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Rotterdam Features
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FeaturesWhy the role of festival manager has become more significant for a successful film launch
Competition for festival slots is becoming fiercer than ever as filmmakers look to secure distribution.
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Features“We took VHS culture for granted”: Alex Ross Perry on his Rotterdam world premiere ‘Videoheaven’
US director’s latest forms part of IFFR’s focus on VHS and video stores.
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FeaturesSophia Bösch on her Rotterdam premiere ‘Milk Teeth’: “I try to bring a female experience of the world to film”
Dystopian drama set in an isolated rural community is debut feature of the Swiss filmmaker.
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FeaturesHow can Dutch films and talent find greater international success?
Netherlands Film Fund’s Sandra Den Hamers spotlights upcoming titles and the Fund’s new strategy.
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FeaturesTamara Tatishvili on her plans for the Hubert Bals Fund
Former Georgian National Film Center director took over running Rotterdam’s global film fund earlier this month.
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FeaturesFrom ‘Full Metal Jacket’ to ‘Head South’: IFFR opening director Jonathan Ogilvie charts his eclectic career
The New Zealand-born, Australia director of ‘Head South’ describes receating 1970s Christchurch for his autobiographical coming of age story.
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FeaturesHow IFFR’s Focus marries a lively mix of 1970s Chilean films, Italy’s Manetti brothers and Hong Kong provocateur Scud
The aim is to bring the films of such gleefully iconoclastic filmmakers to a wider interenational audience.
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FeaturesRotterdam’s Vanja Kaludjercic, Clare Stewart talk highlights, innovations and being a safe harbour for filmmakers
The festival is meeting budget challenges by reducing by a day and working differently with venues.
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FeaturesHow Muayad Alayan filmed ‘A House In Jerusalem’ in Palestine and Israel during the pandemic
The title received its world premiere in the Limelight strand at Rotterdam.
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FeaturesUkrainian director Philip Sotnychenko has mixed feelings being at a film festival: “Our fight is on the cultural front”
’La Palisiada’, the debut feature of Kyiv-based filmmaker Philip Sotnychenko, is screening in the Tiger competition at Rotterdam.
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FeaturesWhy a Rotterdam premiere could help an Indian film find an audience at home
Many of the Indian films in IFFR’s The Shape Of Things To Come? sidebar have a political or adversorial slant.
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FeaturesHow IFFR Pro’s Inke Van Loocke is innovating CineMart as co-pro market celebrates its 40th edition
Leading international execs will be in town to see prestigious showcase of new works.
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FeaturesDutch production sector looks forward to a buoyant 2023
Close ties are being forged with partners in Indonesia and South Africa.
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FeaturesTopkapi producer Laurette Schillings on the company’s strategy for reaching international audiences
‘Goodbye Stranger’, the latest film from the Dutch company, is debuting in Rotterdam this month.
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FeaturesRotterdam’s Vanja Kaludjercic on diversifying the line-up for her first in-person festival
Kaludjercic talks about the role the festival plays in bringing smaller filmmakers to a global audience.
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FeaturesLemming Film is forging ahead with an ambitious film and TV slate
Dutch outfit produced Sam de Jong’s Rotterdam contender, ‘Met Mes’.
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FeaturesSix international producers talk about their buzzy CineMart projects
CineMart is taking place online as part of the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
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FeaturesHow tough times are inspiring a new vibrancy in Dutch filmmaking
Dutch film industry marching forward despite strict pandemic restrictions.
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FeaturesRotterdam industry head Marit van den Elshout on this year’s theme of “the new possible”
The head of IFFR Pro Days reflects on 15 years in the role and what the future holds.
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FeaturesRotterdam’s Vanja Kaludjercic on the “exhilaration” of turning an online event around in a month
A physical event was planned until late December.