Igor Bezinović's A Brief Excursion
The titles for the 46th International Film Festival Rotterdam are being announced in anticipation of the event running January 25th - February 5th, 2017. We will update the program as new films are revealed.
HIVOS TIGER COMPETITION
Arábia (Affonso Uchoa & João Dumans, Brazil)
The Burglar (Hagar Ben Asher, Israel)
Columbus (kogonada, USA)
Demonios tus ojos (Pedro Aguilera, Spain/Colombia)
Light Thereafter (Konstantin Bojanov, Bulgaria/Belgium)
Quality Time (Daan Bakker, Netherlands/Norway)
Rey (Niles Atallah, Chile/France/Netherlands/Germany/Qatar)
Sexy Durga (Sanal Kumar Sasidharan, India)
BRIGHT FUTURE
António Um Dois Três (Leonardo Mouramateus, Portugal/Brazil)
Cactus Flower (Hala Elkoussy, Qatar/Egypt/United Arab Emirates/Norway)
Children Are Not Afraid of Death, Children Are Afraid of Ghosts (Rong Guang Rong, China)
Corpo elétrico (Marcelo Caetano, Brazil)
Drifting Towards the Crescent (Laura Stewart, USA)
Haruneko (Hokimoto Sora, Japan)
Inside the Distance (Elias Grootaers, Belgium)
Mes nuits feront écho (Sophie Goyette, Canada)
Pela janela (Caroline Leone, Brazil/Argentina)
The Pot and the Oak (Kiarash Anvari, Iran/Canada)
Selbstkritik eines bürgerlichen Hundes (Julian Radlmaier, Germany)
Super Dark Times (Kevin Phillips, USA)
Los territorios (Iván Granovsky, Argentina/Brazil/Palestine)
Ugly (Juri Rechinsky, Ukraine/Austria)
Willliam, el nuevo maestro del judo (Omar Guzmán, Mexico)
Als Paul über das Meer kam (Jakob Preuss, Germany)
Bamseom Pirates Seoul Inferno (Jung Yoonsuk, South Korea)
Filthy (Tereza Nvotova, Slovakia/Czech Republic)
A Heart of Love (Lukasz Ronduda, Poland)
Live from Dhaka (Abdullah Mohammad Saad, Bangladesh)
Manifesto (Julian Rosefeldt, Germany)
Otra madre (Mariano Luque, Argentina)
Suffering of Ninko (Niwatsukino Norihiro, Japan)
Wailings in the Forest (Bagane Fiola, Philippines)
A Brief Excursion (Igor Bezinović, Croatia)
All the Cities of the North (Dane Komljen, Serbia/Bosnia/Herzegovina/Montenegro)
Antes que cante el gallo (Arí Maniel Cruz, Puerto Rico)
Burning Birds (Sanjeewa Pushpakumara, Sri Lanka/France)
By the Time It Gets Dark (Anocha Suwichakornpong, Thailand/Netherlands/France/Qatar)
Die Einsiedler (Ronny Trocker, Germany)
El futuro perfecto (Nele Wohlatz, Argentina)
Elon Doesn't Believe in Death (Ricardo Alves Jr., Brazil)
Extraño pero verdadero (Michel Lipkes, Mexico)
Kékszakállú (Gastón Solnicki, Argentina)
La guerra dei cafoni (Davide Barletti & Lorenzo Conte, Italy)
The Last Family (Jan P. Matuszyński, Poland)
The Last of Us (Ala Eddine Slim, Tunisia)
The Levelling (Hope Dickson Leach, United Kingdom)
Los decentes (Lukas Valenta Rinner, Argentina/South Korea/Austria)
Mimosas (Oliver Laxe, Morocco/Spain/France/Qatar)
Prevenge (Alice Lowe, United Kingdom)
Solo, Solitude (Yosep Anggi Noen, Indonesia)
The Summer Is Gone (Zhang Dalei, China)
I tempi felici veranno presto (Alessandro Comodin, Italy)
Wùlu (Daouda Coulibaly, France/Senegal)
X500 (Juan Andrés Arango, Canada/Colombia/Mexico)
VOICES
Atrás hay relámpagos (Julio Hernández Cordón, Mexico/Costa Rica)
A Bride for Rip Van Winkle (Iwai Shunji, Japan)
The Donor (Zang Qiwu, China)
Ember (Zeki Demirkubuz, Turkey)
The Eye's Dream (Sato Hisayasu, Japan/USA)
Fake (Mori Tatsuya, Japan)
Gimme Danger (Jim Jarmusch, USA)
The Girl with All the Gifts (Colm McCarthy, UK)
Hermia & Helena (Matías Piñeiro, Argentina/USA)
La idea de un lago (Milagros Mumenthaler, Switzerland/Argentina/Qatar)
Jean of the Jonses (Stella Meghie, USA/Canada)
The Mole Song – Hong Kong Capriccio (Takashi Miike, Japan)
A Quiet Dream (Zhang Lu, South Korea)
La ragazza del mondo (Marco Danieli, France/Italy)
The Road to Mandalay (Midi Z, Taiwan/France/Germany/Myanmar)
Sweat Rain (Hakim Belabbes, Morocco)
Three (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
Town in a Lake (Jet Leyco, Philippines)
Voyage to Terengganu (Amir Muhammad & Badrul Hisham Ismail, Malaysia)
The Wedding Ring (Rahmatou Keita, Niger)
We the Workers (Huang Wenhai, Hong Kong)
The Wolf of Wubbe (Jan Louter, Netherlands)
A Woman from Jawa (Garin Nugroho, Indonesia)
VOICES: LIMELIGHT
After the Storm (Kore-eda Hirokazu, Japan)
American Honey (Andrea Arnold, Great Britain/USA)
Asura: City of Madness (Kim Sungsoo, South Korea)
Beyond the Mountains and Hills (Eran Kolirin, Israel/Germany/Belgium)
Burma Storybook (Petr Lom, Netherlands/Myanmar)
Free Fire (Ben Wheatley, Great Britain)
The Handmaiden (Park Chan-wook, South Korea)
Harmonium (Fukada Koji, Japan/France)
Het doet zo zeer (Heleen van Royen, Netherlands)
Jackie (Pablo Larraín, USA)
De keuze van mijn vader (Yan Ying Yuen, Netherlands)
Knife in the Clear Water (Wang Xuebo, China)
Lady Macbeth (William Oldroyd, Great Britain)
The Night of a 1000 Hours (Virgil Widrich, Luxembourg/Austria/Belgium/the Netherlands)
Orpheline (Arnaud des Pallières, France)
Paterson (Jim Jarmusch, USA)
Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas, France)
Porto (Gabe Klinger, France/Poland/Portugal/USA)
Raw (Julia Ducournau, France/Belgium)
La región salvaje (Amat Escalante, Mexico/Denmark/France/Germany/ Norway/Switzerland)
Réparer les vivants (Katell Quillévéré, France/Belgium)
Sieranevada (Cristi Puiu, Romania/France/Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Train to Busan (Yeon Sangho, South Korea)
Tramontane (Vatche Boulghourjian, Lebanon)
White Sun (Deepak Rauniyar, Nepal/USA/Qatar/the Netherlands)
Wolf and Sheep (Shahrbanoo Sadat, Afghanistan/Denmark/Sweden/France)
VOICES: SCOPITONE
Blackhearts (Fredrik Horn Akselsen & Christian Falch, Norway)
Cairo Jazzman (Atef Ben Bouzid, Germany)
Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape (Zack Taylor, UK)
New Voices in an Old Flower (Quino Piñero, Ethiopia/Spain/Great Britain)
Placebo: Alt.Russia (Charlie Targett-Adams, UK)
Two Trains Runnin' (Sam Pollard, USA)
War of Words (Craig Tuohy & Tom Worth, United Kingdom)
The Wonderful Kingdom of Papa Alaev (Noam Pinchas & Tal Barda, France/Israel)
DEEP FOCUS: SIGNATURES
La Flor (Parte 1) (Mariano Llinás, Argentina)
Beduino (Júlio Bressane, Brazil)
Belle dormante (Adolfo Arrieta, France/Spain)
Big Big World (Reha Erdem, Turkey)
Dawson City: Frozen Time (Bill Morrison, USA)
La mort de Louis XIV (Albert Serra, France/Spain)
Un rêve solaire (Patrick Bokanowski, France)
Safari (Ulrich Seidl, Austria)
Der traumhafte Weg (Angela Schanelec, Germany)
The Woman Who Left (Lav Diaz, Philippines)
Yourself and Yours (Hong Sangsoo, South Korea )
DEEP FOCUS: FRAMEWORKS
I’m coming up (Ting Ming-wei, Singapore)
Die reine Notwendigkeit (David Claerbout, Belgium)
Sanctuary (Ashley Sabin & David Redmon, Canada/USA/UK/Ireland)
The Silent Eye (Amiel Courtin-Wilson, Australia)
Tonsler Park (Kevin Jerome Everson, USA)
Ascent (Fiona Tan, Netherlands/Japan)
Tony Conrad, Invented Acoustical Instruments (Cameron Jamie, Germany)
Where is Rocky II? (Pierre Bismuth, USA/France)
DEEP FOCUS: Regained - theatrical
Accelerando (Georg Wasner, Austria)
L’amatore (Maria Mauti, Italy)
Conner’s Crossroads and The Exploding Digital Inevitable (Ross Lipman, USA)
People Power Bombshell: Diary of Vietnam Rose (John Torres, Philippines)
Escapes (Michael Almereyda, USA)
Mansfield 66/67 (David Ebersole & Todd Hughes)
Por la Libertad (Laurence Garret, Mexico/France)
Raoul Ruiz, contre l'ignorance fiction (Alejandra Rojo, France)
1917 – Europe’s Optical Illusion (Georg Wasner, Austria)
Break Up (Marco Ferreri, Italy)
David Lynch: the art of life (Jon Nguyen, USA)
Epistolar (Alejandra Rojo, France)
Exprmntl (Brecht Debackere, Belgium)
Answer Print (Mónica Savirón, USA)
As crianças fantasmas (João Vieira Torres, Brazi/France)
Conseil d'Etat (Fanny Zaman, Belgium)
Sergei/Sir Gay (Mark Rappaport, France/USA)
What Happened to Her (Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, USA)
Le film à venir (Alejandra Rojo, France)
How I Fell in Love with Eva Ras (André Gil Mata, Portugal/Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Tony Conrad: Completely In The Present (Tyler Hubby, USA)
Burning Mountains That Spew Flame (Samuel M. Delgado & Helena Girón, Spain)
Colossal Cave (Graeme Arnfield, UK)
A Place I've Never Been (Adrian Flury, Switzerland)
Remote (Eva Giolo, Belgium)
The Stability of the System (Sasha Litvintseva & Isabel Mallet, UK)
Tempo of Tomorrow Revisited (Josh Gibson & Annie Gibson, USA/Cuba)
DEEP FOCUS: Jan Němec Retrospective
Heart Beat 3D (Jan Němec, Czech Republic)
The Wolf of Royal Vineyard Street (Jan Němec, Czech Republic/Slovakia/France)
The Party and the Guests (Jan Němec, Czechoslovakia)
Between Minute 4 and 5 (Jan Němec, Czechoslovakia)
Code Name: Ruby (Jan Němec, Czech Republic)
The Czech Connection (Jan Němec, West Germany)
Diamonds of the Night (Jan Němec, Czechoslovakia)
The Ferrari Dino Girl (Jan Němec, Czech Republic)
Flames of Royal Love (Jan Němec, Czechoslovakia)
GEN: Arnošt Lustig Through the Eyes of Jan Němec (Jan Němec, Czech Republic)
GEN: Ester Krumbachová Through the Eyes of Jan Němec (Jan Němec, Czech Republic)
GEN: The Life of Singer Marta Kubišová Through the Eyes of Jan Němec (Jan Němec, Czech Republic)
Golden Sixties: Jan Němec (Jan Němec, Czech Republic)
Heart Above the Castle (Jan Němec, Czech Republic)
In the Light of the King's Love (Jan Němec, Czech Republic)
Landscape of My Heart (Jan Němec, Czech Republic)
Late Night Talks with Mother (Jan Němec, Czech Republic)
A Loaf of Bread (Jan Němec, Czechoslovakia)
Martyrs of Love (Jan Němec, Czechoslovakia)
A Memory for the Present (Jan Němec, Czech Republic)
Mother and Son, Jan Němec (West Germany/Netherlands)
Oratorio for Prague (Jan Němec, Czechoslovakia)
Pearls of the Deep (Jan Němec, Czechoslovakia)
Toyen (Jan Němec, Czech Republic)
DEEP FOCUS: Su Hui-yu: The Midnight Hours
A Man After Midnight (Su Hui-yu, Taiwan)
Man Carrying Shame (Su Hui-yu, Taiwan)
Ne Quan (Su Hui-yu, Taiwan)
Stillnox Home Video: The Midnight Hours (Su Hui-yu, Taiwan)
Thou Shalt Not Self-pollute (Su Hui-yu, Taiwan)
The Upcoming Show (Su Hui-yu, Taiwan)
PERSPECTIVES: A Band Apart
Generatie B (Joost Vandecasteele & Pieter Van Hees, Belgium)
HAMSTERs (Martine Doyen, Belgium)
Japanese Girls Never Die (Matsui Daigo, Japan)
Scumbag (Mars Roberge, USA)
Alipato: The Very Brief Life of an Ember (Khavn, Philippines)
Maudite Poutine (Karl Lemieux, Canada)
nirvanna the band the show (Matt Johnson & Jay McCarrol, Canada)
Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello, France/Germany/Belgium)
A Taste of Ink (Morgan Simon, France)
PERSPECTIVES: Black Rebels
Bayard & Me (Matt Wolf, USA)
Identification (Mike Hoolboom, Canada/USA)
Improvement Association (Kevin Jerome Everson, USA)
Kbela (Yasmin Thayná, Brazil)
They Charge for the Sun (Terence Nance, USA)
Baldwin's Nigger (Horace Ove, UK)
Chlorophyl (Barry Jenkins, USA)
Fonko (Lars Lovén, Lamin Daniel Jadama & Göran Hugo Olsson, Germany/Sweden)
The Golden Chain (Ezra Claytan Daniels & Adebukola Bodunrin, USA)
Hustlers Convention (Mike Todd, USA)
Kindah (Ephraim Asili, USA/Jamaica)
Loving (Jeff Nichols, UK/USA)
Medicine for Melancholy (Barry Jenkins, USA)
Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, USA)
Rebirth of a Nation (Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky, USA)
Reluctantly Queer (Akosua Adoma Owusu, Ghana/USA)
Twilight City (Reece Auguiste, Canada)
PERSPECTIVES: Criss-Cross
Le serpent aux milles coupures (Éric Valette, France)
36 Quai des Orfèvres (Olivier Marchal, France)
Un affaire d'état (Éric Valette, France)
Agents secrets (Frédéric Schoendoerffer, France/Italy/Spain)
Braqueurs (Julien Leclercq, France)
Mea Culpa (Fred Cavayé, France)
L'ordre et la morale (Mathieu Kassovitz, France)
PERSPECTIVES: Picture Palestine
Perpetual Recurrences (Reem Shilleh, Palestine)
20 Handshakes for Peace (Mahdi Fleifel, Germany/Palestine)
And Yet My Mask Is Powerful (Ruanne Abou-Rahme & Basel Abbas, Palestine)
A Boy, a Wall and a Donkey (Hany Abu-Assad, Netherlands)
Flower Seller (Ihab Jadallah, France/Palestine/UK)
In the Future They Ate from the Finest Porcelain (Larissa Sansour, Palestine/UK/Denmark/Qatar)
Introduction to the End of an Argument (Elia Suleiman & Jayce Salloum, Palestine)
Like Twenty Impossibles (Annemarie Jacir, Palestine)
A Magical Substance flows into Me (Jumana Manna, Palestine/UK/Germany)
One Minute (Dina Nasar, Jordan/Belgium)
The Pessoptimist (Mirna Bamieh, Palestine)