Programme
11:20 Past Future Continuous
12:36 Pauze
13:20 Remake
15:17 Pauze
15:40 An Open Field
16:18 A Fox Under the Pink Moon
PAST FUTURE CONTINUOUS (IR/NO/IT, 76 minutes)
IDFA Award for Best Film in the Envision Competition
Director: Morteza Ahmadvand & Firouzeh Khosrovani
Maryam fled Iran decades ago and settled in the United States. Her parents remained in Tehran. Now that they are growing older and political unrest is intensifying, she is concerned. She persuades them to install security cameras in every room so she can stay in constant contact with them from afar. Maryam becomes increasingly attached to this virtual connection, only now realizing how lonely her parents must have been all these years.
REMAKE US (US, 117 minutes)
Beeld & Geluid IDFA ReFrame Award
Director: Ross McElwee
Ross McElwee’s films have always been personal. Even in works that tackled major subjects such as the tobacco industry (Bright Leaves) or nuclear weapons (Sherman’s March), his own life remained central. But could he perhaps have overlooked something all those years? The death of his son forces him to reflect.
AN OPEN FIELD (SA/FR/DE, 38 minutes)
IDFA Award for Best Short Documentary
Director: Teboho Edkins
On 10 March 2019, a Boeing 737 MAX aircraft crashed just six minutes after taking off from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. All 157 people on board lost their lives, including Max Thabiso Edkins, the younger brother of director Teboho Edkins. Together with his father, film producer Don Edkins, he decided to travel to the crash site in search of something tangible to hold on to in their grief.
A FOX UNDER A PINK MOON (IR/FR/UK, 76 minutes)
IDFA Award for Best Film in the International Competition
Director: Mehrdad Oskouei
At just 16 years old, Soraya is already creating impressive drawings and sculptures that are as beautiful as they are dark. This strong-willed Afghan sculptor and illustrator has been trying for five years to escape Iran and join her mother in Austria.
