IFFR 2026 / Tiger Competition

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10 articles available in total starting from 16/12/2025. Last article published on 09/02/2026.

Review: Variations on a Theme

Review: Variations on a Theme

Jason Jacobs and Devon Delmar’s feature is a lyrical snapshot of an ailing, yet resolute, matriarch in South Africa’s Northern Cape region

09/02 | IFFR 2026 | Tiger Competition

Review: A Messy Tribute to Motherly Love

Review: A Messy Tribute to Motherly Love

When stress kills and parenthood requires physical sacrifice, Dan Geesin turns common figures of speech into a disquieting body-horror parable and an offbeat psychological drama

09/02 | IFFR 2026 | Tiger Competition

Ana Urushadze • Director of Supporting Role

Interview: Ana Urushadze • Director of Supporting Role

“This character’s inner struggle is manifested as an outer journey”

The Georgian helmer’s movie sees a forgotten film star fighting for another role – and for all the people he left behind during his glory days

06/02 | IFFR 2026 | Tiger Competition

Review: Supporting Role

Review: Supporting Role

Ana Urushadze’s second feature is an oneiric, subtly mystical story about identity told from the point of view of a famous actor who re-examines his role in his own life

06/02 | IFFR 2026 | Tiger Competition

Angelica Ruffier • Director of La Belle Année

Interview: Angelica Ruffier • Director of La Belle Année

“I was honouring my younger self and her fascination and drive”

The Swedish filmmaker returns to her past, and her teenage crush, in her tender documentary

05/02 | IFFR 2026 | Tiger Competition

Review: Unerasable!

Review: Unerasable!

Socrates Saint-Wulfstan Drakos crafts a magnetic essay film that turns exile, repression and bureaucratic violence into a haunting cinematic experience

05/02 | IFFR 2026 | Tiger Competition

Review: La Belle Année

Review: La Belle Année

Angelica Ruffier’s autobiographical documentary is a dream-like essay on obsessive desire as a compensatory remedy, and on loss and recovery in adult orphanhood

04/02 | IFFR 2026 | Tiger Competition

Review: A Fading Man

Review: A Fading Man

German filmmaker Welf Reinhart's feature debut deals with illness, ageing, remembering and forgetting, in the story of an old married couple and an unexpected visitor from the past

04/02 | IFFR 2026 | Tiger Competition

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for IFFR Tiger Competition entry La belle année

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for IFFR Tiger Competition entry La belle année

Swedish filmmaker Angelica Ruffier’s first feature-length documentary is an autobiographical odyssey through the year following her father’s death

30/01 | IFFR 2026 | Tiger Competition

IFFR unveils its eclectic 2026 competition line-ups

IFFR unveils its eclectic 2026 competition line-ups

The Dutch festival’s Tiger and Big Screen competitions each include 12 features, encompassing a wide geographic spread of production territories

16/12/2025 | IFFR 2026

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