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Video 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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IFFR 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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Mohammad Rasoulof says Iranian prison guards asked to watch his films with him
“They praised me for how well I made the film; while I’m sitting in prison because I made said movie.”
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Michiel 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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ACE Producers selects 17 independent producers for animation initiative (exclusive)
‘Brides’ producer Marica Stocchi among the participants.
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CPH:Forum selects new projects from ‘Notes on Blindness’, ‘Honeyland’ directors
‘Flee’ producer Monica Hellstrom, director Mark Cousins will also present projects.
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Rotterdam’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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The Creatives unveils writers for second edition of Creative Connection workshop series
The selected writers include ‘Blush’ filmmaker Michal Vinik.
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Ruben Östlund criticises “embarrassingly uneducated” Swedish cultural policy
Östlund compared culture minister Parisa Liljestrand to Elon Musk.
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Julie-Jeanne Régnault to leave as general secretary of European Film Agency Directors association
Exec has played a key role in European Union film industry policy discussions.
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Ruben Östlund’s ‘The Entertainment System Is Down’ starts filming, reveals additional cast
Double Palme d’Or winners’ latest kicks off production in Budapest.
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Alexandra Lebret steps down as managing director of European Producers Club
Lebret has headed influential producers organisation since 2002.
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Carla Simon, lldiko Enyedi titles among first recipients of Eurimages marketing support programme (exclusive)
Recipients also include Berlinale Competition feature ‘Yunan’.
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Denis Lavant to star in Chilean ghost story ’Bloques Erráticos’ (exclusive)
French star plays the ghost of a cinematographer who breaks free after a century trapped within the glaciers of Patagonia.
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Berlinale selection will “get people talking about vibrancy” of film, says Tricia Tuttle
Tuttle sought to navigate a path for 2025 edition where politics can be discussed but films can also be celebrated.
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Revamped Czech Audiovisual Fund to back series and games as well as films
Estimates suggest CAF’s budget will increase by 35% to around €84m a year thanks to levies and investment obligations.
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Rotterdam Big Screen Competition title ‘Idyllic’ acquired for sales (exclusive)
The comic film depicts several generations of a dysfunctional family.
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Berlinale book-to-screen pitches include graphic novel ‘Impenetrable’ about sexual dysfunction
Several genre titles among the 10 books selected for their film potential.
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Goteborg’s Nordic Film Market includes new Lone Scherfig, Hlynur Palmason projects
Shahrbanoo Sadat, Kaltrina Krasniqi also have projects in the market.
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Italian box office holds steady in 2024 as Disney takes distributor crown
Sleeper hit ’The Boy With The Pink Trousers’ was top local title of 2024, followed by Paolo Sorrentino’s ’Parthenope’.