All Rotterdam articles
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Reviews‘La Belle Année’ review: Delicate documentary follows a Swedish-French woman revisiting her past
Filmmaker Angelica Ruffier’s personal debut won Rotterdam’s Special Jury Prize
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FeaturesWhat were the buzzy projects at CineMart 2026?
International industry attendees give their verdict on this year’s event.
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Reviews‘Master’ review: An idealistic politician is corrupted in assured, slow-burn Bangladeshi drama
Rezwan Shahriar Sumit’s second feature was named Rotterdam’s Big Screen competition winner
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Reviews‘Variations On A Theme’ review: Rotterdam Tiger winner is intimate South African doc-fiction
Jason Jacobs and Devon Delmar follow ’Carissa’ with community drama set in the country’s Kamiesberge region
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News‘Variations On A Theme’ wins Tiger award at Rotterdam film festival
The Big Screen competition winner was Rezwan Shahriar Sumit’s ’Master’.
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NewsMister Smith Entertainment boards Toronto, Rotterdam comedy ‘Maddie’s Secret’
EXCLUSIVE: Film is the directorial debut of US comedian and actor John Early.
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NewsIFFR Pro 2026 unveils winners including Joshua Loftin’s hybrid feature ‘LFD Hope’
‘LFD Hope’ is described as a magical realist docu-drama about living on the margins in London.
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Reviews‘Moonglow’ review: Isabel Sandoval directs and stars in underpowered Filipino neo-noir
Police corruption procedural bows in Rotterdam’s Big Screen Competition
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Reviews‘Supporting Role’ review: Georgian star Dato Bakhtadze anchors fluid, tragi-comic Tbilisi-set drama
Ana Urushadze’s follow-up to ’Scary Mother’ debuts in Rotterdam’s Tiger competition
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NewsJust 1.2% of filmmakers picked for major festivals identify as disabled or neurodivergent, Crip Count report finds
EXCLUSIVE: The report tracked the number of people with above-the-line credits who self-identified as disabled or neurodivergent.
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News“We're easy to work with,” say UK producers to potential Dutch partners
Paperwork levels and packaging difficulties can be overcome, they say.
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FeaturesHow Netherlands Film Fund’s Sandra den Hamer has helped to internationalise Dutch film
”We cannot produce a Dutch feature film or documentary without international partners,” explains the outgoing head.
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NewsIFFR’s Displacement Fund films receive rapturous reception as Mohammad Rasoulof makes plea for Iranian protestors
The first five films supported by the fund were screend at the festival.
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Reviews‘Projecto Global’ review: Dynamic Portuguese drama stars an impressive Jani Zhao as real-life 1980s rebel
Ivo M Ferriera’s knowing, nostalgic feature bows in Rotterdam’s Big Screen Competition
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NewsReason8 Films to launch Rotterdam title ‘A Messy Tribute To Motherly Love’ at EFM
Film receives its world premiere in International Film Festival Rotterdam’s Tiger Competition on February 2.
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Reviews‘Butterfly’ review: Renate Reinsve crackles in intriguing but tonally frustrating Gran-Canaria set drama
The Rotterdam Big Screen competition title reunites Reinsve with her ‘The Worst Person In The World’ co-star Helen Bjornesby
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NewsVisit Film acquires world sales on Rotterdam selection ‘The Misconceived’
EXCLUSIVE: 3D-rendered tragi-comedy about millennials turning 40 will also screen at EFM.
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Reviews‘Providence And The Guitar’ review: Rotterdam opener is quirky, stretched Portuguese comedy
Joao Nicolau’s fourth feature is based on a work by Robert Louis Stevenson
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FeaturesCineMart is again becoming an important hub for Asian and US indie autuers, says Marten Rabarts
The IFFR Pro head points ot a significant number of buzzy projects from these regions.
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FeaturesThe director of ‘Providence And The Guitar’ on casting heartthrob singer Salvador Sobral
Providence And The Guitar is a loose adaptation of an early story by Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson