International Film Festival Rotterdam

International Film Festival Rotterdam

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“A Good Man”

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Kjettil Gerritsen

“A Good Man”Brandon’s gym is unique. He practices his sport at a very social place where athletes are…

“It’s too cold for the spirits to live here”

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Tosca Schift

“It’s too cold for the spirits to live here”On October 16th, 1958, a family fled Indonesia. They spent a month at sea aboard the M.S.…

(for once I dreamed of you)

Kate Solar

(for once I dreamed of you)Departing from a parenthetical phrase in Christina Rossetti’s 1904 poem ‘On the Wing’,…

100 Nights of Hero

Julia Jackman

100 Nights of Hero When a charming house guest (Galitzine) arrives at a remote castle, the delicate dynamic…

20/68 Schatzi

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Kurt Kren

20/68 Schatzi Kurt Kren films a photo which shows an SS officer standing on a town square which is…

2m²

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Volkan Üce

2m² Tayfun, an undertaker for the Belgian-Turkish community, must help families decide where…

3 Days in September

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Tudor Giurgiu

3 Days in September A woman whose wedding party is ruined by her fiancé's pregnant mistress flees the scene,…

3 Scenes from a Marriage

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Leopold Emmen

3 Scenes from a Marriage What happens when film breaks out of its frame and unfolds as space around you? In…

3cm of Complexity

Anna Vasof

3cm of Complexity What do a hospice documentary, wildfires in Greece, and a diaphragmatic hernia have in…

4 Tigers

Kongkiat Komesiri

4 Tigers As the country’s military leader grows increasingly despotic, undercover actress Rosarin…

44 Houses

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Kari Fisher

44 Houses Kari Fisher, accompanied by family and friends, revisits the many Canadian houses in…

58th

Carl Joseph Papa

58th A moving account of the horrific 2009 Maguindanao massacre in the Philippines, approached…

A Brighter Future

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Ismael García Ramírez

A Brighter Future In a strange, dark place, a colourful group of young people project their future. With a…

A Fading Man

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Welf Reinhart

A Fading Man When her ex-husband reappears, now suffering from dementia and having forgotten their…

A Flock of Rotations

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Jung An Tagen

A Flock of Rotations A Flock of Rotations hurls the senses into dizzying abstraction. Chromatic patterns…

A Haunted School

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Tsuruta Norio

A Haunted School Amidst rumors that the spirit of a student, who committed suicide years ago, appears in…

A Letter from Elli

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Elina Saloranta

A Letter from Elli Fixing upon traces of the Finnish singer Elli Forssell-Rozentāle (1871–1943) in Latvia –…

A Magnificent Life

Sylvain Chomet

A Magnificent Life In 1955, 60-year-old Marcel Pagnol is a well-known and acclaimed playwright and…

A Messy Tribute to Motherly Love

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Dan Geesin

A Messy Tribute to Motherly Love When people literally explode from emotional overload, grief is just the beginning. A…

A Pain in the Butt

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Elena Walf

A Pain in the Butt The hedgehog is just about to go into hibernation when he notices that one of his spines…

A Philological Quandary, Kenneth Anger’s ¡Que Viva Mexico! (1950)

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Bruce Posner

A Philological Quandary, Kenneth Anger’s ¡Que Viva Mexico! (1950)Short film

A smorfia

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Jean Ruggirello

A smorfia La Smorfia is a deeply-rooted tradition in Naples that consists of translating dreams…

A Survivor’s Tale

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Micha Wald

A Survivor’s Tale If a woman can survive for two years on a rugged island while pregnant, in the company of…

A Useful Ghost

Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke

A Useful Ghost After dying from a respiratory disease, a mother’s spirit possesses a vacuum cleaner to…

A Weapon in My Heart

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Aoyama Shinji

A Weapon in My Heart A call girl named Alice stiffs a gang boss for his money but is arrested by police…

Abduction

Yana Lineva

Abduction A woman browses photographs of a young girl. The child visits Disneyland, celebrates…

Accept Our Sincere Apologies

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Juja Dobrachkous

Accept Our Sincere Apologies In a decadent Venetian hotel, general manager Eva is drawn to the mysterious Contessa.…

Acid City

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Jack Wedge, Will Freudenheim

Acid City A dystopian future that’s ever nearer, Acid City floats in toxic waters and is left to…

ADGIN PRRX

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Norbert Pfaffenbichler

ADGIN PRRX A re-edit of John Frankenheimer’s 1966 car racing paragon Grand Prix that begins with the…

After the Cities

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Xacio Baño

After the Cities This experimental film imagines the city of Santiago de Compostela as sentient, revealed…

After the Game

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Jana Stallein

After the Game In After the Game, you are invited to visit and navigate several squat places, where…

Afternoon Hearsay

Peng Zuqiang

Afternoon Hearsay 8.75mm is a gauge of celluloid filmstrip that circulated exclusively in China between the…

Ah Girl

Ang Geck Geck Priscilla

Ah Girl A young girl is caught in a war between her separated parents, trying to make sense of it…

Aimless Walk

Alexander Hackenschmied

Aimless Walk This first true Czech avant-garde film turns away from a purely celebratory approach to…

Ako Kantu

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Ganza Moise

Ako Kantu In this satirical short film, a failed journalist’s Valentine’s Day interview with a…

All you need to make a movie is a gun

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Santiago Sein

All you need to make a movie is a gun At the end of 2019, dozens of cans with films made by film students in the 60s and 70s…

Allies in Exile

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Hasan Kattan

Allies in Exile For 14 years, Syrian filmmakers Hasan Kattan and Fadi Al-Halabi have journeyed together…

Alterity

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Jacco Gardner

Alterity Alterity is an installation artwork where media archeologist and musician Jacco Gardner…

Am I Mourning What I Never Lost?

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R. James Edwards

Am I Mourning What I Never Lost?In this tightly packed, provocative vignette, R. James Edwards, born Deaf, wonders why he…

Amelia’s Closet

Halima Lucas

Amelia’s Closet Eleven-year-old Amelia is getting bullied at school. Trying to regain a sense of power,…

Amrum

Fatih Akin

Amrum Amrum Island, Spring 1945. In the final days of the war, 12-year-old Nanning braves the…

An Impossible Address

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Suneil Sanzgiri

An Impossible Address An Impossible Address is the culmination of over four years of research, unearthing a…

ANTFILM

Tetsuya Maruyama

ANTFILM Maruyama’s most screened work has been described as “Lynchian” with a clear touch of…

Anxious Virgin: One More Time, I Love You

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Nakahara Shun

Anxious Virgin: One More Time, I Love You High school boy Hideki is killed in a traffic accident but sent back to Earth so that he…

Art Is Dark and Full of Horrors

Artemio Narro

Art Is Dark and Full of Horrors This corrosive satire of the Mexican art world unfolds during a week of ferocious…

Ashes and Echoes

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Koraphat Cheeradit

Ashes and Echoes Three intertwined stories – a young boy being prepped by his father, two soldiers longing…

Atom of Eternity

Cenek Zahradnícek, Vladimír Šmejkal

Atom of Eternity A love story between a man and a woman unfolds in simply sequences. The man seduces the…

Au hasard

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Darren Dominique Heroux

Au hasard You are given coloured glasses, red or blue, but not to render images 3D, but to subtract…

Awake Before Your Gaze

Lin Yi-Chi

Awake Before Your Gaze In the ruins of a former military dormitory, a globe is diligently polished, and small…

B-Girl Rhapsody

Lillian Hunt

B-Girl Rhapsody Filmed record of a burlesque performance.

backflip

Nikita Diakur

backflip Attempting a backflip is not safe. You can break your neck, or land on your head, or land…

Badak

M. Raihan Halim

Badak A deaf single father and his daughter, an overnight hip-hop sensation. How do you bridge…

Bazaar (Murder in the Building)

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Rémi Bezançon

Bazaar (Murder in the Building)A crime writer and his film professor partner are swept up in a real-life mystery when…

believe in it

Yonesho Maya

believe in it Yonesho Maya’s film speaks with the simplicity and conviction of a child’s belief, as her…

Betrayal Tomorrow

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Eiichi Kudo

Betrayal Tomorrow A violent detective who can handle assault and blackmail in a straight forward manner.

Between Arms

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Robin Nevis

Between Arms A civil war is raging in Sri Lanka. Two sworn enemies-a Tamil rebel and a Sinhalese…

Between Brothers

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Tom Fassaert

Between Brothers In this intimate family portrait, documentary filmmaker Tom Fassaert observes the…

Black Strangers

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Dan Guthrie

Black Strangers In the Gloucestershire Archives, Dan Guthrie finds a single line devoted to a mysterious…

Blanca Putica. A Girl in Love

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Miñuca Villaverde

Blanca Putica. A Girl in Love Based on the news of a sexist crime, the director and her husband stage the moments…

Body, remember…

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Matthew Berka

Body, remember…The lens of the camera is a key to the senses and the sensual. The close-up renders…