International Film Festival Rotterdam

The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) welcomes some 2,500
professional guests this year. Filmmakers expected to attend include
Michel Gondry, Wang Xiaoshuai, Lucas Belvaux, Miike Takashi, Mohammad
Rasoulof, Tsukamoto Shinya, Aki Kaurismäki, Andrea Arnold, Steve
McQueen, Julió Bressane, Kobayashi Masahiro, Eric Khoo, Bouli Lanners,
Ruben Östlund and Garin Nugroho as well as some 250 other filmmakers.

Actors expected to attend include Sophie Quinton and Nicole Garcia, for
their roles in Lucas Belvaux's 38 Témoins which opens IFFR 2012 as a
world premiere; Silvia Calderoni and Elisa Sednaoui (also top fashion
model for recent Armani and Cavalli campaigns), for their roles in
Davide Manuli's La leggenda di Kaspar Hauser; Aggeliki Papoulia, for her
role in Alps by Yorgos Lanthimos; Niels Gomperts and Jeroen Willems,
for their roles in Christophe van Rompaey's Lena.

CineMart,
IFFR's co-production market that takes place January 29 - February 1,
will be attended by some 800 delegates (sales agents, distributors and
funding bodies) from seventy countries as well as by the filmmakers and
producers from the thirty-six CineMart Projects 2012.

Counting 341,000 audience visits for its 2011 edition, the International
Film Festival Rotterdam is one of the largest film festivals worldwide.