IFFR2012
Unofficial and incomplete list of movie titles for the upcoming Rotterdam Film Festival 2012.
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- DirectorIrene LedermannStarsYouri LedermannManuel NeuburgerJörg ReichlinThe brothers Oli and Jan are confronted with the absence of their parents. While the younger of the two withdraws into his own world, the older tries to make up for what is missing. They cope with the daily routine - a lonesome twosome.
- DirectorAnne ÉmondStarsCatherine De LéanDimitri StorogeVéronique RebizovIt starts as a one night stand that evolves in a long discussion with infinite subjects between a québécoise and an immigrant.
- DirectorFow Pyng HuStarsMerijn de JongLuna Zimic MijovicElisa BeugerNick is his own worst enemy and he is aware of this. He has a fickle character and he just as easily attracts people as he puts them off. Hoping to escape reality he emerges on a journey to Croatia. Even though he cant solve his problems, his restless soul finds a certain peace. We as viewers can leave Nick behind accepting him as he is. An unusual road movie in terms of self reflection.
- DirectorAyten AminTamer EzzatAmr SalamaMonths after Hosni Mubarak stepped down, Egyptians country-wide seem determined to maintain the insurgency until their demands are met.
- DirectorYuri AncaraniStarsDaniele AndaloroEzio BozzatoMarcello CasadeiA group of six scuba divers that specialize in deep underwater operations lives for a period of three weeks at the bottom of the ocean, conducting work on board of the platform Luna.
- DirectorIsaki LacuestaStarsBokar DembeleMiquel BarcelóAlou CisseA conceptual reimagining of painter François Augiéras' life as he believed that the best way to escape without a trace is to walk backwards.
- DirectorJulia LoktevStarsGael García BernalHani FurstenbergBidzina GujabidzeAn engaged couple's backpacking trip in the Caucasus Mountains is derailed by a single misstep that threatens to undo everything the pair believed about each other and about themselves.
- DirectorLucas BelvauxStarsYvan AttalSophie QuintonNicole GarciaA young woman is stabbed, sexually assaulted and murdered in public as her neighbors ignore her cries for help.
- DirectorDaniel NettheimStarsWillem DafoeSam NeillMorgan DaviesMartin, a mercenary, is sent from Europe by a mysterious biotech company to the Tasmanian wilderness on a hunt for the last Tasmanian tiger.
- DirectorMohammad RasoulofStarsLeila ZareFereshteh Sadre OrafaiyShahab HosseiniStory of a young lawyer in Tehran in search of a visa to leave the country, which is what Mohammad Rasoulof did during the winter of 2010/11.
- DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsMichael FassbenderKeira KnightleyViggo MortensenA look at how the intense relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud gives birth to psychoanalysis.
- DirectorBouli LannersStarsZacharie ChasseriaudMartin NissenPaul BartelTwo teenage brothers spend summer in their deceased grandfather's house, waiting in vain for their busy mother, and running low on cash. To make some money they rent out the house to a local drug dealer.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsAndré WilmsBlondin MiguelJean-Pierre DarroussinWhen an African boy arrives by cargo ship in the port city of Le Havre, an aging shoe shiner takes pity on the child and welcomes him into his home.
- DirectorSteve McQueenStarsMichael FassbenderCarey MulliganJames Badge DaleA sex addict's carefully cultivated private life falls apart after his sister arrives for an indefinite stay.
- DirectorRuben ÖstlundStarsAnas AbdirahmanSebastian BlyckertYannick DiakitéAn astute observation based on real cases of bullying. In central Gothenburg, Sweden, a group of boys, aged 12-14, robbed other children on about 40 occasions between 2006 and 2008. The thieves used an elaborate scheme called the 'little brother number' or 'brother trick', involving advanced role-play and gang rhetoric rather than physical violence.
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsAsa ButterfieldChloë Grace MoretzChristopher LeeIn 1931 Paris, an orphan living in the walls of a train station gets wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton.
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsHiroki NarimiyaTakumi SaitôMirei KiritaniFollowing the murder of his mentor, rookie Defense Attorney Phoenix Wright must find the truth behind not only her death, but that of an unsolved case from 15 years prior.
- DirectorMilagros MumenthalerStarsMaría CanaleMartina JuncadellaAilín SalasPortrait of everyday life of Marina, Sofia and Violeta, three sisters living in Buenos Aires his grandmother's house, the woman who raised her, after she has died.
- DirectorChristophe Van RompaeyStarsEmma LevieNiels GompertsJeroen WillemsLena is a lonely, plump adolescent girl. Much to her surprise she gets a relationship with the popular but unreliable Daan. Lena moves in with Daan and his strange father Tom and is willing to do a lot for his love. More than a lot.
- DirectorJohn ShankStarsVincent RottiersAnaïs DemoustierFlorence Loiret CailleJohan inherits the family farm. However, charming as the idea may be, even in the modern globalized world, running a farm is still a matter of hard work, pain, and hope.
- DirectorNicolas ProvostStarsIssaka SawadogoStefania RoccaSerge RiaboukineThe struggles of illegal African immigrant Amadou in search for a better life in Brussels.
- DirectorAnn HuiStarsAndy LauDeannie IpHailu QinAfter suffering a stroke, an altruistic maid announces that she wants to quit her job and move into an old people's home.
- DirectorAri DeelderStarsRaymond ThiryStefaan DegandHans Dagelet
- DirectorSimon PummellStarsHugo KoolschijnAnniek PheiferThom HoffmanIn 1903 Daniel Paul Schreber published the most celebrated autobiography of madness 'from the inside' ever written. Shock Head Soul interleaves documentary interviews, fictional re-construction and CGI animation to portray his story. Daniel Paul Schreber was a successful lawyer who, in 1893, started to receive messages from God via a Writing Down Machine that spanned the cosmos. He spent the next 9 years confined to an asylum: tortured by delusions of cosmic control, suffering the belief that he was shifting gender and that his body was subjected to cruel 'miracles'. Schreber believed that only his submission to God's plan to change him into a woman would save the world. During his confinement he wrote Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, which has earned him lasting fame as an outsider artist, it allowed him to argue that that his belief system was a matter of religious freedom and that he was sane enough to return to society. Running as a recurrent motif through the film is an imaginary Writing Down Machine inspired by both the delusory writing down systems envisioned by Schreber and also the Hansen Writing Ball. This early visionary design for a typewriter is famous because Nietzsche used such a machine to compose reflections on the relationship between writing and technology. The film's mix of forms explores the borderline between religious vision and deluded fanaticism, and the intimate link between family secrets, psychiatric diagnosis, and our societal understanding of mental illness.
- DirectorKivu RuhorahozaStarsRamadhan BizimanaTamim HakizimanaKennedy Jones MazimpakaBalthazar is a young African filmmaker on the brink of directing his first project, The Cycle of the Cockroach, a fictional story about a young woman who survived unspeakable atrocities only to find herself committed to the same mental institution as a man driven insane by the crimes he perpetrated during the war. Potential funders for the film insist the themes are too bleak and pessimistic-they encourage Balthazar to make a "message" film that raises awareness about gender-based violence or HIV/AIDS instead. But he refuses to give up. Instead of telling his production team the news, Balthazar continues preparations for the film without financing or equipment. After rehearsing a scene with each of the characters, reality blurs and scenes from the script materialize, provoking the question: Can a film like this exist only in the director's dreams? Armed with a daring and creative visual language, writer/director Kivu Ruhorahoza boldly grasps at the illusory trick of representation in the wake of trauma and its ensuing madness. Paralleling the protagonist in his film, Ruhorahoza's debut marks the very first feature-length narrative film directed by a Rwandan filmmaker living in his homeland.