Interview
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Indaba In Focus with Mehret Mandefro: “stories heal people”
Ethiopian-American producer, media entrepreneur, anthropologist, physician and group leader of CPI Mehret Mandefro gives pragmatic solutions to the uncertainties of the industry, but always comes back to the simple and universal truth that “stories heal people.”
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IFFR Pro
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IFFR ambassador Kristel interviews Timoteus Anggawan Kusno
In this interview, Indonesian filmmaker Timoteus Anggawan Kusno explores how colonial history shapes personal and collective memory. Through archival materials, interviews, and re-enactments, he creates a space where history is not just recalled but actively questioned and reimagined.
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Interview
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Michiel ten Horn on the opening film Fabula: “we sometimes felt like the whole film was cursed”
With Fabula, Michiel ten Horn takes us to the south of the Netherlands, his birthplace, to introduce us to Jos, a washed-up criminal from a family haunted by misfortune for generations.
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Indaba In Focus with Mohammed Alomda: “create strong co-productions between African countries”
In celebration of the fourth edition of IFFR Pro’s talent programme Creative Producer Indaba, a partnership with Realness Institute, EAVE and the Atlas Workshops, IFFR takes on a mission to paint an authentic portrait of the realities, power and diversity of independent African cinema. Indaba In Focus continues with a realistic portrait of the Sudanese […]
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IFFR Pro
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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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Hubert Bals Fund
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Interview
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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
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Interview
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Stories
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Everything is relative: De Idylle by Aaron Rookus
Dutch filmmaker Aaron Rookus is in the Big Screen Competition at IFFR 2025 with his sophomore feature De Idylle.
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IFFR Pro
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Interview
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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
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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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Hubert Bals Fund
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IFFR Pro
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Interview
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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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