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Sacha Polak on the battered but strong woman in Dirty God, opening film 48th IFFR. Emotion is the motto this year

Pain? Strength? Determination? Hope? Concern? Desire? What do we all read on Jade's scarred face in Sacha Polak's new film Dirty God, which kicks off the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) on 23 January.

Festival director Bero Beyer argues that our way of looking at the world is strongly driven by emotion. Hence the new motto: Feel IFFR. After IFFR as a film planet (2017) and meeting its inhabitants (2018), it is now about...

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Leo Bankersen

Leo Bankersen has been writing about film since Chinatown and Night of the Living Dead. Reviewed as a freelance film journalist for the GPD for a long time. Is now, among other things, one of the regular contributors to De Filmkrant. Likes to break a lance for children's films, documentaries and films from non-Western countries. Other specialities: digital issues and film education.View Author posts

Pain? Strength? Determination? Hope? Concern? Desire? What do we all read on Jade's scarred face in Sacha Polak's new film Dirty God, which kicks off the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) on 23 January.

Festival director Bero Beyer argues that our way of looking at the world is strongly driven by emotion. Hence the new motto: Feel IFFR. After IFFR as a film planet (2017) and meeting its inhabitants (2018), it is now about...

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