IFFR-supported
IFFR doesn’t just present great cinema, it helps create it too. Through the Hubert Bals Fund and IFFR Pro’s co-production market CineMart, work-in-progress platform Darkroom, as well as plenty of talent development initiatives, the festival provides resources and a platform for filmmakers to realise their work. Take a look at the supported titles in the IFFR 2025 lineup.

- All We Imagine as Light by Payal Kapadia (HBF Development 2019, CineMart 2020, NFF+HBF 2022, HBF+EU: Minority Co-production 2023)
- Holy Electricity by Tato Kotetishvili (HBF Development 2019, HBF+Europe: Post-production Support 2023, Darkroom 2023)
- De Idylle by Aaron Rookus (CineMart 2020, Darkroom 2024)
- Monólogo colectivo by Jessica Sarah Rinland (HBF Development 2020)
- This City Is a Battlefield by Mouly Surya (HBF Development 2019, NFF+HBF 2021)
- Youth: Trilogy (Hard Times)/(Spring)/(Homecoming) by Wang Bing (HBF Development 2014, NFF+HBF 2019)
A list of films
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All We Imagine as Light
In this Cannes Grand Prix winner, three nurses navigate loss and longing in rapidly growing Mumbai.
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Monólogo colectivo
A sensitive, intimate documentary about the interactions and strong bonds between animals and their carers.
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Youth: Trilogy
Wang Bing’s epic observational Youth trilogy screens together for almost ten hours, with breaks in between.
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This City Is a Battlefield
A sumptuous Jakarta-set historical thriller fusing sensual romantic drama with gripping political intrigue.
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Holy Electricity
A suitcase filled with rusty iron crosses becomes a potential goldmine in this urban fable.