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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

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  • RTM 2024: Meet our curators

    Meet our 2024 guest curators for the RTM programme.

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    • RTM

  • CineMart unveils 2024 selection

    The lineup for the 2024 edition of our co-production market CineMart is here! 16 feature film projects and 4 immersive projects will be presented at CineMart’s 41st edition, running Sunday 28 to Wednesday 31 January. Additionally, potential co-production, sales and distribution partners can assess 6 Darkroom works-in-progress of which 4 are features and 2 immersive. […]

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    • CineMart
    • IFFR Pro

  • Pro Darkroom 2024

    Making a welcome return for its second edition is the Darkroom programme of work-in-progress screenings of former CineMart and HBF-supported projects, taking place on Tuesday 30 January 2024. Selected teams will receive expert consultancy and have the chance to present their work to an exclusive panel of international sales agents, festival programmers and buyers.

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    • IFFR Pro
    • News

  • NFF+HBF scheme awards projects from Chile and Singapore

    Through the Hubert Bals Fund’s collaboration with the Netherlands Film Fund, projects by Singaporean filmmaker Siyou Tan and Chilean animators Joaquín Cociña and Cristóbal León will each be awarded €75,000 in the second 2023 support round of the NFF+HBF: Co-production scheme. The awards are another helping hand to the projects on their way to completion, […]

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    • Hubert Bals Fund
    • News

  • Hubert Bals Fund development selection 2023

    The Hubert Bals Fund (HBF), IFFR’s film fund, has chosen ten feature film projects to each be awarded a grant of €10,000 to support their development. Read the full selection below! The fund underscores its commitment to fostering new and diverse voices from across the globe, backing a majority in the selection who are embarking […]

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    • Hubert Bals Fund
    • News

  • Tamara Tatishvili appointed new Head of the Hubert Bals Fund

    We have appointed Tamara Tatishvili as the new Head of the Hubert Bals Fund (HBF), IFFR’s film fund. Tatishvili has extensive experience across many areas of the international film industry as a strategy consultant, leader, producer and programmer. Amongst a host of notable positions, Tatishvili worked for several years as Director of the Georgian National […]

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    • Hubert Bals Fund
    • News

  • HBF+Europe 2023

    From a doping weightlifter, runaway slaves, a high-school swimming team and LED-crucifix salesmen, all the way to a vacuum-cleaning ghost, the HBF+Europe selection for 2023 is full of audacious stories that span the globe. This year, the Hubert Bals Fund is delighted it can further support ambitious filmmaking thanks to a new HBF+Europe: Post-production Support […]

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    • Hubert Bals Fund

  • Introducing: IFFR Pro Darkroom

    IFFR Pro talks to creatives on two of its Darkroom projects: Holy Electricity and Floating With Spirits.

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    • CineMart
    • Hubert Bals Fund
    • IFFR Pro
    • Immersive

  • CineMart: 40th edition lineup

    The lineup for the 40th edition of CineMart is here! 20 feature film and 5 immersive projects will be presented to the international film industry at IFFR 2023 and given the right connections to bring them to reality. Following two online editions, the market takes place in person for the first time since 2020. Filmmakers […]

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    • CineMart
    • IFFR Pro

  • Interview with EAMI director Paz Encina

    “This film gave us the opportunity to dream and at the same time the chance to wake up” said the jury who gave Paz Encina’s latest film the Tiger Award at IFFR 2022. She spoke to us about the urgent message behind the film, which was supported in its creation by IFFR’s Hubert Bals Fund […]

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    • Interview