{"id":206197,"date":"2025-01-24T11:32:11","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T10:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iffr.com\/en\/?p=206197"},"modified":"2025-01-31T12:06:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T11:06:18","slug":"blog-hubert-bals-fund-at-iffr-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iffr.com\/en\/blog-hubert-bals-fund-at-iffr-2025","title":{"rendered":"Hubert Bals Fund at IFFR 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As we gear up towards another edition of IFFR, we invite you to explore how the Hubert Bals Fund remains true to its mission of representing cinema in all its forms, discovering and supporting new talent, and reminding us of the power of human solidarity. Explore the activities of IFFR\u2019s film fund across the IFFR 2025 and IFFR Pro programmes.<\/p>\n\n\n

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During IFFR 2025, you can find HBF across an exceptional lineup of projects, as well as in industry events and panels \u2013 from the five films featured in the festival\u2019s various programming sections, to four CineMart and three Darkroom projects, and many alumni throughout the programmes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IFFR Pro Dialogue: Representing Voices and Experiences of Displacement in Film<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

With one in every 67 people on earth forcibly displaced due to conflict, war, or persecution, supporting displaced filmmakers and authentic storytelling around the experiences of displaced people has never been more urgent. Cate Blanchett \u2013 actor, producer and global Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR (the UN Refugee Agency) \u2013 together with Oscar nominated filmmakers Koji Yanai (producer, Perfect Days<\/strong>), Waad Al-Kateab (director, For Sama<\/strong>), Jonas Rasmussen (director, Flee<\/strong>) and Head of the HBF, Tamara Tatishvili will discuss how the film industry can better represent these voices and experiences. Moderated by producer Uzma Hasan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday 1 February, 15.30. Open to industry and press badge-holders, reservation information to follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Panellists from left to right: Waad Al-Kateab (credit: Sharbel Kanoun), Cate Blanchett (credit: Renato Campora), Koji Yanai (credit: Chiyoe Sugita), Tamara Tatishvili (credit: Elene Mikaberidze) and Jonas Rasmussen (credit: Andreas Omvik) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Supported films in the IFFR 2025 selection<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Five titles supported by the Hubert Bals Fund, for development, production and post-production, feature in the official IFFR 2025 selection. As well as This City Is a Battlefield<\/strong>, which has its world premiere as the IFFR 2025 closing film, all the titles have found immense recognition and applause at major international festivals, which made 2024 a milestone year for the Hubert Bals Fund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Limelight section of the programme is Payal Kapadia\u2019s fiction debut All We Imagine As Light. <\/strong>With a historical prize-winning festival run, including the 2024 Grand Prix at Cannes, the film is a poetic exploration of the intertwined lives of three nurses living in Mumbai, a gentrified metropole that bears witness to moments of friendship, tenderness, and loss. In an interview with IFFR Pro, the Indian filmmaker explains her bitter-sweet relationship with Mumbai, the use of documentary techniques, and the role of HBF\u2019s support in bringing the film to life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t

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