IFFR 2008

Joost van den Bosch

Erik Verkerk

3D film about a professor who invents a machine that can bring to life everything he draws .

Made in Rotterdam

De 3D-machine

Jeroen van Bergeijk

First generation Moroccon geustworkers remenisce about life in Holland against the backdrop of the dilapidated factory where they used to work.

Aan ons den arbeid

Willem Baptist

A man collects images in his head for the day he needs them.

Bijna blind

Bastiaan van der Velden

Bo dances, from MTV moves to meditative contemplation.

Bo Dancing

Daniel van den Broeke

Camhead is a man with a security-camera for a head. He feels rejected by everyone but when he visits an illegal party in the Rotterdam harbour he starts to see things in a different light.

Camhead

Victor Vroegindeweij

Chanaika threw her violent father out of her family home. After this emotional event, she shows that she doesn't let down easily and now dances in front of a million people during the Summer carnival in Rotterdam.

Chanaika

Walter Brokx

A DJ attempts to set the world-record non-stop record mixing to the apparently impossible time of 96 hours.

Dance for Kika

Ivan Barbosa

EIS FREI is the pure and poetic story of a young girl who tries to escape the harsh reality of war by fleeing into her own fantasy world.

Eis Frei

Arthur Bueno

Light-hearted portrait of the radical gay liberation movement in the 1970s and 1980s, assembled from amateur films by the activist Rob de Vries.

Flikker

Eef de Graaf

About an 8mm camera that got lost in a mysterious way.

Garcia Lorca esta vivo?

Corinne Bot

A girl lost in the woods at night. Strange creatures scare the hell out of her.

He Said, She Said

Edwin van Viegen

Senna (13) composes a 'street-sounds symphony' for her sick grandfather, so he can once more make his favourite walk trough town.

Heartbeat

Rita is being hunted in the dark forest. Is there an escape?

Hunted

Hester Scheurwater

Twinkle winkle little bitch, why are you such a witch.

Little Bitch

Maaike Engels

Adventurous recording of a fully improvised mixture of various musical currents and cultures in combination with images (film, video, animation), spoken word, dance and live painting.

Numoonlab TV

Hiba Vink

An ode to the waiter; could there be a life beyond the doors of a restaurant?

Ode ober

In the end everything is exposed to the elements and time.

Overgeleverd

Ewout Zimmermann

A visual portrait of mostly automatized activities in a post sorting centre.

Postfabriek

Purify shows a disconnected women washing herself in bad.

Purify

Mark Wallaard

Stop-motion war film about the US Army charging a Middle-Eastern village to free it from terrorist occupation.

The Real Action Heroes

Koert Davidse

A musical documentary where the spoken word is strongly enhanced by singing.

Rotterdamse Saudade

Strange creatures in the night moving to the beat of dark, electronic sounds.

S.O.A

Rosh Abdelfatah

Double screen city collage about the hectic sound experiences of the filmmaker, a (former) Syrian refugee.

Saut samt

Martijn J. Kramp

The arrogant young man Fons has to make a choice between his life or the life of his friend Aidan. In cool, blue colors the truth about Aidan's death starts to unravel.

Schoon

Jan Katsma

Debbie Kleijn

Short documentary portrait about the owner of a cigar shop in Rotterdam, who has been victim of 23 hold-ups within 15 years.

De sleutelhanger

Wendelien Voogd

Singing and soccer. Portrait of the Rotterdam Boys Choir from 1957 uptill now.

Sons of Art

A human spider on the wall almost gets killed by a fly swatter.

Spider

Silvain Hooglander

After buying a new house, a young couple discovers that they aren't the only ones living inside.

The Tenants

Roy Dames

About refugees returning to their homelands.

Terug

Jasper Masthoff

In Trombón we follow a musician from Slovakia who is trying to make a living in Holland, back to the small village where he was born.

Trombón

Pablo Willems Ramirez

One girl imitates the other girl because she sees her on television.

Twee meisjes

The male and female side of a boyish girl are revealed through a mirror.

Two Sides of the Mirror

Andre Schreuders

Sad but vivid musical wandering through the slums of Odessa, in search for the old maffia songs.

Uit het hart van Odessa

Jan Louter

A moving reunion with three psychiatric patients, who where featured in a documentary 15 years ago, about living indepently - a new concept back then.

De verhuizing, 15 jaar later

Farah Rahman

Three objects, three owners and three stories about emotional attachment.

Wabi, schoonheid zien in imperfectie

Portrait of a unique collector who creates a world of his own, using cut-and-paste in the old-fashioned way.

De wereld als verzameling

Kim Engelen

Three women are shamelessly observed by a camera as they allow us to glimpse their emotional lives.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025