IPFF - CATEGORIES

Competition programme

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Film portrait

The personality of one human is at the center of the film portrait. The human being as a contradiction: a wandering creature whose existence is always absurd and meaningless, at the same time a creature-universe with no outline, no bottom, no beginning and no end. A film portrait can documentary, fictional or radically experimental. About a popular personage (historical figure, athlete, artist, prisoner...), or about an unpopular inspirer.

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Film self-portrait

A portrait of the ‘me, myself and I’. A film self-portrait. About the world of personal achievements, failures, fears, manias, adventures.

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Collective portrait

A portrait of a number of personalities. They can be a small group of people or a whole nation. The heart of the films in this category is the collective and the question of why is it such. This is a film about a society, a band, a company, a community.

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Alternative portrait

This is a portrait of a stray dog or of a pet. And of every living being whose language man has difficulty understanding. The inanimate portrait that cinema breathes life into is also an alternative portrait. This is the plant in the corner. And the umbrella on the hanger. And the exterior staircase of the building next to yours.

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Portrait in motion

A portrait in a specific form - that of the intersection of cinema and dance, the exciting art and practice known as screendance. The portrait is obligatory, but undefined. It can be of a person, of the self, of a collective or an alternative portrait. The condition here is that the means of expression within the work is through the symbiosis of dance and film, called screendance.

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Portrait-of-a-film

A film portrait of the film itself. The focus is the process of creation of the work. The unfolding of the interiority to which we usually have no access. That which we call ‘behind the scenes’ or the ‘making of’. The film itself as a personality with a life of its own.