“You can definitely say the Tiger has returned,” said festival director Vanja Kaludjercic this morning, as she unveiled the full line-up for the 2023 IFFR, taking place from 25 January-5 February, its first edition in its standard late-January slot since the pandemic hit. With more than 400 feature, mid-length and short films slated to premiere or take part in the retrospective sections, she hailed the fact that “after two enforced online editions, IFFR 2023 will mark our full return to cinemas and to an in-person event all across the city”.

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Kaludjercic went on to introduce the year’s programme in more depth, saying, “We stay committed to the path we set out for ourselves: celebrating great cinema in all its splendour and looking where others don’t look. Our entire programme, full of surprises, is a testament to that. In addition to those film cultures which traditionally are strongly present at IFFR, we are expanding to cover films from Sri Lanka, Cameroon, Ukraine, the Dominican Republic, Morocco and Taiwan, to name just a few. From remarkable debuts to cinematic grand masters and our specially commissioned Steve McQueen artwork [the installation Sunshine State, postponed from the 2022 event], it is our true pleasure to share IFFR 2023's wildly varied line-up.”

The opening-night film, Munch [+lire aussi :
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This year, the Tiger Competition, the festival’s platform for emerging film talent, will showcase 16 titles from a vast national spread, including One Last Evening [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Diego Llorente. The jury, composed of president Lav Diaz, Sabrina Baracetti, Anisia Uzeyman, Christine Vachon and Alonso Díaz de la Vega, will grant three prizes: the Tiger Award, worth €40,000, and two Special Jury Awards.

The Big Screen Competition, “bridging the gap between popular, classic and arthouse cinema”, will have its winner selected by an audience jury. The victor will receive a guaranteed theatrical release in the Netherlands, followed by a TV broadcast by VPRO and NPO. “For us, popular and avant-garde are not entirely contradictory ideas,” Kaludjercic concluded.

The two feature competition line-ups are as follows:

Tiger Competition

100 Seasons [+lire aussi :
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Gagaland - Teng Yuhan (China)
Geology of Separation [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] - Yosr Gasmi, Mauro Mazzocchi (Tunisia/Italy/France)
Birdland [+lire aussi :
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One Last Evening [+lire aussi :
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interview : Lukas Nathrath
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Mannvirki [+lire aussi :
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Munnel - Visakesa Chandrasekraram (Sri Lanka)
New Strains - Artemis Shaw/Prashanth Kamalakanthan (USA)
Notes on a Summer [+lire aussi :
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Numb - Amir Toodehroosta (Iran)
The Breath of Life [+lire aussi :
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interview : Guido van der Werve
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La Palisiada [+lire aussi :
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interview : Philip Sotnychenko
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Playland - Georden West (USA)
Le Spectre de Boko Haram [+lire aussi :
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Thiiird - Karim Kassem (Lebanon)
three sparks [+lire aussi :
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Big Screen Competition

Before We Collapse [+lire aussi :
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Before the Buzzards Arrive - Jonás N Diaz (Mexico)
Copenhagen Does Not Exist [+lire aussi :
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interview : Martin Skovbjerg
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Drawing Lots [+lire aussi :
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Endless Borders [+lire aussi :
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interview : Abbas Amini
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Mida's Ants [+lire aussi :
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Four Little Adults [+lire aussi :
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interview : Selma Vilhunen
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La Hembrita - Laura Amelia Guzmán Conde (Dominican Republic)
Joram - Devashish Makhija (India)
Luka [+lire aussi :
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My Little Nighttime Secret - Natalya Meshchaninova (Russia)
The Nothingness Club - Não Sou Nada [+lire aussi :
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interview : Edgar Pêra
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Okiku and the World and the World - Sakamoto Junji (Japan)
One Win - Shin Yeon-Shick (South Korea)
La Sudestada - Daniel Casabé/Edgardo Dieleke (Argentina)
Voyages en Italie [+lire aussi :
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