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International Film Festival Rotterdam reveals Art Directions programme for 2025 edition
Immersive Experience Hub Katoenhuis unveiled as new home for Art Directions.
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“The people we depicted gave me their souls to put in a film”: Jaydon Martin on Flathead
“I’ve always wanted to make a small, strange film that people stumble upon”, says Jaydon Martin about the journey he went on with his first feature film. The Australian filmmaker made his feature directorial debut at IFFR 2024 with Flathead, a black-and-white intimate docu-fiction portraying the lives of a small working-class community from Bundaberg, Australia. […]
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RTM 2025: introducing our curators
On Friday 31 January 2025, IFFR’s annual RTM Day takes place at LantarenVenster, spotlighting the very best in Rotterdam filmmaking alongside a host of talent from the city’s creative scene, presenting talks, music, audiovisual art and installations. Following the success of the previous two years of collaborating with curators for RTM, three new local creatives […]
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IFFR 2025 Opening and Closing Night films and competition juries announced
IFFR 2025 will open with Fabula, a compelling dark comedy from the award-winning Dutch director and screenwriter Michiel ten Horn, and close with the ambitious historical epic This City Is a Battlefield from Indonesian filmmaker Mouly Surya.
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“These people are seen and the stories are heard”: Tiger Short Award 2024 winners reflect on their IFFR experience
We spoke with the Tiger Short Award winners 2024 about their journey at the festival, the impact of their prizes, and the sense of community they found at IFFR that continues to shape their filmmaking paths.
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Immersive storytelling at IFFR Pro’s CineMart and Darkroom 2025
In its co-production market CineMart and Darkroom work-in-progress programme, IFFR Pro creates a space for immersive media projects to find the vital industry connections to help them flourish. At IFFR 2025, six immersive media projects can be found across the selections, with four presented by Dutch makers.
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Darkroom works-in-progress 2025
IFFR Pro’s Darkroom offers a platform to present to the international industry recently or nearly completed films and immersive media projects seeking completion or gap funding, sales agents and festivals.
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CineMart reveals lineup of timely, creative storytelling for 2025 edition
We’ve unveiled our curated selection of 20 film projects and four immersive projects for the 42nd edition of CineMart – IFFR Pro’s co-production market where a lineup of projects in development are presented to international industry for financing and co-production, running Sunday 2 to Wednesday 5 February 2025. We’ve also confirmed the lineup for our […]
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International Film Festival Rotterdam revitalises IFFR Pro, reveals CineMart and Darkroom selections
CineMart Expands for 2025 with Four Additional Projects in the Film Selection. Darkroom Doubles in Size, Presenting 10 Feature Projects and Two Immersive in the Work-in-Progress Programme.
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Get your tickets for the Volkskrantdag now
On Sunday 9 February, you can enjoy the best that IFFR has to offer during the IFFR Volkskrantdag. Film editor for De Volkskrant, Bor Beekman, has put together a special programme of must-see films. Criss-cross Rotterdam from cinema to cinema or choose to see all films from the same screening room. Routes With Route Centrum, […]
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