International Film Festival Rotterdam

Sorcery

Christopher Murray, Kamila Andini and Muayad Alayan projects receive Hubert Bals Fund backing

International Film Festival Rotterdam’s fund back 12 feature film projects through its Development Support scheme

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Rotterdam to hold retrospectives of Katja Raganelli and Sergii Masloboishchykov

Festival’s 2025 Focus programme also explores legacy of VHS culture and tribute to Bandung Conference.

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Rotterdam selects 13 world premieres in first wave of Bright Future, Harbour films

Titles include Lilly Hu’s ‘One Girl Infinite’, executive-produced by Eric Roth.

Tenement

Rotterdam premiere ‘Tenement’ sells to North America (exclusive)

Psychological horror thriller is debut feature from Cambodian writer-directors Inrasothythep Neth and Sokyou Chea.

Marten Rabarts

Rotterdam names Marten Rabarts as head of IFFR Pro

Veteran exec previously worked at New Zealand Film Festival and Binger Filmlab.

HBF 2024

Erige Sehiri, Danielle Arbid projects awarded Hubert Bals funding

Ten European projects have each been awarded €60,000  co-production and post-production.

Eternal

New Europe agrees US deal for sci-fi romance ‘Eternal’, boards Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s ‘Hot Spot’ (exclusive)

’Eternal’ world premiered at Rotterdam, while ‘Hot Spot’ is set to shoot later this year

Green Border

Agnieszka Holland’s ‘Green Border’ wins Rotterdam audience award

IFFR recorded 253,500 visits across its programme of films, art installations and talks for its 2024 edition.

'Rei'

Japanese debut ‘Rei’ leads Rotterdam winners

Special jury awards of €10,000 each were given to Midhun Murali’s ’Kiss Wagon’ and Jaydon Martin’s ’Flathead’.

'Rei'

‘Rei’: Rotterdam Review

Rotterdam’s Tiger winner is an ambitious debut from actor-turned-filmmaker Toshihiko Tanaka

The Old Bachelor

‘The Old Bachelor’: Rotterdam Review

Rotterdam Big Screen winner is a vision of Iran rarely seen on screen

Madame Luna

‘Madame Luna’: Rotterdam Review

Daniel Espinosa returns with this stirring drama about an Eritrean refugee doing everything she can to survive in Calabria

Portrait Of A Certain Orient

‘Portrait Of A Certain Orient’: Rotterdam Review

A brother and sister depart 1940s Lebanon for a new life in Brazil in the latest from Marcelo Gomes

Griece

‘Greice’: Rotterdam Review

A Brazilian student in Lisbon spins a web of white lies in this mild-mannered comedy