78 Days by Emilija Gašić uses a documentary, found-footage approach to depict the trials of girlhood growing pains in the midst of NATO bombings.
Sisterhood Prevails Amongst 78 Days of NATO Bombs
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Exploring the Outer Edge of Film
Located in the busiest port city in Europe, Rotterdam Film Festival traditionally kicks off the European Film Festival circuit.
78 Days by Emilija Gašić uses a documentary, found-footage approach to depict the trials of girlhood growing pains in the midst of NATO bombings.
Madelaine Hunt-Ehrlich’s The Ballad of Suzanne Cesaire mounts a corrective to the surrealist’s occluded legacy through a personal essayistic structure.
Alexander Lind’s The Light investigates an incendiary art project that used bunkers as a metaphor for Danish collaboration during the Nazi occupation, live from Rotterdam.
Using an Unreal Game Engine to bold and unsettling effect, Ishan Shukla’s Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust is a truly unique and strange sci-fi vision.
Daniel Hui’s chamber piece makes the most of its limited location to provide fascinating ruminations on the reverberations of Singaporean history.
The concluding chapter of Georg Tiller’s Gotland trilogy, Godsterminal struggles to escape from the legacy of Ingmar Bergman’s seminal works.
Science-fiction romance Eternal is pretty good for the first twenty minutes. Then it repeats the same point over and over again, to diminishing results.
Brazilian documentarian Julia De Simone’s first fiction feature imbues the past with the urgency of the present, breaking free of historical restraints.
Hybrid docu-fiction, serious European relationship dramas, and a big cross-border social issue drama, characterise a classic Rotterdam 2023 line up.
This daring portrait of the vaunted modernist artist Munch captures the spirit of the artist well by shaking up biopic formula.