Art Directions: installations
Programme IFFR 2026
Art Directions is the space where the festival steps out of the screening room and pushes the limits of what cinema can be. At galleries and artistic spaces across Rotterdam, encounter cinema in surprising forms: immersive media, performances, live music and visual art.
Overview of films
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3 Scenes from a Marriage
Leopold Emmen | 19' | Netherlands | World premiere
Leopold Emmen’s latest work invites you to experience what cinema might become when time and space unravel -
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Café Kuba: Who Dared to Awaken the Dead Memory
David Shongo | 27' | Congo, Democratic Republic | Dutch Premiere
A mobile coffee cart traverses public space in Kinshasa, where creative forms of resistance emerge. -
Krakatoa
Carlos Casas | 60' | Spain | World premiere
Images, sound and vibration echo “the loudest scream ever”: the 1883 eruption of the Indonesian Krakatoa volcano. -
My Sweet Elora
Luuk Van Raamsdonk | 5' | Canada | Dutch Premiere
A layered visual archive reveals the hidden stories that have lain dormant within a family for generations. -
Preludio
Silvia Gatti | 7' | Netherlands | Dutch Premiere
Video and sound installation that unfolds as a sensory architecture in which the subconscious arises.