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Catalogue 46th IFFR

Catalogue

46th

25 January – 5 February 2017



Contents 2 Foreword 4 Sections & Programmes IFFR 2017 6 Juries & Awards 11 Bright Future 13 Hivos Tiger Competition 21 Tiger Competition for Short Films 29 Bright Future Main Programme 56 Bright Future Mid-length 61 Bright Future Short

89 Voices 91 Big Screen Competition 95 Voices Main Programme 111 Limelight 129 IFFR Live 132 Scopitone 137 Voices Short

147 Deep Focus 149 Signatures 156 Signatures: Frameworks 160 Jan Němec 176 Joost Rekveld 181 Regained 198 Nuts & Bolts 212 Deep Focus Short

217 Perspectives 219 Parallax Views 221 Black Rebels 236 A Band Apart 243 Criss-Cross 252 Picture Palestine

259 And More‌ 265 About the Festival 266 The Supportive Festival 270 Catalogue Crew & Festival Staff 272 Thanks to 274 Partners & Sponsors

277 Search Tools 279 Index Films & Compilation Programmes 284 Index

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CONTENTS How to VIFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Short Films . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Festival Info . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Dragons & Tigers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Awards & Juries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Spotlight on France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Nonfiction Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Sponsors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Arts & Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Letters of Welcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

High School Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

VIFF Industry & VIFF Industry Exchange . . 19

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Our Mothers review – moving drama about aftermath of unspeakable war violence

Cezar Diaz’s sensitive and humane film looks back at one of the bloodiest periods of the Guatemalan civil war from the perspective of one damaged family

Here is a thoughtful, restrained drama about one of the bloodiest periods during the long civil war in Guatemala, fought between US-backed rightwing generals and leftwing insurgents. In the 1980s, thousands of men, women and children were killed, mostly by soldiers. Our Mothers starts as a straightforward drama about families, decades later, still looking for relatives who disappeared in the massacres. But what emerges is a sensitive and moving portrait of female survivors – the clue is in the title.

In 2018, Ernesto (Armando Espitia) is a hard-working young government forensic investigator. Director Cesar Diazfollows Ernesto with a low-key documentary-like style as the young man goes about his job locating mass graves and exhuming bodies. One day, an indigenous woman, Nicolasa (Aurelia Caal), walks...

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