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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Harbour

Programme IFFR 2025

Echoing Rotterdam’s port city identity, Harbour offers a safe haven to the full range of contemporary cinema that the festival champions.

Still: No dejes a los niños solos, dir. Emilio Portes

Overview of films

  • Youth: Trilogy

    Wang Bing’s epic observational Youth trilogy screens together for almost ten hours, with breaks in between.

  • 2551.03 – The End

    Norbert Pfaffenbichler | 80' | Austria | World premiere

    A masked apeman traverses a dystopian society in the finale of Norbert Pfaffenbichler’s 2551 trilogy.

  • Acts of Love

    Jeppe Rønde | 120' | Denmark | World premiere

    A brooding, intense account of forbidden love from the director of the controversial Bridgend.

  • And the Rest Will Follow

    Pelin Esmer | 114' | Turkey | World premiere

    A hotel housekeeper and a filmmaker ignite each other’s imaginations in an extraordinary friendship.

  • Ariel

    Lois Patiño | 108' | Spain | World premiere

    A dreamlike revision of Shakespeare’s The Tempest staged in the whimsical Azores islands.

  • Balentes

    Giovanni Columbu | 70' | Italy | International premiere

    The naivety of youth is confronted with the mechanics of war in this tale set in 1940s Sardinia.

  • Bokshi

    Bhargav Saikia | 166' | India | World premiere

    Troubled teenager confronts her terrifying destiny in a visceral high-school-set supernatural horror.

  • D is for Distance

    Christopher Petit, Emma Matthews | 88' | Finland | World premiere

    A heartbreaking, far-reaching essay on the epilepsy of Louis Petit as documented by his parents.

  • Dead Dog

    Sarah Francis | 92' | Lebanon | World premiere

    A long-estranged Lebanese couple reunites in this dissection of a forgone marriage.

  • Dead Lover

    Grace Glowicki | 86' | Canada | European premiere

    A gravedigger resurrects her dead lover in this hornily hilarious, grotesquely stylish genre mashup.

  • Le deuxième acte

    Quentin Dupieux | 85' | France | Dutch Premiere

    Art imitates life imitating art in this playful deconstruction of cinema’s attempt to capture reality.

  • East of Noon

    Hala Elkoussy | 109' | Netherlands | Dutch Premiere

    A modern fable of youngsters standing up to a tyrant showman who rules their town.