IFFR2012
by spamdewit | created - 24 Dec 2011 | updated - 05 Jan 2012 | PublicUnofficial and incomplete list of movie titles for the upcoming Rotterdam Film Festival 2012.
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1. Closed Season (2009)
21 min | Short, Drama, Family
The brothers Oli and Jan are confronted with the absence of their parents. While the younger of the two withdraws into his own world, the older tries to make up for what is missing. They cope with the daily routine - a lonesome twosome.
Director: Irene Ledermann | Stars: Youri Ledermann, Manuel Neuburger, Jörg Reichlin, Yannick Fischer
Votes: 16
2. Nuit #1 (2011)
Unrated | 91 min | Drama
It starts as a one night stand that evolves in a long discussion with infinite subjects between a québécoise and an immigrant.
Director: Anne Émond | Stars: Catherine De Léan, Dimitri Storoge, Véronique Rebizov, Raphaël Boulanger
Votes: 890
3. Nick (I) (2012)
90 min | Drama
Nick is his own worst enemy and he is aware of this. He has a fickle character and he just as easily attracts people as he puts them off. Hoping to escape reality he emerges on a journey to... See full synopsis »
Director: Fow Pyng Hu | Stars: Merijn de Jong, Luna Zimic Mijovic, Elisa Beuger, Maarten Heijmans
Votes: 55
4. Tahrir 2011: The Good, the Bad, and the Politician (2011)
90 min | Documentary
Months after Hosni Mubarak stepped down, Egyptians country-wide seem determined to maintain the insurgency until their demands are met.
Directors: Ayten Amin, Tamer Ezzat, Amr Salama, Ahmad Abdalla
Votes: 231
5. Piattaforma luna (2011)
25 min | Documentary, Short
A group of six scuba divers that specialize in deep underwater operations lives for a period of three weeks at the bottom of the ocean, conducting work on board of the platform Luna.
Director: Yuri Ancarani | Stars: Daniele Andaloro, Ezio Bozzato, Marcello Casadei, Piergiorgio Ferretti
Votes: 27
6. The Double Steps (2011)
86 min | Adventure, Drama
A conceptual reimagining of painter François Augiéras' life as he believed that the best way to escape without a trace is to walk backwards.
Director: Isaki Lacuesta | Stars: Bokar Dembele, Miquel Barceló, Alou Cisse, Hamadoun Kassogué
Votes: 179
7. The Loneliest Planet (2011)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama, Thriller
An engaged couple's backpacking trip in the Caucasus Mountains is derailed by a single misstep that threatens to undo everything the pair believed about each other and about themselves.
Director: Julia Loktev | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Hani Furstenberg, Bidzina Gujabidze, Tali Pitakhelauri
Votes: 4,313 | Gross: $0.13M
8. One Night (2012)
104 min | Drama
A young woman is stabbed, sexually assaulted and murdered in public as her neighbors ignore her cries for help.
Director: Lucas Belvaux | Stars: Yvan Attal, Sophie Quinton, Nicole Garcia, François Feroleto
Votes: 1,435
9. The Hunter (IV) (2011)
R | 100 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Martin, a mercenary, is sent from Europe by a mysterious biotech company to the Tasmanian wilderness on a hunt for the last Tasmanian tiger.
Director: Daniel Nettheim | Stars: Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill, Morgan Davies, Jacek Koman
Votes: 41,163 | Gross: $0.18M
10. Goodbye (2011)
105 min | Drama
Story of a young lawyer in Tehran in search of a visa to leave the country, which is what Mohammad Rasoulof did during the winter of 2010/11.
Director: Mohammad Rasoulof | Stars: Leila Zare, Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy, Shahab Hosseini, Roya Teymourian
Votes: 825
11. A Dangerous Method (2011)
R | 99 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A look at how the intense relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud gives birth to psychoanalysis.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Michael Fassbender, Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, Vincent Cassel
Votes: 108,376 | Gross: $5.70M
12. The Giants (2011)
Not Rated | 84 min | Adventure, Drama
Two teenage brothers spend summer in their deceased grandfather's house, waiting in vain for their busy mother, and running low on cash. To make some money they rent out the house to a local drug dealer.
Director: Bouli Lanners | Stars: Zacharie Chasseriaud, Martin Nissen, Paul Bartel, Karim Leklou
Votes: 1,908
13. Le Havre (2011)
Not Rated | 93 min | Comedy, Drama
When an African boy arrives by cargo ship in the port city of Le Havre, an aging shoe shiner takes pity on the child and welcomes him into his home.
Director: Aki Kaurismäki | Stars: André Wilms, Blondin Miguel, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Kati Outinen
Votes: 23,585 | Gross: $0.61M
14. Shame (2011)
NC-17 | 101 min | Drama
A sex addict's carefully cultivated private life falls apart after his sister arrives for an indefinite stay.
Director: Steve McQueen | Stars: Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, James Badge Dale, Lucy Walters
Votes: 206,297 | Gross: $4.00M
15. Play (I) (2011)
118 min | Drama
An astute observation based on real cases of bullying. In central Gothenburg, Sweden, a group of boys, aged 12-14, robbed other children on about 40 occasions between 2006 and 2008. The ... See full summary »
Director: Ruben Östlund | Stars: Anas Abdirahman, Sebastian Blyckert, Yannick Diakité, Sebastian Hegmar
Votes: 6,555
16. Hugo (2011)
PG | 126 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
In 1931 Paris, an orphan living in the walls of a train station gets wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz, Christopher Lee, Ben Kingsley
Votes: 336,894 | Gross: $73.86M
17. Ace Attorney (2012)
135 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Following the murder of his mentor, rookie Defense Attorney Phoenix Wright must find the truth behind not only her death, but that of an unsolved case from 15 years prior.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Hiroki Narimiya, Takumi Saitô, Mirei Kiritani, Akiyoshi Nakao
Votes: 3,058
18. Back to Stay (2011)
99 min | Drama
Portrait of everyday life of Marina, Sofia and Violeta, three sisters living in Buenos Aires his grandmother's house, the woman who raised her, after she has died.
Director: Milagros Mumenthaler | Stars: María Canale, Martina Juncadella, Ailín Salas, Julián Tello
Votes: 694
19. Lena (2011)
119 min | Drama
Lena is a lonely, plump adolescent girl. Much to her surprise she gets a relationship with the popular but unreliable Daan. Lena moves in with Daan and his strange father Tom and is willing to do a lot for his love. More than a lot.
Director: Christophe Van Rompaey | Stars: Emma Levie, Niels Gomperts, Jeroen Willems, Agata Buzek
Votes: 591
20. Last Winter (2011)
103 min | Drama
Johan inherits the family farm. However, charming as the idea may be, even in the modern globalized world, running a farm is still a matter of hard work, pain, and hope.
Director: John Shank | Stars: Vincent Rottiers, Anaïs Demoustier, Florence Loiret Caille, Aurore Clément
Votes: 190
21. The Invader (2011)
95 min | Drama, Thriller
The struggles of illegal African immigrant Amadou in search for a better life in Brussels.
Director: Nicolas Provost | Stars: Issaka Sawadogo, Stefania Rocca, Serge Riaboukine, Dieudonné Kabongo
Votes: 859
22. A Simple Life (2011)
Not Rated | 118 min | Drama
After suffering a stroke, an altruistic maid announces that she wants to quit her job and move into an old people's home.
Director: Ann Hui | Stars: Andy Lau, Deannie Ip, Hailu Qin, Fuli Wang
Votes: 6,309 | Gross: $0.19M
23. Toegetakeld door de liefde (2013)
84 min | Drama
Director: Ari Deelder | Stars: Raymond Thiry, Stefaan Degand, Hans Dagelet, Dewi Reijs
Votes: 82
24. Shock Head Soul (2011)
86 min | Documentary, Biography
In 1903 Daniel Paul Schreber published the most celebrated autobiography of madness 'from the inside' ever written. Shock Head Soul interleaves documentary interviews, fictional ... See full summary »
Director: Simon Pummell | Stars: Hugo Koolschijn, Anniek Pheifer, Thom Hoffman, Jochum ten Haaf
Votes: 77
25. Grey Matter (2011)
110 min | Drama
Balthazar is a young African filmmaker on the brink of directing his first project, The Cycle of the Cockroach, a fictional story about a young woman who survived unspeakable atrocities ... See full summary »
Director: Kivu Ruhorahoza | Stars: Ramadhan Bizimana, Tamim Hakizimana, Kennedy Jones Mazimpaka, Jean Pierre Kalonda
Votes: 52
26. Verano (2011)
95 min | Comedy, Drama
During one hot summer day, little things happen to the visitors and workers of an old thermal resort in southern Chile. Julieta, Francisco, Isa, Rodrigo, Ignacio, Mariana, Muriel, Gabriela,... See full summary »
Director: José Luis Torres Leiva | Stars: Rosario Bléfari, Julieta Figueroa, Francisco Ossa, Ignacio Agüero
Votes: 66
27. The Legend of Kaspar Hauser (2012)
95 min | Drama, Mystery
Arriving on a deserted beach in the Mediterranean sea, in a time and a place unspecified, Kaspar Hauser is forced to confront the evil of a Grand Duchess who feels threatened by the power she exercises over the community.
Director: Davide Manuli | Stars: Vincent Gallo, Claudia Gerini, Fabrizio Gifuni, Silvia Calderoni
Votes: 1,533
28. Return to Burma (2011)
84 min | Drama
Shin-Hong Wang has been a Burmese guest-worker in Taiwan, but now there have been elections in his country, he decides it's time to return. During the journey from Rangoon to his birthplace... See full summary »
Director: Midi Z | Stars: Jiun Lu, Shin-Hong Wang
Votes: 91
29. Shattered (2011)
105 min | Documentary
Director: Tong Xu | Stars: Tang Caifeng, Lu Shiying, Tang Xixin, Yang Yang
Votes: 59
30. Z daleka widok jest piekny (2011)
77 min | Drama
It Looks Pretty From a Distance.
Directors: Anna Sasnal, Wilhelm Sasnal | Stars: Marcin Czarnik, Piotr Nowak, Elzbieta Okupska, Jerzy Lapinski
Votes: 140
31. A Fish (2011)
98 min | Drama
Director: Hong-min Park | Stars: Jang-hoon Lee, Kim Seon-bin, So-eun Choi
Votes: 60
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