
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The Silence of Iron

Jan. 25, 2024

The Silence of Iron

Minas Gerais in Southeastern Brazil, is a place whose identity, history and even topography has been greatly influenced by the mining industry. ...
Msaytbeh, the Elevated Place.
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Msaytbeh, the Elevated Place.

After a twenty year absence, Rawane Nassif returns home in Msaytbeh, Beirut. Msaytbeh, (from the word Mastaba, the elevated place) was home to a ...
Man of Aral
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Man of Aral

Jan. 25, 2024

Man of Aral

As one of the most striking examples of human-caused climate catastrophe, the Sea of Aral is gradually running dry. Various hand-processing ...
Ritual
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Ritual

Jan. 25, 2024

Ritual

Polished obsidian mirrors, tezcatl, were once used in ancient Mexico for divination, to traverse into the worlds of the gods and ancestors. ...
Cosmic Miniatures
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Cosmic Miniatures

Jan. 25, 2024

Cosmic Miniatures

At 91 years of age, Alexander Kluge is solidly regarded as a trailblazing figure in New German Cinema and the avant-garde. He remains active and ...
The Farc Guerilla, a History of the Future
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The Farc Guerilla, a History of the Future

Under the auspices of Rio Chiquito, Bruno Muel and Jean-Pierre Sergent’s 1965 report on the birth of the FARC, and Dunav Kuzmanich’s 1981 fiction ...
Cinema Bruciato
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Cinema Bruciato

Jan. 25, 2024

Cinema Bruciato

In the film, Klopfenstein portrays a metaphorical renovation of the burned-down church of his past in and with cinema. As tools, he merely has ...
Obedience
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Obedience

Jan. 25, 2024

Obedience

A site of rapid redevelopment, the Hung Hom district of Hong Kong is home to the Kwun Yum temple, which attracts droves of devotees seeking ...
Maia – Portrait with Hands
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Maia – Portrait with Hands

The Aromanians (Rrãmãnji) are an ethnic group found mainly in today’s Albania, Greece, Bulgaria and Romania. For filmmaker Alexandra Gulea, this ...
Make Up the World
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Make Up the World

Jan. 25, 2024

Make Up the World

A tracking shot along the objects on the shelves of a film prop warehouse will trigger stories in our minds. The orange-coloured telephone takes ...
Ans and the Universe
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Ans and the Universe

Jan. 25, 2024

Ans and the Universe

Ans Hoornweg died in 2022 at the age of 80. Hers was an extraordinary story. Extraordinary for others, that is, as contact with extraterrestrials ...
Denials, Decoys
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Denials, Decoys

Jan. 25, 2024

Denials, Decoys

With the erasure of fingertips as a point of departure, Denials, Decoys takes the idea of a cut on the body and obfuscates it within the cut of ...
Vivre avec les Loups
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Vivre avec les Loups

Jan. 24, 2024

Vivre avec les Loups

Soon, there will be wolves everywhere in France again. People have to learn to cohabit with them.
My Paper Life
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My Paper Life

Jan. 24, 2024

My Paper Life

In Brussels, the Iranian artist and film director Vida Dena meets Naseem, father of a Syrian family who fled from the war. Within the walls of ...
Soundtrack to a Coup d’État
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Soundtrack to a Coup d’État

In 1960, United Nations: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, ...
Never Look Away
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Never Look Away

Jan. 24, 2024

Never Look Away

New Zealand–born groundbreaking CNN camerawoman Margaret Moth risks it all to show the reality of war from inside the conflict, staring down ...
Sue Bird: In the Clutch
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Sue Bird: In the Clutch

In her 21-year professional career, WNBA basketball legend Sue Bird has won five Olympic gold medals and become the most successful point guard ...
Agent of Happiness
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Agent of Happiness

Jul. 12, 2024

Agent of Happiness

The documentary team follows two happiness agents in their forties who spend a month and a half on the road twice a year, going door-to-door with ...
DEVO
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DEVO

Jan. 21, 2024

DEVO

In 1980, new wave band Devo scored a hit with “Whip It” and gained mainstream success with their message of societal ...
Brazza, Chronicle of a Wasteland
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Brazza, Chronicle of a Wasteland

This is Brazza: an urban wasteland is living through its last hours. 53 hectares for the construction of a vast real estate project in tune with ...
Eternal You
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Eternal You

Jun. 20, 2024

Eternal You

Startups are using AI to create avatars that allow relatives to talk with their loved ones after they have died. An exploration of a profound ...
Igualada
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Igualada

Jan. 24, 2024

Igualada

In one of Latin America’s most unequal countries, Francia Márquez, a Black Colombian rural activist, challenges the status quo with a ...
Pense à moi
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Pense à moi

Jan. 24, 2024

Pense à moi

A chronicle about the everyday life of an Emmaüs community. Most of its people are migrants, mostly with children. They come from Albania, ...

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