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“I’m portraying a shared history”: Mouly Surya on the IFFR 2025 closing film This City Is a Battlefield
“I think a lot of what is happening in the world right now traces back to World War II” says Mouly Surya, the Indonesian filmmaker behind the IFFR 2025 closing film This City Is a Battlefield (released in the Netherlands as Djakarta 1946), explaining one of the many reasons why this period in Southeast Asian history […]
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Hubert Bals Fund
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Interview
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A little neon intervention: Holy Electricity by Tato Kotetishvili
Georgian filmmaker Tato Kotetishvili and Dutch co-producer Ineke Smits discuss the CineMart- and Darkroom-presented Holy Electricity, selected for IFFR 2025.
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CineMart
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Interview
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Stories
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Everything is relative: De Idylle by Aaron Rookus
Dutch filmmaker Aaron Rookus is in the Big Screen Competition at IFFR 2025 with his sophomore feature De Idylle.
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IFFR Pro
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Interview
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Cheryl Dunye on her CineMart project Black Is Blue: “the power of film to be a tool for reflection”
Rotterdam favourite Cheryl Dunye (The Watermelon Woman, IFFR 1997) talks to us about returning to the festival.
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CineMart
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Interview
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Talks and special guests at IFFR 2025
Filmmakers including Costa Gavras, Steffen Haars & Joseph Kahn, Mohammad Rasoulof, Amie Siegel, Miike Takashi join the programme alongside Cate Blanchett & Guy Maddin, Lol Crawley, Cheryl Dunye & Albertina Carri, Alex Ross Perry and more. Across the festival the programme is full of discovery and dialogue, including in the Pro Hub industry programme and […]
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Blog
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News
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International Film Festival Rotterdam unveils new special guests for its 2025 Talks line-up
International Filmmakers including Costa Gavras, Steffen Haars & Joseph Kahn, Mohammad Rasoulof, Amie Siegel, Miike Takashi join the programme alongside Cate Blanchett & Guy Maddin, Lol Crawley, Cheryl Dunye & Albertina Carri, Alex Ross Perry and more.
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Press release
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Cinema Regained programme IFFR 2025
IFFR has revealed its Cinema Regained programme for the 2025 edition — a sphere of collective cinematic memory and imagination. This strand of 43 works will showcase restored classics, thought-provoking documentaries on film culture, and insightful explorations of cinema’s heritage. The programme focuses on both recent cinematic work, as well as stretching back into film’s […]
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News
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Indaba In Focus with Maéva Ranaivojaona: “plunge into something you don’t know”
French-Malagasy producer brings challenging Afropean cinema into the spotlight.
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Blog
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IFFR Pro
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Stories
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NFF+HBF support for Prantik Basu and Shengze Zhu
The Hubert Bals Fund’s joint venture with the Netherlands Film Fund awards production funds to former HBF-supported projects with an attached Dutch co-producer.
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Blog
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Hubert Bals Fund
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International Film Festival Rotterdam reveals Cinema Regained programme for 2025 edition
IFFR 2025’s Cinema Regained Programme Includes World Premieres of Vani Subramanian’s Cinema Pe Cinema: The Theatres. The Movies. And Us, Ali Khamraev and Yuri Klimenko’s Sergei Parajanov Homage The Lilac Wind of Paradjanov, and Drissa Touré’s Return to Directing – Mousso Fariman.
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Press release
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