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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

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  • 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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    • News

  • 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

  • Take the money and run: Rodrigo Moreno on Los delincuentes

    Director Rodrigo Moreno and producer Ezequiel ‘Boro’ Borovinsky share their experience making the film together over more than eight years since it was first presented as a project at IFFR’s co-production market CineMart in 2015. 

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    • CineMart
    • Interview

  • Rachel Maclean’s motley mass media mashup

    Accompanying the IFFR 2024 Focus: Rachel Maclean programme, IFFR programmer Cristina Kolozsváry-Kiss takes an in-depth look at the work of the Scottish multimedia artist.

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    • Background

  • IFFR-backed titles at the Berlinale 2024

    A voice that claims to belong to a hippopotamus is that of Pepe, the entry point into a world full of stories in the film of the same name by Dominican filmmaker Nelson Carlo De Los Santos Arias, who picked up the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlinale 2024. It’s one of a […]

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  • CineMart 2024: exploring the margins

    Although each project at CineMart 2024 was absolutely unique, they all had the shared desire to forge new creative paths, to ask difficult questions and to explore untold narratives – looking into the margins and taking the road less travelled. IFFR Pro spoke to a few of the selected projects. “I think it’s our time […]

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    • IFFR Pro
    • Interview

  • IFFR records strong visitor numbers during impactful edition

    Agnieszka Holland’s Green Border wins the Audience Award.

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    • Press release

  • Rei and The Old Bachelor take top IFFR 2024 awards

    The 2024 winners from our two feature competitions, the Tiger Competition and the Big Screen Competition, are here. The prizes were handed out during the IFFR Awards Ceremony on Friday 2 February, along with the FIPRESCI, NETPAC and Youth Jury awards.

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  • Meet the 2024 Media Outreach & Inclusion Scheme journalists

    IFFR’s Media Outreach & Inclusion Scheme has run for the second time in 2024. By welcoming new and diverse voices to report on the festival, the scheme aims to remove barriers to journalists and media makers from communities that are currently underrepresented in the festival’s press community. Our seven participants, who work across online, print […]

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    • IFFR Pro

  • IFFR Pro winners announced at CineMart 2024

    The IFFR Pro winners for 2024 are announced! Seven awards were handed out to projects presented at the 41st edition of IFFR’s co-production market CineMart during the IFFR Pro Awards Ceremony on Tuesday 30 January, which was co-hosted together with Catalan Films. The winners were selected from the 16 features and 4 immersive projects in […]

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    • CineMart
    • IFFR Pro