Looking for Venera
The full lineup for the International Film Festival Rotterdam's hybrid multi-part 50th edition program has been revealed. Under new festival director Vanja Kaludjercic, the newly-organized and extended IFFR 2021 will feature a new program structure, with competition sections presented between 1 – 7 February, and the festival resuming again between 2 – 6 June.
Capitu and the Chapter
HARBOUR
Accidental Luxuriance of the Translucent Watery Rebus (Dalibor Barić)
Amor fati (Cláudia Varejão)
Au jour d’aujourd’hui (Maxence Stamatiadis)
Bengali Variation (Siegfried)
Birds of America (Jacques Lœuille)
The Blue Danube (Ikeda Akira, 2020)
Bottled Songs 1-4 (Chloé Gailbert-Laîné/Kevin B. Lee)
Capitu and the Chapter (Júlio Bressane)
Davos (Daniel Hoesl/Julia Niemann)
Death on the Streets (Johan Carlsen)
Decameron (Rita Hui Nga Shu)
Fan Girl (Antoinette Jadaone)
Homeless (Lim Seung-hyeun)
Hotele Lerallaneng (Charlie Vundla)
Lutar, lutar, lutar (Sérgio Borges/Helvécio Marins Jr.)
A Man and a Camera (Guido Hendrikx)
MINAMATA Mandala (Hara Kazuo)
Nudo Mixteco (Ángeles Cruz)
Only the Winds (Karim Kassem)
Persona Non Grata (Lisa Jespersen)
Self-portrait 2020 (Lee Dongwoo)
Scarecrow (Dmitry Davydov)
A Song for You (Dukar Tserang)
Time (Ricky Ko)
An Unusual Summer (Kamal Aljafari)
El ventre del mar (Agustí Villaronga)
OK Computer
BRIGHT FUTURE
All About My Sisters (Wang Qiong)
BERG (Joke Olthaar)
Damascus Dreams (Émilie Serri)
The Day Is Over (Qi Rui)
Faya Dayi (Jessica Beshir)
A felicidade das coisas (Thais Fujinaga)
Lumina (Samuele Sestieri)
OK Computer (Pooja Shetty/Neil Pagedar)
Phoenix (Bram Droulers)
Rock Bottom Riser (Fern Silva)
The Son (Noushin Meraji)
A Story of Southern Islet (Chong Keat Aun)
Thomas der Hochspringer (Leri Matehha)
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: a History of Folk Horror (Kier-La Janisse)
The Village Detective: a song cycle
CINEMA REGAINED
Der 10. Mai (Franz Schnyder)
The 12 Day Tale of the Monster That Died in 8 (Iwai Shunji)
All Other Things Equal (Anya Tsyrlina)
Amos Gitaï, la violence et l’histoire (Laurent Roth)
The Amusement Park (George A. Romero)
Ayako Tachibana Wants to Go Viral (Sato Amane)
Black Cat (Tanaami Keiichi)
Camila (María Luisa Bemberg)
Careless Crime (Shahram Mokri)
Charisma (Amos Gitai)
Chess of the Wind (Mohammad Reza Aslani)
Cinephilia Now: Part 1 – Secrets Within Walls (Sasaki Yusuke)
Como el cielo después de llover (Mercedes Gaviria)
The Crown Jewels of Iran (Ebrahim Golestan)
The Deer (Masoud Kimiai)
The Dinosaur (Veikko Aaltonen)
The Earth Is a Sinful Song (Rauni Mollberg)
Everything Is Cinema (Don Palathara)
Fat Chance (Stephen Broomer)
Hands Up Mr. Rasnichi (Hal Clay, Florenz Fuchs von Nordhoff)
Hopper/Welles (Orson Welles)
The Living Heroes (Arūnas Žebriūnas, Balys Bratkauskas, Vytautas Žalakevičius, Marijonas Giedrys)
María Luisa Bemberg: El eco de mi voz (Alejandro Maci)
Mat Magic (Mat Sentol, John Calvert)
MÍR: Hundred Years of Revolution (Haukur Hallsson)
Modern Korea – Doing Our Best the People's Network (Jisun Youm)
Neck ‘n’ Neck (Walt Disney)
Les nomades du soleil (Henry Brandt)
The Philosophy of Horror — A Symphony of Film Theory (Peter Lichter, Bori Mate)
Les rendez-vous de l’été (Jacques Ertaud, Raymond Zumstein)
Sea Palace (Masaoka Kenzō)
La Suisse s'interroge (Henry Brandt)
Tange Sazen and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo (Yamanaka Sadao)
There Are Not Thirty-Six Ways of Showing a Man Getting on a Horse (Nicolás Zukerfeld)
The Village Detective: a song cycle (Bill Morrison)
Vincent van Go-Go (Hal Clay, Florenz Fuchs von Nordhoff)
Bela
SHORT & MID-LENGTH
200 Cigarettes from Now (Tianyu Ma)
À la recherche d’Aline (Rokhaya Marieme Balde)
Aasivissuit (Jasper Coppes)
Art Blasé (Erik van Lieshout)
Bare Bones (Meryem Lahlou)
Bela (Prantik Basu)
The Blind Rabbit (Pallavi Paul)
Le Boug Doug (Théo Jollet)
Easter Eggs (Nicolas Keppens)
Ella i jo (Jaume Claret Muxart)
Home Sweet Home (Franck Moka)
Improvised Objects (Katja Verheul)
In the Air Tonight (Andrew Norman Wilson)
In the Footsteps of Li Yuan-chia & Delia Derbyshire (Madelon Hooykaas)
Jesus Egon Christus (David Vajda, Saša Vajda)
Kaimos (Sarra Tsorakidis)
The Last One (Fariz Ahmedov)
More Happiness (Livia Huang)
No One Cried (Daniel Jacoby)
The Old Child (Felipe Esparza Pérez)
One Image, Two Acts (Sanaz Sohrabi)
P-9830 (Michiel van Bakel)
Palma (Alexe Poukine)
PINPIN (Jaime Levinas)
Riff-Raff (Mariah Teixeira, Nanda Félix)
El rodeo (Carlos Melián Moreno)
Scylos (Maaike Anne Stevens)
Silence (Amirali Navaee)
The Trees (Ramzi Bashour)
Tripsitter (Frederique Pisuisse)
Underground Cemetery (Wisarut Sriputsomboon)
UNEARTH – In Between States of Matter (Anika Schwarzlose, Brian D. McKenna)
Unrendered Road (Tali Liberman)
Veronica (Talita Caselato)
World (Christine Haroutounian)
Pebbles
TIGER COMPETITION
Agate mousse (Selim Mourad)
Bebia, à mon seul désir (Juja Dobrachkous)
Bipolar (Queena Li)
Black Medusa (ismaël, Youssef Chebbi)
A Corsican Summer (Pascal Tagnati)
The Edge of Daybreak (Taiki Sakpisit)
Feast (Tim Leyendekker)
Friends and Strangers (James Vaughan)
Gritt (Itonje Søimer Guttormsen)
Landscapes of Resistance (Marta Popivoda)
Liborio (Nino Martínez Sosa)
Looking for Venera (Norika Sefa)
Madalena (Madiano Marcheti)
Mayday (Karen Cinorre)
Mighty Flash (Ainhoa Rodríguez)
Pebbles (Vinothraj P.S.)
Archipel
BIG SCREEN COMPETITION
Archipel (Félix Dufour-Laperrière)
Aristocrats (Sode Yukiko)
As We Like It (Chen Hung-i, Muni Wei)
Aurora (Paz Fábrega)
Carro Rei (Renata Pinheiro)
The Cemil Show (Baris Sarhan)
Drifting (Li Jun)
The Harbour (Rajeev Ravi)
The Last Farmer (M. Manikandan)
Lone Wolf (Jonathan Ogilvie)
The North Wind (Renata Litvinova)
El perro que no calla (Ana Katz)
Sexual Drive (Yoshida Kota)
Les Sorcières de l’Orient (Julien Faraut)
The Year Before the War (Dāvis Sīmanis)
Flowers blooming in our throats
AMMODO TIGER SHORT COMPETITION
80 000 ans (Christelle Heureux)
Eartheartherath (Daïchi Saïto)
Er is een geest van mij (Mateo Vega)
Erde essen (Laura Weissenberger)
The Eternal Springtime (Vięt Vū)
Flowers blooming in our throats (Eva Giolo)
For the sake of Calmness (Newsha Tavakolian)
Happy Valley (Simon Liu)
The Hole’s Journey (Ghita Skali)
Lemongrass Girl (Pom Bunsermvicha)
Letters From Your Far-Off Country (Suneil Sanzgiri)
Luces del desierto (Félix Blume)
Maat Means Land (Fox Maxy)
Manifesto (Ane Hjort Guttu)
Plant (879 pages, 33 days) (Ruth Höflich)
Sunsets, everyday (Basir Mahmood)
Surviving You, Always (Morgan Quaintance)
Tellurian Drama (Riar Rizaldi)
Terranova (Alejandro Pérez Serrano, Alejandro Alonso Estrella)
Tracing Utopia (Catarina se Sousa, Nick Tyson)
Who is Afraid of Ideology? Part 3 Micro Resistances (Marwa Arsanios)
The Women’s Revenge (Su Hui-yu)
Riders of Justice
LIMELIGHT
Beginning (Dea Kulumbegashvili)
Dead & Beautiful (David Verbeek)
Dear Comrades! (Andrei Konchalovsky)
First Cow (Kelly Reichardt)
Mandibules (Quentin Dupieux)
Mitra (Kaweh Modiri)
La nuit des rois (Philippe Lacôte)
Quo vadis, Aida? (Jasmila Žbanić)
Riders of Justice (Anders Thomas Jensen)
Septet: The Story of Hong Kong (Sammo Hung, Ann Hui, Patrick Tam, YuenWoo-ping, Johnnie To, Ringo Lam, Tsui Hark)
Shorta (Anders Ølholm/Frederik Louis Hviid)
Suzanna Andler (Benoît Jacquot)
Sweat (Magnus von Horn)