IFFR 2026 Roundup
All the films I watched at the festival:
In Cinemas:
Focus: Marwan Hamed
The Yacoubian Building (Marwan Hamed, 2006)
Big Screen Competition
The Arab (Malek Bensmail)
Butterfly (Itonje Søimer Guttormsen)
Moonglow (Isabel Sandoval)
Bright Future
Chronovisor (Kevin Walker, Jack Auen)
White Lies (Alba Zari)
Limelight
Mi amor (Guillaume Nicloux)
Romería (Carla Simón)
Silent Friend (Ildikó Enyedi)
Cinema Regained
Who Killed Teddy Bear (Joseph Cates, 1965)
TheTrouble with Angels (Ida Lupino, 1966)
Mrs. 21st Century (Katsuo Takahashi, 1970)
Tracing to Expo ’70 (Liao Hsiang-Hsiung, 1970)
Habibi Hussein (Alex Bakri, 2025)
Short & Mid Length - Dialectics
An Impossible Address (Sunil Sanzigiri)
Statues Also Die? (Thais Fernandes)
Last Night I Dreamed It Was Raining Fish (Shraddha Khanna)
Au hasard (Darren Dominique Heroux)
Watched Online:
Cinema Regained
A Philological Quandary, Kenneth Anger’s ¡Que Viva Mexico! (1950) (Bruce Posner, 2026)
DINAMO: Exposure
Roseblood (Sharon Couzin, 1974)
Verdigris (Chloe Brenan)
Focus: Collectif Faire-Part
What We Said to Brussels Airlines
L’escale / The Stopover (2022)
Focus: the Future is NOW
Blanca Putica. A Girl in Love (Miñuca Villaverde, 1973)
Tiger Short Competition
Home is where the heart is (Timothée Engasser)
Last Shot (Parham Rahimzadeh)
The Tragic Movement of the Spheres (Simon Rieth)
Short & Mid Length - Bare Witness
Imagine Me Like a Country of Love (Thana Faroq)
Short & Mid Length- Origin Story
Awake Before Your Gaze (Lin Yi-Chi)
Short & Mid Length- Playing Ourselves
I Am the Film Motherfucker, but I’m Real (MeowX2)
Forget the Director, This Is Emmy’s Cut! (Marion Desmaret)