The online entry form for the 40th festival edition in 2011 is now available.
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For the fourth round of New Arrivals, two shorts have taken the month's victory: Battery Cage and Aurore. Watch the winners and other nominated shorts.
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In her latest blog entry programmer Ludmila Cvikova reports about her visit to Jan Svankmajer's studio in the Czech Republic.
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The IFFR congratulates Palme d'Or winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul. His Uncle Boonmee was supported by the Hubert Bals Fund for script development in 2008.
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The selected projects receive grants for script development, digital production, postproduction, distribution or workshops.
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IFFR's focus on Africa this year was prompted by that continent's striking absence from the international film festival scene.
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The Prince Claus Fund pitches in to aid film-school reconstruction in Haiti.
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Find out how to buy an IFFR 2010 catalogue online.
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IFFR 2010's Cinema Reloaded proposes a radical new model of crowd-sourced production funding.
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There was great excitement as the inaugural Durban FilmMart (DFM) ended, with the announcement of the winner of the Hubert Bals Fund Award in the ‘Specialist Projects’ category.
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Programmer Gertjan Zuilhof went ahead of his African filmmakers to
China to test the water. He settled down in the artist town Songzhuang
and hoped the best for the visa's of the Africans.
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The HBF and Netherlands Film Fund announce 4 international co-productions that will each receive a grant of €50,000.
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The third shorts compilation programme on our YouTube channel offers an animated dog and love letters in China and India.
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Inspired by the growing influence of China in some African countries, the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) asks seven filmmakers from South Africa, Cameroon, Uganda, Rwanda, Congo and Angola to make films in China.
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The beginning of July marks the offcial start of the Cinema Mondial Tour: a joint film programme initiated by the Hubert Bals Fund and Jan Vrijman Fonds that will tour film festivals in Africa until March 2011.
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The first Dutch monthly winner of New Arrivals, the online competition for short film, is Amos Mulder with Ghost of Icarus.
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The winners of this year's VPRO Tiger Awards are Agua fría de mar, Alamar and Mundane History.
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