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  • Robby Müller Award 2024 goes to Grimm Vandekerckhove

    Tiger juries announced with Cinema Regained and more premieres in Limelight & Harbour.

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    • Press release
  • Exploring cinematic frontiers: Scud, Rachel Maclean, Spinvis and expanded cinema at IFFR 2024

    Discover the first Focus programmes and Art Directions lineups.

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    • Press release
  • NFF+HBF scheme awards projects from Chile and Singapore

    Through the Hubert Bals Fund’s collaboration with the Netherlands Film Fund, projects by Singaporean filmmaker Siyou Tan and Chilean animators Joaquín Cociña and Cristóbal León will each be awarded €75,000 in the second 2023 support round of the NFF+HBF: Co-production scheme. The awards are another helping hand to the projects on their way to completion, […]

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    • News
  • Head South by Jonathan Ogilvie to open IFFR 2024

    Films by Jonathan Ogilvie, Amanda Kramer, Ann Hui and Billy Woodberry confirmed, along with dates for the IFFR Pro Days, press conference and more.

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    • Press release
  • The Hubert Bals Fund backs ten new feature projects

    The fund underscores its commitment to fostering new and diverse voices, supporting a majority of projects by emerging talent.

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    • Press release
  • Hubert Bals Fund development selection 2023

    The Hubert Bals Fund (HBF), IFFR’s film fund, has chosen ten feature film projects to each be awarded a grant of €10,000 to support their development. Read the full selection below! The fund underscores its commitment to fostering new and diverse voices from across the globe, backing a majority in the selection who are embarking […]

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  • Tamara Tatishvili appointed new Head of the Hubert Bals Fund

    We have appointed Tamara Tatishvili as the new Head of the Hubert Bals Fund (HBF), IFFR’s film fund. Tatishvili has extensive experience across many areas of the international film industry as a strategy consultant, leader, producer and programmer. Amongst a host of notable positions, Tatishvili worked for several years as Director of the Georgian National […]

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    • Hubert Bals Fund
    • News
  • Hubert Bals Fund supports 12 projects with HBF+Europe schemes

    Four projects awarded in first Post-production Support selection, alongside eight for Minority Co-production Support.

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    • Press release
  • HBF+Europe 2023

    From a doping weightlifter, runaway slaves, a high-school swimming team and LED-crucifix salesmen, all the way to a vacuum-cleaning ghost, the HBF+Europe selection for 2023 is full of audacious stories that span the globe. This year, the Hubert Bals Fund is delighted it can further support ambitious filmmaking thanks to a new HBF+Europe: Post-production Support […]

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    • Hubert Bals Fund
  • International Film Festival Rotterdam announces Clare Stewart as new Managing Director

    Former Director of BFI London Film Festival and Interim CEO at Sheffield DocFest Joins Ahead of 2024 Edition.

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    • Press release