FESTIVALS 01/25-02/05 : ROTTERDAM International Film Festival
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- DirectorJianjun HeStarsYuanzheng FengDanni LiangJue ChenXiao Dou "Feng Yuanzheng" is a shy and naive mail worker. When a coworker is fired for reading people's correspondences he takes over the same mail route. He soon finds himself in the same curiosity, eventually developing an obsession.1995
- DirectorShiori KazamaStarsAkiko ItôBang-ho ChoSeiichi TanabeThree young half brothers, Ichitaro, Takeshi and Tsuguo, are moving from a traditional Japanese house near a river to the suburbs. With little experience living together as a happy family, their relationship gradually transforms over the course of a week when their cousin Sakeko arrives to help them prepare to move. Although they had played together as children, the brothers are embarrassed by her presence at first. As the brothers and their cousin negotiate the delicate balance of emotions between them, the film ponders the differences between secret love, a passing emotion and new love.1995
- DirectorBogdan DreyerStarsSilvia GheorgheAlexandru CirsteaAlexandru AnghelA group of young boys, and one girl, find and steal a Jaguar convertible, and decide to drive to the sea. What starts out as a lark deteriorates into a rather grueling journey.1995
- DirectorYuan ZhangStarsDerong FuJi LiMaojie LiStory of a real family in Beijing. The father's drinking problem starts it all. The mother struggles to keep the family together till she cannot take it any more.1996
- DirectorRyosuke HashiguchiStarsYoshinori OkadaAyumi HamasakiKouji YamaguchiThe movie is built around the very complex relationships between Yoshida, leaving Shimizu for Aihara (or at least he tries to), and his friend Ito, whose love for Yoshida seems to have little chance for success. In the end we have a coalition of Ito and Aihara - who may or may not be in love with Ito - teaching Yoshida a lesson.1996
- DirectorGillies MacKinnonStarsIain RobertsonJoe McFaddenSteven DuffyGlaswegian teenager Lex is torn between the artistic life of middle brother Alan and the thuggish world of elder brother Bobby.1996
- DirectorAmir KarakulovStarsNatalya DolmatovaAnatoly GapchukShalva GogoladzeMay Day in Alma Ata, 1979. Valera, Karim and Jacob are a crew of hard-partying, drug-taking teenagers looking for kicks during their spring holiday, and they break into the bar at the Highland ice rink and steal an electric guitar. When Valera's dad finds the guitar, he turns his son over to the police, who brutalize him and leave him severely wounded on the outskirts of town. Karim and Jacob kill Valera's father, then hide their friend and do their best to keep him alive.1997
- DirectorHong Sang-sooStarsPark Choong-seonKim Eui-sungJo Eun SookAbout desires and lives of four characters in diverse circumstances. A poor novelist, a cheating wife, a mysophobic husband and a ticket girl.1997
- DirectorPatrick KeillerStarsPaul ScofieldRobinson is commissioned to investigate the unspecified "problem of England." The narrator describes his seven excursions, with the unseen Robinson, around the country. They mainly concentrate on ports, power stations, prisons, and manufacturing plants, but they also bring in various literary connections, as well as a few conventional landscapes.1997
- DirectorPetr ZelenkaStarsPavel ZajicekJan HaubertSeisuke TsukaharaTwist of fate and the twists of mind of the characters (mostly couples) combine in just the right twinkled absurd way in the interweaving episodes of this comedy. Each of the characters gets a good shot at being sarcastic and each is a sorry loser at some point yet none is turned into the butt of the joke. The place is Prague and the time is August 6th, 1995, except for one episode, set 50 years earlier in unflyable rain in the city of Kokura, Japan.1998
- DirectorGiuseppe M. GaudinoStarsOlimpia CarlisiTina FemianoSalvatore GrassoPozzuoli and its surroundings are places with an ancient and distant history. Thus we are reliving some dramatic episodes of an almost forgotten past: the matricide of Agrippina by Nero; the oracles of the Sibilla Cumana; the young Christian martyr Artema, killed by his classmates; Maria 'the crazy', a warrior heroine who saved the city from enemies. But next to the past is the present. In the early seventies, the phenomena of bradyseism flare up in the gulf. The Gioia family, which lives on fishing, is forced to leave the house several times because of the risk of a sudden landslide. Repeated moves lead to the progressive disintegration of the family unit. The difficult relationships sentimental of the children, the opposition to the public force that orders the eviction, the death of the father are so many stages that mark painful generational and existential passages.1998
- DirectorStefan RuzowitzkyStarsSimon SchwarzSophie RoisLars RudolphAustria, a little farming valley. Beginning of the century. When one of the farmers is found murdered one day, his labourers know of nothing, but are relieved, as the tyranny has ended. Then, something new happens for the first time in history: The farm workers inherit the whole farm together, as the farmer himself was childless. Now, conflicts come up, as nobody is the boss and nobody has to obey.1998
- DirectorAleksandr BashirovStarsAleksandr BashirovSergei DyachkovEvgeniy FyodorovNikolai Petrovich comes to St. Petersburg to organize a revolution against the oligarchy.1999
- DirectorLaurent AchardStarsMartin MihelichLaetitia LegrixMireille RousselA young woman's return home brings up troubles from the past, while her teenage sister is anxious for the future.1999
- DirectorChristopher NolanStarsJeremy TheobaldAlex HawLucy RussellA young writer who follows strangers for material meets a thief who takes him under his wing.1999
- DirectorYe LouStarsXun ZhouHongsheng JiaZhongkai HuaAfter getting out of prison, small-time crook Mardar stumbles upon a woman who looks exactly like his long-lost lover.2000
- DirectorPablo TraperoStarsLuis MarganiDaniel ValenzuelaAdriana AizembergThe portrait of a man and his attempts to make things up with life after losing his job.2000
- DirectorKatrin OttarsdóttirStarsHildigunn EyðfinsdóttirSigri Mitra GaïniJohan DalsgaardAfter having lived for a number of year's abroad, the two friends Rannvá and Barba return for a visit to their native country, the Faroe Islands. They feel that they have outgrown the small island community, present themselves in outrageous colourful clothing and with a superior attitude to all things Faroes. The real purpose of their visit is to solve unfinished family matters, but they soon loose the grip, and find themselves fleeing the answers they came looking for. The girls are "rescued" by Rúni, a local fisherman, who gives them a lift in his old Ford Granada, decorated with zebra covers, flower lights and a stuffed crocodile in the back. On their journey up north they meet, among others, a fallen rock-singer, missionary grandparents, thirsty wedding guests and a Jesus wannabe. Rúni is constantly running errands, there is always someone he has to meet. Who is this silent, shy man? What is his curious business? And why does he get more bruised after each errand? The short route north develops into a long roundabout, across the islands. Skeletons start popping out of the closet. This is a film about hypocrisy, broken dreams, unfortunate fate, and finding oneself. The story is told with a mixture of sadness and satirical humour, just like life so often presents itself.2000
- DirectorTomoyuki FurumayaStarsYamato OkitsuRyôsuke TakahashiYuta NakajimaAmidst a tale of friendship a high-school student rebels against an authoritarian and stern education system represented by a teacher whose discipline is to be taken unquestioningly. There is a moral choice to be made. Who will you support, the system or the student?2001
- DirectorMaria SpethStarsSabine TimoteoHiroki ManoFlorian Müller-MohrungenLynn (22) lives with her brother in Berlin. There she enjoys the advantages of family life, without really feeling involved in it. She does not have any precise aim in life, but manages to awaken the interest of many people with her direct and spontaneous character. Her boyfriend David is very different: he is entirely engrossed in his very disciplined swimming training for the world championships. David does not intend to allow himself to be distracted by the complicating factors of a relationship with Lynn. When Lynn, working behind the till of restaurant, meets the Japanese student Koji, everything gets more complicated. They can't exchange many words, but it is soon clear that their moments together mean a lot to both of them.2001
- DirectorJuan Pablo RebellaPablo StollStarsDaniel HendlerJorge TemponiAlfonso Tort24 hours in the life of three street youths in Montevideo.2001
- DirectorEugenie JansenStarsJohn Kon KeleiJan MunterWillem SmitStory about a friendship between two lonely, opposite souls. One is a 81-year-old grumpy widower and the other an insecure eighteen-year-old refugee from Sudan.2002
- DirectorSinisa DraginStarsDan ConduracheAna CionteaHoratiu MalaeleDumitru is a two-faceted killer: he kills animals and called a hunter, and kills people, and branded as an assassin. Dumitru is just out of prison, for the first time since the fall of communism. Even on the train taking him home, he is planning to return to his past practices as he is involved in a blood thirsty card game with some gypsies. The game turns out badly, and one of those making up the table is killed. He starts on a flight again, this time, bound for his home town, where he finds his wife pregnant by his own brother. Blind with a thirst for vengeance, Dumitru commits one more murder that unleashes a sequence of new crimes and makes him into a wanted serial killer. Life becomes a burden that is too heavy for Dumitru who decides to abbreviate his existence. However, he soon discovers he does not hold all power over himself. God has other plans for him and condemns to him to stay alive.2002
- DirectorBohdan SlámaStarsZdenek RauserTatiana DykováMarek DanielA portrait of a small Moravian village and its quirky inhabitants.2002
- DirectorLarisa SadilovaStarsMarina ZubanovaYuliya NovikovaValentina Berezutskaya2003
- DirectorSantiago LozaStarsJulio ChávezValeria BertuccelliRaquel AlbénizThe protagonist is Axel, aged about 40, a doctor who no longer practices his craft. He is living temporarily with his sister and her children. He doesn't do much, just exists a little between the living and their things. One day, he meets a young, pregnant woman. A relationship develops, a kind of love, and they live together, like driftwood temporarily clinging on to each other.2003
- DirectorChan-ok ParkStarsPark Hae-ilBae Jong-okMoon Sung-KeunThis award winning debut film from director Park chan-ok tells the story of a young graduate student who takes a job under false pretenses in order to get close to an editor at a magazine. The editor takes advantage of his passive ways and makes him do things for him excessively. Later, the graduate student's girlfriend begins working at the same magazine and begins to get to know the editor. It's here that this story steps off the beaten path...2003
- DirectorKang-sheng LeeStarsYi-ching LuChieh ChangMiao TienA grandmother is looking for her grandson, a teenager for his grandfather.2004
- DirectorSrdjan VuleticStarsHaris SijaricSvetozar CvetkovicKemal CeboIn a postwar Sarajevo, a young boy is trying to repay debt of his deceased father in a special Bosnian way.2004
- DirectorJan KrügerStarsAnabelle LachatteFlorian PanznerMartin KieferA slightly sinister but charming young man falls in with a young mother and daughter and her boyfriend on a camping holiday and leads them astray.2004
- DirectorDaniele GaglianoneStarsMauro CordellaFabrizio NicastroGiuseppe Sanna2005
- DirectorIlya KhrzhanovskiyStarsYuriy LagutaMarina VovchenkoSergey ShnurovTwo men and a woman happen to meet in a bar. We learn from their conversations both the intriguing and banal details of their lives. But is anyone really telling the truth? From the meat market, to the president's drinking habit or the soviet cloning project, this allegory opposes different aspects of contemporary Russian society.2005
- DirectorMercedes ÁlvarezStarsPeio AzketaHicham ChateCirilo FernándezOne year in the life of a tiny village in northern Spain.2005
- DirectorJie HanStarsPeijiang BaiQiang GuoJing HouA drama centered on a youth gang in a coal mining area of China's Shanxi province.2006
- DirectorManolo NietoStarsPablo RieraMartín AdjemiánMaría Sofía DabarcaDavid, has just failed his university examinations and has one year to re-write them. Ruben, his father, a pragmatic and successful businessman, has been paying for David's education, the pursuit of which he considers a waste of time. Ruben wants David to work and make himself useful and he strikes a deal with him: David can stay and study for his exams at Ruben's house in La Perrera, a coastal resort town, while he builds a house for himself. And so, a year-long adventure starts for David, an urban intellectual, in the isolated La Perrera and among its off-season residents who include nearly as many dogs as men, where the only women are either pregnant or prostitutes, and where no one wants to work and things are done out of friendship more than anything else.2006
- DirectorKelly ReichardtStarsDaniel LondonWill OldhamTanya SmithTwo old pals reunite for a camping trip in Oregon's Cascade Mountains.2006
- DirectorChui Mui TanStarsCoral OngStephen ChuaHo Chi LaiPing leaves her hometown for Kuala Lumper to work with her aunt. During the counteless days of boredom, her niece shares with her conversations with a pen pal during the day, while a young man named John tries to woo her at night even though she already has a boyfriend back home. Although they already set the rules from the every beginning, her belief that love conquers all still slowly strips off all her inhibitions. With authentic and relatable characters, TAN Chui-mui's debut feature was a winner at numerous film festival. There are a thousand ways for love story to be a cliché, but this film is the one that remains true and captivating.2007
- DirectorPia MaraisStarsCeci ChuhBirol ÜnelPascale Schiller2007
- DirectorCláudio AssisStarsFernando TeixeiraCaio BlatMatheus NachtergaeleA man gets obsessed by a teenage girl, who is exploited by her own grandfather, who sometimes takes her to a gas station to show her naked to whomever pays him some money.2007
- DirectorOmar ShargawiStarsElias Samir Al-SobehiKhalid AlssubeihiSalah El KoussaAn Arabic tale that takes place in Copenhagen, Denmark. About ancient religious hatred, about love, punishment, guilt and redemption, about being responsible for one's own actions and refusing a path of violence. Jamil stands in the middle. He is fighting the war of his life; a war within himself.2008
- DirectorAditya AssaratStarsAnchalee SaisoontornSupphasit KansenDul YaambunyingAfter the tsunami struck the coast town of Takua Pa, young architect Ton moves in town to develop a construction project and settles in a small hotel run by Na, a young sensitive local girl. They begin a secret love affair, but soon rumors spread and they meet with strong opposition from the town's residents.2008
- DirectorSeng Tat LiewStarsZi Jiang WongMing Wei LimJames LeeTwo boys, Li Ahh and Li Ohm, grow up motherless. Their father, Sui, is a workaholic who shuts himself out of the world. The boys' quest to reach out to their father leads them to adopt a puppy. But when the animal is sent away for being a nuisance, the boys are devastated. For the first time, Sui realizes that all his children ask is simply to love and be loved.2008
- DirectorRamtin LavafipourStarsOmid AbdollahiHedayat HashemiOn an island in the south of Iran, the lives of several people are unintentionally tied to each other: the father of a thirteen-year old boy named Moto has smuggled few people out of Iran, and has not yet returned home; Moto, involved in goods smuggling, is looking for signs of his father; another, a man who is an intermediary in goods smuggling has a wife and child living in Tehran. The man is not satisfied with wife's intention for emigrating abroad, and feels helpless as he is losing his last hope for a better life. And, finally, a bride, whose groom has left her on the first night of their marriage2009
- DirectorYang Ik-joonStarsKim KkobbiHwan LeeYang Ik-joonA bitter loan shark strikes a friendship with a troubled schoolgirl as he faces his own troubled past with his abusive father.2009
- DirectorMahmut Fazil CoskunStarsNadir SaribacakGörkem YeltanMurat ErgunMuezzin Musa falls for his neighbor, the Catholic nurse Clara. The story gets even more exceptional when Musa meets Yakup, who turns out to be connected with Clara.2009
- DirectorPaz FábregaStarsMonserrat FernándezLil Quesada MorúaLuis Carlos BogantesOn New Year's holidays, Mariana (21) and Rodrigo (30) drive to the coast where he has to sell a property. There, they find Karina (7), late at night and in the middle of nowhere. She tells then she ran away from home.2010
- DirectorPedro González-RubioStarsJorge MachadoRoberta PalombiniNatan Machado PalombiniBefore their inevitable farewell, Jorge, a young man of Mayan roots, and Natan, his half-Italian son, spend time together living off the Banco Chinchorro coral reef.2010
- DirectorAnocha SuwichakornpongStarsArkaney CherkamParamej NoiamAnchana PonpitakthepkijExplores the relationship between Ake, a young man who is paralyzed from the waist down after an accident, and Pun, the male nurse who takes care of him, and of course Ake's father. Ake is at first cold towards his nurse Pun, but as Pun continues to earnestly take care of him he starts to open up his heart through candid conversations. The physical contact with Pun makes him rethink physical desires that he wants to forget. The grudge he held against his father slowly abates. All of this slowly becomes the motivating factor to confirm that he is alive, albeit with physical problems.2010
- DirectorPark Jung-bumStarsPark Jung-bumJin Yong-wookEunjin KangJeon Seungchul's citizen registration number brands him as a North Korean defector. It is difficult to find a good job and it's hard to get along with people at church. He is not an ex-convict or a migrant worker, but he is subjected to many discriminations. Like the stray dog he looks after, Jeon Seungchul is a misfit in South Korea's capitalist society.2011
- DirectorSergio CaballeroStarsPau NubiolaSanti SerraPavel LukiyanovTwo ghosts walk along the Camino of Santiago.2011
- DirectorSivaroj KongsakulStarsPattraporn JaturanrassmeeWanlop RungkumjadNamfon UdomlertlakThe sort of love story that can only be believed in Thailand. A man returns after his death to the landscape of his youth and relives the love that was meant for eternity. Even if you don't believe in reincarnation, it's a meditative and above all beautiful film.2011
- DirectorMaja MilosStarsIsidora SimijonovicVukasin JasnicSanja MikitisinIn the face of her family life falling to pieces, a social-media-obsessed teenage girl falls into a hedonistic world of sex, drugs, and abuse.2012
- DirectorDominga SotomayorStarsSanti AhumadaFrancisco Pérez-BannenPaola GianniniA family takes a short vacation, while the daughter of the family gradually discovers that her parents could be separating.2012
- DirectorJi HuangStarsYixiang HuangXiaolin LiuPingao XiaoSet in her home village in rural Hunan province, Egg and Stone is a powerful autobiographical portrait of a 14-year-old girl's attempts to come to terms with her emerging sexual maturity.2012
- DirectorMira FornayStarsIrena BendováPatrik CzanikLadislav DirdaIn the absence of a true family, a young skinhead lets his life revolve around his cherished pit bull dog.2013
- DirectorDaniel HoeslStarsJohanna Orsini-RosenbergChristina ReichsthalerJosef KleindienstFanni has had enough of money and Anna has had enough of pigs. Fanni leaves the city and her pearls behind, while Anna is stuck wearing muddy overalls. When they finally cross paths, they embark on a punk adventure towards Marxist liberty.2013
- DirectorMohammad ShirvaniStarsLevon HaftvanNavid MohammadzadehMaryam PalizbanAn illustration of gradual destruction of an urban monster.2013
- DirectorAkira IkedaStarsKazutoshi KatoKeisuke NishiyamaShû OnoGawkish Kogure passively allows himself to be cursed by the boss of the paperclip factory where he works as a paperclip bender. One day, he finds a butterfly in his small flat and he allows the insect to fly to freedom. On another day, he finds a trespassing woman speaking strangely in his flat. He lets her stay, just like her father who turns up. In Kogure's imagination, the woman is a transformation of the butterfly and he allows a series of things to happen because of it.2014
- DirectorEster Martin BergsmarkStarsSaga BeckerIggy MalmborgShima NiavaraniA gritty story taking place in Stockholm, about the passionate love between the self-abusive Sebastian who wants to be a woman, and the easy-going Andreas who is certainly not gay.2014
- DirectorLee Su-jinStarsChun Woo-heeJung In-sunKim So-youngHan Gong-Ju transfers to a new school to escape her past. It takes a long time for her troubled past to catch up with her but when it does, the revelation is devastating.2014
- DirectorCarlos QuintelaStarsMario BalmasedaMario GuerraLeonardo GascónIn an abandoned nuclear project conceived by Cuba and the USSR, a disillusioned engineer survives with his mean father and his frustrated son, while 1970s found footage of the "project of the century" describe its ambitious scope.2015
- DirectorJuan Daniel F. MoleroStarsMuki SabogalTeromLiliana AlbornozA teenage misfit spends her first days out of school slacking and experimenting with drugs and cybersex. She meets Junior online, he's an amateur porn dealer on a delusional journey regarding the Mayan Apocalypse and other conspiracy theories. Once they meet in the 'real world' unusual events start to unfold as bizarre characters appear in this contemporary non-love story that portrays a post-modern Lima, an internet glitchy virus, corruption, psychedelia and ancient ruins.2015
- DirectorJakrawal NilthamrongStarsOngart CheamcharoenpornkulDrunphob SuriyawongChalee ChoueyaiThe story of two very different men, a horrific car accident, and a crime committed deep in the woods. Various facts and stories are cautiously presented, but the pieces of the puzzle don't fall into place straight away.2015
- DirectorBabak JalaliStarsLars UlrichBella WardaLarry LavertyA brilliant and misunderstood Iranian writer struggles to pursue his ambitious goal of bringing together Metallica and Kabul Dreams, Afghanistan's first rock band.2016
- DirectorSanal Kumar SasidharanStarsRajshri DeshpandeSujith KoyickalBilas Chandrahasan NairDurga, a north Indian migrant and a Keralite youth named Kabeer are running away on a midnight. The hapless Durga encounters a cross section of the society through the rest of the night.2017
- DirectorChengjie CaiStarsWang QilinTian TianWen XinyuAfter losing her house and husband, a rural woman leads a stranded life with her 10-year-old brother-in-law in a modified "recreational vehicle". To find a warm place to survive the cold winter, she pretends to be a shaman who can rid villagers of evil spirits, and ironically, her juggled deceits often become real. However, she soon loses her power to people's greed and apathy, and in meagre attempts of salvation, her life story eventually ends in tragedy and disillusion.2018
- DirectorShengze ZhuMillions of Chinese people engage in live-streaming. Those whose poverty, physical limitations or sex prevent them from taking part in the real world find human contact here; fragments of lives that are interwoven with virtual showrooms.2019
- DirectorXinyuan Zheng LuStarsZhou ChenYe HongmingJin JingZhao Muzi went back to her hometown Hangzhou for spring festival. Her parents divorced years ago, her mother is dating a foreigner now while her father started a new family and had a new kid.2020
- DirectorP.S. VinothrajStarsChellapandiKaruththadaiyaanPhilip ArulodssA young boy travels with his violent and alcoholic father to bring back his mother, who has run away from home due to his abuse.2021
- 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.2022
- DirectorCyrielle RaingouStarsFalta SouleymaneIbrahim AlilouMohamed AlilouA clear-eyed look at how everyday life and the accompanying humdrum tasks go on despite the threat of violence at any moment.2023
- DirectorToshihiko TanakaStarsTakara SuzukiToshihiko TanakaMaeko ÔyamaHikari encounters deaf landscape photographer Masato and embarks on a journey that will transform her sense of being.2024