The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has unveiled the Tiger and Big Screen programmes for the 3rd edition, taking place January 25 – February 4, 2024 in the Netherlands.
Justin Anderson’s Swimming Home, starring Mackenzie Davies, Christopher Abbott and Ariane Labed, is among the titles world premiering in the Tiger Competition.
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The drama is adapted from Deborah Levy’s novel about a woman who implores the help of a naked stranger found floating in her pool. It is produced by Emily Morgan’s UK outfit Quiddity Films, Andy Starke’s Antiworlds and Giorgos Karnavas’s Heretic with Bankside Films handling international sales.
The Tiger line-up also includes Alberto Gracia’s La Parra from Spain; Julia De Simone’s Praia Formosa from Brazil and Portugal; and Daniel Mann’s Under A Blue Sun from France and Israel.
The Competition jury includes former IFFR director Marco Mueller with films in the running for a €40,000 prize, and two special jury awards, worth €10,000 each.
The festival will close with La Luna by M. Raihan Halim, the European premiere of the Malaysian comedy about a lingerie store that opens in a small village.
Big Screen
Daniele Luchetti’s Confidenza is among the world premieres in the Big Screen competition. The Italian romantic drama is based on the novel by Domenico Starnone about trust and secrets in a marriage.
Other titles in Big Screen include Rodrigo Areias’ The Worst Man In London, a crime drama about the Victorian art dealer and blackmailer Charles Augustus Howell; Sophia Bösch’s debut Milk Teeth, a Swiss-German co-production about a mother and daughter;
Big Screen awards a €30,000 prize and a guaranteed theatrical release in the Netherlands.
The full programme for IFFR talks will be announced mid-January but the festival has revealed that some of the speakers include Italian filmmaker Marco Bellocchio; Rachel Maclean, one of this edition’s artists in Focus; German director Alexander Kluge; and Anne Fontaine, a filmmaker from Luxembourg.
IFFR 2024
Tiger Competition
Flathead (Australia)* dir. Jaydon Martin
Grey Bees (Ukr)*, dir. Dmytro Moiseiev
Kiss Wagon (Ind)*, dir. Midhun Murali
Me, Maryam, The Children and 26 Others (Iran-Ger-Czech)*, dir. Farshad Hashemi
Moses (Fin)*, dirs. Jenni Luhta, Lauri Luhta
La Parra (Sp)*, dir. Alberto Gracia, 2024
Praia Formosa (Brazil-Portugal)*, dir. Julia De Simone
Rei (Jap)*, dir. Tanaka Toshihiko
Reise der Schatten (Switz)*, dir. Yves Netzhammer
She Fell To Earth (HK)*, dir. Susie Au
sr, (Ger)*, dir. Lea Hartlaub
Swimming Home (UK)*, dir. Justin Anderson
Under A Blue Sun (Fr-Israel)*, dir. Daniel Mann
Big Screen
Aire: Just Breathe (Dominican Republic-Sp)*, dir. Leticia Tonos Paniagua
Children of War and Peace (Fin)*, dir. Ville Suhonen
Confidenza (It)*, dir. Daniele Luchetti
Eternal (Den-Ice-Nor)*, dir. Ulaa Salim
Milk Teeth (Ger-Switz)*, dir. Sophia Bösch
The Old Bachelor (Iran)*, dir. Oktay Baraheni
Portrait of a Certain Orient (Bra-It-Leb)*, dir. Marcelo Gomes
Seven Seas Seven Hills (Ind)*, dir. Ram
Steppenwolf (Kazakhstan)*, dir. Adilkhan Yerzhanov
Tenement (Cam)*, dirs. Inrasothythep Neth, Sokyou Chea
The Worst Man in London (Port)*, dir. Rodrigo Areias
Yohanna (Indonesia-UK-It)*, dir. Robby Ertanto
* world premiere
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