Rodaje de "Turistas", de Alicia Scherson (Chile)Fourteen films have been selected for IFFR’s VPRO Tiger Awards Competition 2009. The line up features first or second films from all continents, and includes eight world premieres concurring for three equal top prizes of each 15,000 euro. For the first time, films from Turkey, New Zealand and Indonesia are included in competition.
The Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films includes twenty-seven films shorter than 60 minutes; the three Tiger Awards for Short Film each come with 3,000 euro.
Starting with the world premiere of the début by Montreal based filmmakers Henri Bernadet & Myriam Verreault, A l’ouest de Pluton (At West of Pluto) and set to close with Alicia Scherson’s second feature Turistas (Tourists) from Chile, the VPRO Tiger Awards Competition 2009 offers a wide variety of topic, style and setting.
The Rotterdam Film Festival’s long history with young Asian filmmaking is reflected in the fact that no less than six films from Asia are included. Apart from earlier announced productions from Japan (Dark Harbour), Korea (Breathless), Indonesia (Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly) and Taiwan (No puedo vivir sin ti) this also includes Peng Tao’s gripping second feature Floating in Memory. The successor of his acclaimed Little Moth was made with the support of the Hubert Bals Fund’s digital production scheme. A total of four films in Competition have received grants from Rotterdam’s Hubert Bals Fund, now in its twentieth year, underlining the IFFR’s continuing commitment to filmmakers from the South.
The Strength of Water, a first film from New Zealand to be included in Competition in Rotterdam, was presented at CineMart in 2002. An authentic and engaging story set in a Maori coastal village, the film was co-produced by Germany’s Pandora Film.
Wrong Rosary, the first Turkish film ever to be included in Rotterdam’s Tiger Awards competition, now in its 14th year, is a love story set in present day Istanbul, written and directed by Mahmut Fazil Coskun. Other European films include Caspar Pfaundler’s intimate and reflective second feature Schottentor from Austria. Earlier, IFFR announced Sois Sage (Be Good) Juliette Garcias’s début from France and, as part of an excellent line up of British productions in this year’s festival, Dogging: A Love Story by Simon Ellis.
The Tiger Awards Jury to select the winning feature films consists of visual artist Marlene Dumas (South Africa/The Netherlands), Turkish writer and filmmaker Yesim Ustaoglu (her Journey to the Sun (1999) and recent Pandora’s Box, both supported by the Hubert Bals Fund, screen in the festival), Mr PARK Ki-Yong, Director of the Korean Academy of Arts and Co-Director of the Cinema Digital Seoul Film Festival, Hungarian writer, director and actor Kornél Mundruczó (his Delta screens in the festival) and Kent Jones, Associate Director of Programming Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York.
The Jury of the Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films consists of Malaysian writer and director TAN Chui Mui (her seven recent short films screen in the festival), Maria Pallier, buyer and programme maker for the Spanish broadcasting company TVE, and the British journalist, curator and artist George Clark.
IFFR 2009 will open with The Hungry Ghosts, Michael Imperioli’s début as a film-maker, on Wednesday 21st January. The Hungry Ghosts also competes for one of the three equal Tiger Awards, announced on Friday 30 January. The festival expects approximately 3000 guests. The full programme of IFFR 2009 will be announced on January 15, 2009 on www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com
The 27 short films in the Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films 2009:
(in alphabetical order by international film title)
#37 by Joost Rekveld, (Netherlands, 2009), 29’, World premiere
Bernadette by Duncan Campbell, (United Kingdom, 2008), 38’
Block B by Chris Chong Chan Fui, (Malaysia/Canada, 2008), 20’, European premiere
Brises by Enrique Ramirez, (France/Chile, 2008), 13’, International premiere
City of Production by Laurent Gutierrez and Valerie Portefaix, (Hong Kong, 2008), 52’, World premiere
Coagulate by Mihai Grecu, (France, 2008), 6’, International premiere
Despair by Galina Myznikova and Sergey Provorov, (Russia, 2009), 30’, World premiere
Entre chiens et loups by Jean-Gabriel Périot, (France, 2008), 29’
Film Far Beyond a God, A by Waël Noureddine, (France, 2008), 40’, International premiere
Ghosts and Gravel Roads by Mike Rollo, (Canada, 2008), 16’
Man and Gravity by Jakrawal Nilthamrong, (Thailand, 2009), 10’, World premiere
Más se perdió by Stephen Connolly, (United Kingdom, 2009), 14’, World premiere
Möbel der Proportionen, Die, by Yves Netzhammer, (Switzerland, 2008), 28’
Myth Labs by Martha Colburn, (USA, 2009), 8’ World premiere (Distributie NL door Filmbank)
Necessary Music by Beatrice Gibson, (United Kingdom, 2008), 20’, European premiere
O'er the Land by Deborah Stratman, (USA, 2008), 52’, International premiere
Optical Vacuum by Dariusz Kowalski, (Austria, 2008), 55’
Oracle by Sebastian Diaz Morales, (Netherlands/Argentina, 2007), 11’
Origin of the Species by Ben Rivers, (United Kingdom, 2008), 16’
Presentation Theme by Jim Trainor, (USA, 2008), 14’, European premiere
Purgatorio by Lav Diaz, (Philippines, 2008), 16’, International premiere
Red-light District Graffiti by Kasumi Hiraoka, (Japan, 2008), 28’
ruissellements du diable, Les, by Keren Cytter, (Germany, 2008), 10’
Six Apartments by Reynold Reynolds, (Germany, 2007), 12’, International premiere
Sphinx on the Seine by Paul Clipson, (USA/Russia, 2008), 9’, International premiere
vie lointaine, La, by Sebastien Betbeder, (France, 2008), 56’
zasto ne govorim srpski (na srpskom) by Phil Collins, (United Kingdom/Kosovo, 2008), 35’
The 14 films in IFFR 2009’s VPRO Tiger Awards Competition
(in alphabetical order by international film title)
At West of Pluto (À l'ouest de Pluton) by Henri Bernadet & Myriam Verreault
(Canada, 2009), World premiere
Be Calm and Count to Seven (Aram bash va ta haft beshmar) by Ramtin Lavafipour
(Iran, 2008), European premiere, Hubert Bals Fund supported film
Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly (Babi buta yang ingin terbang) by Edwin
(Indonesia, 2008), European premiere, Hubert Bals Fund supported film
Breathless (Ddongpari) by YANG Ik-June
(South Korea, 2008), International premiere
Dark Harbour (Futoko) by NAITO Takatsugu
(Japan, 2008), International premiere
Dogging: A Love Story by Simon Ellis
(United Kingdom, 2009), World premiere
Floating in Memory (Liu li) by PENG Tao
(China, 2009), World premiere, Hubert Bals Fund supported film
The Hungry Ghosts by Michael Imperioli
(USA, 2009), World premiere and IFFR 2009 Opening Film
No puedo vivir sin ti by Leon Dai
(Taiwan, 2008), International premiere
Schottentor by Caspar Pfaundler
(Austria, 2009), World premiere
Sois sage (Be Good) by Juliette Garcias
(France, Denmark, 2008), European premiere
The Strength of Water by Armagan Ballantyne
(New Zealand, Germany, 2008), World premiere
Turistas (Tourists) by Alicia Scherson
(Chile, 2009), World premiere, Hubert Bals Fund supported film
Wrong Rosary (Uzak ihtimal) by Mahmut Fazil Coskun
(Turkey, 2009), World premiere
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