Les Rites de Passage by Florian Fischer and Johannes Krell celebrated its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. The experimental short film was shown in three sold-out screenings as part of the Tiger Short Competition programme.
We could not have wished for a better place for our film’s world premiere! IFFR audiences bring an extraordinary openness to experimental forms.
In Les Rites de Passage, natural processes merge with cultural narratives. The film shows the slow decay of monocultural forests, the traces of a fossil past and ritual acts that have endured for millennia. Through precisely composed images, plays of light and minimalist layers of sound, it becomes a cinematic reflection on transience, transformation and humanity’s relationship with the environment.
Les Rites de Passage is a production by ROSENPICTURES Filmproduktion GbR, supported by the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony, the Saxon State Authority for Private Broadcasting and New Media (SLM) and FFA reference funding.
