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HBF+Europe 2024 selections
Ten projects are the latest to be awarded by the Hubert Bals Fund’s HBF+Europe support schemes. Each receives €60,000 – eight for co-production and two for post-production. The selection comes with a strong commitment to emerging talent, supporting a majority of first or second time feature filmmakers and covering a wide geographical spread, with filmmakers […]
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Five Cannes titles supported by IFFR
Films backed by the Hubert Bals Fund and presented at CineMart and Darkroom feature across the programme, telling stories from the streets of São Paulo to nurses in Mumbai, miners in Vietnam, refugees in Greece and caregivers in Singapore. Cannes Official Selection: Competition Payal Kapadia becomes the first Indian director in 30 years to be […]
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Bubbling culture documentary wins fifth RTM Pitch
Bubbling, a cultural movement fusing dance, rhythm and electronic music born out of Rotterdam’s Afro-Caribbean community in the 1990s, is the focus of a documentary project awarded a grant of €20,000 by IFFR together with the municipality of Rotterdam. Researcher and filmmaker Sharine Rijsenburg will explore Bubbling culture as having both a deep imprint on […]
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Take the money and run: Rodrigo Moreno on Los delincuentes
Director Rodrigo Moreno and producer Ezequiel ‘Boro’ Borovinsky share their experience making the film together over more than eight years since it was first presented as a project at IFFR’s co-production market CineMart in 2015.
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Rachel Maclean’s motley mass media mashup
Accompanying the IFFR 2024 Focus: Rachel Maclean programme, IFFR programmer Cristina Kolozsváry-Kiss takes an in-depth look at the work of the Scottish multimedia artist.
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IFFR-backed titles at the Berlinale 2024
A voice that claims to belong to a hippopotamus is that of Pepe, the entry point into a world full of stories in the film of the same name by Dominican filmmaker Nelson Carlo De Los Santos Arias, who picked up the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlinale 2024. It’s one of a […]
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CineMart 2024: exploring the margins
Although each project at CineMart 2024 was absolutely unique, they all had the shared desire to forge new creative paths, to ask difficult questions and to explore untold narratives – looking into the margins and taking the road less travelled. IFFR Pro spoke to a few of the selected projects. “I think it’s our time […]
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Rei and The Old Bachelor take top IFFR 2024 awards
The 2024 winners from our two feature competitions, the Tiger Competition and the Big Screen Competition, are here. The prizes were handed out during the IFFR Awards Ceremony on Friday 2 February, along with the FIPRESCI, NETPAC and Youth Jury awards.
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Meet the 2024 Media Outreach & Inclusion Scheme journalists
IFFR’s Media Outreach & Inclusion Scheme has run for the second time in 2024. By welcoming new and diverse voices to report on the festival, the scheme aims to remove barriers to journalists and media makers from communities that are currently underrepresented in the festival’s press community. Our seven participants, who work across online, print […]
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IFFR Pro winners announced at CineMart 2024
The IFFR Pro winners for 2024 are announced! Seven awards were handed out to projects presented at the 41st edition of IFFR’s co-production market CineMart during the IFFR Pro Awards Ceremony on Tuesday 30 January, which was co-hosted together with Catalan Films. The winners were selected from the 16 features and 4 immersive projects in […]
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