International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has confirmed its line-up for the Hivos Tiger Awards Competition 2015, with 13 projects by first and second time feature filmmakers from across the world competing for three prizes of €15,000 each, awarded by the Festival’s five Tiger jury members. From its inception in 1995, the Competition has been dedicated to discovering, celebrating and awarding emerging international film talent which this year includes Laura Citarella & Verónica Llinás, who will represent Argentina with LA MUJER DE LOS PERROS, Danish director Jeppe Rønde presenting his new filmBRIDGEND, British director Martin Radich who will be in attendance with NORFOLK and Thai director Jakrawal Nilthamrong who will be in Rotterdam to present his film VANISHING POINT. Eleven of the thirteen competing films will receive their World Premieres at IFFR with the remaining two films screening as International Premieres.
LA MUJER DE LOS PERROS and VANISHING POINT were both partly financed by IFFR’s Hubert Bals Fund (HBF) in addition to three other films competing for this year’s Hivos Tiger Awards, ANOTHER TRIP TO THE MOON by Ismail Basbeth, LA OBRA DEL SIGLO by Carlos Quintela andVIDEOPHILIA (AND OTHER VIRAL SYNDROMES) by Juan Daniel Fernández Molero.
The Hivos Tiger Awards jury is comprised of acclaimed stage and screen actress Johanna ter Steege, director of the Filmoteca Española Jose Maria Prado Garcia, Dutch born, Australian auteur Rolf de Heer, award winning Japanese producer Shozo Ichiyama and former Tiger Award winning director Maja Miloš. The winners, selected by the jury, will be announced at the Hivos Tiger Award Ceremony on Friday, January 30th.
On making the announcement Festival director Rutger Wolfson commented “We are thrilled to be welcoming such talented young filmmakers to present their films here at IFFR. They demonstrate an ever developing cinematic language, dealing with increasingly difficult but relevant subject matter in a consistently meaningful way. We are honoured that so many will be seen here by an audience for the very first time within the Hivos Tiger Awards Competition which epitomizes IFFR’s dedication to bringing great films from all over the world to a wide audience.”
Above and Below is a rough and rhythmic roller coaster ride seating five survivors in their daily hustle through an apocalyptic world. A mind-blowing, cinematic exploration of contemporary existence in the US.
The magical surrealist journey of Asa, daughter of a shaman, who confronts her own mother, fighting for her own life and freedom.
Over a 5-year period in Bridgend in Wales, 79 people, many of them teenagers, committed suicide without leaving any clue as to why. This is the starting point for this mysterious social drama. Hannah Murray convinces as the 'new girl in town' in Danish Rønde’s feature debut.
Social drama about the oppressive relationship between a father and a son who, as modern outlaws, struggle to survive in the depleted Dutch province of Limburg.
Haruko is a girl who prefers to cuddle up to her old-fashioned TV set. In this wondrous story, a television can transform into a man: and this is by no means the end of the strange cheerfulness.
A man who doesn’t know who he is meets his former love. She tells him he is a famous poet, Kostas Karyotakis, who killed himself in 1928. Every year he returns on the anniversary of his death.
The protagonist of Dog Lady is a woman (Llinás) who lives on the outskirts of Buenos Aires with a pack of dogs, in a house like so many other humble shacks in the urban sprawl of the city.
Norfolk is a haunting thriller about a reclusive father and son whose close relationship is threatened when the father’s violent past catches up with them.
Three Cuban men, obliged by circumstance to live together under the same roof, pass their days in the ElectroNuclear City.
In the company of housewives, professionals and a retired tennis instructor, Hernán is part of a middle-class community that is preparing for the eventual arrival of the end of the world at a holiday resort in the marshy Tigre delta.
Combustible dreams fail to ignite as lonely, middle-aged, Dawn is confronted by lost love in a glorified-pit-stop town.
A drama depicting life in different paths. As two men delve deep down in search for what could heal their pains, through the path of imagination, they see themselves in each other.
Internet cafés and slackers, not-so-innocent schoolgirls and amateur porn using Google Glass: things in Lima, the Peruvian capital, are pretty similar to contemporary reality, virtual or otherwise, in the rest of the world. Cinema meets digital psychedelia.
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) offers a high quality line-up of carefully selected fiction and documentary feature films, short films and media art. The festival's Tiger Awards Competitions, Bright Future, Spectrum and Limelight sections contain new work by auteurs from all over the world only including many World Premieres. In the Signals section, IFFR presents retrospectives and themed programmes. IFFR actively supports new and adventurous filmmaking talent through numerous industry initiatives including co-production market CineMart, its Hubert Bals Fund and Rotterdam Lab.
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