Le Ravissement
What can happen when a little lie turns into a big one? This is at the heart of writer-director Iris Kaltenbäck’s debut...
All the films (2023)
CLOSING NIGHT FILM
Fucking Bornholm
Two 40-ish couples, children in tow, take their annual vacation on the Danish island of Bornholm. Tensions between and among them begin to surface immediately...
IN COMPETITION
Ashkal
In the Gardens of Carthage—an eerie, crumbling wasteland in Tunis—a burnt body has been discovered. Two cops investigate. Then, another body turns up...
IN COMPETITION
Boneless Lantern
This is a quirky, utterly charming depiction of a place—Yamaga, Japan—a people, the famous lanterns they make, and the slow rehabilitation of a widower steeped in grief...
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Drifter
Gritty social realism is the mode chosen by director Simão Cayatte to tell of Andre (Rúben Simões), barely a teenager, who finds himself fatherless and adrift...
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Elaha
Elaha (Bayan Layla), a young Kurdish-German on the verge of marriage, must negotiate the strict patriarchal norms of her culture and her own aspirations...
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Harvest Moon
Unfolding against the splendour of the Mongolian Steppe, this simple yet moving drama has a city-slicker chef return to his roots and bond with a fatherless 10-year-old boy.
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Mediterranean Fever
This skewed comedic thriller focuses on Waleed, an aspiring but depressed writer living in Haifa, who develops an unlikely and frazzled friendship with his neighbour, Jalal, a smalltime crook...
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Opponent
Iman (A Separation star Payman Maadi) and his family, forced to flee Tehran, seek asylum in Sweden. But Iman has a secret…
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Pamfir
Burly but loving family man Pamfir must do one last smuggling run to Romania to do right by a wronged local crime boss… ‘Savagely cinematic... Highly recommended.’— The Guardian
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Remember to Blink
A French couple adopt a pair of siblings from Lithuania, and then hire a young Lithuanian woman as a go-between. Soon, mother and nanny are at war...
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Seven Winters in Tehran
The 013 CIFF’s first documentary ever tells the story of Rayhaneh Jabbari, a woman executed for killing the man who tried to rape her. ‘Deep, dignified, and nuanced.’—Cineuropa
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The Shadowless Tower
An overly polite, middle-aged food critic drifts through the local eateries of a vibrant Beijing with his younger photographer colleague and takes stock of his life… ‘[A] lovely dramedy.’—Variety
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Sister & Sister
Luna, 14, accompanies her 17-year-old sister on a trip from their Costa Rican home to Panama City to meet up with their father. But they also have other pursuits in mind...
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The Teachers' Lounge
Leonie Benesch is absolutely riveting as an idealistic young teacher caught up in a moral quagmire when a series of thefts take place at her school...
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There's No Place Like Home
Mixing the surreal—David Lynch is an obvious influence—the darkly comic, and the absolutely toxic, Puk Grasten’s skewering of Danish ‘family values’ is unlike anything out there...
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World War III
A poor day labourer (Mohsen Tanabandeh, terrific) is bewildered when he's promoted from a lowly extra to the role of Adolf Hitler on the set of an Iranian Holocaust thriller...
Side Programme
Film Classic: Martin Koolhoven on Easy Rider
Director Martin Koolhoven talks about the influence of the classic Easy Rider on both himself and film history, followed by a screening of a restored version of the film...
Side Programme
Dine-in Cinema: León
As an adjunct to the 013 CIFF, on Friday, October 25, the festival film León will be shown in combination with delicious dishes carefully prepared by the chefs of Ristobar29.