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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Interview
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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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Blog
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Interview
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“These people are seen and the stories are heard”: Tiger Short Award 2024 winners reflect on their IFFR experience
We spoke with the Tiger Short Award winners 2024 about their journey at the festival, the impact of their prizes, and the sense of community they found at IFFR that continues to shape their filmmaking paths.
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Interview
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Stories
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Amat Escalante: “Rotterdam feels like home”
The Mexican filmmaker discusses his latest film Lost in the Night and his special relationship with IFFR.
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CineMart
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Hubert Bals Fund
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IFFR Pro
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Interview
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Take the money and run: Rodrigo Moreno on Los delincuentes
Director Rodrigo Moreno and producer Ezequiel ‘Boro’ Borovinsky share their experience making the film together over more than eight years since it was first presented as a project at IFFR’s co-production market CineMart in 2015.
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CineMart
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Interview
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CineMart 2024: exploring the margins
Although each project at CineMart 2024 was absolutely unique, they all had the shared desire to forge new creative paths, to ask difficult questions and to explore untold narratives – looking into the margins and taking the road less travelled. IFFR Pro spoke to a few of the selected projects. “I think it’s our time […]
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IFFR Pro
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Interview
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Elene Naveriani on their latest empowering tale
“I really wanted it to be beautiful,” says Georgian filmmaker Elene Naveriani about their ambition for their third feature, the Hubert Bals Fund-backed Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry, screening at IFFR 2024 in Harbour. “Beautiful aesthetically”, they continue, “so that it charms you and it kind of mesmerises you. I wanted her to be mesmerising and glowing.” […]
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Hubert Bals Fund
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Interview
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