All Rotterdam articles
-
News
New Europe agrees US deal for sci-fi romance ‘Eternal’, boards Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s ‘Hot Spot’ (exclusive)
’Eternal’ world premiered at Rotterdam, while ‘Hot Spot’ is set to shoot later this year
-
News
Agnieszka Holland’s ‘Green Border’ wins Rotterdam audience award
IFFR recorded 253,500 visits across its programme of films, art installations and talks for its 2024 edition.
-
Reviews
‘Rei’: Rotterdam Review
Rotterdam’s Tiger winner is an ambitious debut from actor-turned-filmmaker Toshihiko Tanaka
-
Reviews
‘The Old Bachelor’: Rotterdam Review
Rotterdam Big Screen winner is a vision of Iran rarely seen on screen
-
News
Japanese debut ‘Rei’ leads Rotterdam winners
Special jury awards of €10,000 each were given to Midhun Murali’s ’Kiss Wagon’ and Jaydon Martin’s ’Flathead’.
-
News
‘Swimming Home’ director Justin Anderson says he was inspired by French films about “trouble in beautiful spaces”
UK director’s debut feature stars Mackenzie Davis, Christopher Abbott, Ariane Labed and Nadine Labaki
-
Reviews
‘Madame Luna’: Rotterdam Review
Daniel Espinosa returns with this stirring drama about an Eritrean refugee doing everything she can to survive in Calabria
-
Reviews
‘Portrait Of A Certain Orient’: Rotterdam Review
A brother and sister depart 1940s Lebanon for a new life in Brazil in the latest from Marcelo Gomes
-
Features
Sophia 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.
-
Features
How 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.
-
News
Polish animation ‘Cherub’ triumphs at Rotterdam’s CineMart project market
Seven prizes were handed out in total, spanning feature films and immersive projects
-
Reviews
‘Greice’: Rotterdam Review
A Brazilian student in Lisbon spins a web of white lies in this mild-mannered comedy
-
Reviews
‘Swimming Home’: Rotterdam Review
An unexpected house guest upsets a family dynamic in this UK adaptation of the Man Booker Prize-nominated novel
-
Reviews
‘The Worst Man In London’: Rotterdam Review
Real-life art dealer Charles Augustus Howell is the eponymous cad of this 19th-century period piece
-
Reviews
‘13 Bombs’: Rotterdam Review
Jakarta authorities race to find explosives hidden across the city in this fast-paced ’24’-style thriller
-
Reviews
‘Flathead’: Rotterdam Review
Docu-fiction follows a raddled septuagenarian returning to his blue-collar childhood home in Australia
-
Reviews
‘Eternal’: Rotterdam Review
Eco-disaster sci-fi from Denmark starring pop singer Oh Land is also an off-beat love story
-
Reviews
’Small Hours Of The Night’: Rotterdam Review
Bold chamber drama from Singapore is set in a prison cell with a single protagonist representing the city-state’s restrictive history
-
Reviews
‘Hammarskjold - Fight For Peace’: Rotterdam Review
Stately biopic explores the final weeks of former UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold
-
Reviews
‘Milk Teeth’: Rotterdam Review
A child threatens the security of an isolated village in this atmospheric feature debut from Swiss director Sophia Bosch