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Rotterdam Features – Page 7
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FeaturesTiger directors: Mark Jackson, War Story
The American director continues his work with themes of grief, loss and guilt.
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FeaturesTiger directors: Lee Chatametikool, Concrete Clouds
Thai filmmaker explores two brothers impacted by the Asian financial crisis of 1997.
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FeaturesTiger directors: Natalia Meschaninova, The Hope Factory
Russian filmmaker Natalia Meschaninova makes her feature debut with The Hope Factory, a coming-of-age tale set against the backdrop of the Siberian city of Norilsk.
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FeaturesTiger directors: Tatjana Bozic, Happily Ever After
It was the spectre of yet another failed relationship on the horizon that prompted Croatian filmmaker Tatjana Bozic to make her candid documentary Happily Ever After exploring her chaotic love life of the last 20 years.
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FeaturesTiger directors: Maya Vitkova, Viktoria
The Bulgarian film-maker talks about her ‘semi-autobiographical’ directorial debut, nine years in the making.
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FeaturesTiger directors: Jan Schomburg, Lose My Self
Maria Schrader stars as a woman suffering from retrograde amnesia.
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FeaturesTiger directors: Luis Miñarro, Falling Star
Having worked with a string of acclaimed directors, Spanish arthouse producer Luis Minarro decided that the time was finally right to direct his own fiction feature.
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FeaturesTiger directors: Fellipe Barbosa, Casa Grande
Brazilian director Fellipe Barbosa took inspiration from his own family’s financial problems for his debut feature Casa Grande.
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FeaturesTiger directors: Paulo Sacramento, Riocorrente
Long-time editor Paulo Sacramento makes his fictional feature debut with Riocorrente, a timely and tense contemporary tale set in Sao Paulo.
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FeaturesRotterdam: Michael Tully talks Ping Pong Summer
The Austin-based director talks about his “deeply personal” 1980s-set feature, which has its European premiere in Rotterdam tonight as a Big Talk event (after premiering in Sundance last week).
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FeaturesTiger directors: Dick Tuinder, Farewell To The Moon
The Dutch artist and filmmaker’s second feature is set in 1970s Amsterdam.
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FeaturesTiger directors: Ester Martin Bergsmark, Something Must Break
The Swedish director talks about his first foray into fiction.
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FeaturesRotterdam Film Festival 2014
The 43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam celebrates its usual independent, global spirit — as well as marking the 25th anniversary of the Hubert Bals Fund. Plus, a preview of this year’s CineMart selections.
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FeaturesMichael Noer, Northwest
Michael Noer’s Northwest, which premieres at Rotterdam and Göteborg, explores life in a crime-ridden Copenhagen neighbourhood. The director tells Wendy Mitchell about the search for truth in his characters.
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FeaturesCuracao International Film Festival Rotterdam
Photos from the inaugural four-day film festival on the Caribbean island.
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FeaturesMaja Milos
28-year-old Serbian writer-director Maja Milos’ debut feature Clip (Klip) has been the talk of Rotterdam. It was a polarising film drawing some praise and some outrage. “At least nobody is indifferent to the film,” Milos says.The story follows a young teenage girl who has a frustrating home life and turns ...
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FeaturesPeter von Bagh
The Finnish director talks about his Rotterdam retrospective, the privilege of bringing great directors to the Midnight Sun Film Festival, and how very local films can be universal.
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FeaturesRotterdam 2012 special
Screen presents our guide to Rotterdam 2012, including an interview with festival director Rutger Wolfson; profiles of the Tiger competitors and other hot world premieres across all IFFR sections; a CineMart preview with profiles of the hottest projects; and the latest from the Hubert Bals Fund.
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FeaturesFinding A Place In The Crowd
With all the buzz about crowdsourcing being one way to save the indie film sector, the International Film Festival Rotterdam this year put the concept to the test – with mixed results.
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FeaturesAdventure land
Celebrating its 40th anniversary, the International Film Festival Rotterdam remains a major champion of indie and experimental cinema — despite a difficult climate for arts funding in the Netherlands.