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Just giving an inkling of the synopsis here is already, we will admit, surprisingly pleasing, as here comes a story proving that once someone steals your bike for a girl in Estonia, all hell is bound to break loose. Jensen s take on the “butterfly effect”, where a small incident has a huge impact on the future, has Mikkelsen s professional soldier coming home to take care of his daughter after his wife is killed in a train accident. Or maybe, as proposed by some odd data analysts that suddenly come knocking on his door (
Feast Director: I Hope Film Sheds a Light on New Ways We Talk About Viruses
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“Feast,” the directorial debut of visual artist, photographer and filmmaker Tim Leyendekker, centers on a case that rocked Holland in the mid 2000s, when three men were accused of drugging others and injecting them with HIV-infected blood.
The film/documentary/essay hybrid unfolds over 84-minutes in seven vignettes, offering the audience different points of view from the victims, perpetrators, police and even, via a microbiologist, the virus itself.
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A national buzz about the film, running in International Film Festival Rotterdam’s Tiger competition, is such that the director claims to be block-booked with newspaper, TV and radio interviews in his native Holland.
Liborio Director on Preserving Collective Memories and Capturing Religion Through the Eyes of Believers
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Set in turn-of-the-century Dominican Republic, “Liborio” received its world premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam this week in the Tiger Competition.
The directorial feature debut of Madrid-based Dominican-born film editor Nino Martínez Sosa, the Spanish-language film tells the true story of Olivorio Mateo, a peasant who disappears into a hurricane and returns, it is claimed, with the power to cure the sick and take away evil.
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The film takes place as the Caribbean Island was attempting to solidify its independence as well as fighting occupation by the U.S. Marines. During this time Mateo, known to his worshipers as “Papá Liborio” became a symbol of hope and freedom.
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Did that help to get the film off the ground?
Ainhoa RodrÃguez: Yes, it gave it the all-important final push. At Abycine Lanza, it won a â¬7,000 prize, which for an independent film is a considerable amount of money, especially when there are still parts left to finance. At Gijón, we also picked up a technical award, which helped us with the process, and we got something similar at REC, which meant we could send it to other festivals.
At what point did Eddie Saeta come on board the production?
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Like the Berlinale, the International Film Festival Rotterdam is rolling out its 2021 edition in two stages. And like Sundance, the IFFR has a new director, Vanja Kaludjercic, who faces the extraordinary challenge of navigating the event through a global pandemic. As if to up the ante, the IFFR is also celebrating a big anniversary with its fiftieth edition.
While the festival hopes to be able to stage a series of live, in-person events in early June, screenings over the next seven days will be strictly virtual and accessible only to audiences in the Netherlands (though accredited guests can be anywhere in the world). For the rest of us, the IFFR has put together quite a treat. For each and every one of the titles in the Tiger and Big Screen competitions, the festival has invited a critic or programmer to write a brief reflection, and all thirty of these pieces are collected on a single page: Appreciations.