RTM Pitch
With RTM Pitch, IFFR and the Municipality of Rotterdam offer a grant of €20,000 to support the production of a short film that has our home city at its heart.
Fifth edition
Researcher and filmmaker Sharine Rijsenburg will receive €20,000 towards the production of her Afrofuturistic project Bubbling Baby. As the winner of the RTM Pitch, the project will receive expert guidance and aims to premiere at IFFR 2025
Previous winners
- 2023–24: The Battle of Empty Stomachs by Diana Al-Halabi
- A poetic tribute to the resistance of Palestinian hunger strikers and asylum seekers.
- 2022–23: Fantoomwijk by Ravi Sandberg
- A lively working-class neighbourhood is forced to make way for luxury homes. Fantoomwijk shows the destructive consequences for its former residents.
- 2021–22: So Loud the Sky Can Hear Us by Lavinia Xausa
- A group of Feyenoord supporters unfold a hidden world of faith, love, compassion, and vulnerability.
- 2020–21: You Can’t Automate Me by Katarina Jazbec
- Lashers risk their lives securing shipping containers. Each of their bodies tells its own story.
About RTM
RTM is IFFR's programme dedicated to Rotterdam. Films and filmmakers from the Maasstad take centre stage, both in the film selection as well as special events designed to exchange cinematic knowledge and experiences amongst local filmmakers. Expect new short-length and feature films, Rotterdam classics, events, talks, audiovisual art, video clips and installations.
With RTM Pitch, IFFR and the Municipality of Rotterdam offer a grant of €20,000 to support the production of a short film that has our home city at its heart.
