IFFR 2019 Concorso Tiger / Concorso Big Screen

Rotterdam svela i titoli delle sue competizioni Tiger e Big Screen

09/01/2019 - Titoli che si approcciano al cinema in un modo nuovo e anticonvenzionale saranno in lizza per i premi principali del 48° IFFR, mentre Claire Denis, Sacha Polak e Jia Zhangke terranno delle masterclass

Take Me Somewhere Nice di Ena Sendijarević

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As you no doubt saw earlier today (via our video stream on this very page), International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has announced the complete selection for the Tiger Competition and Big Screen Competition for its 48^th edition. Furthermore, new names in the Talks & Masterclasses programme have been revealed, and they include Claire Denis, Sacha Polak and Jia Zhangke.

Looking first at the Tiger Competition, half of the eight participating filmmakers have attended IFFR before, while the rest will be presenting their works at the gathering for the first time. Amsterdam-based director of Bosnian heritage Ena Sendijarević returns after her successful short film Import, bringing her debut feature, Take Me Somewhere Nice [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Ena Sendijarević
scheda film], an unpredictable, tragicomic road trip set in the heart of the Balkans; Catalonian filmmaker Carlos Marqués-Marcet (Anchor and Hope [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Carlos Marques-Marcet
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intervista: Carlos Marques-Marcet
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intervista: Johannes Nyholm
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The IFFR newcomers who are taking part in the Tiger Competition are: Danish debutant director Ulaa Salim with Sons of Denmark [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Chile’s Camila José Donoso, who portrays her grandmother as an anarchistic warrior in a town plagued by forest fires; and Present.Perfect., in which Chinese documentarian Shengze Zhu uses 800 hours of found footage of live-streamers. It’s worth noting that each film will have its own individual premiere day.

Bero Beyer, director of IFFR, stated: “The fringes of the globalised world, a nightmarishly catchy children’s song, and love and connection through ones and zeros – they all feature in the films selected for this year’s Tiger Competition: truly the forefront of off-beat, new approaches to cinema. This selection is a wonderful showcase of the imaginative ways in which today’s filmmakers try to comment on the world.”

Also, the Tiger Jury has been announced, and comprises Chilean filmmaker-artist Alfredo Jaar, Morelia Film Festival director Daniela Michel, former director of the Israel Film Fund Katriel Schory, Thai filmmaker-producer and programme director of the Singapore Film Festival Pimpaka Towira, and Italian filmmaker Susanna Nicchiarelli. The Tiger Award is worth €40,000, and the Special Jury Award comes with €10,000.

In the Big Screen Competition, eight films have been selected and will be vying for the €30,000 VPRO Big Screen Award, which guarantees a theatrical release in the Netherlands as well as broadcasting on Dutch public TV network NPO. Half of the prize is spent on the release and the rest on the next project by the winning filmmaker. The jury consists of five selected audience members.

Belgium’s Anke Blondé will open the competition with her dramedy The Best of Dorien B. [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Anna Odell
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intervista: Gustav Lindh
intervista: May el-Toukhy
scheda film], is a controversial story about a stepmother (Trine Dyrholm) who seduces her teenage stepson (see the news); Israel’s Itay Tal will rock up with God of the Piano [+leggi anche:
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The closing film of the 48th IFFR will be the existential thriller The Hummingbird Project [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Kim Nguyen, a Canadian-Belgian co-production starring Salma Hayek, Jesse Eisenberg and Alexander Skårsgard.

Finally, in addition to Cliff Martinez, Carlos Reygadas, Guillermo Arriaga and Alfredo Jaar, new names that will be participating in IFFR’s Talks & Masterclasses programme have also been announced. They include, among others, Claire Denis, whose High Life [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Sacha Polak
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