Jerzy Skolimowski
The career of filmmaker, playwright, scriptwriter, painter and actor Jerzy Skolimowski (Poland, 1938) is as versatile as it is international.
Paolo Benvenuti
Paolo Benvenuti (1946) is one of the least known, but finest contemporary Italian filmmakers. In Rotterdam his films will for the first time be presented in an international retrospective programme.
Peter Liechti
Swiss filmmaker, scriptwriter and camera man Peter Liechti (1951) started his filmmaking career with SOMMERHÜGEL in 1984; he has since build on an idiosyncratic body of work consisting of both documentary and fictional experimental films, most of them short and shot on 16 mm.
Size Matters
The thematic programme ‘Size Matters’ focuses on both the ubiquitous presence and the content of audiovisual screens in this post-cinema age. The electronic screen is making a major breakthrough in both the private and public spaces.
Hungry Ghosts
‘Hungry Ghosts’ is a film programme with features from East Asian countries about ghosts and supernatural apparitions. The specific quality of East Asian horror movies is that the people who make them and the people who watch them actually believe in ghosts.
First Things First
‘First Things First’ comprises a series of first and very early works by filmmakers who have since carved out important, acknowledged bodies of films – and who are still producing important films.
Young Turkish Cinema
‘Young Turkish Cinema’ explores the remarkable rise and recent development of independent filmmaking in Turkey.
Regained
Continuing the strand of earlier Rotterdam editions, ‘Signals’ presents the eclectic thematic programme Regained with recently re-discovered or restored films, or films about film and filmmakers.