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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

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Programme IFFR 2025

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: Janilda Bartolomeu, Zalán Szakács and Marlyn van Erp. Discover a programme chock-full of short and longer films, documentaries, talks, music, art 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: Drie dagen vis, dir. Peter Hoogendoorn

Overzicht van films

  • Boxing Against the Binary

    Esmée van Loon | 17' | Netherlands | World premiere

    Welcome to Rotterdam’s Queer Gym: a safe space for queer folk to move their bodies.

  • Bubbling Baby

    Sharine Rijsenburg | 19' | Netherlands | World premiere

    A celebration of a heritage often overlooked, Bubbling dance culture is reframed and reclaimed.

  • Caltha

    Isabel Legate | 10' | Netherlands | World premiere

    The myth of the Caltha flower becomes a visceral short film about floods of desires.

  • CHIME – An Extended View

    Jeanine Verloop | 22' | Netherlands | World premiere

    Super slow motion shots of vibrating three-dimensional glass strings reveal a world that extends beyond time and our visual perception.

  • Beyond the Frame

    Exploring identity, reality and art through encounters inside and outside the frame.

  • Dream Weaver 555

    Panida Petchara | 10' | Netherlands | World premiere

    An enigmatic amulet promises to make dreams come through in this satirical commentary.

  • Drie dagen vis

    Peter Hoogendoorn | 85' | Netherlands | Dutch Premiere

    Peter Hoogendoorn’s empathetic tragicomedy about a father-son relationship of few words.

  • écht?

    Jonathan Sipkema, Jonathan Bergsma | 30' | Netherlands | European premiere

    An emotionally conflicted musician is confronted by his demons in this dreamlike piece of confessional filmmaking.

  • ‘t Eethuisje van Delfshaven

    Anna Roza Hess, Sam Brinkman | 20' | Netherlands | World premiere

    Tasty mini-documentary on culinary heritage. Here time has stood still, but for how long?

  • The Elephant & the Room

    Anas Qadamani | 14' | Netherlands | None

    The history of African elephants brought to Europe leads to a furious critique of colonialism’s double-standards.

  • Euclidean Man

    Sebastian Pappalardo | 27' | Netherlands | World premiere

    A hypnotic cyber collage shows humans moving towards the next step in evolution.

  • RTM Talk: Imagine The City Otherwise

    What if we used our lenses speculatively and imagined the city of Rotterdam otherwise?