IFFR College Tour: Meet the Festival Director!

With an introduction by lecturer Fraser Robinson (ESHCC), we will find out what steps are needed before the International Film Festival Rotterdam can take place again at the end of January 2025.

Vanja will be joined by programmer Koen de Rooij to discuss the importance of volunteers for the festival.

About the film:
It’s 1988, and Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government is introducing the now-notorious Section 28. By day, closeted Jean works as a secondary school gym teacher, and by night, she plays pool at the local lesbian bar with her partner and friends. Though seemingly skilled at navigating these boundaries, there is a stifling discomfort to constantly maintaining her spheres: Jean assumes careful neutrality in the face of homophobic jokes from her students, swerves casually cruel remarks from her married sister, and still seems unsettled when sleeping over at her partner’s communal living space. As the pressures from the stigmatising law banning the promotion of homosexuality and the arrival of a new pupil reach a breaking point, Jean must confront her timid political stance to decide who she is and who she can let herself be. 

The film full of beautiful, deep, vibrant blues is the debut of British auteur-director Georgia Oakley.