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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Limelight

Programme IFFR 2026

Bringing the year’s most talked-about cinema and major premieres to Rotterdam, Limelight is a feast for all. From genre gems to award-winners and audience-pleasers, the section offers a vibrant selection that welcomes first-timers and rewards seasoned festivalgoers alike.

Still: The Secret Agent, dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho

Overview of films

  • Silent Friend

    Ildikó Enyedi | 147' | Germany | Dutch Premiere

    Three stories, three moments in time and one gingko tree. Starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Léa Seydoux.

  • Special Unit – The First Murder

    Christoffer Boe | 122' | Denmark | Dutch Premiere

    A visually seductive and suspenseful Danish crime drama, based on a cult TV series.

  • Tokyo Taxi

    Yoji Yamada | 103' | Japan | European premiere

    A road movie taking audiences through the melancholic metropolis and nostalgic nooks of Tokyo.

  • Tunnels: Sun in the Dark

    Bùi Thạc Chuyên | 126' | Vietnam | European premiere

    A scrappy guerrilla unit resists enemy onslaught from within a byzantine tunnel network.

  • Two Prosecutors

    118' | France | Dutch Premiere

    A stark but absorbing drama of a young prosecutor’s struggle for justice in Stalinist Russia.

  • Whitetail

    Nanouk Leopold | 103' | Netherlands | Dutch Premiere

    Beautifully built-up dramatic thriller by Nanouk Leopold about a forester who is forced to face suppressed traumas.

  • The Wizard of the Kremlin

    Olivier Assayas, Olivier Assayas | 145' | France | Dutch Premiere

    Paul Dano and Jude Law spearhead the birth of an autocracy in Olivier Assayas’s political opus.