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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Hubert Bals Fund

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  • Cate Blanchett and IFFR’s Hubert Bals Fund launch the Displacement Film Fund at IFFR 2025

    UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Blanchett announces new pilot scheme with support from Master Mind, Uniqlo, Droom en Daad, the Tamer Family Foundation and Amahoro Coalition as Founding Partners, the HBF as Management Partner and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, as Strategic Partner.

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  • Hubert Bals Fund at IFFR 2025

    We invite you to explore how the Hubert Bals Fund remains true to its mission of representing cinema in all its forms, discovering and supporting new talent, and reminding us of the power of human solidarity.

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  • “I’m portraying a shared history”: Mouly Surya on the IFFR 2025 closing film This City Is a Battlefield

    “I think a lot of what is happening in the world right now traces back to World War II” says Mouly Surya, the Indonesian filmmaker behind the IFFR 2025 closing film This City Is a Battlefield (released in the Netherlands as Djakarta 1946), explaining one of the many reasons why this period in Southeast Asian history […]

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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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  • Be there for each other: Payal Kapadia on All We Imagine as Light

    The Golden Globe-nominated director explains her bitter-sweet relationship with Mumbai, using documentary techniques, and the role of IFFR’s support in bringing the film to life.

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  • 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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  • Hubert Bals Fund selects twelve features for support

    After 1169 submitted projects and an incredibly challenging selection process, twelve feature films were selected to receive Hubert Bals Fund Development Support grants.

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  • Four projects awarded with HBF+Europe: Post-production Support

    Filmmakers from Georgia, Nepal, Peru and South Africa are supported through co-producers in Luxembourg, Germany, Spain and the Netherlands.

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  • Hubert Bals Fund and Projeto Paradiso launch joint publication

    The Hubert Bals Fund and Brazilian partner foundation Projeto Paradiso launch the joint publication Development with Impact, offering insights into the vital role of early-stage development funding in Brazil and beyond. Through case studies, analysis, essays and conversation, the bilingual publication acknowledges the HBF’s legacy in Brazil and Latin America, whilst launching a determined call […]

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  • 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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