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  • Jessica Sarah Rinland exhibition opens at Tabakalera before IFFR 2025

    Tabakalera, a centre for contemporary culture in San Sebastián, together with IFFR and the San Sebastián International Film Festival, will open an exhibition by Argentine-British filmmaker Jessica Sarah Rinland on 17 September.

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  • Call for residency: V2_ x IFFR

    International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) and V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media are excited to launch an open call for a hybrid residency from November 2024, culminating in an exhibition at V2_ during IFFR 2025. We invite applications from media artists interested in exploring film and from filmmakers eager to investigate media arts. Submissions closed. […]

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  • Top prizes in Karlovy Vary for supported filmmakers

    HBF-backed Zhengfan Yang and Nelicia Low were amongst the top prize winners at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival for their supported titles.

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  • Summer sale! 20% off merchandise

    Get ready for summer with an exclusive 20% off selected IFFR 2024 merchandise! What’s on sale? Enjoy 20% off selected items from our IFFR 2024 merchandise collection, including: Embrace the summer in full tiger style Visit our online merch shop to explore all the discounted items and get ready for the festival season in tiger […]

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  • Latest NFF+HBF support goes to projects from China and Thailand

    The Hubert Bals Fund’s joint venture with the Netherlands Film Fund awards production funds to former HBF-supported projects that have an attached Dutch co-producer. In the scheme’s first award of 2024, projects by Thai filmmaker Phuttiphong Aroonpheng and Chinese filmmaker Gao Zee are both awarded €75,000. Both distinct, they each have powerful and enlightening comments […]

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  • IFFR 2025 dates confirmed

    IFFR 2025 will take place from Thursday 30 January to Sunday 9 February 2025.

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  • HBF+Europe 2024 selections

    Ten projects are the latest to be awarded by the Hubert Bals Fund’s HBF+Europe support schemes. Each receives €60,000 – eight for co-production and two for post-production. The selection comes with a strong commitment to emerging talent, supporting a majority of first or second time feature filmmakers and covering a wide geographical spread, with filmmakers […]

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  • Bubbling culture documentary wins fifth RTM Pitch

    Bubbling, a cultural movement fusing dance, rhythm and electronic music born out of Rotterdam’s Afro-Caribbean community in the 1990s, is the focus of a documentary project awarded a grant of €20,000 by IFFR together with the municipality of Rotterdam. Researcher and filmmaker Sharine Rijsenburg will explore Bubbling culture as having both a deep imprint on […]

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  • IFFR-backed titles at the Berlinale 2024

    A voice that claims to belong to a hippopotamus is that of Pepe, the entry point into a world full of stories in the film of the same name by Dominican filmmaker Nelson Carlo De Los Santos Arias, who picked up the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlinale 2024. It’s one of a […]

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  • Rei and The Old Bachelor take top IFFR 2024 awards

    The 2024 winners from our two feature competitions, the Tiger Competition and the Big Screen Competition, are here. The prizes were handed out during the IFFR Awards Ceremony on Friday 2 February, along with the FIPRESCI, NETPAC and Youth Jury awards.

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