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International Film Festival Rotterdam 2025 Announces Star-Studded Guest Line-Up
The 54th International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), held from January 30 to February 9, 2025, in the Netherlands, will host esteemed guests including Costa Gavras, Miike Takashi, Cate Blanchett, an…
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International Film Festival Rotterdam 2025 Unveils Cinema Regained Programme Featuring 43 Works
IFFR 2025’s Cinema Regained programme, showcasing 43 works, highlights restored classics, world premieres, and explorations of cinema’s cultural legacy. Key selections include Drissa Touré’s "Mousso F…
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Rotterdam Lab 2025 welcomes global film producers for its 25th edition in the Netherlands
The Rotterdam Lab 2025, celebrating its 25th anniversary, takes place in the Netherlands from February 1 to 5 during IFFR Pro Days. This international training workshop features five open-call produce…
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Tiger, Big Screen, and Tiger Short Competitions Announced for IFFR 2025 in the Netherlands
IFFR 2025, taking place in Rotterdam, Netherlands, unveiled the Tiger, Big Screen, and Tiger Short competitions, featuring films from Congo to Argentina. The event will also host Cate Blanchett, Guy M…
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IFFR 2025 unveils Opening film "Fabula" and Closing film "This City Is a Battlefield"
IFFR 2025, running from January 30 to February 9 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, will open with Michiel ten Horn's dark comedy "Fabula" and close with Mouly Surya's historical epic "This City Is a Batt…
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IFFR Pro announces CineMart 2025 lineup
CineMart 2025, the 42nd edition of Rotterdam's co-production market, will feature 20 film projects and four immersive media selections from February 2–5, 2025, in the Netherlands. The lineup includes…
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IFFR 2025 to feature works by Matthew Lax and Timoteus Anggawan Kusno in new focus programs
IFFR 2025 (Netherlands) introduces new focus programs on artist-filmmakers Matthew Lax and Timoteus Anggawan Kusno. Their world premieres include "A Tired Dog Is a Good Dog, Part Two" and "Fever Dream…
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Lol Crawley Wins Robby Müller Award 2025 at IFFR in the Netherlands
Lol Crawley, the British cinematographer of The Brutalist (2024), will receive the 2025 Robby Müller Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) in the Netherlands. Celebrating his strik…
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Hubert Bals Fund supports 12 new features with €10,000 grants
The Netherlands-based Hubert Bals Fund has awarded €10,000 development grants to 12 feature film projects for 2024. Selected works span countries like Brazil, Kenya, and Palestine, showcasing diverse…
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IFFR 2025 unveils four Focus programmes highlighting underrepresented filmmakers and cultural legacies
IFFR 2025 in Rotterdam unveils four Focus programmes spotlighting auteur filmmaking and historical legacies. Themes include Katja Raganelli’s portrayals of women in cinema, Sergii Masloboishchykov’s U…
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Aimless Walk

Alexander Hackenschmied

Aimless Walk This first true Czech avant-garde film turns away from a purely celebratory approach to…

ANTFILM

Tetsuya Maruyama

ANTFILM Maruyama’s most screened work has been described as “Lynchian” with a clear touch of…

Atom of Eternity

Cenek Zahradnícek, Vladimír Šmejkal

Atom of Eternity A love story between a man and a woman unfolds in simply sequences. The man seduces the…

B-Girl Rhapsody

Lillian Hunt

B-Girl Rhapsody Filmed record of a burlesque performance.

backflip

Nikita Diakur

backflip Attempting a backflip is not safe. You can break your neck, or land on your head, or land…

believe in it

Yonesho Maya

believe in it Yonesho Maya’s film speaks with the simplicity and conviction of a child’s belief, as her…

Café Kuba: Who Dared to Awaken the Dead Memory

David Shongo

Café Kuba: Who Dared to Awaken the Dead Memory A mobile coffee cart traverses public space in Kinshasa, where the echoes of traumatic…

Desi Oon

Suresh Eriyat

Desi Oon This rhythmic stop-motion animation revolves around Deccani sheep, wool and vibrant,…

Elles

Hortense Guillemard, Joanna Quinn

Elles Two of the models of Toulouse Lautrec take a happy break from their posing.

From Your Head

Sally Cruikshank

From Your Head This jazzy little film, which pairs Sally Cruikshank’s psychedelic style with Betty…

GIRA 2

Tetsuya Maruyama

GIRA 2 Dual projection Super 8 of a ride through Rio. An enviable beach day flipped literally on…

Goddess Remembered

Donna Read

Goddess Remembered Goddess Remembered is a salute to 35,000 years of “pre-history,” to the values of…

Granny's Sexual Life

Urška Djukić, Émilie Pigeard

Granny's Sexual Life Four old women, reflect on their memories of old times when they were young and how…

Guzik

Teresa Badzian

Guzik An animated film by Polish children’s film auteur Teresa Badzian, Button transforms…

Hands on Tuesday

Cenek Zahradnícek

Hands on Tuesday A witty day-in-the-life of a man, his fantasies, love life and all, shown through his…

Happy Ending

EunJu Ara Choi

Happy Ending With real testimony from a Korean prostitute, this beautiful painted animation explores…

How to Be at Home

Andrea Dorfman, Tanya Davis

How to Be at Home How does one find hope in the midst of a pandemic? Perhaps it is the act of creating…

L.O.V.E.S.O.N.G

Tetsuya Maruyama

L.O.V.E.S.O.N.G A sort-of found-footage film. Tetsuya Maruyama uses a super 8 film of a Jewish wedding…

L’ammiratrice

Romano Scandariato

L’ammiratrice A journalist seeking a career-changing scoop pretends to be a fan of Nino D’Angelo to…

Lake Monsters

Mizushima Hiné

Lake Monsters What does the world need now? That’s right: a bespoke embroidered music video for They…

Let’s Make a Film

Yvonne Anderson

Let’s Make a Film Influential teacher and animator Yvonne Anderson started the legendary Yellow Ball…

Marius

Alexander Korda

Marius César runs a bar along Marseilles’ port, assisted by his 23-year-old son, Marius. Friends…

May

Cenek Zahradnícek

May May was filmed as a backdrop to part of a theatre performance D36-D37 under the E. F.…

Ñam

Elena Duque

Ñam Fruit is one of the pleasures of life. In this experimental animation, various fruits…

Nordsee ist Mordsee

Hark Bohm

Nordsee ist Mordsee 14-year-old Uwe lives in a suburban Hamburg housing estate. Besides trouble, the boy has…

Notes Towards an African Orestes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Notes Towards an African Orestes The director presents takes and scenes filmed on location in Africa for a…

Omen

Peter Rose

Omen Veteran experimental artist Peter Rose’s Omen richly alternates highly treated images of…

Orchids Under the Moon

Ishii Takashi

Orchids Under the Moon Jinpachi Nezu who lost both his wife and daughter during a feud against the yakuza 10…

Patch

Gerd Gockell

Patch Black, white and grey tiles alternate in quick succession. From a seemingly random set of…

Psychic Vision: Jaganrei

Ishii Teruyoshi

Psychic Vision: Jaganrei Kyoko Sawai, a TV reporter, is making a report about an idol singer named Emi Kato. Emi…

Pussy

Renata Gąsiorowska

Pussy A young girl spends the evening alone at home. She decides to have some sweet solo…

Rødstrømper – en kavalkade af kvindefilm

Mette Knudsen

Rødstrømper – en kavalkade af kvindefilm A history of modern Danish women’s cinema made as a collage of excerpts from some 20…

Sandstorm

Seemab Gul

Sandstorm Zara, a girl from Pakistan, is blackmailed by her virtual boyfriend after having shared a…

Scaling

Mike Hoolboom

Scaling IFFR regular Mike Hoolboom offers a beguiling, humorous presentation of cinematic…

Slurp

Florent Hill

Slurp Granny’s poor table manners drive everyone crazy, but her grandson has a solution.

Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! VI: The Hero

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! VI: The Hero Two layabout would-be gangsters become embroiled in a local politician’s plan to drive…

T-Rex

Julia Ocker

T-Rex Sadly, the T-Rex is very bad at playing basketball.

The Curse of the Doll People

Benito Alazraki

The Curse of the Doll People Four men are cursed by a voodoo priest for stealing a sacred idol from his temple. Soon a…

The Little Bird and the Bees

Lena Von Dohren

The Little Bird and the Bees It is springtime and the little bird is nurturing the first leaves on the trees. One by…

The Prague Castle

Alexander Hackenschmied

The Prague Castle In 1932 Hammid bought a handheld camera Bell-Howell and made his second film, Na Pražském…

The Stitches Speak

Nina Sabnani

The Stitches Speak An animated documentary that stitches together a tapestry of decorations and patterns…

The Stroke

Vincent de Boer

The Stroke The painter’s brush draws the first line in this play between instruments. The paintings…

Tiger

Kariem Saleh

Tiger A boy is setting the table. He places a plate with a picture of a tiger on the table. The…

Vento Norte

Salomão Scliar

Vento Norte First Gaucho feature film, made in the surroundings of Torres in 1951. Participation of…

Voices

Joanna Priestley

Voices A story about the fears that we all share: fear of darkness, monsters, aging, overweight…

Xtended Release

Joshua Gen Solondz

Xtended Release 35mm of collaged film material reading like a diary without linear thought or narrative.…