Gertjan Zuilhof
Gertjan ZUILHOF (1955–2025, the Netherlands) was a film programmer and curator whose work played a formative role in the development of the International Film Festival Rotterdam as an internationally oriented filmmakers’ festival. Trained in art history, he began his career as a film critic before joining IFFR in the early 1990s, where he worked for more than two decades as part of the festival’s programming team.
Filmography
Car Aircon Electrical Autocartoons (2025)
Gertjan Zuilhof at IFFR
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Car Aircon Electrical Autocartoons
Gertjan Zuilhof | 60' | Netherlands | International premiere
The late IFFR curator Gertjan Zuilhof leaves us his artistic testament of playful, animated drawings. -
Sarah and Omelga
Tan Chui Mui | 30' | Malaysia | -
Tan Chui Mui shot a short science-fiction film in South Africa (see No Woman Born). In that way she got to know the film makers… -
One Drawing a Day: A Retrospective Exhibition of Auto Cartoons by Gertjan Zuilhof
Gertjan Zuilhof | 60' | No premiere
Remembering Gertjan Zuilhof, one of IFFR’s most influential film programmers, through his daily drawings. -
All My Failed Attempts
Tan Chui Mui | 66' | Malaysia | World premiere
The winner of a Tiger Award in 2007 decided after she moved: I’m just going to make a short film every month. So she did.… -
Chasing Cats and Cars
Liew Seng Tat | 12' | Malaysia | World premiere
What can a leg do without the man who should be fixed to it? About how you can forget a leg and the leg decides… -
Letters from Ethiopia
Hiwot Admasu Getaneh, Henok Legesse | 12' | Ethiopia | World premiere
It had not yet been done, a film about making films in Ethiopia. So IFFR had it made by the youngest talent we could find. -
Sarah and Omelga
Tan Chui Mui | 30' | Malaysia | World premiere
Tan Chui Mui shot a short science-fiction film in South Africa (see No Woman Born). In that way she got to know the film makers… -
Coupable
MEMY AMOUR SAUVEUR | 13' | Congo-Brazzaville | World premiere
Amour Saveur has the capability to become the inventor of a new African genre: the ultra short bizarre comedy. The slapstick of our time. Together… -
Suwi
Musola Cathrine Kaseketi | 78' | Finland | None
The Zambian director knew what she was talking about when she filmed a dramatic story about a young woman who became handicapped. Yet this is… -
Chien méchant
Les Boulistes | 6' | Congo-Brazzaville | International premiere
A father permeates the house with fear. Sixth part of a a sitcom in twelve episodes of six minutes each that can be viewed independently.…