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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

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  • IFFR Pro Award winners 2025

    Nine awards were handed out to projects presented at the 42nd edition of IFFR’s co-production market CineMart and work-in-progress platform Darkroom.

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    • CineMart
    • Hubert Bals Fund
    • IFFR Pro
    • Immersive

  • A little neon intervention: Holy Electricity by Tato Kotetishvili

    Georgian filmmaker Tato Kotetishvili and Dutch co-producer Ineke Smits discuss the CineMart- and Darkroom-presented Holy Electricity, selected for IFFR 2025.

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    • CineMart
    • Interview
    • Stories

  • Cheryl Dunye on her CineMart project Black Is Blue: “the power of film to be a tool for reflection”

    Rotterdam favourite Cheryl Dunye (The Watermelon Woman, IFFR 1997) talks to us about returning to the festival.

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    • CineMart
    • Interview

  • Immersive storytelling at IFFR Pro’s CineMart and Darkroom 2025

    In its co-production market CineMart and Darkroom work-in-progress programme, IFFR Pro creates a space for immersive media projects to find the vital industry connections to help them flourish. At IFFR 2025, six immersive media projects can be found across the selections, with four presented by Dutch makers.

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    • CineMart
    • IFFR Pro
    • Immersive

  • Darkroom works-in-progress 2025

    IFFR Pro’s Darkroom offers a platform to present to the international industry recently or nearly completed films and immersive media projects seeking completion or gap funding, sales agents and festivals.

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    • CineMart
    • IFFR Pro
    • Immersive

  • CineMart reveals lineup of timely, creative storytelling for 2025 edition

    We’ve unveiled our curated selection of 20 film projects and four immersive projects for the 42nd edition of CineMart – IFFR Pro’s co-production market where a lineup of projects in development are presented to international industry for financing and co-production, running Sunday 2 to Wednesday 5 February 2025. We’ve also confirmed the lineup for our […]

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    • CineMart
    • Hubert Bals Fund
    • IFFR Pro
    • News

  • IFFR in São Paulo

    There’s plenty of Hubert Bals Fund and IFFR Pro-backed titles screening in the Brazilian metropolis, including a homecoming for Marcelo Caetano’s São Paulo underground-set Baby that’s also a case study in a new publication launching together with Projeto Paradiso.

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    • CineMart
    • Hubert Bals Fund
    • IFFR Pro

  • Busan, Gent and London next up for IFFR-backed titles after San Sebastián 

    Titles made with Hubert Bals Fund and IFFR Pro backing, or that screened at previous IFFR editions, continue to feature in festival programmes across the world.

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    • CineMart
    • Hubert Bals Fund
    • IFFR Pro

  • Venice selections for supported titles and talent

    The 81st Venice International Film Festival takes place from 28 August to 7 September 2024. An array of titles and talent supported by IFFR Pro and the Hubert Bals Fund feature across the Competition, Orizzonti, Immersive selections, as well as in the Gap-Financing Market. 

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    • CineMart
    • Hubert Bals Fund
    • IFFR Pro

  • Locarno 2024: IFFR-backed titles in competition

    Four titles supported by IFFR’s Hubert Bals Fund and presented at IFFR Pro’s CineMart and Darkroom will screen in competition at the Swiss festival.

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    • CineMart
    • Hubert Bals Fund
    • IFFR Pro