International Film Festival Rotterdam

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Heretic acquires sales rights to Rotterdam Tiger title ‘Wind, Talk To Me’ (exclusive)

Film received a special mention at last year’s Les Arcs Industry Village.

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Rotterdam 2025 unveils opening and closing films

Dutch filmmaker Michiel ten Horn’s ‘Fabula’ will open IFFR.

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Rotterdam unveils line-up for 2025 CineMart project market

Projects by directors including Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk, Cheryl Dunyeare and Ashim Ahuwalia are among the 2025 line-up

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Rotterdam adds 11 films to Harbour, Limelight and Bright Future strands

Festival will also honour The Brutalist cinematographer Lol Crawley.

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Rotterdam-bound ‘Acts Of Love’ acquired for world sales (exclusive)

Film will have world premiere in Rotterdam’s Harbour strand.

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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.

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‘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

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‘Greice’: Rotterdam Review

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