IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Hubert Bals Fund

HBF Archive

Below you can find an overview of the Hubert Bals Fund's activities over the years, including the selections that were made by the fund, the HBF-funded films that were screened at IFFR, and the HBF's annual reports.

Complete Results 1988–2024

This document (updated January 2024) gives a complete and conclusive overview of all projects that have been supported by the Hubert Bals Fund since its establishment in 1988.

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Recent selections

HBF+EU 2023
Script and Project Development 2023
NFF+HBF Fall 2023

Annual reports

Read the HBF annual reports here.

HBF-supported films at IFFR

Each year, completed films supported by the Hubert Bals Fund are screened at International Film Festival Rotterdam: an ideal launching platform for independent cinema from across the globe.

HBF Leaders

From 2010 to 2013 the HBF commissioned leaders that would screen before all Hubert Bals Fund-supported films at IFFR.

2013 HBF Leader Lublae by Anocha Suwichakornpong
2012 HBF Leader Copia imperfecta by José Luis Torres Leiva
2011 HBF Leader Ars colonia by Raya Martin
2010 HBF Leader by Lisandro Alonso

HBF Audience Award

Overview of all winners

Stills from HBF-supported films (selection)

Film Still: Memoria, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2021

Film still: La noche de fuego

Monos by Alejandro Landes (Colombia, Argentina, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Uruguay, USA, Switzerland, Denmark, 2019)

My Joy by Sergei Loznitsa (Ukraine, 2010)

The Load by Ognjen Glavonić (Serbia, France, Croatia, 2018)

I Am Not a Witch by Rungano Nyoni (United Kingdom, France, Germany, Zambia, 2017)

Life on a String by Chen Kaige (China, 1992)

Osama by Siddiq Barmak (Afghanistan, 2003)

Neighbouring Sounds by Kleber Mendonça Filho (Brazil, 2012)

Mysterious Object at Noon by Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand, 2000)

La niña santa by Lucrecia Martel (Argentina, 2004)

By the Time It Gets Dark by Anocha Suwichakornpong (Thailand, 2016)

Tony Manero by Pablo Larraín (Chile, 2008)

Uzak by Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey, 2002)

Rapado by Martín Rejtman (Argentina, 1992)

What They Don't Talk About When They Talk About Love by Mouly Surya (Indonesia, 2013)

Platform by Jia Zhangke (China, 2000)

Tarde para morir joven by Dominga Sotomayor (Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Netherlands, Qatar, 2018)

The Wound by John Trengove (South Africa, 2017)

Whisky by Juan Pablo Rebella & Pablo Stoll (Uruguay, Argentina, Germany, 2004)

Wadjda by Haifaa Al Mansour (Saudi Arabia, Germany, 2012)

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Contact

Tamara Tatishvili
Head of the Hubert Bals Fund
Jeske van der Slikke
Hubert Bals Fund Manager
Ayumi Rosa Filippone
Hubert Bals Fund Coordinator

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Tips

IFFR-backed titles at the Berlinale 2024

Hubert Bals Fund celebrates its impact on the careers of filmmakers as several films win prizes in Berlin.

“I wanted her to be mesmerising”

Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry screens at IFFR 2024 and was backed by IFFR’s Hubert Bals Fund.

Hubert Bals Fund at IFFR 2024

The festival’s film fund is active throughout the festival.

"I want to encourage viewers to discover this world, to not let it disappear."

The selected projects had the shared desire to forge new creative paths and to recover lost narratives.