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Rotterdam Lab 2025: meet our open call film producers
Reflecting the Lab’s commitment to diversity and inclusion, this year’s selection of five producers from an open call showcases producers whose voices and experiences enrich the cinematic landscape.
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IFFR Pro
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Be there for each other: Payal Kapadia on All We Imagine as Light
The Golden Globe-nominated director explains her bitter-sweet relationship with Mumbai, using documentary techniques, and the role of IFFR’s support in bringing the film to life.
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Hubert Bals Fund
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IFFR Pro
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Interview
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Tiger, Big Screen and Tiger Short competitions unveiled for IFFR 2025
During today’s press conference, we revealed the lineup of films selected across the Tiger, Big Screen and Tiger Short competitions at the festival’s upcoming 54th edition.
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Art Directions programme for 2025 announced with Katoenhuis partnership
IFFR is partnering with Katoenhuis, along with other cultural institutions, on the 2025 edition of its Art Directions programme – the space where the festival steps out of the screening room and pushes the limits of what cinema can be, with immersive works from multidisciplinary creators.
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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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Interview
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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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RTM
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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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Interview
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Stories
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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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CineMart
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IFFR Pro
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Immersive
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