The festival likes to look outside the confines of the projection screen. In the Signals programme For Real it is not the cinema screen, but everyday reality that constitutes the canvas for unforgettable performances.
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Recent films by Chinese documentary makers and films by versatile artist Ai Weiwei highlight hidden aspects of Chinese society in an intimate and surprising way.
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The festival will raise the ambient temperature with a retrospective of controversial Brazilian trash, pulp and avant-garde films all with the notorious red light district of Boca do Lixo as their birthplace.
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Television, the internet and the newspapers provide daily images of uprisings in the Middle East. In this topical part of the Signals, the festival examines the other, less viewed images, wondering what they have to say about the Arab Spring.
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Regained is an annual part of the Signals programme which explores cinema’s treasure trove and screens restored classics, inexplicably forgotten masterpieces and films and documentaries that centre on cinema itself.
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The festival will pay tribute to Peter von Bagh by presenting a selection of his films, as well as showing three rare classics from Finnish cinema history that have been essential in his oeuvre.
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One year ago, while the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) was celebrating its 40th anniversary, the people of Egypt started their revolution.
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