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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

  • Vluchtval

    Laura Stek | 28' | Netherlands | World premiere

    Short documentary about 90-year-old poet Jana Beranová and 27-year-old freerunner Abdallah Marega leaving everything behind.

  • Waka nanga mi

    Evani Gilds | 10' | Netherlands | World premiere

    While his mother was hoping for a better future, Ewald left everything behind.

  • We Are Strange

    Han Hoezen | 15' | Netherlands | World premiere

    A cinematic collage that shows humankind in all its beauty, ugliness and strangeness.

  • Weightless

    Marta Hryniuk, Nick Thomas | 73' | Netherlands | World premiere

    Self-taught ethnographer Khrystyna Bunii travels through south-western Ukraine, where she documents the culture of the Hutsuls.

  • Zingen vogels ook in oorlogstijd?

    Gijs van der Meer | 4' | Netherlands | World premiere

    A young woman explores her grandmother’s past. Fragments of her diary hark back to the war.