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  • Three IFFR-backed titles awarded in Cannes

    Celebrating the reaction to all the supported talent in Cannes after the Grand Prix went to All We Imagine as Light by Payal Kapadia.

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    • CineMart
    • Hubert Bals Fund
    • IFFR Pro

  • Stubbornly naughty, properly defiant

    Accompanying the IFFR 2024 Focus: Scud programme, IFFR programmer Kristina Aschenbrennerova takes an in-depth look at the work of filmmaker Scud, pioneer of Asian queer cinema.

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  • At Home Among Strangers, Strangers at Home

    Accompanying the IFFR 2024 Focus: Chile in the Heart programme, which looks at the Chilean exile cinema phenomenon instigated by the 1973 coup by Augusto Pinochet, IFFR programmer Olaf Möller puts the selected films into context.

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    • Background

  • Italians do it differently. The free cinematographic philosophy of the Manetti Bros.

    Accompanying the IFFR 2024 Focus: Manetti Bros. programme, Manlio Gomarasca explores the work of the Italian duo.

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    • Background

  • A Cornucopia of Marvels

    IFFR programmer Olaf Möller offers an insight into the IFFR 2024 Cinema Regained programme.

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    • Background

  • Colectivo Los Ingrávidos: Rapturous Dissent

    Accompanying the IFFR 2024 Focus: Colectivo Los Ingrávidos programme, IFFR programmer Cristina Kolozsváry-Kiss explores the work of the Mexican collective.

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    • Background

  • 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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    • Hubert Bals Fund
    • IFFR Pro
    • News

  • 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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    • CineMart
    • Hubert Bals Fund

  • 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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  • Latest RTM Pitch winner announced as IFFR 2025 dates confirmed

    Researcher and filmmaker Sharine Rijsenburg will receive €20,000 towards the production of her Afrofuturistic project Bubbling Baby.

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    • Press release