Wednesday 28 January, Russian political activists group Pussy Riot comes to International Film Festival Rotterdam for a talk, a preview of the newest film about the feminist art collective and Jack Wood and Scofferlane concerts.
In the Signals programmes What the F?! and Everyday Propaganda IFFR focuses on current topics such as feminism, contemporary propaganda and political image-making. The...
Japanese superstar Shibutani Subaru arrived at IFFR 2015 on Thursday 22 January. The protagonist of La La La at Rock Bottom played a concert after the first screening of his film.
La La La at Rock Bottom (film + concert)
He is very famous in Japan, the singer in red from Kanjani Eight. Here, Subaru plays a small-scale gangster who’s lost his memory and is helped by a girl ...
44th International Film Festival Rotterdam
21 January - 1 February 2015
Dane Komljen's OUR BODY nominated for EFA Short film Competition
The jury for the Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films has completed its deliberation and announced THINGS by Ben Rivers, LA FIEVRE by Safia Benhaim and GREETINGS TO THE ANCESTORS by Ben Russell as the winners of The Canon Tiger Awards 2015. The three winning directors each receive a 3,000...
Screenings:
26.1.15 | 18:45 | Pathe 4
27.1.15 | 12:15 | Pathe 2
28.1.15 | 21:45 | Pathe 2
29.1.15 | 15:00 | LantarenVenster 3
31.1.15 | 14:15 | Cinerama 2
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DREAMS REWIRED
(Mobilisierung der Träume)
World Premiere
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2015
A creative scientific documentary written and directed by:
Manu Luksch, Martin Reinhart & Thomas Tode
Narrated in voice-over by:
Tilda Swinton
DREAMS REWIRED (Mobilisierung der Träume)
(Austria/Germany/UK, 2015, 85 min)
Screenings as part of IFFR 2015’s Signals: Regained:
Sat. 24 Jan, 16.15 h, Cinerama 2 (Press & Industry Scr...
The Festival Agency is delighted to announce the International Premiere of LE PARADIS directed by Alain Cavalier at the International Film Festival of Rotterdam.
LE PARADIS
By Alain Cavalier- France - 2014 - French.
Written, directed and edited by Alain Cavalier / Produced by Michel Seydoux / Sales by...
New partner organisations from South Africa, Sweden and United Kingdom
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) will welcome 58 young film producers from 24 countries to the 15th edition of Rotterdam Lab, IFFR 2015. Rotterdam Lab is organised by IFFR’s co-production market CineMart, and entails a five-day training workshop for young ...
A good start to the year for cinema from Germany: a total of 43 German films and co-productions can be seen at the 44th Rotterdam International Film Festival which is one of the most important festivals in Europe. Five titles with German participation have been programmed in the competitions for feature films and shorts.
The Hivos Tiger Awards Competition is reserved for first and second feature films. This is where the Swiss-German co-production ABOVE AND BELOW (Flying Moon Filmprodukt...
Programme to centre on theme of contemporary reality and includes Adam Curtis 'BITTER LAKE' and 'GERMAN ANGST' from Jorg Buttgereit, Michal Kosakowski and Andreas Marschall.
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has confirmed the first of two parts of its Signals programme. This section of Signals is to be broken down into four sections with the theme of ‘contemporary reality’ connecting all four, which are titled 24/7, EVERYDAY PROPAGANDA, WHAT THE F?! ...
Projects from award winning filmmakers from around the world including USA, India, UK, Spain and Argentina
International Film Festival Rotterdam’s (IFFR) co-production market, CineMart, has completed its line-up of titles for the upcoming 2015 event. The line-up consists of titles from filmmakers from across the world including the Netherlands, India, United Kingdom, Brazil, France, Spain and the USA. The selection also includes three Art:Film projects. CineMa...
Erbarme dich - Matthäus Passion Stories, Speed Walking and Melody added to simultaneous live screening event
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has selected three new titles for IFFR Live, the documentary feature ERBARME DICH – MATTHÄUS PASSION STORIES, which will screen as a World Premiere, SPEED WALKING and MELODY, both of which will be European Premieres. The unique international film festival event, established ...
43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam
22 January – 2 February 2014
At the Awards Ceremony on Friday, 31 January 2013 in de Doelen (Rotterdam), the winners of IFFR’s nineteenth Hivos Tiger Awards Competition, as well as of the second Big Screen Award Competition and of the NETPAC, FIPRESCI, KNF, and MovieZone awards were announced. On Saturday, 1 February the festival audience favorites will be awarded the UPC Audience Award for be...
Remote Control
On Wednesday 29 January, Lions Club L'Esprit du Temps will give the Hubert Bals Fund Lions Film Award to a promising filmmaker whose film has been supported byIFFR's Hubert Bals Fund and show clear involvement in societal and political issues. In addition, another Lions Film Award is given to a...
Berea
A selection of short films from the African Metropolis project, an initiative supported by the Hubert Bals Fund, will be showcased at Toronto International Film Festival.
In the shorts programme To Repel Ghosts: Urban Tales from the African Continent, from September 5 to 7, this year's Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) will host Nort...
Ben Rivers and Ben Russell’s A SPELL TO WARD OFF THE DARKNESS produced by Rouge International competes in Rotterdam (Bright Future selection) has been bought by KimStim for the US and Canada and by SODA Pictures for UK and Ireland.
The movie has been selected in Toronto, Locarno, CPH DOX (New Vision Award Winner), Torino (Best Internazionale.doc award winner) in New York at New Directors/New Films and in Paris at Cinéma du Réel.
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43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam
22 January – 2 February 2014
On Wednesday 29 January two projects were awarded as best CineMart 2014 projects at International Film Festival Rotterdam. Tabija by Igor Drljaca (Bosnia and Herzegovina) wins the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award; the ARTE International Prize goes to Happy Time Will Come Soon by Alessandro Comodin (Italy/France). In support of the l...
While in Rotterdam, Global Film Initiative decided to make three grants of 10,000 US Dollar each available to participants in this year's CineMart, in support of the long relationship with the Hubert Bals Fund and IFFR.
Susan Weeks Coulter, Chair of the Board of Global Film Initiative: “We felt that perhaps this year, filmmakers would appreciate knowing they had an immediate decision about some financing and we have decided to make that a reality for three of them today...
43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam
22 January – 2 February 2014
On Sunday 26 January, the three equal Canon Tiger Awards for Short Films 2014 were awarded to Sebastian Buerkner’s The Chimera of M. (United Kingdom), Salla Tykkä’s Giant (Finland/Romania) and La isla by Dominga Sotomayor and Katarzyna Klimkiewicz (Chile/Poland/Denmark). The winning filmmakers each receive a cash prize of € 3,000 and a Canon EOS-M c...
43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam
22 January – 2 February 2014
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2014 closes Saturday 1 February with the Dutch premiere of We Are The Best!, the latest film by Swedish director Lukas Moodysson (Fucking Åmål, Mammoth). Tickets for the Closing Night Film and Party are available through filmfestivalrotterdam.com.
Based on his wife’s graphic novel, Moodysson (1969, Malmö) made a wonderfully...
The 43rd edition of International Film Festival Rotterdam puts the spotlight on two remarkable auteurs of European cinema. Danish filmmaker Nils Malmros will be honored with an extensive focus on his films, drawing much from his own life and depicting growing up and living in his hometown Ȧrhus. Signals: Regained, IFFR’s returning section dedicated to the memory of film from a particular and contemporary viewpoint, includes highlights of the documentary series Architecture as Autobiogra...
Heinz Emigholz focus
Heinz Emigholz (1948) is an eminent German experimental filmmaker and artist whose monumental body of work stretches from film to drawing to literature. He dedicated the past fifteen years to completing the documentary series Architecture as Autobiography, focusing on visionary 20th century architects such as Luis Sullivan, Bruce Goff, Adolf Loos and August Perret. At the occasion of the conclusion of this series, IFFR and The New Institute join forces to present highl...
43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam 22 January – 2 February 2014
International Film Festival Rotterdam adds How to Survive…, a program focusing on and broadening the idea of contemporary survival, to its thematic Signals section. Acknowledging the fact that global developments in society are the point of departure for survival films in both contemporary commercial and independent cinema, all ...
Rotterdam’s Bright Future and Spectrum sections provide both an overview as well as an update of contemporary world cinema. Brought together by IFFR’s team of programmers, each selecting adventurous, important and fresh titles from their research territories, the sections provide the filmmakers and producers with the opportunity to present their works to a dedicated festival audience and attending film professionals. Both sections combined contain thirty-seven world pr...
Spectrum
The Spectrum section shows films by experienced directors and maestros of artistic and experimental cinema, offering a diverse and rich range of global perspectives. The 2014 line up comprises sixty-nine films in total, including fifteen world premieres, seven international premieres and seven European premieres. Spectrum includes three films supported by the Hubert Bals Fund.
Five Spectrum films were selected for the Big Screen Award Competition. Among these, world premiere...
Fifteen first or second features films by talented filmmakers from around the globe have been selected for IFFR's Hivos Tiger Awards Competition 2014. They will compete for three equal Hivos Tiger Awards of 15,000 Euro each. Jury chair Elia Suleiman will hand out the prizes at the official awards ceremony on 31 January. The line up includes six world premieres.
Jury Hivos Tiger Awards Competition 2014
The Hivos Tiger Awards Competition Jury 2014 consists of distinguished film maker Elia ...
