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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

RTM

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

  • Facade

    Ewan Macbeth | 5' | Netherlands | World premiere

    A burn survivor dwells on the event that scarred him in this allegory on empathy, guilt and culpability.

  • Fantoomwijk

    Ravi Sandberg | 14' | Netherlands | None

    A lively working-class neighbourhood is forced to make way for luxury homes.Fantoomwijk shows the destructive consequences for its former residents.

  • Feis Forever

    Olivier S. Garcia | 50' | Netherlands | World premiere

    New Year’s Eve, 2019. Rotterdam is rocked by the death of rapper Feis, who represented his neighbourhood through music.

  • Gaze Is a Bridge

    Katarina Zdjelar | 22' | Croatia | World premiere (festival)

    Superimposed shots build a temporal bridge between two Croatian female artists from different era’s.

  • Happy Together

    Sebastiaan Verbeeten | 51' | Netherlands | World premiere

    A filmmaker captures every facet of his emotionally turbulent life for this radically earnest cine-memoir.

  • Hot Ticket

    Zoë Lund | 2' | Netherlands | European premiere

    Zoë Lund buys a ticket at Rotterdam Film Festival and steps into the real world.

  • Maas Confusion

    Ugo Petronin | 9' | Netherlands | World premiere

    An overwhelmed video encoder transforms a walk along the Maas River into a cosmological film poem.

  • Neverland

    Luuk Sieben | 18' | Netherlands | World premiere

    It’s more than just high-octane thrill-seeking: Dutch motocross street culture as a way of life.

  • Nu woon ik hier

    Hannah Kersten | 9' | Netherlands | World premiere

    A filmmakers’ move to Rotterdam’s Crooswijk neighbourhood triggers reflections on gentrification and displacement.

  • Papa, ik ben

    Sam Nieuwenhuis | 25' | Netherlands | World premiere

    Ilias, the successful artist Vlins, has just become a father. What does this mean for the future?

  • The Radiant Screen

    Ine Lamers | 47' | Netherlands | World premiere

    A poetic documentary about the Russian model city Ж, which exists shielded from reality. 

  • Red Dust

    Katja Verheul | 17' | Netherlands | World premiere

    Red sand dust from the Sahara contains haunting reminders of French nuclear tests in Algeria.