Answering the Sun
International Film Festival Rotterdam have announced the full lineup for their "scaled-down" 51st edition, which will take place online between January 26 — February 6. As part of a full, nationwide lockdown, cinemas will remain closed in the Netherlands until at least 14 January.
TIGER COMPETITION
Achrome (Maria Ignatenko)
The Cloud Messenger (Rahat Mahajan)
The Child (Marguerite de Hillerin/Félix Dutilloy-Liégeois)
EAMI (Paz Encina)
Excess Will Save Us (Morgane Dziurla-Petit)
Kafka for Kids (Roee Rosen)
Malintzin 17 (Mara Polgovsky/Eugenio Polgovsky)
Met mes (Sam de Jong)
The Plains (David Easteal)
Proyecto Fantasma (Roberto Doveris)
Le rêve et la radio (Renaud Després-Larose/Ana Tapia Rousiouk)
Silver Bird and Rainbow Fish (Lei Lei)
To Love Again (Gao Linyang)
Yamabuki (Juichiro Yamasaki)
BIG SCREEN COMPETITION
Assault (Adilkhan Yerzhanov)
Broadway (Christos Massalas)
Third Grade (Jacques Doillon)
Daryn’s Gym (Brett Michael Innes)
Drifting Petals (Clara Law)
The Harbour (Rajeev Ravi)
The Island (Anca Damian)
Kung Fu Zohra (Mabrouk El Mechri)
Mi vacío y yo (Adrián Silvestre)
Splendid Isolation (Urszula Antoniak)
O trio em mi bemol (Rita Azevedo Gomes)
AMMODO TIGER SHORT COMPETITION
Answering the Sun (Rainer Kohlberger)
Becoming Male in the Middle Ages (Pedro Neves Marques)
Chants from a Holy Book (Cesar Gananian/Cassiana Der Haroutiounian)
Constant (Sasha Litvintseva/Beny Wagner)
Dawn (Leonor Noivo)
Glass Life (Sara Cwynar)
Isn’t It a Beautiful World (Joseph Wilson)
The Making of Crime Scenes (Hsu Che-yu)
Nazarbazi (Maryam Tafakory)
El nombre de las cosas (Diego Escobar)
Nosferasta: First Bite (Bayley Sweitzer/Adam Khalil)
Polycephaly in D (Michael Robinson)
Punctured Sky (Jon Rafman)
Songs for living (Korakrit Arunanondchai/Alex Gvojic)
Tomorrow Is a Water Palace (Juanita Onzaga)
urban solutions (Arne Hector/Luciana Mazeto/Vinícius Lopes/Minze Tummescheit)
LIMELIGHT
France (Bruno Dumont)
Inexorable (Fabrice Du Welz)
The Hive (Christophe Hermans)
Freaks Out (Gabriele Mainetti)
HARBOUR
Along the Way (Mijke de Jong)
Anatomy of Time (Jakrawal Nilthamrong)
Battlecry (Yanakaya)
Clara Sola (Nathalie Álvarez)
Hit the Road (Panah Panahi)
Hold Me Tight (Mathieu Amalric)
The King of Laughter (Mario Martone)
Life of Crime 1984 — 2020 (Jon Alpert)
The Mole Song: Final (Takashi Miike)
Mon Légionnaire (Rachel Lang)
Neptune Frost (Saul Williams, Anisia Uzeyman)
Prayers for the Stolen (Tatiana Huezo)
The Execution (Lado Kvataniya)
Medea (Alexander Zeldovic)
Medusa (Anita Rocha da Silveira)
Who's Stopping Us (Jonás Trueba)
Tralala (Jean-Marie Larrieu, Arnaud Larrieu)
BRIGHT FUTURE
As in Heaven (Tea Lindeburg)
The Cathedral (Ricky D'Ambrose)
Freda (Gessica Généus)
The Last Ride of the Wolves (Alberto De Michele)