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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

RTM

Programme IFFR 2023

IFFR puts the spotlight firmly on films and makers from our city on the River Maas. The selection was made by this year's RTM curators: Cheryl Ashruf, Noemi Biro and Nizar el Manouzi. Discover a programme chock-full of short and longer films, documentaries, talks, music and performances. RTM revolves around talented artists and stories from 010 with an impact far beyond, revealing the riches of Rotterdam in all its glory.

Still: Vluchtval

Overview of films

  • Investigative Past & Future

    Two documentaries about the preservation of culture, from Indonesian cuisine to hill people in Ukraine.

  • Kondre Man

    While leaving the homeland leads one individual to introspection, the other takes to the stage. Followed by a performance by Grande Loge.

  • Talk: Intimacy

    Actress Joy Delima, filmmaker Jonnah Bron and an intimacy coach discuss sensuality and security in filmmaking.

  • Prologue: Coffee & Croissants

    Are you a filmmaker interested in expanding your network? Meet distributors, producers, financiers and industry professionals.

  • Falling Apart into Place

    Five short films in which the world as we know it changes overnight – as a result of exile, alienation, invasion or government intervention.

  • Looking For Connection

    Five short films that investigate gender roles, relationships and probing in the search for connection.

  • The Antarctic Gardener

    Elisa Strinna | 24' | Italy | World premiere (festival)

    A woman creates life where it cannot be while the forces of Antarctic nature rage all around.

  • Future of Our Soil

    Four short films celebrate fertile soil as the source of life and of myths that shape past, present and future.

  • Book and Knife

    Miku Sato | 15' | Netherlands | World premiere

    Culinary shadow play, where three women and a restaurant follow various recipes to prepare soto/saoto.

  • Bouw Museum Boymans

    George Leonardus Theijssen | 82' | Netherlands | None

    Six-episode, silent documentary about the construction of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen between 1932 and 1935.

  • Dream State

    A journey in five short films to the land between dream and reality, where the mundane just may be science fiction – and vice versa.

  • Talk: Get in the Game

    The relationship between the filmmaker and the producer is discussed and explored.