Clair Titley’s The Contestant will open the 14th DOC NYC, America’s largest documentary festival — running in-person November 8-16 and continuing online through November 26, presenting more than 105 feature-length documentaries .
The Spectre of Boko Haram (The Ghost of Boko Haram) (Le spectre de Boko Haram) (2023)
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Le Spectre de Boko Haram wins Tiger Award at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2023
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2023 Tiger Competition winners and IFFR Board of Directors Le spectre de Boko Haram by Cyrielle Raingou (Cameroon, France) wins the Tiger Award at the 52nd International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). In her debut feature, Cyrielle Raingou follows a group of children as they carve out their own worlds amid the dangers of armed conflict. We meet the precocious Falta, studious and hardworking, eager to process her father’s death in a terrorist attack. Her classmate, Ibrahim, and his older brother Mohamad struggle with balancing their boyhood energy and a traumatic past that strays them from their eight and 11-year-old innocence.
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International Film Festival Rotterdam 2023 Reveals Opening + Closing films, Steve McQueen Exhibition, and Tiger Competition Lineup
Munch directed by Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken’s multi-layered essay on Edvard Munch’s life and art, Munch – a surprising mix of classical cinema and formal experiment, will open the 2023 International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) on Wednesday 25 January, 2023.