VIDEO: Opening Night IFFR 2020 e5s2t
On 22 January at de Doelen the festival began with our opening ceremony and the opening film: Mosquito by João Nuno Pinto. Rewatch Bero Beyer’s opening speech, the introduction with our new festival director Vanja Kaludjercic, and some words on the film. ...
Tune in for the IFFR Tiger Competition press conference this sunday 2q3u1d
49th International Film Festival Rotterdam 22 January – 2 February 2020 Watch the livestream of our IFFR press conference on Sunday 26 January from 12:30 to 13:30 hours CET. This is will be the first of two press conferences giving extra depth to the Tiger Competition. Festival director Bero Beyer and IFFR programmer Müge Demir will talk to filmmakers Vincent B...
Bong Joon Ho, Beth B, Terence Nance, Marion Hänsel and more at IFFR 2020 5my4f
Clockwise: Bong Joon Ho, Terence Nance, Marion Hänsel, Jenn Nkiru, Pedro Costa, Beth B 49th International Film Festival Rotterdam 22 January – 2 February 2020 ...
Follow the livestream of the IFFR2020 launch press conference : December 18 2a2t4y
Press Conference - 18 December 2019 Watch the live press conference about the programme for IFFR 2020 here. On Wednesday 18 December, festival director Bero Beyer will unveil the films selected for our main competitions and introduce the full line-up for the 49th edition of IFFR. The livestream starts at 12:15 hours. Stay tuned! Until then, take a look at our announced films for IFFR 202049th International Film Festival Rotterdam 22 January – 2 February 2020 With nearly 330,0...
IFFR reveals full film lineup 2020 2j5f1r
49th International Film Festival Rotterdam 22 January – 2 February 2020 Tiger Competition, Bright Future Competition and Big Screen Competition announced In today’s press conference, International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) revealed the full film lineup of 2020, including the 10 films selected for the Tiger Competition. Also revealed: the selections of the Big Screen Competition and the revamped Bright Future Competition, the 2020 opening a...
IFFR announces Ammodo Tiger Short Competition 2020 55d2y
49th International Film Festival Rotterdam 22 January – 2 February 2020 Rotterdam, 4 December 2019 ...
New IFFR Fest director on board from february 2020, final edition under Bero Beyer's leadership 2j6qn
Vanja Kaludjercic has been appointed the new IFFR festival director. Beginning in her new role in February 2020, she will lead the organisation into the future and act as the artistic voice of the festival. Kaludjeric brings a wealth of industry experience, both international and within the Dutch film landscape – currently the director of acquisitions at MUBI, and with previous roles at Les Arcs European Film Festival, Sarajevo Film Festival, Netherlands Film Festival (NFF) and e...
Official IFFR 2020 festival Trailer revealed 2x5k32
49th International Film Festival Rotterdam 22 January – 2 February 2020 #IFFR2020 ...
First titles of IFFR 2020 and new Robby Müller Award 2o4j4x
Diego García First titles of IFFR 2020 and new Robby Müller Award Also announced: Tiger Competition jury, new Reality Check conference and Young Curators programme International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), the Netherlands Society of Cinematographers (NSC) and Andrea Müller-Schirmer, the late cinematographer Robby Müller’s wife, have launched the Robby Müller Award. The award honours an ‘image maker’ (cinematographer, filmmake...
IFFR is in search of a new festival director 4z2f6j
...
Bero Beyer leaves Rotterdam Fest after 49th edition in 2020 to become director of the Netherlands Film Fund n6827
On 1 March 2020, after five years at the helm, Bero Beyer will leave IFFR to take up the position of director at the Netherlands Film Fund. IFFR will announce the details of the application process for a new festival director in the coming weeks. Beyer: "Working for IFFR has been and still is a continuous thrill. It gave me the opportunity to express my love for film in its many forms in the festiva...
IFFR 2019 came to a close – recap, facts and figures 2i251d
48th edition of IFFR puts new talents front and centre This past weekend, the screening of Kim Nguyen’s The Hummingbird Project brought the 48th edition of International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) to a close. The festival screened 539 films, of which 146 (festival) world premieres, presented within the four sections Bright Future, Voices, Deep Focus and Perspectives. Reaffirming its commitment to the visual arts in the extensive Art Directions programme and...
IFFR Closing Night: The Hummingbird Project + Party 4b3z55
48th International Film Festival Rotterdam wraps tonight with ethe screening of The Hummingbird Project and a Party. You just blink and – suddenly it’s all over. Round off 48th IFFR with us at the exclusive screening of The Hummbingbird Project by Kim Nguyen. Afterwards, we’ll see out the festival in spectacular style with the Closing Party. ...
Zhu Shengze wins Tiger Award IFFR 2019 4c1u18
From left to right: Susanna Nicchiarelli (president Tiger Jury), Zhu Shengze (filmmaker), and Zhengfang Yang (producer) Present.Perfect. by Zhu Shengze wins Tiger Award IFFR 2019 Special Jury Award goes to Take Me Somewhere Nice by Ena Sendijarević International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has announced the award winners of its 48th edition. Zhu Shengze won the Tiger Award for her film Present.Perfect., a USA/Hong Kong co-production. Dutch filmmaker Ena Sendijarević w...
Tiger premiere: Els dies que vindran 5k5w69
This wednesday the Festival offered the Tiger premiere of Carlos Marqués-Marcet's Els dies que vindran (A nine-month emotional roller-coaster about two lovers expecting their first child, while they hardly even know one another yet) and other festival treats. ...
IFFR's art installations, performances, and exhibitions 5x1a4m
IFFR's art installations, performances, and exhibitions include works by Sergei Parajanov, Mika Taanlia, Cauleen Smith, David OReilly and Philippe Pareno. Art Directions 2019 International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) continuously explores, questions and pushes the boundaries demarcating the audio-visual landscape. This attitude culminates in Art Directions, IFFR’s extensive programme of art installations, ...
Days of Cannibalism and Lotus Position win the new Dutch Post-production Awards 2h2h3a
IFFR Pro Award winners announced as 36th CineMart comes to a close 48th International Film Festival Rotterdam 23 January – 3 February 2019 Wednesday 30 January 2019 marked the end of the IFFR Pro Days as well as the 36th edition of CineMart, the co-production market of International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). During the awards ceremony, eight film projects were awarded IFFR Pro Awards: four CineMart awards, the first BoostNL Audience Award, the HeYou Media VR Award and the newly...
Tiger premiere: Koko-di Koko-da 3l5j4h
This wednesday the Festival offered the Tiger premiere of Johannes Nyholm's Koko-di Koko-da (two lovers who have grown apart because of sorrow find themselves in an endless nightmare during a camping trip) and other festival treats. ...
Tiger premiere: Nona. If They Soak Me, I’ll Burn Them 48o44
This tuesday day the Festival offered the Tiger premiere of Camila José Donoso's Nona. If They Soak Me, I’ll Burn Them (A hybrid fiction featuring the director’s intriguing grandmother as an anarchist warrior in a Chilean town ravaged by forest fires) and other festival treats. After a torrid act of vengeance on the home of her ex-lover, 66-year-old Nona flees to her summer house in Pichilemu, a Chilean coastal town. There she potters about in appar...
Tiger premiere: Sheena667 251w1m
This monday the Festival offered the Tiger premiere of Grigory Dobrygin's Sheena667 and other festival treats A quiet life of a young Russian man turns upside down after he meets a girl from a faraway world that he barely knows. Russian couple Olya and Vadim have big plans: they want to travel to to buy a second-hand tow truck. For nights on end, Vadim searches the internet for a vehicle best suited to their garage. His only income at present is from the wrecked Ladas w...
IFFR offered a Masterclass with french director Claire Denis 1c1h72
With her unflinching, sensitive films, Claire Denis is among the most important European film authors of this generation. Since she made her debut in 1988 with Chocolat, inspired by her youth in West Africa, the colonial heritage and invisible lines that divide us from others are recurring themes in powerful films including Beau travail and White Material. Her exceptionally versatile oeuvre moves freely between poetic minimalism and more conventional drama, but also includ...
IFFR Pro Days in full swing 364g72
...
IFFR announces winners Ammodo Tiger Short Competition 2019 2s3b1g
48th International Film Festival Rotterdam 23 January – 3 February 2019 Three films each win an Ammodo Tiger Short Award On Sunday 27 January 2019, a three-person professional jury announced the three winners of this year’s Ammodo Tiger Short Competition at International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). The winning films are Freedom of Movement by Nina Fischer and Maroan el Sani, Wong Ping's Fables 1 by Wong Ping and Ultramarine by Vincent Meessen. They won three equ...
VIDEO: Interview with the filmmakers of IFFR opener Dirty God by Sacha Polak. 5cq4b
Welcome to 48th International Film Festival Rotterdam. Tonight, the world premiere of Dirty God by Sacha Polak will kick off 12 days filled to the brim with cinematic exploration When Jade, a young mother from London, is discharged from hospital, the doctors are are happy with her progress. But can she ever be happy again? After an acid attack by her ex, she will have to live with scars on her neck, chest, arms and part of her face....
IFFR 2019 film programme includes 236 feature and 285 short films 502n13
We are happy to announce the full film programme of the 48th edition of IFFR. Our proud list of 236 feature and 285 short films. All ed guests for the IFFR Pro Days can book their tickets tonight. To the programme ...
