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30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Limelight

Overzicht van films

  • Erbarme dich – Matthäus Passion Stories

    Ramón Gieling | 98' | Netherlands | World premiere

    Impressive, labyrinthine narrative by Gieling (Johan Cruijff: en un momento dado) on Bach’s St Matthew Passion and the exceptional relationship that e
  • The Eternal Daughter

    Joanna Hogg | 96' | UK | Dutch Premiere

    Tilda Swinton movingly incarnates both mother and daughter in this atmospheric film by Joanna Hogg.
  • L’étranger

    François Ozon | 120' | France | Dutch Premiere

    Albert Camus’ classic existentialist novel brought dramatically alive by François Ozon as a film noir.
  • Evil Does Not Exist

    Hamaguchi Ryūsuke | 106' | Japan | Dutch Premiere

    Hamaguchi Ryusuke delivers a mesmerising, slow-burning rural fable about the many facets of genius loci.
  • Exit 8

    Kawamura Genki | 95' | Japan | Dutch Premiere

    A young man is trapped in an endless loop in the Japanese subway in this existential horror.
  • L’extraordinaire voyage de Marona

    Anca Damian | 92' | Belgium | None

    Self-willed drawings in this boundlessly imaginative animation film, in which a dying dog reflects on its owners.
  • Big Talk: Srebrenica. Never Again?

    Occasioned by Quo vadis, Aida?, a panel will discuss the trauma surrounding the fall of Srebrenica. Can we learn from the past?
  • IFFR Young Selectors: Beats

    Rotterdam creatives Xiang Yu, Davi, Boaz and Sara are the IFFR Young Selectors. They take matters into their own hands by organising two film events:…
  • Big Talk Sacha Polak

    Sacha Polak talks about her films, including the English-language production Dirty God, which opens this edition of IFFR.
  • Fackham Hall

    Jim O’Hanlon | 107' | UK | Dutch Premiere

    Downton Abbey goes haywire in this irresistibly silly, joke-packed spoof of English country house dramas.
  • Farewell Paradise

    Sonja Wyss | 93' | Netherlands | World premiere

    Reconstruction of a disrupted dream. The director’s parents and sisters talk about why their family returned from the Bahamas to Switzerland, before f
  • The Farewell Party

    Sharon Maymon, Tal Granit | 90' | Germany | None

    An older married couple in an old people’s home in Jerusalem see friends and acquaintances suffering unnecessarily in the last days of their lives. Th