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49th International Film Festival Rotterdam
22 January – 2 February 2020
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Rotterdam, 4 December 2019
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IFFR announces Ammodo Tiger Short Competition 2020
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Also revealed: Short Profiles on Leonardo Mouramateus and Kiluanji Kia Henda
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International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) announces the 21 short films selected for the Ammodo Tiger Short Competition: 15 (festival) world premieres, 5 international premieres and a European premiere. A jury consisting of Nathanja van Dijk, Safia Benhaim and Greg de Cuir Jr. decides the winners of three equal awards.
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The selection is made up of work by newcomers as well as filmmakers who have longer histories with the festival. Among the films by IFFR regulars are Mahdi Fleifel’s 3 Logical Exits, Laure Prouvost’s They Parlaient Idéale, and Erik van Lieshout’s Beer, which was borne out of him winning the Heineken Prize for Art.
In addition, Wong Ping presents Wong Ping’s Fables 2, the sequel to his 2019 Ammodo Tiger Short Award-winning film, and Ben Rivers competes with Look Then Below. Next to appearing in competition with her new short film Aggregate States of Matters, Italian artist Rosa Barba is also part of IFFR’s Frameworks programme.
Other familiar names in contemporary art include Ismaïl Bahri with Apparition, Michael Portnoy with Progressive Touch and Thao Nguyen Phan with Becoming Alluvium.
French filmmaker Isabel Pagliai is making her IFFR debut with the only mid-length in competition, the 47-minute film Tendre, and Ana Vaz is selected with Apiyemiyekî?. Melisa Liebenthal, whose feature film Las lindas won the Bright Future Award at IFFR 2016 and who received HBF support in 2017, presents her short film Aquí y allá. Chinese filmmaker Lei Lei’s A Bright Summer Diary is also selected. His upcoming feature-length Ningdu previously featured at CineMart 2017 and received HBF support in the same year.
The jury for the Ammodo Tiger Short Competition consists of the recently appointed director of Kunsthal Rotterdam Nathanja van Dijk, French filmmaker and previous Tiger Award for Short Films winner Safia Benhaim (La fièvre, IFFR 2014), and Los Angeles-born, Belgrade-based film curator and writer Greg de Cuir Jr.
The three Ammodo Tiger Short Awards come with €5,000 each, and will be presented on Sunday 26 January in WORM.
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All films selected for the Ammodo Tiger Short Competition 2020:
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3 Logical Exits, Mahdi Fleifel, 2020, Denmark/UK/Lebanon, world premiere
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Aggregate States of Matters, Rosa Barba, 2019, Peru/Germany, world premiere (festival)
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Apiyemiyekî?, Ana Vaz, 2020, France/Netherlands, world premiere
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Apparition, Ismaïl Bahri, 2019, France, world premiere (festival)
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Aquí y allá, Melisa Liebenthal, 2020, France/Argentina, world premiere
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Becoming Alluvium, Thao Nguyen Phan, 2019, Vietnam/Spain, world premiere (festival)
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Beer, Erik van Lieshout, 2019, Netherlands, world premiere (festival)
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A Bright Summer Diary, Lei Lei, 2020, USA, world premiere
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A chuva acalanta a dor, Leonardo Mouramateus, 2020, Portugal/Brazil, world premiere
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Communicating Vessels, Maïder Fortuné/Annie MacDonell, 2020, Canada, world premiere
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The Eyes of Summer, Rajee Samarasinghe, 2019, Sri Lanka/USA, international premiere
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Look Then Below, Ben Rivers, 2019, UK, world premiere (festival)
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The Lost Procession, Bani Abidi, 2019, United Arab Emirates/Germany/Pakistan, world premiere (festival)
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the names have changed, including my own and truths have been altered, Onyeka Igwe, 2019, UK, international premiere
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Progressive Touch, Michael Portnoy, 2019, Austria/Netherlands/USA, international premiere
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Sayōnara, William Andreas Wivel, 2019, Denmark, international premiere
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Sun Dog, Dorian Jespers, 2019, Belgium, world premiere
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Tendre, Isabel Pagliai, 2020, France, world premiere
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They Parlaient Idéale, Laure Prouvost, 2019, France/Belgium/Italy, world premiere (festival)
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Tyrant Star, Diane Severin Nguyen, 2019, Vietnam, international premiere
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Wong Ping's Fables 2, Wong Ping, 2019, Hong Kong, European premiere
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