https://vimooz.com/category/film-festivals/international-film-festival-rotterdam-iffr/International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has unveiled the initial details of four Focus programs for IFFR 2025, from highlighting Katja Raganelli’s representations of women’s voices and Sergii Masloboishchykov’s chronicles of Ukraine’s national identity, to marking the the 70th anniversary of the Bandung Conference and reigniting the communal spirit of VHS practices around the world.
The Palm Springs International Film Awards will honor Adrien Brody with the Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actor, for his performance in Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist. The Film Awards will take place on January 3, 2025, at the Palm Springs Convention Center, with the festival running January 2-13, 2025.
Michael Gracey directs Better Man, a biographical film about British pop star Robbie Williams – with a twist: Williams is depicted as a CGI monkey, voiced by the singer himself, telling the story of his life through his own perspective.
Altered Innocence debuted the US theatrical trailer for Endless Summer Syndrome (Le syndrome de l’été sans fin), Iranian filmmaker Kaveh Daneshmand’s feature directorial debut following a mother of two adoptees who is tipped off about the possible affair her husband may be having with one of their children.
World-premiering earlier this year at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, Magnus von Horn’s gothic thriller The Girl With the Needle follows a wet nurse working for an underground adoption agency in post-WWI Copenhagen. It was recently selected as the official Danish entry for Best International Feature at the 97th Academy Awards,
BAFTA-winning Zambian-Welsh director Rungano Nyoni (I Am Not a Witch) returns with her sophomore feature, a surreal dramedy titled On Becoming a Guinea Fowl. The film follows a young Zambian woman who stumbles upon her uncle’s body, uncovering family secrets and lies as funeral preparations unfold.
Director, screenwriter and producer Todd Haynes has been named the President of the International Jury of the 75th Berlin International Film Festival.
Filmmakers Denis Villeneuve, Malcolm Washington and Jason Reitman along with actress Demi Moore will be honored at this year’s annual 2024 SFFILM Awards Night.
Based on director Kyle Hausmann-Stokes’ short film Merit x Zoe, My Dead Friend Zoe marks the feature directorial debut of the U.S. Army veteran turned filmmaker. The story centers on a U.S. Army Afghanistan veteran who, after returning from service, begins to hallucinate her dead best friend from the Army.
Directed by Lillah Halla, Power Alley (Levante) is a Brazilian drama that weaves a tale of personal struggle and societal challenges. The film world premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival’s Critics’ Week and won the FIPRESCI Prize for Parallel Sections. Power Alley also won Best Narrative Feature at the 2024 Seattle Queer Film Festival and the 2024 PAFF Jury Award for Best First Feature Narrative, among many other awards.
Produced by five-time Oscar winner Alfonso Cuarón (Roma, Gravity), An Almost Christmas Story is the third and final installment in his holiday shorts collection for Disney+. The first short in the series, Le Pupille, earned an Oscar nomination in 2022, while last year’s The Shepherd was shortlisted – both in the Live Action Short Film category.
The European Film Academy announced the winners of this year’s Excellence Awards. These awards honor the different arts and crafts of film making in eight categories.