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IFFR presents: Immortelle

4,137 views · Published 26 September 2013 · 18:00 · Indexed 22 October 2026

Channel: International Film Festival Rotterdam – IFFR · 2013 · Film & Animation

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Experimental dance film in which two ex-lovers deal with their relationship's collapse. While the body dances, the heavy heart follows. Directed by David Verbeek.

We see how a boy and a girl fare on the day their relationship ends. Back to the emptiness of their uninhabited modern villas. One in the city centre, the other high in Taiwan's mountains. They are both overcome by hallucinations and strong feelings of degeneration. Immortelle slowly morphs into a study of the relationship between physical and emotional longing.

David Verbeek (1980, Netherlands) studied film, photography and philosophy in New York and graduated in directing from Amsterdam's Film Academy in 2005. During his studies he completed his first feature, Beat (2004), which was selected by IFFR. His second feature, Shanghai Trance, was selected for the Hivos Tiger Awards Competition in 2008. In 2010, R U There was selected for the prestigious programme section Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2013, Verbeeks feature How to Describe a Cloud was nominated for The Big Screen Award at IFFR.

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