Sport Film Festival Rotterdam 2021

The 7th Sport Film Festival Rotterdam, from 7 to 10 December 2021, promises to be an exciting festival with four days full of films screenings, Q&As, award shows, talk shows and specials. Sport Film Festival Rotterdam is among the best sports film festivals in the world. Thousands of film lovers, sports minded people, film professionals, athletes, celebrities and journalists visit the festival every year to celebrate sports films and to talk about important and fun topics related to the sports films, sports and society. Due to COVID-19 the 2020 edition of Sport Film Festival Rotterdam consisted of a compact program, both physical and online, with film screenings, Q&As and the announcement of the full official selection and the award winners. Despite the restricting measures the festival turned out to be a success with sold out screenings and a large outreach online. The festival selects sports narratives and documentaries, both feature length and short form. The programs of the festival are: • Competition of feature length sports films (narratives and documentaries) • Competition of short form sports films (narratives and documentaries) • Competition of Rotterdam short form sports films (narratives and documentaries) • Out of competition (narratives and documentaries) The festival is organized by the Sports Films Promotion Foundation to raise the awareness for and the exposure of sports films with the aim to contribute to the development of sports films, to stimulate the sports film industry and to celebrate local, national and international sports cinema.