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- DirectorPaz EncinaStarsAnel PicaneraiCuria Chiquejno EtacoroDucubaide ChiquenoiEami's homeland is invaded by settlers. Embodying Asojá, the bird-god-woman, she falls into trance in which she walks slowly and stunned through her beloved forest as she prepares to leave it forever.
- DirectorMorgane Dziurla-PetitStarsMarie-Christine CarlierMorgane Dziurla-PetitBernard PetitA young film director, returns to her family village after a terrorist alert was triggered. As she films her family members in their power dynamics, she comes to understand that they are more connected to this event than she originally thought. Through the making of a short documentary, she becomes closer to her dad Patrick and her cousin Faustine who share the same dream: leaving the village.
- DirectorMabrouk El MechriStarsSabrina OuazaniRamzy BediaEye HaidaraConvinced that a divorce would separate her from her little girl, Zohra cannot bring herself to leave her husband despite his violent behavior. She suffers his blows in silence. But all that changes when she meets Chang Sue.
- DirectorPedro Neves MarquesStarsIsabel CostaZé BernardinoPedro Neves MarquesMirene and André are a straight couple struggling with infertility. Carl and Vicente are a gay couple undergoing an experimental procedure to have a child. An exploration of gender, reproduction, normativity and the notion of family.
- DirectorAdam KhalilBayley SweitzerStarsJerry G. AngeloAdam Rashad GlennSteve HolmgrenNosferasta: First Bite is a vampire movie like no other. Christopher Columbus uses his undead powers to create his "New World", where he sucks the blood out of his colonial project for centuries. Complicit in this is Oba - both co-writer and star of the film - a shipwrecked African slave who, once bitten, becomes Columbus's subject and collaborator. When Oba discovers Rastafarianism, his allegiance changes. A tale as old as time, but filtered through a cloud of smoke.
- DirectorMaria IgnatenkoStarsGeorgiy BergalKlavdiya KorshunovaAndrey KrivenokAchrome is an anti-war parable about a man and his vulnerability in the face of history. Maris, the film's protagonist, is the village idiot, brought up by his older brother. Following his brother, Maris leaves their peaceful village and joins the military. It is as if he enters a different world, the world of war. There he meets Leah, a young woman sentenced to death. Through her eyes, Maris is able to see himself. For Leah, and for all who will see his name in the archives in the future, Maris will remain a murderer, no matter whether he killed or not. All his features will be erased, all save one - his guilt. But surely, there must be a way to separate oneself from the archive? To get yourself back?
- DirectorRahat MahajanStarsRitvik TyagiAhalya ShettyRaj ZutshiA contemporary tale of reincarnation about two lovers meeting in the present day after several centuries of longing, yet still trapped in their destiny of a perpetual cycle of love and death.
- DirectorFrederico SerraStarsManuel NabaisRita CabaçoRui M. SilvaIn a terrifying Portuguese village, there is a legend. The legend of the wolf child. Desired and born on a full moon night, it all started when a young peasant girl, desperate for a child, asked a creature of the forest for a wish. The desire? A child she could call hers. But the forest creature curses the woman. When grow up, the child will bring teeth and blood to the village. Years pass, the child becomes a man, tormented and persecuted by the villagers, torn between his animalistic nature and a friendship with a young witch. The boy has to find out who, or what, he is. Together, the wolf child and the witch will try to break the curse and find their place in the world. 16 years after "Coisa Ruim", Frederico Serra returns to the legends and traditions of deep Portugal.
- DirectorRoee RosenStarsJeff FrancisHani FurstenbergEli GorensteinBasically, Kafka's Metamorphosis is unfilmable. After all, the author didn't want visual representations to appear of the insect Gregor Samsa turned into; readers should visualise that themselves. This complicates things for the makers of Kafka for Kids. In this children's programme, a grandad figure in a bathrobe reads the story to a woman who, with exaggerated naivety, plays a little girl in pigtails in a ladybird print dress. While the former talks about Samsa's transformation, the event is depicted in expressionist animations. Is that allowed? Who can provide legal advice? The band with their children's instruments in the corner know. "Kafka's shoe!" they sing. Weird? Surreal? You bet. There is so much to take in. One surprise is followed by another in Kafka for Kids. Just think, for instance, of the brightly coloured backdrop in which Mr Table and Mrs Lamp have faces and get involved in everything. Or, the wondrous intermezzos about food. American-Israeli artist Roee Rosen has created a witty parody of children's TV, with a fun Kafkaesque twist that nevertheless takes his work seriously and underlines its playful, surreal nature. While the programme increasingly loses the plot, Rosen questions laws and definitions, to subsequently apply these to the occupied territories. Politics, philosophy, and a talking painting: fun for funny adults.
- DirectorEugenio PolgovskyMara PolgovskyStarsEugenio PolgovskyMilena PolgovskyThe director and his five-year-old daughter film a nesting bird from a window. The girl's curiosity is provoked, sparking conversations about the relationship between humans and nature and the very meaning of filmmaking.
- DirectorSam de JongStarsGijs NaberHadewych MinisRoeland FernhoutWhen a successful game show host is robbed of her new video camera, she exaggerates the crime to get the most out of her insurance. Her lie ignites a chain reaction that will forever tie her destiny with that of her young assailant.
- DirectorDavid EastealStarsAndrew RakowskiDavid EastealCheri LeCornuEvery evening a man in his late 50s commutes home at the end of the working day in the outer suburbs of Melbourne.
- DirectorRoberto DoverisStarsJuan CanoIngrid IsenseeVioleta CastilloFollow Pablo, a young actor who dreams of starring in a film, but in order to pay the bills he has to work as a simulated patient in medical schools and in weird sessions of alternative therapies.
- DirectorRenaud Després-LaroseAna Tapia RousioukStarsGeneviève AckermanAna Tapia RousioukRenaud Després-LaroseRaoul and Beatrice's eyes meet in the Montreal metro. This sets off a chain of events that will affect the whole city. He's a rock star activist on a secret mission, she's a bohemian who wanders the streets at night, handing out books to the homeless. Every Thursday evening, she meets Constance and Eugène in their small candlelit apartment, for their weekly reading ritual. Constance broadcasts her live-sampled, politically conscious sound art on an independent radio station; Eugène has been working on a novel for years, whilst trying to shut himself off from the outside world. The three young friends all dream of their own poetic revolution, inspired by the situationists, on whom Raoul has modelled his persona.
- DirectorLei LeiIn a world of propaganda images, surrealist collage and pop-art animation, artist-filmmaker Lei Lei and his family recall the past to make sense of the present.
- DirectorJuichiro YamasakiStarsMunetaka AokiKilala InoriYoonsoo KangThe story of finding a place to put down roots when life's obstacles have discouraged you. Centered on the lives of Changsu and Yamabuki.
- DirectorChristos MassalasStarsElsa LekakouFoivos PapadopoulosStathis ApostolouA story about dancers and thieves in modern-day Athens.
- DirectorBrett Michael InnesStarsSivuyile NgesiCarla ClassenNatasha SutherlandA third-generation family gym finds itself in a David and Goliath type battle when a fitness conglomerate opens its flag-ship branch across the road from them.
- DirectorClara LawStarsJeff LaiAriel NgDickens KoA filmmaker and a piano student, who first meet in Australia, try to make sense of a past imbued with mystery in Macau and an uncertain future in Hong Kong.
- DirectorAdrián SilvestreStarsRaphaëlle PérezAlberto DíazMarc RiberaA young trans woman in Barcelona deals with her transition, dating and daily life.
- DirectorUrszula AntoniakStarsKhadija El Kharraz AlamiAbke HaringAnneke SluitersNot much is known about the catastrophe Anna and Hannah have escaped from or the efforts they have made to reach the desolate island. Once they find an abandoned house in the dunes, and water, Anna goes back to her routine of caring for Hannah. Distance is both a necessity and a torture for Anna and Hannah, who are lovers. Hannah's fragile condition reminds the two women that their time together is coming to an end. One day Hannah sees someone on the beach. A bitter fate hits the women. The intruder is Death, who followed them to the island.
- DirectorRainer KohlbergerThe invitation is to squint our eyes and allow the most amazing trips to unfold. The work is a bombardment of colored fields and a wall of sound, followed by a hallucinatory, silent inky-black sequence.
- DirectorCesar GananianCassiana Der HaroutiounianIn 2018 a wave of protests toppled the political oligarchy that perpetuated in power for over a decade in Armenia. Through five chants - microcosm, self, home, society and macrocosm - "Chants from a Holy Book" recreates the synergy that generates revolutions.
- DirectorSara CwynarSara Cwynar uses her computer and many studio arrangements to give sense and life to her visual file and the real world. Images of food, art, politicians, models and others compete for our attention in this tour of visual consumerism.
- DirectorJoseph WilsonStarsJulia CostaMicah HolmesSharon Le GrandLip-synch queer community experiences using archive sound.
- DirectorHsu Che-yuA film producer, an assassin, and a patriot. These aren't three characters in this film but three ways of describing Wu Dun, a member of the United Bamboo Gang who murdered the Taiwanese-American writer Henry Liu and became a producer of wuxia films. Hsu Che-yu, who previously brought SINGLE COPY (IFFR 2020) and RE-RUPTURE (IFFR 2018) to Rotterdam, visits Wu's abandoned studio to restage the events with forensic scanning techniques.
- DirectorDiego EscobarStarsVicente EscobarGrecia QuirozTo name is to know, give shape. To name is to to invoke, to conquer an unknown territory, an unknown body. To name is to discover the sound that accompanies a thing. A man realizes he has forgotten the face of his father, and with it, something that cannot be said: The name, of the pain that cannot be said.
- DirectorMichael RobinsonInformed by an underlying sense of anxiety and anguish, Michael Robinson's Polycephaly in D nestles fragments of narrative within a collage of sound, image, and text that oscillates between the elegant and the discordant.
- DirectorJon RafmanA piece of a gamer's past vanishes without a trace, triggering a quest for answers. Along the way, he encounters uncanny obstacles and part-human avatars - meticulously crafted from found pixels and cyber history - which call his own recollections of youth into question. Early internet aesthetics collide with the dark edges of online folklore, creating an unsettling yet deeply funny commentary on how technology pervades and mediates our humanity, memory, and concept of self.
- DirectorKorakrit ArunanondchaiAlex GvojicThis pulsating celebration of togetherness is a much-needed emotional antidote to these years of pandemic isolation. If Korakrit Arnunanondchai's Songs for Dying (IFFR 2022) is about the departure of the soul, his latest collaboration with Alex Gvojic is about spirits finding bodies and re-entering the world. Thunderous drumming, screeching feedback, and a mystical narration by musician Zsela bring warmth to distant human bodies from Thailand to New York, in rituals that rejoice in collective existence.
- DirectorJuanita OnzagaStarsMegane DeutouDiana ScalfatiDescribed by its director, Juanita Onzaga, as a work of 'ancestral futurism', this dizzying visual journey takes on the perspective of Sybille, the last woman on Earth, a planet where water no longer exists. She seeks to communicate with the spirit of water, a carrier and transmitter of more memory than humans could ever remember. Shot on Super 8, this sensorial trip finds fluid form to describe the end of the Earth as we as humans know it.
- DirectorArne HectorVinícius LopesLuciana MazetoA European artist writes about his experience in portraying life in Brazil during the colonial period. Aporteiro - concierge and security guard in one - watches the surveillance cameras in a residential building, while reflecting on his profession and the relationship with his employers. Between the exotic idyll of front yards and deterrent technology, his task is to establish security and normality. Brazil's troubled past and complicated present come together in this highly charged film.