IFFR 2023
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1. Polako nikuda (2023)
72 min | Drama
The characters in this dreamy, experimental love story, live ten years in the future, but are nostalgic and seem born in the wrong time. Film student Oleg leads a spartan life and surrounds... See full summary »
Director: Damir Cucic | Stars: Katarina Arbanas, Jura Ruza, Eva Magdic Govedarica, Bojan Peric
Votes: 12
01 - 28 jan
2. Encountered on Saffron Agenda? (2009)
90 min | Documentary
Film investigate four encounter killings happened in Indian state of Gujarat.
Director: Shubhradeep Chakravorty
02 - 28 jan
3. Croma Kid (2023)
92 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Emi must deal with the disappearance of his parents into another dimension after a magic trick spirals out of control.
Director: Pablo Chea | Stars: CJ Báez, Nashla Bogaert, David Maler, Jaime Pina
Votes: 31
03 - 29 jan
4. Orphea in Love (2022)
109 min | Fantasy, Music, Romance
Nele is a talented young opera singer from Estonia, who works at a call center. When she meets Kolya, a young, deaf criminal from the streets, the two instantly fall in love. But when ... See full summary »
Director: Axel Ranisch | Stars: Guido Badalamenti, Christina Große, Ursina Lardi, Mirjam Mesak
Votes: 76
04 - 29 jan
5. Wu di si ke te (2023)
85 min
A small-town boy finds salvation in "gaga dance", a freestyle flooding real streets and viral streams.
Director: Yuhan Teng | Stars: Jiannan Qiao, Mengli Zhu, Kennedy, Xueqing Cai
Votes: 12
Gagaland
6. Moha (2023)
103 min | Drama
The deliberately slender storyline involves a spiritual male hermit, a female nymph who tempts him into secular ways of the flesh, and a rival lover.
Director: Santosh Sivan | Stars: Jaaved Jaaferi, Shaylea K
Votes: 9
7. La empresa (2023)
94 min | Documentary
In search of a story, a German film crew ends up in El Alberto, Mexico, where villagers re-enact illegal border crossings to the USA based on the experiences of the locals.
Director: André Siegers | Stars: Ernesto Oliva, Miguel Barrera, Antonio Barrera, Yvonne Bernal
Votes: 5
8. 100 årstider (2023)
104 min | Drama
Two dancers, once lovers, now go about their separate lives. Giovanni can't help reliving his first love via a collection of home videos. Louise, now a director, is projecting her bad memories on her production of Romeo and Juliet.
Director: Giovanni Bucchieri | Stars: Giovanni Bucchieri, Louise Peterhoff, Karin Franz Körlof, David Lagerqvist
Votes: 75
9. Nummer achttien (2023)
91 min
Nummer achttien is structured as a series of movements: it departs from the classical documentary to present us with a series of vignettes that combine past and present, existentialist ... See full summary »
Director: Guido van der Werve | Stars: Guido van der Werve, Johanna Ketola, Suze van Oort, Mats Bakker
Votes: 39
10. One Last Evening (2023)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
A group of friends getting together for one couple's farewell party while eyeing each other's achievements.
Director: Lukas Nathrath | Stars: Sebastian Jakob Doppelbauer, Pauline Werner, Susanne Dorothea Schneider, Nikolai Gemel
Votes: 313
11. Hand (2022)
99 min | Drama
Sawako's scrapbook details her teenage fascination with older men. At 20, still home, relationship with former co-worker Mori triggers sexual, emotional awakening and newfound self-assurance.
Director: Daigo Matsui | Stars: Akari Fukunaga, Akio Kaneda, Daichi Kaneko, Natsuko Obuchi
Votes: 134
12. Love According to Dalva (2022)
83 min | Drama
Dalva is 12, but she dresses and lives like a woman. One day, she's taken away from her house. Dumbfounded at first, she later meets Jayden, a social worker, and Samia, a teen with a temper. A new life seems to start for Dalva.
Director: Emmanuelle Nicot | Stars: Zelda Samson, Alexis Manenti, Fanta Guirassy, Marie Denarnaud
Votes: 1,691
13. The Other Shape (2022)
99 min | Animation
A dialogue-free futuristic film, an intriguing trip through a hallucinatory world.
Director: Diego Felipe Guzman | Stars: Jessica Herrera, Fabian Blanco, Sergio Borbosa
Votes: 127
14. Faces of Anne (2022)
116 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
It is about a woman with memory loss faced with the challenge of survival on a mysterious island.
Directors: Kongdej Jaturanrasamee, Rasiguet Sookkarn | Stars: Jennis Oprasert, Praewa Suthamphong, Phantira Pipityakorn, Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying
Votes: 540
15. Chii Tomodachi (2022)
80 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
A friendly vampire girl goes to school and meets humans, who together open a blood donation club.
Director: Mamoru Oshii | Stars: Nina Hillman, Nazuki Amano, Mikoto Hibi, Toshio Kakei
Votes: 29
05 - 29 jan
16. Little Dixie (2023)
R | 105 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Doc, a former special forces operative, facilitates a fragile truce in secrecy between the state governor and a Mexican drug cartel. But when it breaks down, the cartel's hatchet man sets his vengeful sights on Doc's daughter.
Director: John Swab | Stars: Frank Grillo, Eric Dane, Beau Knapp, Annabeth Gish
Votes: 1,590
17. Liu ma gou shi wu hao (2022)
102 min | Drama, History
It tells the story of a group of female thought criminals who were taught by the freshmen of Ludao during the white terror period in Taiwan in the 1950s.
Director: Zero Chou | Stars: Pei-Jen Yu, Cindy Yu-Han Lien, Herb Hsu, Tau Hsu
Votes: 210
18. Odin malenkiy nochnoy sekret (2023)
90 min | Drama
Fourteen-year-old Mira wants to spend New Year's Eve with her friend Lera. Initially, her stepfather disagrees. But, after a tense family dinner, she is given permission.
Director: Nataliya Meshchaninova | Stars: Aleksandra Abrameytseva, Anastasiia Artamonova, Stepan Devonin, Taisya Kalinina
Votes: 50
19. Notes on a Summer (2023)
83 min | Drama, Romance
Young academic who leaves routines, obligations and her boyfriend back in Madrid for a carefree summer in her hometown on Gijón, in the Atlantic coast.
Director: Diego Llorente | Stars: Katia Borlado, Antonio Araque, Álvaro Quintana, Rocío Suárez
Votes: 82
20. Outsider Girls (2023)
80 min | Comedy, Drama
University student Rafaela's carefree life is shaken when she falls pregnant. Desperate to get an abortion in a country where doing so could land her in jail and unable to fund one illegally, she teams up with her best friend Gabriela.
Director: Alexandra Hyland | Stars: Nicole Sazo, Alicia Rodríguez, Sebastián Ayala, María Paz Grandjean
Votes: 21
21. Lockdown Tower (2022)
89 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
The inhabitants of a high-rise building wake up one morning to discover that their building is shrouded in an opaque fog, obstructing doors and windows - a strange black matter that devours anything that tries to pass through it.
Director: Guillaume Nicloux | Stars: Angèle Mac, Hatik, Ahmed Abdel Laoui, Kylian Larmonie
Votes: 934
22. The Boys (2022)
124 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A story about an investigating team leader, Hwang Joon-cheol, in charge of investigating boys who are suspected of robbery at the local town's supermarket, 'Woori Super'.
Directors: Chung Ji-young, Jeong Ji-yeong | Stars: Seol Kyung-gu, Jun-sang Yu, Yoon Byung-hee, Lee Do-Goon
Votes: 81
23. Alien Food (2023)
108 min | Drama
Who are we - when nobody is watching? What are our fantasies and phobias - if we don't share them? After many years in a protected psychiatric community, Alberto (40) comes to stay with ... See full summary »
Director: Giorgio Cugno | Stars: Gianpiero Abate, Simonetta Ainardi, Marco Anello, Elias Archillia
Votes: 17
24. Mother and Son (2022)
116 min | Drama
In the late 1980s, Rose moves from the Ivory Coast to Paris with her two young sons. Spanning 20 years from their arrival in France to the present day, the film is the moving chronicle of the construction and deconstruction of a family.
Director: Léonor Serraille | Stars: Annabelle Lengronne, Stéphane Bak, Kenzo Sambin, Ahmed Sylla
Votes: 448
25. Nostalgia (I) (2022)
Unrated | 117 min | Drama
After 40 years of absence, Felice returns to his hometown: Naples. He rediscovers the places, the codes of the city and a past that eats away at him.
Director: Mario Martone | Stars: Pierfrancesco Favino, Francesco Di Leva, Tommaso Ragno, Aurora Quattrocchi
Votes: 3,306
26. Like & Share (2022)
TV-MA | 112 min | Drama
Two best friends who create ASMR content together discover a world of personal exploration that leads them both toward harrowing outcomes.
Director: Gina S. Noer | Stars: Aurora Ribero, Arawinda Kirana, Jerome Kurnia, Aulia Sarah
Votes: 1,257
27. Jeune cinéma (2023)
84 min | Documentary, History
From 1965 to 1983, Hyères hosted the Festival International du Jeune Cinéma. Archival materials, unfold a dazzling fresco of splendors and miseries, with stars and nobodies, while the main event loses itself in, and to the zeitgeist.
Director: Yves-Marie Mahé | Stars: Chantal Akerman, Theodoros Angelopoulos, Pierre Barouh, Jean-Louis Bory
Votes: 8
28. Goodbye Stranger (2023)
82 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
An all-too-ambitious playlist curator at a major music streaming company finds himself on a soul-searching summer day's odyssey across his adopted Amsterdam.
Director: Aaron Rookus | Stars: Martijn Lakemeier, Claire Bender, Flip Zuijderland, Hanneke van der Paardt
Votes: 278
29. Blue Jean (2022)
97 min | Drama, History
In 1988, a closeted teacher is pushed to the brink when a new student threatens to expose her sexuality.
Director: Georgia Oakley | Stars: Rosy McEwen, Kerrie Hayes, Lucy Halliday, Lydia Page
Votes: 4,781
30. The Blue Caftan (2022)
122 min | Drama, Romance
A middle-aged tailor and his wife find their relationship challenged by the arrival of a handsome new apprentice.
Director: Maryam Touzani | Stars: Lubna Azabal, Saleh Bakri, Ayoub Missioui, Mounia Lamkimel
Votes: 5,140
31. Before We Collapse (2023)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
Tristan, campaign manager for a legislative candidate, is shocked by an anonymous letter containing a positive pregnancy test.
Directors: Benoît Volnais, Alice Zeniter | Stars: Niels Schneider, Ariane Labed, Souheila Yacoub, Myriem Akheddiou
Votes: 84
32. Vildanden (2023)
80 min | Drama
Summer, 1884. Hedvig lives with her elder sister and brother in a run down house on the Swedish island of Gotland. Her siblings are running a photography business that they barely can make ... See full summary »
Director: Nadja Ericsson | Stars: Hedda Hultman, Julia Sjölin, Eugene Sundelius von Rosen, Karin Lindstén
33. Mascotte (2023)
99 min | Drama
A family's stability is shaken by the teenage son's drift towards extremism
Director: Remy van Heugten | Stars: Joes Brauers, Geert Van Rampelberg, Leopold Witte, Lieke van den Broek
Votes: 87
34. Ghost in the Mountains (2017)
136 min | Drama
A man drifts into a ghost town and gets caught up in its corruption, set against the backdrop of the Hunan Province landscape.
Director: Heng Yang | Stars: Tang Shenggang, Liang Yu
Votes: 50
should be "Silent Ghosts (2022)" aka Oscar for slowest movie EVERRRRRRR
35. Superposition (2023)
105 min | Drama, Thriller
The creative couple Stine and Teit and their young son Nemo leave their urban life in Copenhagen behind in favour of an isolated forest in Sweden, where they hope to find themselves as individuals.
Director: Karoline Lyngbye | Stars: Marie Bach Hansen, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Mihlo Olsen
Votes: 738
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