Memory revealed the official trailer and release dates for New Strains, the award-winning lo-fi pandemic comedy film directed by and starring real-life couple Prashanth Kamalakanthan and Artemis Shaw as a squabbling couple in lockdown in New York City.
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.
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.