Premiere at IFFR 2025: LES RITES DE PASSAGE

We are pleased to announce that the new short film LES RITES DE PASSAGE by Florian Fischer and Johannes Krell will be screened in the Tiger Short Competition 6 of this year's IFFR in Rotterdam (30.01.-09.02.2025). World premiere on Sunday, February 2, 20:45, Pathé 3.
The production by ROSENPICTURES Filmproduktion GbR was supported by Werkleitz as part of the Technikverleih.

LOGLINE
A cloud of ash lands in the waves of a river. Light enters the interior of a tree through myriads of holes. Monocultural forests are infested by parasites and now form the breeding ground for future life forms. A filmic meditation about earthly and mythological passages of becoming and passing away.

As an artist duo, Florian Fischer and Johannes Krell have been working at the interface of film and visual art since 2013. Their non-verbal, cinematic works function as resonating bodies for the ambivalent relationships
between human and non-human actors. The artists aim to undermine dualistic thought patterns that seek to differentiate between nature and culture, the animate and the inanimate, the normative and the monstrous, and fact and fiction, in order to occupy the shimmering spaces in between. Their works have been shown at several international film festivals (including IFF Rotterdam, IDFA Amsterdam, Berlinale, IFF Chicago, HotDocs Toronto) and have been awarded the German Short Film Award and the Golden Bear (Berlinale Shorts). Fischer and
Krell are supported artists of Werkleitz and members of the film collective FILZ in Leipzig. Their works are in the
distribution program of Light Cone Paris and the video art foundation imai in Düsseldorf.