46th International Film Festival Rotterdam
25 January - 5 February 2017
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has announced the films nominated for the VPRO Big Screen Award 2017. Films competing for the award include: Chez nous, the highly current election drama by Lucas Belvaux (38 Témoins), as ...
46th International Film Festival Rotterdam
25 January – 5 February 2017
Rotterdam, 4 January 2017
IFFR announces complete
Bright Future selection
Impact Cinema adopts Bright Future Award
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) today announces the full line-up ...
Eight films will compete for the two awards during the upcoming festival.
The following films have been selected for the Hivos Tiger Competition:
Arábia, Brazil, 2017, Affonso Uchoa, João Dumans
The Burglar, Israel, 2017, Hagar Ben Asher
Columbus, USA, 2017, kogonada
Demonios tus ojos, Spain, 2017, Pedro Aguilera
Light Thereafter, Bulgaria/Belgium, 2017, Konstantin Bojanov
Quality Time, Netherlands/Norway, 2017, D...
46ste International Film Festival Rotterdam
25 januari - 5 februari 2017
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has announced the first titles in its selection for the Voices section at IFFR 2017. In Voices – one of the festival’s four programme sections – IFFR shows films driven by their story or theme, many of which are by established directors with a distinct, assured voice. IFFR will announce the nominees for the Big Scree...
Still from Information Skies by Daniel van der Velden & Vinca Kruk
46th International Film Festival Rotterdam
25 January – 5 February 2017
23 films confirmed for Tiger Competition for Short Films
As a central part of International Film Festival Rotterdam 2017, IFFR Short Film is a unique showcase of a...
46th International Film Festival Rotterdam
25 January - 5 February 2017
The campaign for the 46th International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2017 is ‘Welcome to Planet IFFR’. It is the ninth time Rotterdam-based design agency 75B has created the campaign for IFFR.
For forty-five years already, International Film Festival Rotterdam has been made up of many different elements: filmmakers, film, audiences, professionals, sponsors, awards, volunteers, the ...
46th International Film Festival Rotterdam
25 January – 5 February 2017
International Film Festival Rotterdam unveils the full line up for the Hivos Tiger Competition 2017. This includes world premieres of new feature films by up and coming directors Niles Atallah, Pedro Aguilera and Hagar Ben Ashar, as well as début features by India's Sanal Kumar Sasidharan, American-Korean filmmaker kogonada and Dutch director Daan Bakker. This year&#...
46th International Film Festival Rotterdam
25 January - 5 February 2017
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has announced the first titles selected for the Bright Future programme, one of the four sections the festival programme consists of. Bright Future focuses on up-and-coming ...
46th International Film Festival Rotterdam
25 January – 5 February 2017
The Perspectives section will examine polarisation and fault lines in contemporary society.
Every year International Film Festival Rott...
46ste International Film Festival Rotterdam
25 januari - 5 februari 2017
IFFR LIVE 2017 presents film events from Rotterdam to Singapore
For the third time, International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) presents the ex...
26 promising projects will be presented at the 34th edition of the co-production market in Rotterdam
International Film Festival Rotterdam’s (IFFR) co-production market CineMart has completed its line-up for the upcoming 2017 edition. The selected projects are from award-winning filmmakers from around the world, including Brazil, Nepal, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Ecuador and China. The selection also includes two Art:Film projects.
Filmmakers selected this yea...
46th International Film Festival Rotterdam
25 January - 5 February 2017
Copenhagen International Documentary Festival (CPH:DOX), Berlinale’s European Film Market (EFM), Cinemathon and International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) are proud to announce the launc...
46th International Film Festival Rotterdam
25 January - 5 February 2017
After the Caribbean bestseller Double Play by Frank Martinus Arion
On Friday 27 January 2017, International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) will present the festive world premiere of Double Play with the cast and crew in attendance. American filmmaker Ernest Dickerson (Juice, The Wire) directed the film version of the internationally lauded novel Double Play by Curaçaoan author Frank...
Gearing up for the 46th edition of International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) with an ongoing focus on championing auteur films, celebrating innovative cinematic art and bringing this to a broad audience, festival director Bero Beyer presented the festival's renewed and reinforced team tonight at the Toronto International Film Festival.
To optimize the support and services the festival offers to extraordinary film talent from around the world, IFFR is taking ...
Selected filmmakers Rungano Nyoni, Soudade Kaadan and Fireflies, Bani Khoshnoudi and Benjamin Naishtat
46th International Film Festival Rotterdam
25 January - 5 February 2016
The Hubert Bals Fund of International Film Festival Rotterdam selects four projects for its new HBF+Europe Minority Coproduction Support scheme, represented by co-pr...
Jan Němec working on his last film, The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street
46th International Film Festival Rotterdam
25 January - 5 February 2017
Rotterdam, 1 July 2016
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The jury for the Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films has completed its deliberation and announced Dream English Kid 1964-1999 AD by Mark Leckey, Faux depart/False Start by Yto Barrada and Engram of Returning by Daïchi Saïto as the winners of the Canon Tiger Awards for Short Films 2016. The three winning filmmakers each receive a 3,000 Euro prize plus a gift voucher from Canon. The Jury also selected Tout le monde aime le bord de la mer/We All Love the Seashore by Keina Es...
Papadimitropoulos returns after opening 2011 festival with Wasted Youth
SUNTAN, the third feature film by noted director Argyris Papadimitropoulos, is to receive its world premiere at this year’s Rotterdam International Film Festival, competing for the prestigious VPRO Big Screen Award four years after his previous film Wasted Youth opened the 2011 edition of the festival.
Called a ‘Coming of middle age film’ by Papadimitropoulos, SUNTAN stars Greek actor Ma...
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) will welcome 61 promising emerging film producers from 26 countries to the 16th edition of Rotterdam Lab. Rotterdam Lab is organised by IFFR’s co-production market CineMart in close collaboration with various partner organisations involved in the training of beginning producers, as well as funding bodies.
Rotterdam Lab is a five-day training workshop for emerging producers designed to provide the means to create and expand their internati...
During the first week of IFFR, the Filmmakers Hub organizes and hosts a series of panels and debates. Top industry professionals and experts attending the festival and CineMart will share their experiences with other professionals and dispense important advice to up-and-coming filmmakers.
The panels are informal, yet highly instructive, and are a great forum for filmmakers to get their questions answered and for Industry pros to meet new talent. The Tiger Pro Panels and Debates ...
45th International Film Festival Rotterdam
27 January – 7 February 2016
From the 45th edition of International Film Festival Rotterdam onwards, all the awards that can be won at the festival will be presented at the revamped Awards Ceremony. The ceremony will be hosted by journalist and documentary maker Fidan Ekiz. Some awards remain the same, other prizes have been renewed, and the Bright Future Award will be awarded for the first time this year.
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IFFR Live returns in 2016 with five films in more than forty cinemas. Five films that will have their premieres during the 45th International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) will simultaneously screen in more than forty cinemas worldwide, in addition to live online audiences.
Like last year, filmmakers will be present at the premieres in Rotterdam. All viewers, whether in a cinema in the Netherlands, England, Italy, Poland, Canada or elsewhere in the world, can take part in the Q&A...
image: Las Lindas (Melisa Liebenthal) - ID: gender.net
Every year, International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) devotes attention to significant social and current themes through its films, debates, special guests and sidebar programming. This year, the festival’s themed programme is ID Check. This theme will be reflected in specific programmes within the festival’s four sections.
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Film talent inspired by post-war reconstruction
The theme for the city of Rotterdam in 2016 is Rotterdam Celebrates the City! Inspired by 75 years of reconstruction, we will be celebrating the city we know today and looking to the future. As part of this programme, International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) presents the project This Is Where Reconstruction Starts. Six young, leading international filmmakers were asked to make a short fiction or creative essay film around themes concerni...
Projects from award-winning filmmakers from around the world, including Australia, China, Brazil, UK, Lebanon and USA.
International Film Festival Rotterdam’s (IFFR) co-production market CineMart has completed its line-up for the upcoming 2016 edition. The line-up consists of titles from filmmakers from across the world, including the Netherlands, Australia, China, Brazil, the UK, Lebanon, France and the USA. The selection also includes two Art:Film projects.
Filmmakers selecte...
