This yr’s Worldwide Movie Competition Rotterdam (IFFR) has unveiled the 16 movies chosen for its flagship Tiger Competitors. Scroll down for the total checklist.
As all the time, the competitors choice is a world affair, with options from Sweeden to Sri Lanka. The 2023 jury will grant three prizes: the Tiger Award (price €40,000), plus two particular jury awards (€10,000 apiece). On the jury are: Alonso Díaz de la Vega, Anisia Uzeyman, Christine Vachon, Lav Diaz, and Sabrina Baracetti.
Working from January 25 to February 5, the fest is about to return for its first full-scale bodily version because the pandemic. The occasion will open with Munch, an experimental characteristic biopic of the Norwegian expressionist painter Edvard Munch by Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken (Returning House).
The honorary Robby Müller Award will go to French cinematographer Hélène Louvart. Louvart is greatest identified for her work with Claire Denis, together with the 1999 basic Beau Travail. Louvart has additionally labored with administrators comparable to Wim Wenders, Agnès Varda, and Alice Rohrwacher.
Talking on Louvart, the Robby Muller Award Jury mentioned: “In most of Hélène Louvart’s movies, her signature is straight away recognizable from the primary body. Hélène Louvart’s gaze unfolds as a steady course of, as a pure motion between creation and evaporation. Her photographs are in accordance with the rhythm of pure respiratory as if filmed from inside and cross the border between canvas and viewer.”
As beforehand introduced, the competition can even current British artist-filmmaker Sir Steve McQueen’s newest set up work Sunshine State. The art work was commissioned by IFFR in collaboration with the Kunsthal Rotterdam.
At the moment, the competition additionally confirmed the line-ups for its Huge Display screen Competitors, which goals to bridge the hole between in style and arthouse cinema. Titles chosen vary from Indian to Denmark. The profitable movie within the sidebar receives a assured theatrical launch within the Netherlands and shall be broadcast on Dutch TV by VPRO and NPO. As well as, a €30,000 prize is awarded, equally shared between the filmmaker and the distributor who releases the movie. The Tiger Brief Competitors was additionally unveiled.
“In shaping this yr’s program we keep dedicated to the trail we set out for ourselves: celebrating nice cinema in all its splendor and to look the place others don’t look,” competition director Vanja Kaludjercic mentioned.
“Our total program, filled with surprises, is a testomony to that. Along with these movie cultures which historically are strongly current at IFFR, this yr’s Tiger Competitors, Huge Display screen Competitors, and Ammodo Tiger Brief Competitors, develop to movies from Sri Lanka, Cameroon, Ukraine, the Dominican Republic, Morocco, and Taiwan to call only a few. From outstanding débuts to cinematic grand masters and our specially-commissioned Steve McQueen art work, it’s our true pleasure to share IFFR 2023’s wildly assorted lineup.”
Tiger Competitors 2023 choice
100 årstider, Giovanni Bucchieri, 2022, Sweden, world premiere
Gagaland, Teng Yuhan, 2023, China, world premiere
Geology of Separation, Yosr Gasmi, Mauro Mazzocchi, 2023, Tunisia, Italy, France, world premiere
Indivision, Leïla Kilani, 2023, Morocco, France, world premiere
Letzter Abend, Lukas Nathrath, 2023, Germany, world premiere
Mannvirki, Gústav Geir Bollason, 2023, Iceland, France, world premiere
Munnel, Visakesa Chandrasekaram, 2023, Sri Lanka, world premiere
New Strains, Artemis Shaw, Prashanth Kamalakanthan, 2023, United States, world premiere
Notas sobre un verano, Diego Llorente, 2023, Spain, world premiere
Numb, Amir Toodehroosta, 2023, Iran, world premiere
Nummer achttien, Guido van der Werve, 2022, Netherlands, world premiere
La Palisiada, Philip Sotnychenko, 2023, Ukraine, world premiere
Playland, Georden West, 2023, United States, world premiere
Le spectre de Boko Haram, Cyrielle Raingou, 2023, Cameroon, France, world premiere
Thiiird, Karim Kassem, 2023, Lebanon, world premiere
three sparks, Naomi Uman, 2023, Albania, Mexico, world premiere
Huge Display screen Competitors 2023 choice
Avant l’effondrement, Alice Zeniter, Benoît Volnais, 2023, France, world premiere
Earlier than the Buzzards Arrive, Jonás N. Díaz, 2023, Mexico, world premiere
Copenhagen Does Not Exist, Martin Skovbjerg, 2023, Denmark, world premiere
Drawing Tons, Zaza Khalvashi, Tamta Khalvashi , 2023, Georgia, world premiere
Limitless Borders, Abbas Amini, 2023, Czech Republic, Germany, Iran , world premiere
Le formiche di Mida, Edgar Honetschläger, 2023, Austria, Italy, world premiere
4 Little Adults, Selma Vilhunen, 2023, Finland, world premiere
La hembrita, Laura Amelia Guzmán Conde, 2023, Dominican Republic, world premiere
Joram, Devashish Makhija, 2022, India, world premiere
Luka, Jessica Woodworth, 2023, Belgium, Italy, Netherlands, Bulgaria, Armenia, world premiere
My Little Nighttime Secret, Natalya Meshchaninova, 2023, Russia, world premiere
Não Sou Nada – The Nothingness Membership, Edgar Pêra, 2023, Portugal, world premiere
Okiku and the World, Sakamoto Junji, 2023, Japan, world premiere
One Win, Shin Yeon-Shick, 2023, South Korea, world premiere
La Sudestada, Daniel Casabé, Edgardo Dieleke, 2022, Argentina, world premiere
Voyages en Italie, Sophie Letourneur, 2023, France, world premiere
Ammodo Tiger Brief Competitors 2023 choice
Aqueronte, Manuel Muñoz Rivas, 2023, Spain, world premiere
Blinded by Centuries, Parinda Mai, 2023, Thailand, United States, world premiere
Supply Dancer’s Sphere, Kim Ayoung, 2023, South Korea, world premiere (competition)
Fälle, Mischa Hedinger, Michela Flück, 2023, Switzerland, world premiere
From Voice to Pulse, Zeno van den Broek, 2023, Netherlands, world premiere
La Grande Arche, Camille Authouart, 2023, France, world premiere
I Can See the Solar however I Can’t Really feel It But, Joseph Wilson, 2023, United Kingdom, world premiere
Final Days of Summer season, Stenzin Tankong, 2023, India, France, world premiere
Mild of Mild, Neritan Zinxhiria, 2023, Greece, world premiere
Natureza humana, Mónica Lima, 2023, Portugal, Germany, world premiere
By no means Come Again, Assaf Gruber, 2023, Austria, world premiere (competition)
Pátio do Carrasco, André Gil Mata, 2023, Portugal, world premiere
Phalène, Sarah-Anaïs Desbenoit, 2023, France, world premiere
Pure Land, Tenzin Phuntsog, 2022, United States, world premiere (competition)
Night time and Worry, Lipika Singh Darai, 2023, India, world premiere
Remendo, Roger Ghil, 2023, Brazil, world premiere
Repetitions, Morgan Alaric Quaintance, 2023, United Kingdom, world premiere
Shabnam, Reetu Sattar, 2023, Bangladesh, world premiere
Pores and skin within the Crosswinds, Andrew Rubin, 2023, United States, world premiere
Sq. the Circle, Hanna Hovitie, 2023, Finland, world premiere (competition)
Theta, Lawrence Lek, 2023, United Kingdom, world premiere (competition)
Tito, Kerven Jimenez, Taylor McIntosh, 2023, Haiti, world premiere
What the Soil Remembers, José Cardoso, 2023, South Africa, Ecuador, world premiere
Zabriskie Level, Cho Seoungho, 2023, United States, world premiere
