International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR)

  • Steve McQueen’s ‘Sunshine State’ Installation to Premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam

    • Portrait of Steve McQueen by John Russo © John Russo.
    • Artwork: Steve McQueen, Sunshine State
      Artwork: Steve McQueen, Sunshine State, (still), 2022. © Steve McQueen. Courtesy of the artist and Thomas Dane Gallery and Marian Goodman Gallery.

    Oscar and Turner Prize-winning filmmaker and artist Steve McQueen will present Sunshine State, an IFFR-commissioned installation at the 51st edition of International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). Art Directions, Cinema Regained and additional film titles further extend the festival program. IFFR 2022 will take place in Rotterdam from January 26 to February 6, 2022.

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  • International Film Festival Rotterdam 2021 Returns to In-Person Event + Reveals First Films

    Memoria directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
    Memoria directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul

    International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) announced the first confirmed titles for its 51st edition which takes place in Rotterdam from January 26 to February 6, 2022. The festival is planned as a physical event that celebrates the reunion of audiences, filmmakers, industry and press with a full festival program. As IFFR veterans including Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Tan Chui Mui return, there are world premieres for feature debuts by Alberto De Michele and David Easteal.

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  • Football Documentary ‘My Name Is Francesco Totti’ Wins International Film Festival Rotterdam Audience Award

    My Name Is Francesco Totti (Mi chiamo Francesco Totti) by Alex Infascelli
    My Name Is Francesco Totti (Mi chiamo Francesco Totti) by Alex Infascelli

    Football documentary My Name Is Francesco Totti (Mi chiamo Francesco Totti) by Alex Infascelli is the winner of the BankGiro Loterij Audience Award for the June festival edition of 2021 International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR).

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  • ‘The World to Come’ Starring Katherine Waterston and Vanessa Kirby will Open International Film Festival Rotterdam 50th Edition

    Vanessa Kirby and Katherine Waterston in The World to Come
    Vanessa Kirby and Katherine Waterston in The World to Come

    The World to Come by Norwegian filmmaker and actress Mona Fastvold opens the 50th edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) on Wednesday June 2. The European premiere of Japanese animation Poupelle of Chimney Town by director Hirota Yusuke closes the festival on Sunday June 6.

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  • International Film Festival Rotterdam Announces Lineup for 50th Anniversary – June Edition

    Amor fati directed by Cláudia Varejão
    Amor fati directed by Cláudia Varejão

    International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) will celebrate the close of its 50th edition with a full lineup of programs from June 2 to 6, extending on demand until June 9.

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  • International Film Festival Rotterdam 2021 Award Winners – PEBBLES Wins Tiger Award

    Pebbles by Vinothraj P.S
    Pebbles directed by Vinothraj P.S

    Southern India-set Pebbles by Vinothraj P.S won the Tiger Award, while I Comete – A Corsican Summer by French filmmaker Pascal Tagnati and Looking for Venera by Norika Sefa from Kosovo both won Special Jury Awards at the expanded 50th anniversary edition of International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). The VPRO Big Screen Award went to El perro que no calla by Ana Katz from Argentina and Quo Vadis, Aida? by Bosnian filmmaker Jasmila Žbanić won the BankGiro Loterij Audience Award.

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  • International Film Festival Rotterdam 2021 Reveals Competition Lineup – Opens with “Riders of Justice”

    Anders Thomas Jensen's "Riders of Justice" starring Mads Mikkelsen
    Anders Thomas Jensen’s “Riders of Justice” starring Mads Mikkelsen

    International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2021 will open with the international premiere of absurdist tragicomedy Riders of Justice by Danish filmmaker Anders Thomas Jensen, starring Mads Mikkelsen. Riders of Justice with Mads Mikkelsen and Nikolaj Lie Kaas centers on the deployed military man Markus who has to go home to his teenage daughter, Mathilde, when his wife dies in a tragic train accident. It seems to be plain bad luck – until the mathematics geek Otto shows up with his two eccentric colleagues, Lennart and Emmenthaler. Otto was also a passenger on the wrecked train. He is convinced someone must have been behind it. As the clues pile up, it becomes clear to Markus that his wife became a random casualty of what looks like a carefully orchestrated assassination.

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  • International Film Community Calls for Release of Egyptian Film Producer Moataz Abdelwahab

    Moataz Abdelwahab
    Moataz Abdelwahab

    The International Coalition for Filmmakers at Risk (ICFR) issued a press release calling for the Egyptian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release film producer Moataz Abdelwahab.

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  • International Film Fest Rotterdam Announces 2020 Winners. THE CLOUD IN HER ROOM Wins Tiger Award

    From left to right: Yuhao Su, Cuishan Liang, Wang Zijian, Liu Xinzhu, Jinjing en Zheng Lu Xinyuan. Winners of 49th International Film Festival Rotterdam
    From left to right: Yuhao Su, Cuishan Liang, Wang Zijian, Liu Xinzhu, Jinjing en Zheng Lu Xinyuan. Winners of 49th International Film Festival Rotterdam

    Chinese filmmaker Zheng Lu Xinyuan won the Tiger Award at the 49th International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) for her film The Cloud in Her Room. In her personal debut film, shot in black-and-white, filmmaker Zheng Lu Xinyuan follows 22-year-old Muzi as she returns to Hangzhou, where she was born, for the New Year’s celebration. However, it’s like she doesn’t really fit in anywhere.

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  • International Film Fest Rotterdam Announces Winners of IFFR Pro Awards 2020

    2020 IFFR Pro Award winners at 49th International Film Festival Rotterdam
    2020 IFFR Pro Award winners at 49th International Film Festival Rotterdam

    The IFFR Pro Days and the 37th edition of CineMart came to a close at International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). Six different IFFR Pro Awards were handed out to the most promising projects-in-the-making, including the new Splendor Omnia Award and IFFR Pro Young Network Award.

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  • IFFR Announces Winners of Ammodo Tiger Short Awards 2020

    From left to right: Dorian Jespers, Maïder Fortuné, Ismaïl Bahri. Winners of International Film Festival Rotterdam - Ammodo Tiger Short Competition 2020.
    From left to right: Dorian Jespers, Maïder Fortuné, Ismaïl Bahri. Winners of International Film Festival Rotterdam – Ammodo Tiger Short Competition 2020.

    International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) announced the the winners of this year’s 2020 Ammodo Tiger Short Competition winning films – Apparition by Ismaïl Bahri, Communicating Vessels by Maïder Fortuné and Annie MacDonell, and Sun Dog by Dorian Jespers. The jury gave a special mention to Wong Ping’s Fables 2 by Wong Ping.

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  • 2020 International Film Festival Rotterdam Reveals Full Film Lineup

    I Blame Society directed by Gillian Wallace Horvat
    I Blame Society directed by Gillian Wallace Horvat

    International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) revealed the full film lineup of 2020, including the 10 films selected for the Tiger Competition. Also revealed: the selections of the Big Screen Competition and the revamped Bright Future Competition, the 2020 opening and closing films, the fifth theme program Ordinary Heroes and a special screening of David Cronenberg’s Crash (1996) with a live musical score by the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra.

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