IFFR 2023

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.

This Drama starts with a brutal murder - before rewinding back the 15 Days to find out why, how, and most importantly, who was responsible.

Vijayan, a lowlife, gets himself involved in a case of mistaken identity. His car gets swapped with that of two small-time crooks. With the local police, Mahesh and his team hot on their tails, a fun-filled cat-and-mouse chase ensues.

A grieving woman at the grave of her lover. A love tragedy that takes place at a fun fair. The miracle of a newborn. Anna Faroqhi creates timeless, silent film miniatures based on three songs from the cycle Dichterliebe by Robert Schumann - interpretations of poems by Heinrich Heine - sung by Faroqhi herself. All three songs and films are about love.

On the verge of a mid-life crisis, a former stand-up comedian believes an appearance on a popular late-night show will save his career, but ends up learning the journey is more rewarding than the destination.

Devastated by the loss of her skilled neon-sign-making husband, a wife decides to carry on his unfinished dream of making neon signs.

A los libros y a las mujeres canto (To Books and Women I Sing) is titled after a cleverly rewritten quote from Virgil. This bold opening gesture already announces what lies at the heart of the film: the civilising role of women and literature. María Elorza's first feature is structured around four portraits of women and their libraries (containing more than books). While there is much admiration in the director's gaze, this documentary is the opposite of the heroic-epic narratives so characteristic of a male-centred culture: the director wants to give voice to (and sing with) the kinds of characters and stories that often remain at the margins of literature and cinema - while paying homage to the earthiness of these spirited women.

When an electrical job goes wrong, a cynical electrician must accept help from a spirit to bury the evidence of a fatal accident.

Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't.

While a gamer uploads a testimonial video to denounce the harassment she suffers in a video game, a stranger enters her home and hacks her computer, blurring the boundaries between the real and virtual worlds.

An intimate documentary on friendships, language, love, youth, resistance, and identity of class, caste, religion, and gender. Set in the backdrop of the nationwide 2019-2020 student protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act in India.

Coincidence brings four twenty somethings in contemporary Istanbul together in humorous and playful ways. Almost Entirely a Slight Disaster explores the anxieties faced by the new generation with its humorous and intertwined ways.

If Yes, Okay about a teenager, Amy, who goes to extreme lengths to reject her obscenely wealthy background.

Three brothers are separated and united after many years - one is brought up a Hindu, another a Muslim and the last (and most memorable) a Christian. Hilarity and adventure ensues.

They are in their thirties but live just as they did in their twenties. They are in love with love but, in their search, they tear each other apart, wandering from ex-girlfriend to ex-girlfriend, from relationship to relationship.

Amiko isn't like other children. Her endless energy and curious eccentricities make her an outcast at school and get her in trouble at home. When a painful family loss disrupts her seemingly idyllic seaside life, her sense of isolation intensifies, yet it doesn't stop Amiko from inviting people into her world.

Another spring is a medical thriller that takes place in the spring of 1972, when the deadly smallpox virus was brought into Yugoslavia from the bazaars in Iraq. The disease was spreading for a whole month before it was discovered in Kosovo, while in Belgrade, it continued spreading undetected. Smallpox is the deadliest disease in human history that killed almost 500 million people in the 20th century alone, and it is the only deadly virus eradicated by humans, which is regarded as the biggest achievement of our civilization. In the story that united the entire world, the Yugoslavian epidemic, the final outbreak of smallpox in Europe, is still remembered as one of its most horrifying and inspiring chapters. Reconstructed from the 50 years old archive film footage, the film offers the experience of another time and the society very different to the one today, which never felt more relevant.

It is about the encounter between an ace pupil and a professional exams cheat.

Historia de amor entre una pareja de universitarios de distinta clase social e ideología en el curso 1958-1959 donde la arquitectura juega un papel callado, pero presente en sus días.

As If No Misfortune Had Occurred in the Night lends an untraditional form to Sansour's exploration of inherited trauma and epigenetics. At its centre is an Arabic-language opera about trauma, loss, and mourning, seen in a black-and-white three-screen projection, arranged like an altar triptych. The aria is performed by Palestinian soprano Nour Darwish and composed by the Lebanese composer Antony Sahyoun. It is based on the Austrian Gustav Mahler's composition Kindertotenlieder and the traditional Palestinian song Al Ouf Mash'al. Kindertotenlieder, which premiered in 1905, set to music a group of poems written by the poet Friedrich Rückert after the death of his two children. In Al Ouf Mash'al, a Palestinian woman mourns the loss of her lover, who was recruited into the Ottoman army in World War I. The aria blends together two different musical traditions, weaving a beautiful lament for more than a hundred years of grief. Filmed in a derelict chapel, the opera juxtaposes computer generated imagery and archival footage of the First World War. As If No Misfortune Had Occurred in the Night uses documentary material from the Imperial War Museum in London, including scenes from Palestine at the start of the British Mandate and from the struggles against the Ottoman Empire. In the opera's final scene, the singer immerses herself in an indigo pool, changing the colour of her white dress into the shade of blue historically associated with mourning in Palestine. Indigo is physically longer lasting than other pigments and like grief, it stands the test of time. The world of the opera flows from the chapel into the exhibition room in the form of an installation surrounded by indigo curtains, with silent tree trunks resembling dismembered bodies hanging over the pool on chains from the ceiling.

Alana was separated from her parents and was adopted by a rich woman. As she reaches adulthood, she discovers the truth about her origin.

On the anniversary of her father's death, an Indian princess (Madhur Jaffrey) celebrates his memory in her London apartment by having tea and showing a selection of home movies to her guest, her father's old tutor Cyril Sahib (James Mason).

Tristan, campaign manager for a legislative candidate, is shocked by an anonymous letter containing a positive pregnancy test.

The life of Emin Saruhanli, who has been at odds with his brother Mehmet Ali for years, will be told that suddenly changed with the plane crash.

An Indian man with a magnanimous heart takes a young mute Pakistani girl back to her homeland to reunite her with her family.