At its press conference on 18 December, the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) unveiled the full lineup of its 49th edition. The announcement includes the 10 titles running in the Tiger competition, as well as the 9 picks for the Big Screen Competition and the 15 feature-length debuts in the Bright Future Competition. The festival, which will be held from 22 January to 2 February, will open with a screening of Mosquito [+leggi anche:
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This years’ Tiger Competition counts no less than 10 titles. Several of the filmmakers have a history with the festival, such as Luis López Carrasco, who presented his feature-length debut El Futuro [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] there in 2014. Festival director Bero Beyer is very pleased with the selection: “From experimental millennial autofiction to Spanish class consciousness, from hard-boiled Korean crime to life in Hindu-nationalist Tamil Nadu, from the jungles of Venezuela to the streets of Greece – all films in the Tiger Competition radiate a strong sense of personal urgency and cinematic relevance, fuelled by boundary-pushing directorial visions.” An important edition for Beyer, as this is the year he will pass the torch to Croatian-born Vanja Kaludjercic. She will start as her job as the festival’s artistic voice next year, celebrating the 50th edition.

The Tiger jury for the 2020 edition is formed by Dutch-Palestinian filmmaker Hany Abu-Assad, artistic director of Visions du Réel Emilie Bujès, South Korean-born American filmmaker Kogonada, Dutch filmmaker Sacha Polak, whose film Dirty God [+leggi anche:
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The Big Screen Competition consists of 9 titles which, according to the festival programmers, deserve theatrical distribution after their festival premiere. The selection includes Eden [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Agnes Kocsis, regista di P…
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Here is the complete selection:

Tiger Competition

The Year of the Discovery [+leggi anche:
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Beasts Clawing at Straws - Kim Yonghoon (South Korea)
The Cloud in Her Room - Zheng Lu Xinyuan (China)
Desterro [+leggi anche:
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Drama Girl [+leggi anche:
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La fortaleza [+leggi anche:
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Kala azar [+leggi anche:
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Nasir [+leggi anche:
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Lonely Rock [+leggi anche:
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Si yo fuera el invierno mismo - Jazmín López (Argentina)

Big Screen Competition

El cazador - Marco Berger (Argentina)
Eden [+leggi anche:
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Enormous [+leggi anche:
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The Evening Hour - Braden King (USA)
Fanny Lye Deliver'd [+leggi anche:
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Mosquito [+leggi anche:
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A Perfectly Normal Family [+leggi anche:
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Synapses - Chang Tso-chi (Taiwan)
A Yellow Animal [+leggi anche:
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Bright Future Competition

Babai - Artem Aisagaliev (Russia/USA)
Chaco - Diego Mondaca (Bolivia/Argentina)
Los fantasmas - Sebastián Lojo (Guatemala/Argentina)
Time of Moulting [+leggi anche:
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For the Time Being [+leggi anche:
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I Blame Society - Gillian Wallace Horvat (USA)
Moving On - Yoon Dan-bi (South Korea)
My Mexican Bretzel [+leggi anche:
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Ofrenda - Juan María Mónaco Cagni (Argentina)
Panquiaco - Ana Elena Tejera (Panama)
A Rifle and a Bag [+leggi anche:
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Sebastian Jumping Fences [+leggi anche:
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The Trouble with Nature [+leggi anche:
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Truth or Consequences - Hannah Jayanti (USA)
Wisdom Tooth - Liang Ming (China)