All Festivals articles – Page 14
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Cate Blanchett shines light on refugee filmmaking fund: “These stories aren’t getting into the mainstream”
Blancett officially launched €500,000 Displacement Film Fund at International Film Festival Rotterdam
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Icelandic drama ‘When The Light Breaks’ leads Goteborg winners
‘Trans Memoria’, ‘Love’ among other winning films.
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IFFR Pro’s Marten Rabarts explains why he believes the Dutch make the best co-producers
Raberts was appointed in the autumn to head of International Film Festival Rotterdam’s industry strand.
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Mohammad Rasoulof says Iranian prison guards asked to watch his films with him
“They praised me for how well I made the film; while I’m sitting in prison because I made said movie.”
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Iran’s Soheila Golestani banned from travelling to Rotterdam to serve on festival jury
Rotterdam has expressed its solidarity with Golestani, calling her ”a victim of opression”.
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Rotterdam’s Vanja Kaludjercic takes aim at Donald Trump in passionate opening-night speech
The festival director emphasised the power of cinema to connect pepole in an era of resurgent nationalism.
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Reviews
‘Dead Lover’: Rotterdam Review
A gravedigger goes to extreme lengths to mend a broken heart in this garish Canadian horror
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Netflix acquires Sundance drama ‘Train Dreams’ with Joel Edgerton, Felicity Jones
Clint Bentley directed, co-wrote with Sing Sing director Greg Kwedar.
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Maria Schrader, Fan Bingbing, Nabil Ayouch join Berlinale competition jury
They join jury president, US filmmaker Todd Haynes.
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Michiel ten Horn on his Rotterdam opener ‘Fabula’: “It’s between comedy, crime and fantasy”
Film centres on a small-time petty crook played by Fedja van Huêt, star of Oscar winning ’Dutch movie Character’.
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‘Rains Over Babel’: Rotterdam Review
Decadent interpretation of Dante’s Inferno plays out in a pop punk Colombian nightclub
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XYZ Films, Blue Finch Films to handle sales on SXSW selection ‘Redux Redux’ (exclusive)
McManus Brothers’ film follows mother on endless cycle of revenge.
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‘Coexistence, My Ass!’: Sundance Review
Doc finds humour and heartbreak in Israeli comedian Noam Shuster Eliassi’s attempts to bridge the divide
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Neon closes $17m worldwide deal on Sundance hit ‘Together’
International sales to commence at EFM in Berlin next month.
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Rotterdam’s Vanja Kaludjercic, Clare Stewart talk festival highlights and funding challenges
2025 edition presents filmmakers, themes and topics “that you do not often get a chance to see.”
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Italian sales agency Luminalia launches with Rotterdam and Toronto titles (exclusive)
Tommaso Priante previously worked at companies including Coproduction Office and Decker Distribution.
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Arthood Entertainment boards Rotterdam Big Screen competition title ‘Soft Leaves’ (exclusive)
Coming-of-age drama is debut feature by Belgian-Japanese director and screenwriter Miwako Van Weyenberg.
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‘The Alabama Solution’: Sundance Review
Smuggled smartphones provide a shocking insider’s perspective on Alabama’s prison system
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‘Last Days’: Sundance Review
Murdered Sentinel Island missionary John Allen Chau is the subject of Justin Lin’s disappointing drama