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IFFR 2025 / Big Screen Competition

15 articles available in total starting from 01/02/2025. Last article published on 10/02/2025.

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Wilhelm Sasnal • Director of The Assistant

Interview: Wilhelm Sasnal • Director of The Assistant

“Robert Walser wrote about the uncertainty of tomorrow, about dependence on the employer – it’s very modern”

One of Poland’s most successful artists has put a modern spin on a 1908 novel in a new film that he co-directed with Anka Sasnal  

10/02 | IFFR 2025 | Big Screen Competition

Review: The Rhine Gold

Review: The Rhine Gold

Lorenzo Pullega's debut feature is a dream-like ode to rural Italy, boasting great visuals but lacking cohesion  

10/02 | IFFR 2025 | Big Screen Competition

Pirjo Honkasalo • Director of Orenda

Interview: Pirjo Honkasalo • Director of Orenda

"My films have stories, but they are born when making the film – they are never the purpose of making the film"

The storied director talks about her approach to managing the sacred, solitude and silence in her newest feature, a pensive character-driven tale about two women connected in unexpected ways  

10/02 | IFFR 2025 | Big Screen Competition

Albert Oehlen • Director of Bad Painter

Interview: Albert Oehlen • Director of Bad Painter

“I can make fun of myself”

The German painter talks us through his film, in which he takes a jab at the art world – and himself  

10/02 | IFFR 2025 | Big Screen Competition

Miwako Van Weyenberg • Director of Soft Leaves

Interview: Miwako Van Weyenberg • Director of Soft Leaves

"You can almost smell nostalgia, but you cannot smell film — that's why the nature elements are the closest to how you experience nostalgia in real life"

The filmmaker talked to us about her personal relationship to her script, casting decisions, and how she chose to portray nostalgia in her debut feature  

07/02 | IFFR 2025 | Big Screen Competition

Review: The Assistant

Review: The Assistant

Wilhelm and Anka Sasnal deliver an artsy take on Robert Walser's 1908 novel, using anachronistic elements to keep the viewer reflecting on the protagonist's plight  

07/02 | IFFR 2025 | Big Screen Competition

José Filipe Costa • Director of Our Father – The Last Days of a Dictator

Interview: José Filipe Costa • Director of Our Father – The Last Days of a Dictator

“A lot of it was about the everyday life of fascism and the small things, not the big picture”

The Portuguese director spoke to us about relationships of power and how his new film has taken on fresh relevance today in light of unsettling political environments  

07/02 | IFFR 2025 | Big Screen Competition

Review: Bad Painter

Review: Bad Painter

German painter Albert Oehlen makes his first solo feature-length foray into film with a bizarre docufictional mockumentary interspersed with odd bits of body horror  

07/02 | IFFR 2025 | Big Screen Competition

Review: Raptures

Review: Raptures

Jon Blåhed’s historical drama explores the demise of Sweden’s Korpela movement, a disturbing and eventually tyrannical form of radical Protestantism  

07/02 | IFFR 2025 | Big Screen Competition

Review: Back to the Family

Review: Back to the Family

Lithuanian director Šarūnas Bartas unravels the tensely wound dynamics of a rural family through the return of a young woman for her grandmother’s final days  

06/02 | IFFR 2025 | Big Screen Competition

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