Still: Manta Ray
International Film Festival Rotterdam
23 january- 3 february 2019
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) reveals the complete selection of feature films in its Bright Future section, the festival’s home for upcoming filmmakers with their own style and vision. Of these 47 films from all over the world, 19 are world premieres, 10 are international premieres and 1 is a European premiere. All feature film debuts that have their world or international premiere in Bright Future are selected for the Bright Future Competition and vie for a €10,000 award.
Brought together by IFFR’s team of feature film programmers, the Bright Future selection highlights new talents and new approaches to cinema. Bright Future comprises a wide variety of fictions and creative documentaries, and everything in between. It reflects fresh ideas and important subjects from many different cultures, or in most cases, from several cultures at the same time.
Bright Future Competition selections include Turkish video artist Köken Ergun’s Heroes, focussing on the hordes of tourists commemorating fallen soldiers of the Battle of Gallipoli in World War I, and Historia de mi nombre, in which Chilean filmmaker Karin Cuyul goes looking for the origin of her name and finds the painful history of her country and her family. Other titles in competition are Azerbaijani filmmaker Elmar Imanov’s family drama Ende der Saison, Ramon Porto Mota’s A noite amarela, a ‘spiritual slasher’ from Brazil , and No Data Plan, a poetic film essay by Miko Revereza, who has lived in the United States without papers for over 20 years, about his train journey from LA to New York.
World premieres out of competition include independent filmmaker Brian Follmer’s Out of Sight, Out of Mind, a satirical yet genuine slice of life about American millennials by American millennials, and Winter After Winter by Chinese filmmaker Xing Jian, which follows the harsh life of a family during the Japanese occupation of Manchuria. Bright Future also selected Phuttiphong Aroonpheng’s mysterious Manta Ray, and Simon Jaquemet’s tense, enchanting drama Der Unschuldige. For a complete list, see below.
IFFR press conference
Reminder: on Wednesday 9 January IFFR reveals the selections for its Tiger Competition and its Big Screen Competition in a press conference which will be broadcast live from 12:10 to 12:45 hours CET. Follow us on Facebook to receive a notification once the stream goes live.
Still: Winter After Winter
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08.01.2019 | International Film Festival Rotterdam's blog
Cat. : FESTIVALS