During the IFFR 2012 Awards Ceremony on Friday, February 3, 2012 in festival venue de Doelen, the winning films of the 41st International Film Festival Rotterdam were announced.
Read more »
At the close of 2010, Iranian directors Mohammad Rasoulof and Jafar Panahi were sentenced to six years in prison as well as a twenty-year directing and media ban. One year down the line and Rasoulof is not behind bars, but sat on a couch in de Doelen.
Read more »
Four-year old Nana lives in a small house in the woods a stone’s throw from her grandfather’s pig farm. At first sight, an idyllic childhood. Then, one day, her mother disappears.
Read more »
It was about time someone made a realistic relationship drama and a good gay film thought British director Andrew Haigh. And so he made the widely praised Weekend, about a relationship that starts as a one-night stand, but unexpectedly becomes more serious.
Read more »
On Monday evening Makino Takashi’s Generator, Mati Diop’s Big in Vietnam and Jeroen Eijsinga’s Springtime were awarded the three equal Tiger Awards for Short Films 2012. The jury gave a Special Jury Mention to Charlotte Lim Lay Kuen for her short film I'm Lisa.
Read more »
Last year, Milagros Mumenthaler’s feature film debut Abrir puertasy ventanas, which was co-funded by the Hubert Bals Fund, won the Golden Leopard in Locarno. Furthermore, one of her three young leading ladies, María Canale, won the award for best actress.
Read more »
If you expect Davide Manuli’s film La leggenda di Kaspar Hauser to be a boring costume drama about the ‘wild child of Europe’, you’ll be surprised. The true story of Hauser is enveloped in mystery.
Read more »
Though there may be tougher times ahead, IFFR director Rutger Wolfson is looking forward to a strong 2012 edition, and beyond.
Read more »
Sensational motorway chases, camping in the dark woods or ending up in prison: anything is possible at Michel Gondry’s Home Movie Factory. Last night, the French director opened his interactive installation which enables amateurs to shoot a short film in record time.
Read more »
The IFFR’s opening coincided with the first anniversary of the Egyptian revolution which was initiated on 25 January 2012 on Tahrir Square in Cairo. Director Omar Robert Hamilton made a video message especially for the IFFR.
Read more »
Blogs are getting rapidly out of fashion. Blogs are too long and too slow. We no longer blog, we twitter. 140 characters seems to be more than enough.
Read more »
Flash mobs have become a familiar phenomenon. But did you know that there is a subtle variety called the subtle mob, aimed at remaining unseen? Armed with only an mp3 player this subtlemob takes you on a cinematic experience of twists and turns.
Read more »
Fifteen films have been selected for IFFR's Tiger Awards Competition 2012. The complete lineup, comprising first or second feature films concurring for three equal Hivos Tiger Awards of each 15,000 euro, includes eight world premieres. Five competing films have received support from Rotterdam’s Hubert Bals Fund.
Read more »
The Bright Future 2012 program section in which the festival presents debut or second feature films, will include thirteen world premières as well as fourteen international premières from all corners of the world.
Read more »
The Art:Film Panel focuses on the blurring boundaries between art and film and explores several questions.
Read more »
The IFFR welcomes 78 young film producers taking part in the 12th edition of the Rotterdam Lab. The participants of CineMart’s successful event for emerging producers have been nominated by the twenty-eight Rotterdam Lab partner organisations.
Read more »
Regained, a regular section of the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s Signals programme, returns in a renewed form. This programme section, dedicated to the memory of film, focuses attention on experiment and now also includes special events and exhibitions.
Read more »
The International Film Festival Rotterdam is bringing the successful interactive installation 'Home Movie Factory' by Michel Gondry to the Netherlands. You can now register for the workshops, free of charge!
Read more »
Various flavours of playing: by youths and an artist, including one epic love story. You can now watch the shorts Threesome (Johannes Dullin), Mijn inbreker en ik (Kaweh Modiri), Varfix (Tanaka Kotaro) en The Voyagers (Penny Lane) on our YouTube channel in this month's Shorts Programme: Funny Games.
Read more »
During her stay near Veracruz, the heroin addicted Luisa meets the old, mysterious, heavy-duty cannabis user Salomon, in whom she thinks she recognises a fellow soul. This feature called Paraísos artificiales was directed by Yulene Olaizola and is now available on our YouTube channel.
Read more »
CineMart, the IFFR’s co-production market has selected 36 film projects (from 465 entries) which will be presented to approximately 850 potential co-financiers. Reputed filmmakers such as Kelly Reichardt, Ruben Östlund, Quintin Dupieux, Athina Rachel Tsangari and Úrszula Antoniak will launch their new projects.
Read more »
Power Cut Middle East, a themed program within the IFFR’s main Signals section, presents recent films and visual art works from the region with a focus on Syria and Egypt. The program, a collaboration with Hivos Culture Fund, consists of short films, documentaries, feature films and visual art installations guided by discussions, lectures and artist talks.
Read more »
Winter Vacation is one of the latest titles in the Tiger Releases 10 to Watch series. Poet, novelist an filmmaker Li Hongqi won a Golden Leopard in Locarno for his film. Here's an interview with Winter Vacation's director.
Read more »
Having worked as a programmer for the IFFR for fifteen years, Ludmila Cvikova is heading off to Qatar, to take up the position of Head of International Programming at the Doha Film Institute – a relatively new organisation at the heart of one of the regions in which Ludmila specialises: the Middle East.
Read more »
Actress Aggeliki Papoulia has once again worked with the rising star of Greek film Yorgos Lanthimos. Just like their previous collaboration Dogtooth (2008) - his absurdist feature film debut - Alps is full of bizarre moments and dialogues.
Read more »
The 29th CineMart, co-production market of the International Film Festival Rotterdam concluded Wednesday February 1 in Rotterdam with the announcement of the two awards for best CineMart Projects 2012.
Read more »
After controversial films such as Audition and Ichi the Killer, prolific Japanese director Miike Takashi is back in Rotterdam with the world premiere of Ace Attorney, a humorous game adaptation. Cinemagoers prefer laughter to being scared.
Read more »
Isn’t it a bit embarrassing really? We are part of the European Union, but hardly know some of the countries the former encompasses. In Finland’s case, the IFFR is set to change all that with a Signals homage to Peter von Bagh.
Read more »
Serge Bromberg, a collector and passionate advocate of silent film, will guarantee a unique spectacle saturday night : very old 3D.
Read more »
Maja Miloš’ feature film debut Clip is a raw portrait of the generation gap in Serbia where young teens indulge in destructive group behaviour involving lots of drugs, sex and pop music. So what’s new? The social media.
Read more »
The programme section Signals: Power Cut Middle East focusses on the less known images of the revolutions in the Middle East by turning them inside out. What are we really looking at?
Read more »
For a number of film screenings that were previously sold out, more tickets have been made available. Titles include Shame, Wuthering Heights and 38 témoins.
Read more »
The full programme, day by day schedule, film descriptions, information about sections, etc. etc...
Read more »
The International Film Festival Rotterdam 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, Eric Khoo, Bouli Lanners and Ruben Östlund as well as some 250 other filmmakers.
Read more »
For the past three years, a special leader has been made for the Hubert Bals Fund (HBF) to be screened at the IFFR ahead of films made possible with support from the HBF.
Read more »
The festival will pay tribute to Peter von Bagh by presenting a selection of his films, as well as showing three rare classics from Finnish cinema history that have been essential in his oeuvre. The tribute program, with Peter von Bagh in attendance, will be part of IFFR’s main Signals section.
Read more »
In its main section Spectrum, the International Film Festival Rotterdam screens films by experienced directors and maestros of artistic and experimental cinema. In total, Spectrum is made up of seventy-two features and documentaries from thirty-two countries, among which eight films supported by IFFR’s Hubert Bals Fund. and 16 world premieres.
Read more »
Twenty-two films have been selected for the Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films 2012. Nine short films in this competition will see their world premieres in Rotterdam.
Read more »
Carnivalesque parable about a man’s love for his goat turns into an obsessive drama of fate. Virgin Goat (Murali Nair) is now available on our YouTube channel: youtube.com/iffrotterdam.
Read more »
In 2012 Michel Gondry’s interactive installation Home Movie Factory is visiting the IFFR. But except an respected artist and filmmaker, Michel Gondry's music video’s are considered masterpieces as well.
Read more »
Lucas Belvaux' 38 Témoins is the official Opening Night Film. The Hunter by Daniel Nettheim will be screened at the Closing Night. The festival will open on 25 January and close on 5 February 2012.
Read more »
The festival unearths São Paulo’s ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s low-budget film culture: Boca do Lixo. These quick and dirty productions frequently highlighted the sleazy underbelly of Brazilian society using established genres such as noir, horror, the western, and pornography.
Read more »
The use and abuse of the past is a bottomless well of information and inspiration; but the past also lies, misleads, shifts and remains impossible to pin down. New on our YouTube channel: the Shorts Programme Sliding Past.
Read more »
The IFFR announces the first five films selected for its Tiger Awards Competition 2012: It Looks Pretty From a Distance by Anka and Wilhelm Sasnal, Midi Z’s Return to Burma, Eduardo Nunes’ Southwest, A Fish by Park Hong-min and Huang Ji’s Egg and Stone.
Read more »
Recent films by Chinese documentary makers and films by versatile artist Ai Weiwei will be screened in the themed programme Signals: Hidden History. The films highlight hidden aspects of Chinese society in an intimate and surprising way.
Read more »