Plan 75
Japan’s Oscar entry is a dystopian drama about a near future in which the government launches a program encouraging seniors to commit euthanasia.
Utama
Meditative and dazzlingly beautiful, but also wry reflection on the disastrous impact of climate change on traditionally living people in the Andes.
Pacifiction
Brooding anti-thriller about colonial bureaucracy and geopolitical power games on French Polynesian Tahiti. Film of the year according to Cahiers du Cinema.
Stars at Noon
A journalist stranded in Nicaragua flees into the arms of a mysterious Brit in this erotic drama by Claire Denis. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes.
The Quiet Girl
Tender drama based on a novella by Claire Keegan about the unexpectedly joyful summer of a neglected 10-year-old girl in rural Ireland in the early 1980s.
Mascarade
Comedic crime caper by Nicolas Bedos (La Belle Époque), set against the backdrop of the French Riviera; a sunny place for dark people.
Munch
Idiosyncratic portrait of artist Edvard Munch, focusing on the emotional world of the painter of The Scream. Opening film of IFFR earlier this year.
Un Petit Frère
Intimate and moving family chronicle about a single mother who moves to Paris from the Ivory Coast with her two young sons in the late 1980s.
Allelujah
Heart-warming British drama about a community united against the closure of the local hospital, starring Judi Dench, Derek Jacobi, and Jennifer Saunders.
Une belle course
Heart-warming drama about a 92-year-old woman who asks a taxi driver to drive her to some of the most momentous locations of her life.
Cesária Évora
Intimate documentary about a woman who grew up in an orphanage in Cape Verde and became a global star nicknamed the ‘barefoot diva’: singer Cesária Évora.
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
This documentary about legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog offers a kaleidoscopic picture of a radical visionary and dreamer.
Utama
Meditative and dazzlingly beautiful, but also wry reflection on the disastrous impact of climate change on traditionally living people in the Andes.
Pacifiction
Brooding anti-thriller about colonial bureaucracy and geopolitical power games on French Polynesian Tahiti. Film of the year according to Cahiers du Cinema.
De man uit Rome
The story of an investigative priest who is commissioned by the Vatican to investigate a weeping statue of the Virgin Mary in a village in Limburg.
Stars at Noon
A journalist stranded in Nicaragua flees into the arms of a mysterious Brit in this erotic drama by Claire Denis. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes.
Historias para no contar
Ensemble comedy by Cesc Gay – often called the Spanish Woody Allen – about the hilarious, painful, and extremely awkward curveballs life sometimes throws us.