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  • Tiger Short Competition winners 2025

    Three titles receive equal Tiger Short Awards, each worth €5,000, KNF Award winner and nomination for European Short Film Award
    also announced.

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    • News
  • International Film Festival Rotterdam unveils 2025 Tiger Short Competition winners

    Three titles receive equal Tiger Short Awards, each worth €5,000, KNF Award winner and nomination for European Short Film Award also announced.

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    • Press release
  • Tips from IFFR ambassador Kristel Anna Frich

    During International Film Festival Rotterdam the Art Directions City Walk brings together a range of groundbreaking works that push boundaries between art, technology, and the human experience. Want some Art Directions tips on what to visit during your IFFR ? See here: 

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    • Blog
    • Tips
  • Tips from IFFR ambassador Marco Dreijer

    As an ambassador for the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), I am focusing this year on queer narratives. Film is a powerful medium to showcase diverse perspectives and celebrate identities. This year, I am particularly excited about the films and filmmakers who not only represent queer cinema but also challenge and redefine it.

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    • Blog
    • Tips
  • Hubert Bals Fund deadlines for 2025 announced

    We’re pleased to announce the upcoming funding deadlines for the year.

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    • Hubert Bals Fund
  • Filmmaker Ashley Röttjers wins RTM Pitch 2025 with project Regen in augustus

    During the opening of the RTM Day at IFFR 2025, which showcases films by Rotterdam-based filmmakers or about our port city, the sixth winner of the RTM Pitch was announced, along with the new development prize and coaching programme recipients.

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    • News
    • RTM
  • The Political (Un)Consciousness

    Thirty years after the premiere of his debut feature Josephine, the Singer and the Mice People Ukrainian artist Sergii Masloboishchykov returns to IFFR for a retrospective of his work. Film critic Sonya Vseliubska places his films within their historical and contemporary contexts, analysing their artistic and political significance.

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    • Background
    • Blog
  • Matthew Lax: Languages of power and love

    With Focus: Matthew Lax, IFFR 2025 presents a decade-spanning look at the work of the American artist, writer and filmmaker. IFFR programmer Cristina Kolozsváry-Kiss takes an in-depth look at the approach and themes of Lax’s selected films and installation.

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    • Background
    • Blog
  • Michiel ten Horn on the opening film Fabula: “we sometimes felt like the whole film was cursed”

    With Fabula, Michiel ten Horn takes us to the south of the Netherlands, his birthplace, to introduce us to Jos, a washed-up criminal from a family haunted by misfortune for generations.

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    • Blog
    • Interview
  • Presenting the IFFR Pro awards and juries 2025

    The awards recognise outstanding projects presented at IFFR Pro’s co-production market CineMart and work-in-progress platform Darkroom.

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    • IFFR Pro
    • News