23 March 2016
23 March 2016
Land of Mine will be in Dutch cinemas from March 31 onwards. This captivating post-war drama earned two awards at IFFR for director Martin Zandvliet. Both the festival audience and the youth jury recognised this exceptional film, in which young Germans have to clear mines along the Danish coast in the aftermath of World War II, with the Warsteiner Audience Award and the MovieZone Award respectively. Next year an Oscar in Hollywood?
13 September 2016
The music from Brady Corbets film The Childhood Of A Leader is now available. The impressive soundtrack by composer Scott Walker was performed live in De Doelen during the closing night of the 45th edition of IFFR.
07 September 2016
The entries of the Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film are known. The feature debut D'Ardennen from filmmaker Robin Pront, which was shown at IFFR 2016, is this year's Belgian entry. And the Australian submission Tanna screened at IFFR 2016.
The 32-year-old Australian theatre make Simon Stone edited his first feature drama The Wild Duck from Norwegian writer Henrik Ibsen: a haunting family drama with an impressive cast.
Léa Fehner freed up a day and a half in her very full schedule to attend the screenings at IFFR of her second feature film Les ogres. At the end of the festival, the French filmmaker returned to Rotterdam to receive the VPRO Big Screen Award.