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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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Tiger Short Competition winners 2024
From the 21 titles in the Tiger Short Competition at IFFR 2024, Crazy Lotus (Thailand) by Naween Noppakun, Few Can See (Ireland) by Frank Sweeney and Workers’ Wings (Kosovo) by Ilir Hasanaj are the three to receive Tiger Short Awards. Each equal prize is worth €5,000.
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Pro Darkroom 2024
Making a welcome return for its second edition is the Darkroom programme of work-in-progress screenings of former CineMart and HBF-supported projects, taking place on Tuesday 30 January 2024. Selected teams will receive expert consultancy and have the chance to present their work to an exclusive panel of international sales agents, festival programmers and buyers.
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NFF+HBF scheme awards projects from Chile and Singapore
Through the Hubert Bals Fund’s collaboration with the Netherlands Film Fund, projects by Singaporean filmmaker Siyou Tan and Chilean animators Joaquín Cociña and Cristóbal León will each be awarded €75,000 in the second 2023 support round of the NFF+HBF: Co-production scheme. The awards are another helping hand to the projects on their way to completion, […]
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Hubert Bals Fund development selection 2023
The Hubert Bals Fund (HBF), IFFR’s film fund, has chosen ten feature film projects to each be awarded a grant of €10,000 to support their development. Read the full selection below! The fund underscores its commitment to fostering new and diverse voices from across the globe, backing a majority in the selection who are embarking […]
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Tamara Tatishvili appointed new Head of the Hubert Bals Fund
We have appointed Tamara Tatishvili as the new Head of the Hubert Bals Fund (HBF), IFFR’s film fund. Tatishvili has extensive experience across many areas of the international film industry as a strategy consultant, leader, producer and programmer. Amongst a host of notable positions, Tatishvili worked for several years as Director of the Georgian National […]
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