Tiger Friends, assemble! The friends of IFFR are invited to the official opening and can bring an introducee.
Tickets to the Official Opening Night Tiger Friends grant access to the screening of the official opening film and the exclusive party afterwards.
Beyond Sleep The film Beyond Sleep– based on the Dutch bestselling novel Nooit meer slapen by W.F. Hermans – will open the 45th International Film Festival Rotterdam on 27 January 2016. This film by Boudewijn Koole will have its world premiere on the opening night of IFFR.
Beyond Sleep takes us on a survival expedition with young, ambitious geologist Alfred Issendorf, who goes in search of meteorites in the swampy north of Norway, hoping that the journey will cement his academic reputation by uncovering a significant scientific proof. Alfred is also trying to continue where his father left off when he died during a similar research trip of his own. Alfred searches, stumbles and suffers on the pitiless Northern European tundra. He finds redemption only when he has reached the very brink of insanity. Beyond Sleep is directed by award-winning director Boudewijn Koole, who made the Dutch Oscar entry Kauwboy. Reinout Scholten van Aschat is in the lead role. The film is produced by KeyFilm.
