All Rotterdam articles
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NewsItaly's Luminalia acquires Mozambique Tiger title ‘O Profeta’
EXCLUSIVE: Italian outfit Luminalia is focusing on films from sub-Saharan Africa
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NewsProtagonist boards Rotterdam title ‘Butterfly’ starring Renate Reinsve
EXCLUSIVE: It is produced by Maria Ekerhovd of Norway’s Mer Film, behind ‘Sentimental Value’.
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NewsRotterdam unveils 2026 Tiger and Big Screen competition lineups
Festival to open with João Nicolau’s ’Providence And The Guitar’ and close with Rémi Bezançon’s ’Bazaar (Murder In The Building)’.
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NewsRotterdam’s CineMart launches Safe Harbour programme for stateless and at-risk filmmakers
Four projects by filmmakers from Myanmar, Sudan, Syria and Palestine selected for new initiative.
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NewsLFF’s Kristy Matheson and filmmaker Ariane Labed join Rotterdam’s Tiger jury
French cinematographer Yorick Le Saux to receive festival’s Robby Müller Award.
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NewsRotterdam unveils line-up for 2026 CineMart project market
Projects by directors including Morad Mostafa, Toshihiko Tanaka, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige among line-up.
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NewsRotterdam 2026 unveils additional premieres for Harbour and Bright Future strands
Festival also confirms first selections for Limelight programme.
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NewsRotterdam epilepsy documentary ‘D Is For Distance’ picked up for UK-Ireland
EXCLUSIVE: A theatrical release is planned for UK-Ireland in spring 2026.
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NewsCannes, IFFR winners ‘I Only Rest In The Storm’, ‘Fiume o morte!’ acquired for UK-Ireland
EXCLUSIVE: Distributor will release both titles in cinemas this autumn.
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NewsFestival directors discuss imperative to show “uncomfortable films”
“Part of our role is to find and back voices that sometimes make people uncomfortable,” said Berlinale director Tricia Tuttle.
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NewsHubert Bals Fund selects 15 projects for 2025 development support scheme
Fund back projects from directors such as Amanda Nell Eu, Mamadou Dia, Farida Baqi and Xiaoxuan Jiang.
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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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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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Reviews’Fiume O Morte!’: Rotterdam Review
Rotterdam’s Tiger winner inventively re-enacts the 1919 occupation of Fiume by Italian poet Gabriele D’Annunzio
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Reviews‘Raptures’: Rotterdam Review
Intense religious fervour brings fear to a 1930s Swedish village in Rotterdam’s Big Screen winner
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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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Reviews‘Wind, Talk To Me’: Rotterdam Review
Hybrid Serbian drama is an affecting creative meditation on grief
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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.