IFFR 2022 Return of the Tiger
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1. EAMI (2022)
83 min | Drama
Eami's homeland is invaded by settlers. Embodying Asojá, the bird-god-woman, she falls into trance in which she walks slowly and stunned through her beloved forest as she prepares to leave it forever.
Director: Paz Encina | Stars: Anel Picanerai, Curia Chiquejno Etacoro, Ducubaide Chiquenoi, Basui Picanerai Etacore
Votes: 162
2. Excess Will Save Us (2022)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
A young film director, returns to her family village after a terrorist alert was triggered. As she films her family members in their power dynamics, she comes to understand that they are ... See full summary »
Director: Morgane Dziurla-Petit | Stars: Marie-Christine Carlier, Morgane Dziurla-Petit, Bernard Petit, Patrick Petit
Votes: 123
3. Kung Fu Zohra (2022)
100 min | Action, Drama
Convinced that a divorce would separate her from her little girl, Zohra cannot bring herself to leave her husband despite his violent behavior. She suffers his blows in silence. But all that changes when she meets Chang Sue.
Director: Mabrouk El Mechri | Stars: Sabrina Ouazani, Ramzy Bedia, Eye Haidara, Tien Shue
Votes: 655
4. Becoming Male in the Middle Ages (2022)
22 min | Short, Drama
Mirene and André are a straight couple struggling with infertility. Carl and Vicente are a gay couple undergoing an experimental procedure to have a child. An exploration of gender, reproduction, normativity and the notion of family.
Director: Pedro Neves Marques | Stars: Isabel Costa, Zé Bernardino, Pedro Neves Marques, Nuno Nolasco
Votes: 407
5. Nosferasta: First Bite (2022)
33 min | Short, Comedy, History
Nosferasta: First Bite is a vampire movie like no other. Christopher Columbus uses his undead powers to create his "New World", where he sucks the blood out of his colonial project for ... See full summary »
Directors: Adam Khalil, Bayley Sweitzer | Stars: Jerry G. Angelo, Adam Rashad Glenn, Steve Holmgren, Sarah Kerr
Votes: 14
6. Achrome (2022)
100 min | Drama, War
Achrome is an anti-war parable about a man and his vulnerability in the face of history. Maris, the film's protagonist, is the village idiot, brought up by his older brother. Following his ... See full summary »
Director: Maria Ignatenko | Stars: Georgiy Bergal, Klavdiya Korshunova, Andrey Krivenok, Nadezhda Zelenova
Votes: 36
7. The Cloud Messenger (2022)
148 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A contemporary tale of reincarnation about two lovers meeting in the present day after several centuries of longing, yet still trapped in their destiny of a perpetual cycle of love and death.
Director: Rahat Mahajan | Stars: Ritvik Tyagi, Ahalya Shetty, Raj Zutshi, Kapila Venu
Votes: 109
8. Criança Lobo (2022)
80 min | Drama, Horror
In a terrifying Portuguese village, there is a legend. The legend of the wolf child. Desired and born on a full moon night, it all started when a young peasant girl, desperate for a child, ... See full summary »
Director: Frederico Serra | Stars: Manuel Nabais, Rita Cabaço, Rui M. Silva, Maria João Pinho
Votes: 23
9. Kafka for Kids (2022)
111 min | Comedy, Musical
Basically, Kafka's Metamorphosis is unfilmable. After all, the author didn't want visual representations to appear of the insect Gregor Samsa turned into; readers should visualise that ... See full summary »
Director: Roee Rosen | Stars: Jeff Francis, Hani Furstenberg, Eli Gorenstein, Orna Katz
Votes: 25
10. Malintzin 17 (2022)
64 min | Documentary
The director and his five-year-old daughter film a nesting bird from a window. The girl's curiosity is provoked, sparking conversations about the relationship between humans and nature and the very meaning of filmmaking.
Directors: Eugenio Polgovsky, Mara Polgovsky | Stars: Eugenio Polgovsky, Milena Polgovsky
Votes: 13
11. Met mes (2022)
78 min | Drama
When a successful game show host is robbed of her new video camera, she exaggerates the crime to get the most out of her insurance. Her lie ignites a chain reaction that will forever tie her destiny with that of her young assailant.
Director: Sam de Jong | Stars: Hadewych Minis, Gijs Naber, Nils Verkooijen, Roeland Fernhout
Votes: 266
12. The Plains (2022)
180 min | Drama
Every evening a man in his late 50s commutes home at the end of the working day in the outer suburbs of Melbourne.
Director: David Easteal | Stars: Andrew Rakowski, David Easteal, Cheri LeCornu, Inga Rakowski
Votes: 297
13. Phantom Project (2022)
Unrated | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Follow Pablo, a young actor who dreams of starring in a film, but in order to pay the bills he has to work as a simulated patient in medical schools and in weird sessions of alternative therapies.
Director: Roberto Doveris | Stars: Juan Cano, Ingrid Isensee, Violeta Castillo, Fernanda Toledo
Votes: 255
14. Le rêve et la radio (2022)
135 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Raoul and Beatrice's eyes meet in the Montreal metro. This sets off a chain of events that will affect the whole city. He's a rock star activist on a secret mission, she's a bohemian who ... See full summary »
Directors: Renaud Després-Larose, Ana Tapia Rousiouk | Stars: Geneviève Ackerman, Ana Tapia Rousiouk, Renaud Després-Larose, Étienne Pilon
Votes: 19
15. Silver Bird and Rainbow Fish (2022)
104 min | Documentary, Animation
In a world of propaganda images, surrealist collage and pop-art animation, artist-filmmaker Lei Lei and his family recall the past to make sense of the present.
Director: Lei Lei
Votes: 17
16. Yamabuki (2022)
97 min | Drama
The story of finding a place to put down roots when life's obstacles have discouraged you. Centered on the lives of Changsu and Yamabuki.
Director: Juichiro Yamasaki | Stars: Munetaka Aoki, Kilala Inori, Yoonsoo Kang, Yôta Kawase
Votes: 45
17. Broadway (2022)
97 min | Crime, Drama
A story about dancers and thieves in modern-day Athens.
Director: Christos Massalas | Stars: Elsa Lekakou, Foivos Papadopoulos, Stathis Apostolou, Rafael Papad
Votes: 326
18. Daryn's Gym (2022)
89 min | Comedy
A third-generation family gym finds itself in a David and Goliath type battle when a fitness conglomerate opens its flag-ship branch across the road from them.
Director: Brett Michael Innes | Stars: Sivuyile Ngesi, Carla Classen, Natasha Sutherland, Hlubi Mboya
Votes: 31
19. Drifting Petals (2021)
110 min | Drama
A filmmaker and a piano student, who first meet in Australia, try to make sense of a past imbued with mystery in Macau and an uncertain future in Hong Kong.
Director: Clara Law | Stars: Jeff Lai, Ariel Ng, Dickens Ko
Votes: 26
20. Mi vacío y yo (2022)
98 min | Comedy, Drama
A young trans woman in Barcelona deals with her transition, dating and daily life.
Director: Adrián Silvestre | Stars: Raphaëlle Pérez, Alberto Díaz, Marc Ribera, Isabel Rocatti
Votes: 218
21. Splendid Isolation (2022)
80 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Not much is known about the catastrophe Anna and Hannah have escaped from or the efforts they have made to reach the desolate island. Once they find an abandoned house in the dunes, and ... See full summary »
Director: Urszula Antoniak | Stars: Khadija El Kharraz Alami, Abke Haring, Anneke Sluiters
Votes: 192
22. Answering the Sun (2022)
Not Rated | 59 min | Animation
The invitation is to squint our eyes and allow the most amazing trips to unfold. The work is a bombardment of colored fields and a wall of sound, followed by a hallucinatory, silent inky-black sequence.
Director: Rainer Kohlberger
Votes: 26
23. Chants from a Holy Book (2022)
24 min | Short
In 2018 a wave of protests toppled the political oligarchy that perpetuated in power for over a decade in Armenia. Through five chants - microcosm, self, home, society and macrocosm - "... See full summary »
Directors: Cesar Gananian, Cassiana Der Haroutiounian
Votes: 6
24. Glass Life (2021)
19 min | Short, Documentary
Sara Cwynar uses her computer and many studio arrangements to give sense and life to her visual file and the real world. Images of food, art, politicians, models and others compete for our attention in this tour of visual consumerism.
Director: Sara Cwynar
Votes: 260
25. Isn't It a Beautiful World (2021)
10 min | Short
Lip-synch queer community experiences using archive sound.
Director: Joseph Wilson | Stars: Julia Costa, Micah Holmes, Sharon Le Grand, Vic Lentaigne
Votes: 8
26. The Making of Crime Scenes (2022)
22 min | Short, Drama
A film producer, an assassin, and a patriot. These aren't three characters in this film but three ways of describing Wu Dun, a member of the United Bamboo Gang who murdered the ... See full summary »
Director: Hsu Che-yu
Votes: 10
27. El Nombre de las Cosas (2022)
43 min | Short
To name is to know, give shape. To name is to to invoke, to conquer an unknown territory, an unknown body. To name is to discover the sound that accompanies a thing. A man realizes he has ... See full summary »
Director: Diego Escobar | Stars: Vicente Escobar, Grecia Quiroz
28. Polycephaly in D (2021)
23 min | Short
Informed by an underlying sense of anxiety and anguish, Michael Robinson's Polycephaly in D nestles fragments of narrative within a collage of sound, image, and text that oscillates between the elegant and the discordant.
Director: Michael Robinson
Votes: 18
29. Punctured Sky (2021)
15 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A piece of a gamer's past vanishes without a trace, triggering a quest for answers. Along the way, he encounters uncanny obstacles and part-human avatars - meticulously crafted from found ... See full summary »
Director: Jon Rafman
Votes: 13
30. Songs for Living (2022)
21 min | Short, Drama
This pulsating celebration of togetherness is a much-needed emotional antidote to these years of pandemic isolation. If Korakrit Arnunanondchai's Songs for Dying (IFFR 2022) is about the ... See full summary »
Directors: Korakrit Arunanondchai, Alex Gvojic
31. Tomorrow Is a Water Palace (2022)
15 min | Short, Sci-Fi
Described by its director, Juanita Onzaga, as a work of 'ancestral futurism', this dizzying visual journey takes on the perspective of Sybille, the last woman on Earth, a planet where water... See full summary »
Director: Juanita Onzaga | Stars: Megane Deutou, Diana Scalfati
32. Urban Solutions (2022)
30 min | Documentary, Short
A European artist writes about his experience in portraying life in Brazil during the colonial period. Aporteiro - concierge and security guard in one - watches the surveillance cameras in ... See full summary »
Directors: Arne Hector, Vinícius Lopes, Luciana Mazeto, Minze Tummescheit
Votes: 8
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