Six films in various Cannes sections were backed by the IFFR’s Hubert Bals Fund or were launched at Rotterdam’s CineMart.
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Despite a positive evaluation, the Rotterdamse Raad voor Kunst en Cultuur (RRKC, Rotterdam Advisory Council for Art and Culture) advises to reduce by 20% the subsidy for the IFFR by the city of Rotterdam over the period 2013-2016 ‘in view of the reduced budget of the culture plan.’
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The well-attended, first ever Curaçao International Film Festival Rotterdam has put Willemstad well and truly on the map in terms of film watching and film making.
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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.
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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.
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Taking its name from a 1968 seven-hour-long compilation of movie clips, commercials, and film trailers assembled by Joe Dante, Movie Orgy is a monthly carte blanche screening series at WORM featuring additions, corrections and inspirations from International Film Festival Rotterdam programmers.
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At the 31st Istanbul Film Festival 2012 the Golden Tulip International Competition Award was given to Julia Loktev's The Loneliest Planet, launched as film project at CineMart 2008. The award was presented to Loktev by famous Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan.
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The UPC Audience Award of the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2012 goes to Philippe Falardeau’s Monsieur Lazhar (Canada, 2011). Goodbye by Mohammad Rasoulof wins the Dioraphte Award.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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