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NewsMohammad Rasoulof project among five backed by Rotterdam and Cate Blanchett’s Displacement Film Fund
Short film grant scheme has also backed projects by Maryna Er Gorbach, Mo Harawe, Hassan Kattan and Shahrbanoo Sadat.
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NewsBFI delegation of disabled UK filmmakers attends Rotterdam
Inaccessability of festivals prompted British Film Institute to take a delegation of four UK-based disabled filmmakers to IFFR Pro.
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NewsIgor Bezinović’s ‘Fiume O Morte!’ wins Rotterdam 2025 Tiger award
Jon Blåhed’s ’Raptures’ was this year’s Big Screen winner.
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NewsFrom cannibal horror to AI dystopias: industry execs on IFFR Pro’s standout 2025 projects
Screen talks to sales execs and producers about the project hightlights at this year’s CineMart and Darkoom.
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NewsIndonesian director Mouly Surya on ‘This City Is A Battlefield’: “I was trying to push the boundaries”
Filmmaker’s latest closes International Film Festival Rotterdam this weekend.
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NewsGeorgian drama ‘Tear Gas’ leads Rotterdam’s IFFR Pro winners
Nine projects win prizes from IFFR Pro’s Cinemart and Darkroom programme.
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NewsIncredible Film adds Dutch romantic comedy ‘About Women’ to EFM slate (exclusive)
Film is produced by Millstreet Films, the makers of hit Dutch series Máxima, and forms part of Incredible’s EFM slate.
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NewsNetherlands Film Fund’s Sandra den Hamer on the revival of the Dutch industry: “We are on the way up”
With several titles at Rotterdam and a growing market share for local films, den Hamer says industry is moving forward after several difficult years.
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NewsHubert Bals’ funding pot grows as demand for development financing rises
International Film Festival Rotterdam’s Hubert Bals Fund (HBF) has backed festival hits such as Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light
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NewsThe rise of the Netherlands as a co-production player: “What you see is what you get with the Dutch”
Leading Dutch producers on why they are increasingly working internationally with co-production partners.
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NewsVideo culture comes into focus at Rotterdam: “We all grew up in the VHS period”
Programmer and curator Olaf Möller on the festival’s retrospective of VHS culture and rental stores, ’Hold Video In Your Hands.
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NewsCate Blanchett shines light on refugee filmmaking fund: “These stories aren’t getting into the mainstream”
Blancett officially launched €500,000 Displacement Film Fund at International Film Festival Rotterdam
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NewsIFFR Pro’s Marten Rabarts explains why he believes the Dutch make the best co-producers
Raberts was appointed in the autumn to head of International Film Festival Rotterdam’s industry strand.
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NewsIran’s Soheila Golestani banned from travelling to Rotterdam to serve on festival jury
Rotterdam has expressed its solidarity with Golestani, calling her ”a victim of opression”.
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NewsRotterdam’s Vanja Kaludjercic takes aim at Donald Trump in passionate opening-night speech
The festival director emphasised the power of cinema to connect pepole in an era of resurgent nationalism.
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NewsMichiel ten Horn on his Rotterdam opener ‘Fabula’: “It’s between comedy, crime and fantasy”
Film centres on a small-time petty crook played by Fedja van Huêt, star of Oscar winning ’Dutch movie Character’.
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NewsRotterdam’s Vanja Kaludjercic, Clare Stewart talk festival highlights and funding challenges
2025 edition presents filmmakers, themes and topics “that you do not often get a chance to see.”
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News‘Blind Love’: first trailer for Julian Chou’s Rotterdam competition title (exclusive)
A drama about a high-school boy who falls in love with his mother’s ex-girlfriend, it stars Ariel Lin.
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NewsItalian sales agency Luminalia launches with Rotterdam and Toronto titles (exclusive)
Tommaso Priante previously worked at companies including Coproduction Office and Decker Distribution.
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NewsArthood Entertainment boards Rotterdam Big Screen competition title ‘Soft Leaves’ (exclusive)
Coming-of-age drama is debut feature by Belgian-Japanese director and screenwriter Miwako Van Weyenberg.