IFFB 2010
Edition 2 – 24 till 28 March 2010
Opening film: Nowhere Boy
Dioraphte feature competition: The Girl by Fredrick Edfeldt
NPS Early Bird Award: Kids Might Fly by Alex Taylor
Best International Short Award: Out in that Deep Blue See by Kazik Radwanski
HEJA Publieksprijs: Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky by Jan Kounen
Guest curator: Alain Fleischer
Anggrek Homecoming guest: Mark de Cloe
At the second edition of the IFFB our audiences got up close and personal with the tormented youth of John Lennon in Sam Taylor-Wood’s first feature, Nowhere Boy, the opening film of the festival. This renowned photographer/artist embodied just what we at the IFFB believe in: Film can and should be all about freedom; freedom to reinvent and re-imagine what can be done with a great character and a director willing to look beyond the borders of cinema. Nowhere Boy has since been a hit at arthouse cinema’s garnering many awards and worldwide critical recognition for first time director Sam Taylor-Wood and the films’ stunning leading man, Aaron Johnson.
Guestcurator Alain Fleischer
Guestcurator Alain Fleischer of the famous Le Fresnoy, a top notch art institute located in the northern France Tourcoing, brought his intellectual insight in cinema’s history to the table with a mesmerizing collection of classics such as Eraserhead (David Lynch), Persona (Ingmar Bergman), Otto e Mezzo (8 ½, Federico Fellini) and 13 Most Beautiful (Andy Warhol). A true gem was the restored version of Metropolis, Fritz Lang’s epic and groundbreaking saga, with live piano. Add to that Michael Snow’s short experimental work and it is clear Alain Fleischers vision was a wonderful addition to the festival.
Feature film programme
The feature programme comprised of over sixty titles from all over the world. Programmes such as the Dioraphte Competition, Marvelous Midnight Specials, the Brabantse Beauties and the thematic selection Child’s Eye View, gave the IFFB audiences choices in abundance. Some titles such as Ivul (Andrew Kotting), Honey/Bal (Semih Kaplanoglu), Yo Tambien (Alvaro Pastor), Life During Wartime (Tod Solondz), Mr Nobody (Jaco van Dormael), Soul Kitchen (Fatih Akin) and That Evening Sun (Scott Teems) won over cinema audiences the world over in the months after the festival. Some true gems were shown exclusively for the IFFB audience such as All Tomorrow’s Parties (Jonathan Caouette), Go Get Some Rosemary (Josh & Ben Safdie), Piggies (Robert Glinski) and Metropia (Tarik Saleh). The jury comprising of Alex van Warmerdam, Maria Dinulescu, Agnieszka Wolak and Fridrik Thor Fridriksson chose Fredrik Edfeldt’s Flickan/The Girl as the winner of the Dioraphte Award. The HEJA Audience Award went to Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky, by Jan Kounen.
Shorts programme
Shorts come in all sizes and shapes and at the IFFB we appreciate that. Our selection was a wide selection and our audiences got so see the best of under forty minutes in all styles and diciplines. Be it short narratives, documentaries, experiments, animations, fashion films and what not; with the shorts we aim to give an overview of a global reinterpretation of film. The shorts programmes were a very diverse selection presenting both thematic programmes in a more conventional field such as Growing up Tough, True Blue, Dutch Delights and We Feel Fine; as well as more experimental/technical titles in Animation Celebration, Staging Silence/Art in Motion, Laborama’s Tiny Tales and Lust For Life. With a total number of titles selected of 114 films from all over the world the jury had their work cut out for them. For the Best International Short Award, the jury comprising of Coco Schrijber, Erik Kessels and Urszula Antoniak, the grand winner was Kazik Radwanski for his heartbreaking Out In That Deep Blue Sea. The NPS Early Bird Award went to Alex Taylor for his experimental documentary Kids Might Fly, as decided by the jury comprising of Bart Soepnel, Hans op de Beeck and Dagan Cohen.
