The Film Archives of CIFF

Browse through the variety of films CIFF has hosted over the last fifty years.
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(Otto)

2017 Festival
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Country(ies): Netherlands
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A woman who can't have children steals the imaginary friend of a little girl and keeps this a secret from her husband.
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2023 Festival
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Country(ies): United Kingdom
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An exploration of the internal journey of a Black woman dealing with the weight of personal, collective and ancestral trauma on the path to healing. With themes of slavery, racism, trauma and claustrophobia this piece fuses contemporary dance with latest Unreal Engine and LED technology.
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2025 Festival
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Country(ies): USA
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Two people on a first date mask and ignore their insecurities until an event forces them to say what they're really thinking.
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& Teller 2

2009 Festival
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Language: English
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Country(ies): USA
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With the whole world dead, will love still find a way?
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#twitterkills

2014 Festival
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Country(ies): USA
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A lonely Zoe (Sunah Bilsted)—whose only friends are the 6,669 imaginary ones on twitter—and her self-centered sister (Sarah Paulson), uses social media to construct a perfect public persona. But creating a fake life has consequences and she's got a lesson to learn... that no good lie goes unpunished.
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#uploading_holocaust

2017 Festival
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Language: English, German, Hebrew
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Country(ies): Germany
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A multimedia web project that asks how relevant the Holocaust is today for teenagers of the fourth generation. By combining Youtube videos from Israeli students with an interactive questionnaire, the project confronts the users with their attitude towards the Holocaust. #uploading_holocaust enables the users to get in touch with the Israeli teenagers to start a dialogue across borders. Part of the Perspectives exhibition for immersive storytelling, featuring Interactive Media, Virtual Reality, and more.
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2004 Festival
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Language: Other Language(s)
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Country(ies): USA
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The De La Salle High Spartans, from Concord, California possess the longest number of consecutive victories in the record books - 125 games, and counting. Not a loss since 1991. Some have half-seriously worried whether grief counselors should be summoned when the Spartans ever come out second-best. Despite all the hype, the school, a Catholic institution, strives to instill values and responsibility in the students and not let The Streak turn into a media and…
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1,000 MILES FROM NOWHERE

1998 Festival
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Country(ies): USA
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A certain Cleveland daily newspaper once printed a map of the state of Ohio with vast regions of the south and southeast grayed out. "Nothing every happens here," read the snide caption," and nothing ever will." 1,000 MILES FROM NOWHERE is a small gem from that much-neglected territory of a rural America, a moving-picture postcard from an upper Appalachian community where string ties and cowboy hats never go out of style, and even a small…
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10+4

2008 Festival
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Language: Farsi
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Country(ies): Iran
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In what can be considered a sequel to Abbas Kiarostami's award-winning masterpiece "10," in which she starred, Mania Akbari reprises her role as a strong woman dealing with the everyday struggles of life in modern Tehran. The main difference we find here is that Akbari is now dealing with breast cancer. Borrowing the documentary style of the previous film, Akbari takes us on her journey through chemotherapy and her coping with the same daily grind,…