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  • Talks and special guests at IFFR 2025

    Filmmakers including Costa Gavras, Steffen Haars & Joseph Kahn, Mohammad Rasoulof, Amie Siegel, Miike Takashi join the programme alongside Cate Blanchett & Guy Maddin, Lol Crawley, Cheryl Dunye & Albertina Carri, Alex Ross Perry and more. Across the festival the programme is full of discovery and dialogue, including in the Pro Hub industry programme and […]

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  • Indaba In Focus with Maéva Ranaivojaona: “plunge into something you don’t know” 

    French-Malagasy producer brings challenging Afropean cinema into the spotlight.

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  • NFF+HBF support for Prantik Basu and Shengze Zhu

    The Hubert Bals Fund’s joint venture with the Netherlands Film Fund awards production funds to former HBF-supported projects with an attached Dutch co-producer.

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  • “The people we depicted gave me their souls to put in a film”: Jaydon Martin on Flathead

    “I’ve always wanted to make a small, strange film that people stumble upon”, says Jaydon Martin about the journey he went on with his first feature film. The Australian filmmaker made his feature directorial debut at IFFR 2024 with Flathead, a black-and-white intimate docu-fiction portraying the lives of a small working-class community from Bundaberg, Australia. […]

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  • IFFR 2025 Focus programmes revealed

    IFFR reveals the first details of four Focus programmes for IFFR 2025, celebrating the contributions of underappreciated filmmakers and revisiting historical and cultural legacies with current resonance.

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