Talks & Masterclasses

A talk with Anne Fontaine about Bólero, Ravel, music and telling stories through different genres.

• IFFR Talks

A masterclass on the career and techniques of Bill Plympton, reigning king of independent animation.

• IFFR Talks

Billy Woodberry discusses his involvement in the L.A. Rebellion and his new film Mário.

• IFFR Talks

Debbie Harry and Amanda Kramer Talk about music, cinema and their collaboration on So Unreal.

• IFFR Talks

A Talk from Belgian cinematographer Grimm Vandekerckhove, recipient of the fifth annual Robby Müller Award.

• IFFR Talks

The Manetti Bros. review their trajectory, contextualising their work in relation to Italian popular cinema.
 

• IFFR Talks

Talk exploring Marco Bellocchio’s life, work and process.

• IFFR Talks

Sandra Hüller will discuss her unique career, approach to acting and collaborations with different directors.

• IFFR Talks

Filmmaker in Focus Scud discusses his life and work with Dr Victor Fan.

• IFFR Talks

Filmmaker Yonri Revolt joins experts to discuss one of the longest strikes of the 21st century.

• IFFR Talks

ICFR update on the increasing persecution and imprisonment of filmmakers, focusing on Turkey and Iran.

• IFFR Talks

Spanish artist/filmmaker Albert Serra discusses his career, his connection to IFFR and Pacifiction.

• IFFR Talks

Multimedia and performance project arc expands upon their work, their process and various influences.

• IFFR Talks

Filmmakers join this year’s Young Film Critics team to discuss film criticism and related topics.

• IFFR Talks

The relationship between the filmmaker and the producer is discussed and explored.

• IFFR Talks
• RTM

Live recording of the successful Girls on Film podcast, featuring special guests.

• IFFR Talks

Cinematographer and Robby Müller Award recipient Hélène Louvart discusses her projects and collaborations with Benjamin Bergery.

• IFFR Talks

Actress Joy Delima, filmmaker Jonnah Bron and an intimacy coach discuss sensuality and security in filmmaking.

• IFFR Talks
• RTM

UK duo Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt discuss their unique process of translating scientific data into art.

• IFFR Talks

A career-spanning discussion with interdisciplinary artist Stanya Kahn, with the focus on her moving-image work.

• IFFR Talks

Acclaimed filmmaker and artist Steve McQueen discusses Sunshine State, showing at Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen.

• IFFR Talks

A wide-ranging conversation with the Japanese anime master on his vivid, wildly inventive work.

• IFFR Talks

American filmmaker Amanda Kramer on her eccentric oeuvre, distinctive visual language and breaking with conventional genres.

• IFFR Talks

During this Big Talk, Trier and Reinsve will discuss their successful collaboration on The Worst Person in the World and much more.

• IFFR Talks

Festival director Vanja Kaludjercic and Mathieu Amalric will discuss the latter’s rich career on either side of the camera.

• IFFR Talks

Rachel Lang is a filmmaker and an officer in the French army. She talks about army life and its depiction in Mon Légionnaire.

• IFFR Talks

Thai cameraman Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, who won this year’s Robby Müller Award, speaks to moderator Joris Bulstra (NSC)

• IFFR Talks

In-depth conversation with Benoît Jacquot, director of Suzanna Andler, and the film’s star, Charlotte Gainsbourg.

• Limelight

Chilean composer Nicolás Jaar discusses their unique collaboration on Beginning with debut Georgian filmmaker Dea Kulumbegashvili.

• Limelight

Legendary genre revolutionary Dominik Graf will discuss his vast career with a special emphasis on his work with actors and composers.

• Harbour

American filmmaker Kelly Reichardt (First Cow), winner of the Robby Müller Award 2021, talks about her films and how she makes them.

• Limelight

In-depth discussion between festival director Vanja Kaludjercic and filmmaker and visual artist Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese.

A good conversation with Danish cinema star and top international acting talent Mads Mikkelsen, who can be seen in IFFR 2021’s opening film Riders of Justice.

• Limelight

Festival director Vanja Kaludjercic talks to Mona Fastvold about her new film, The World to Come, and where she finds inspiration.

• Harbour

Occasioned by Quo vadis, Aida?, a panel will discuss the trauma surrounding the fall of Srebrenica. Can we learn from the past?

• Limelight

A reflection on freedom and resistance by Indian video, performance and installation artist Pallavi Paul (The Blind Rabbit).

• Short & Mid-length

Maestro Bong Joon Ho, bringing a black-and-white Parasite to IFFR, will be asked about inspiration, working methods and other secrets to his success.

• Voices Main Programme

An interview, illustrated by film clips, with DoP Diego García (Neon Bull, Nuestro tiempo), ahead of the presentation of the Robby Müller Award.

• Regained

The Brazilian editor of Bacurau and Swinguerra discusses with the audience the tumultuous and urgent films he is currently editing in Brazil.

• Limelight

Legendary film composer Howard Shore talks about his way of working and huge oeuvre, working with directors such as David Cronenberg and his vision on film music.

• Regained

The Portuguese director of Vitalina Varela talks to the audience about cinema, life and his unique filmmaking style.

• Signatures

Director Sarah Gavron and associate director Anu Henriques talk about the exceptional, communal way Rocks was written.

• Synergetic

In this unique, immersive installation, the Quay Brothers introduce a number of motifs, images and objects from their future film-in-the-making.

• Frameworks

Unknown

• Voices Main Programme

One of only a handful of collaborators on Godard’s latest film, Nicole Brenez reconstructs the genesis of his provocative Image Book.

• Frameworks

One of the most unique and challenging artists of our time converses with Andrea Lissoni, senior curator at Tate Modern.

• Frameworks

Agnieszka Holland talks about the crucial question facing European democracy and her art today.

Artist, architect and filmmaker Alfredo Jaar returns to Rotterdam for the masterclass ‘Sadness Is Uninhabitable’. In collaboration with the Nederlands Fotomuseum. 

Reflections by Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas on his uncompromising oeuvre, his lyrical film language and his latest work Our Time.

• Signatures

Unknown

• Signatures

Film composer Cliff Martinez (Drive) talks in an intimate, wide-ranging conversation about how he found his characteristic sound and what inspires him.

Jia Zhangke, chronicler of China’s hyper-industrialisation, talks about his approach and his most recent film Ash Is Purest White.

• Limelight

A glimpse behind the VFX scenes in the production of Shadow and other films worked on by FX expert Samson Wong.

• Rotterdämmerung

Join an international ensemble of filmmakers and programmers for a day-long exploration of the challenges and opportunities of restoring a Parajanov film.

• Laboratory of Unseen Beauty

Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s incredibly fertile career bears the mark of an artist who, whilst being politically and socially conscious, seamlessly creates a realm beyond the one immediately visible to the naked eye. In his films, Weerasethakul speaks to us through memories, flashes and fantasies. He devises energetic entities, and shows us how they flow through the […]

• Frameworks

As a satirist, British producer-writer-director Armando Iannucci is peerless. His targets are invariably big, such as the British government in The Thick of It; the White House administration in the feature In the Loop and the internationally-renowned series Veep. For each production, Iannucci has delivered a heady brew of satire, sarcasm and absurdity and a […]

• A History of Shadows

Czech animator and filmmaker, Jan Švankmajer is a legend in his own right. His cutting-edge, surrealist and yet ever politically-conscious work, spans five decades and serves as an important inspiration for many generations of filmmakers. Švankmajer’s films stem from his own personal source material as well as adaptations of seminal writers such as Edgar Allan […]

• Signatures

For Alfredo Jaar, veteran of three Venice Biennales and winner of the MacArthur and Guggenheim awards, art and politics are intrinsically linked, even if he eschews the label of ‘political artist’. Over the past 30+ years, his work has revolved around flagrant violations of human rights and our species’ propensity towards acts of gross inhumanity […]

• Frameworks

Lucrecia Martel was educated at Avellaneda Experimental (AVEX) and the National School of Cinematographic Experimentation and Direction (ENERC) in Buenos Aires. She introduced her uncompromising vision to the world with her debut feature The Swamp which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2001. Her next feature film The Holy Girl was selected for […]

• A History of Shadows

There is no dying of the light that burns within screenwriter and filmmaker Paul Schrader. His is a rage that remains constant. Looking back at the 1970s, it wasn’t that the new and radical wave of US independent films were necessarily better than what was to follow. The difference lay in the effect on the […]

• Voices

A groundbreaking film on many levels, Moonlight is based on Tarell Alvin McCraney’s play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue. Barry Jenkins (1979, USA) and McCraney were raised in the same neighbourhood in Miami, which cultural critic Greg Tate defined as “a galaxy far, far away from the places it’s received world-cinema accolades from”. Jenkins studied Film at […]

• Black Rebels