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  • 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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    • 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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    • News

  • 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