IFFI

Cinema of the World

The Cinema Of The World is our centrepiece of outstanding contemporary cinema from all over the globe, hand-picked for audiences of IFFI 2023.

A Golden Life

Directed by: Boubacar Sangaré
Country of Origin: Burkina Faso
Language: Afrikaans, French, Ganda

A Ravaging Wind

Directed by: Paula Hernández
Country of Origin: Argentina, Uruguay
Language: Spanish

A Real Job

Directed by: Thomas Lilti
Country of Origin: France
Language: French

A Strange Path

Directed by: Guto Parente
Country of Origin: Brazil
Language: Portuguese

Adentro

Directed by: Javier Solórzano Casarin
Country of Origin: Mexico
Language: Spanish

Adiós Buenos Aires

Directed by: German Kral
Country of Origin: Argentina
Language: Spanish

Alemania

Directed by: María Zanetti
Country of Origin: Argentina, Spain
Language: Spanish

Ali Topan

Directed by: Sidharta Tata
Country of Origin: Indonesia
Language: Indonesian

All To Play For

Directed by: Delphine Deloget
Country of Origin: France
Language: French

All Will Be Revealed

Directed by: Peter Keglevic
Country of Origin: Austria
Language: German

Another Day Of Hope

Directed by: Taifeng Liu
Country of Origin: China
Language: Mandarin Chinese

Antarctica Calling

Directed by: Luc Jacquet
Country of Origin: France
Language: France

Aziz

Directed by: Majid Tavakoli
Country of Origin: Iran, Islamic Republic of
Language: Persian

Bela America

Directed by: António Ferreira
Country of Origin: Portugal
Language: Portuguese

Blind At Heart

Directed by: Barbara Albert
Country of Origin: Germany, Switzerland
Language: German

Brand Bollywood Downunder

Directed by: Anupam Sharma
Country of Origin: Australia
Language: -

Blockade

Directed by: Adam Toser
Country of Origin: Hungary
Language: Hungarian

Ceylin

Directed by: Tufan Simsekcan
Country of Origin: Turkey
Language: Turkish

Children Of God

Directed by: Joan Girbau Xalabarder
Country of Origin: Spain
Language: English

Chronicles Of A Wandering Saint

Directed by: Tomás Gómez Bustillo
Country of Origin: Argentina
Language: Spanish

Clap Your Hands

Directed by: Zhu Jie
Country of Origin: China
Language: Chinese, Mandarin Chinese

Comandante

Directed by: Edoardo De Angelis
Country of Origin: Italy
Language: Italian, Flemish, Venetian and Neapolitan dialects

Dancing On The Edge Of A Volcano

Directed by: Cyril Aris
Country of Origin: Germany, Lebanon
Language: Arabic, English, French

Dauren's Wedding

Directed by: LIM Chan-ik
Country of Origin: Korea, Republic of
Language: Korean

Dignity

Directed by: Dimitris Katsimiris
Country of Origin: Greece
Language: Modern Greek

Endless Summer Syndrome

Directed by: Kaveh Daneshmand
Country of Origin: Czech Republic
Language: French

Extra Lesson

Directed by: Anna Kurbatova
Country of Origin: Russian Federation
Language: Russian

Family Album

Directed by: Guillermo Rocamora
Country of Origin: Uruguay
Language: Spanish

Fereshteh

Directed by: Morteza Atashzamzam
Country of Origin: Bangladesh
Language: Bengali

Fez Summer '55

Directed by: Abdelhai Laraki
Country of Origin: Morocco
Language: Arabic, French

Fight Like A Girl

Directed by: Matthew Leutwyler
Country of Origin: Rwanda
Language: English, Swahili

Flaming Cloud

Directed by: Liu Siyi
Country of Origin: China
Language: Mandarin Chinese

Fog

Directed by: Natalia Gugueva
Country of Origin: Russian Federation
Language: Russian

Fortune For All

Directed by: Yao Ramesar
Country of Origin: Trinidad and Tobago
Language: English

Fragile Blood / Blue Blood

Directed by: Una Celma
Country of Origin: Latvia
Language: Latvian

Franky Five Star

Directed by: Birgit Möller
Country of Origin: Germany
Language: German

From The End Of The World

Directed by: Kazuaki Kiriya
Country of Origin: Japan
Language: Japanese

Giants Of Easter Island

Directed by: Dover Kosashvili
Country of Origin: Israel
Language: Georgian, Hebrew

God’s Gift

Directed by: Asel Zhuraeva
Country of Origin: Kyrgyzstan
Language: Kirghiz

Gol!Ath

Directed by: Roberto Marra, Stefano Salvatori
Country of Origin: Italy
Language: Italian

Goliath

Directed by: Adilkhan Yerzhanov
Country of Origin: Kazakhstan
Language: Kazakh

Good Autumn, Mommy

Directed by: Shizhong Chen
Country of Origin: China
Language: Mandarin Chinese

Homecoming

Directed by: Catherine Corsini
Country of Origin: France
Language: French

Hotel Pula

Directed by: Andrej Korovljev
Country of Origin: Croatia
Language: Croatian

Hungry Ghost Diner

Directed by: We Jun Cho
Country of Origin: Malaysia
Language: Chinese, Malay, Yue Chinese (Cantonese)

Iman

Directed by: Kyriacos Tofarides and Corinna Avraamidou
Country of Origin: Cyprus
Language: Arabic, Modern Greek

Insular

Directed by: Héctor Manuel Valdez
Country of Origin: Dominican Republic
Language: Spanish

L'Anima In Pace

Directed by: Ciro Formisano
Country of Origin: Italy
Language: Italian

Latido

Directed by: Katina Medina Mora
Country of Origin: México
Language: Spanish

Life

Directed by: Emir Baigazin
Country of Origin: Kazakhstan
Language: Kazakh, Russian

Lonely Yurt

Directed by: Begars Yelubaev
Country of Origin: Kazakhstan
Language: Kazakh

Lost Country

Directed by: Vladimir Perišić
Country of Origin: Serbia, France, Luxemburg, Croatia
Language: Serbian

Lucette

Directed by: Mburucuya Victoria Fleitas & Oscar Javier Ayala
Country of Origin: Paraguay
Language: Portuguese, Spanish

Malqueridas

Directed by: Tana Gilbert
Country of Origin: Chile, Germany
Language: Spanish

Mandoob

Directed by: Ali Kalthami
Country of Origin: Saudi Arabia
Language: Arabic

Melody

Directed by: Behrouz Sebt Rasoul
Country of Origin: Tajikistan
Language: Persian

Mighty Afrin: In The Time Of Floods

Directed by: Angelos Rallis
Country of Origin: Greece, France
Language: Bangla

Mommy's Lambie

Directed by: Umut Evirgen
Country of Origin: Turkey
Language: Turkish

Montevideo Unit

Directed by: Tatyana Lyutaeva
Country of Origin: Russian Federation
Language: Russian

Mountain Onion

Directed by: Eldar Shibanov
Country of Origin: Kazakhstan
Language: Kazakh, Mandarin Chinese, Russian

My Aunt Gilma

Directed by: Alexandra Henao
Country of Origin: Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of
Language: Spanish

Not A Word

Directed by: Hanna Slak
Country of Origin: Germany
Language: French, German

Once Upon A Time In The Andes

Directed by: Rómulo Sulca
Country of Origin: Peru
Language: Quechua, Spanish

Öte

Directed by: Malik Isasis & Esra Saydam
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English, Turkish

Palimpsest

Directed by: Hanna Västinsalo
Country of Origin: Finland
Language: Finnish

Rain Town

Directed by: Tunku Mona Riza Tunku Khalid
Country of Origin: Malaysia
Language: Chinese, English

Seagrass

Directed by: Meredith Hama-Brown
Country of Origin: Canada
Language: English

Seneca

Directed by: Robert Schwentke
Country of Origin: Germany
Language: English

Seventh Heaven

Directed by: Jasna Nanut
Country of Origin: Croatia
Language: Croatian

Shame On Dry Land

Directed by: Axel Petersén
Country of Origin: Sweden, Malta
Language: English, Maltese, Swedish

Sharp Wounds

Directed by: Mariana Musalem Ramos
Country of Origin: Mexico
Language: Spanish

Sima's Unfinished Narration

Directed by: Alireza Samadi Samadi
Country of Origin: Iran, Islamic Republic of
Language: Persian

Snowstorm

Directed by: Sabit Kurmanbekov
Country of Origin: Kazakhstan
Language: Kazakh

Sometimes I Think About Dying

Directed by: Rachel Lambert
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English

Stepne

Directed by: Maryna Vroda
Country of Origin: Ukraine, Germany, Poland, Slovakia
Language: Ukrainian, Russian

Suffocated

Directed by: Luciano Podcaminsky
Country of Origin: Argentina, Costa Rica
Language: Spanish

Sunday

Directed by: Shokir Kholikov
Country of Origin: Uzbekistan
Language: Uzbek

The Accident

Directed by: Bruno Carboni
Country of Origin: Brazil
Language: Portuguese

The Beautiful Summer

Directed by: Laura Luchetti
Country of Origin: Italy
Language: Italian

The Bubble

Directed by: Miguel Angel Rocca
Country of Origin: Argentina
Language: Spanish

The Chapel

Directed by: Dominique Deruddere
Country of Origin: Belgium
Language: Dutch, English, French

The Drunk

Directed by: André Marques
Country of Origin: Portugal
Language: Portuguese, Russian

The Fisherman's Daughter

Directed by: Edgar de Luque Jácome
Country of Origin: Colombia
Language: Spanish

The Gospel Of The Beast

Directed by: Sheron Dayoc
Country of Origin: Philippines
Language: Tagalog

The Invisible Steps Through Latin America

Directed by: Johnny Mauricio González Zuñiga
Country of Origin: Costa Rica
Language: French, Spanish

The Land Where Winds Stood Still

Directed by: Ardak Amirkulov
Country of Origin: Kazakhstan
Language: Kazakh

The Last Birthday

Directed by: Navid Mahmoudi
Country of Origin: Afghanistan
Language: Persian

The Punishment

Directed by: Matías Bize
Country of Origin: Chile
Language: Spanish

The Reeds

Directed by: Cemil Ağacıkoğlu
Country of Origin: Turkey, Bulgaria
Language: Turkish

Thiiird

Directed by: Karim Kassem
Country of Origin: Lebanon
Language: Arabic

This Place

Directed by: V. T. Nayani
Country of Origin: Canada
Language: English, French, Mohawk, Tamil

Three Sparks

Directed by: Naomi Uman
Country of Origin: Albania
Language: Albanian, English

Thunders

Directed by: Ioane Bobeica
Country of Origin: Moldova, Republic of
Language: Romanian

Toll

Directed by: Carolina Markowicz
Country of Origin: Brazil, Portugal
Language: Portuguese

Toxic

Directed by: Stefan Vorzacek
Country of Origin: Czech Republic
Language: Czech, Slovak

Twenty20

Directed by: Wong Kwang Han
Country of Origin: Singapore
Language: English

Tzadik

Directed by: Sergey Ursulyak
Country of Origin: Russia
Language: German, Hebrew, Russian

Under The Naked Sky

Directed by: Lilian Sijbesma
Country of Origin: Netherlands
Language: Dutch

Wake Me

Directed by: Marko Santic
Country of Origin: Slovenia
Language: Bosnian, Slovenian

Wheatfield

Directed by: Anabel Caso
Country of Origin: Mexico
Language: Spanish, Castilian

Whispering Mountains

Directed by: Jagath Manuwarna
Country of Origin: Sri Lanka
Language: Sinhala

Wild

Directed by: Shahrareh Soroosh
Country of Origin: Iran, Islamic Republic of
Language: Persian

When Fucking Spring Is In The Air

Directed by: Danyael Sugawara
Country of Origin: Netherlands, Belgium, Germany
Language: Polish