All Rotterdam articles – Page 2
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NewsGeorgian drama ‘Tear Gas’ leads Rotterdam’s IFFR Pro winners
Nine projects win prizes from IFFR Pro’s Cinemart and Darkroom programme.
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Reviews‘Vitrival - The Most Beautiful Village In The World’: Rotterdam Review
Droll, dry Belgian comedy-drama tackles rising tensions in a small francophone village
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NewsIncredible Film adds Dutch romantic comedy ‘About Women’ to EFM slate (exclusive)
Film is produced by Millstreet Films, the makers of hit Dutch series Máxima, and forms part of Incredible’s EFM slate.
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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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NewsNetherlands Film Fund’s Sandra den Hamer on the revival of the Dutch industry: “We are on the way up”
With several titles at Rotterdam and a growing market share for local films, den Hamer says industry is moving forward after several difficult years.
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NewsHubert Bals’ funding pot grows as demand for development financing rises
International Film Festival Rotterdam’s Hubert Bals Fund (HBF) has backed festival hits such as Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light
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Reviews‘Perla’: Rotterdam Review
A Slovak woman’s new life in 1980s Vienna is threatened by secrets from her past
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NewsThe rise of the Netherlands as a co-production player: “What you see is what you get with the Dutch”
Leading Dutch producers on why they are increasingly working internationally with co-production partners.
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NewsVideo culture comes into focus at Rotterdam: “We all grew up in the VHS period”
Programmer and curator Olaf Möller on the festival’s retrospective of VHS culture and rental stores, ’Hold Video In Your Hands.
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NewsCate Blanchett shines light on refugee filmmaking fund: “These stories aren’t getting into the mainstream”
Blancett officially launched €500,000 Displacement Film Fund at International Film Festival Rotterdam
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NewsIFFR Pro’s Marten Rabarts explains why he believes the Dutch make the best co-producers
Raberts was appointed in the autumn to head of International Film Festival Rotterdam’s industry strand.
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NewsIran’s Soheila Golestani banned from travelling to Rotterdam to serve on festival jury
Rotterdam has expressed its solidarity with Golestani, calling her ”a victim of opression”.
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NewsRotterdam’s Vanja Kaludjercic takes aim at Donald Trump in passionate opening-night speech
The festival director emphasised the power of cinema to connect pepole in an era of resurgent nationalism.
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Reviews‘Dead Lover’: Rotterdam Review
A gravedigger goes to extreme lengths to mend a broken heart in this garish Canadian horror
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NewsMichiel ten Horn on his Rotterdam opener ‘Fabula’: “It’s between comedy, crime and fantasy”
Film centres on a small-time petty crook played by Fedja van Huêt, star of Oscar winning ’Dutch movie Character’.
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Reviews‘Rains Over Babel’: Rotterdam Review
Decadent interpretation of Dante’s Inferno plays out in a pop punk Colombian nightclub
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NewsRotterdam’s Vanja Kaludjercic, Clare Stewart talk festival highlights and funding challenges
2025 edition presents filmmakers, themes and topics “that you do not often get a chance to see.”
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News‘Blind Love’: first trailer for Julian Chou’s Rotterdam competition title (exclusive)
A drama about a high-school boy who falls in love with his mother’s ex-girlfriend, it stars Ariel Lin.
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NewsItalian sales agency Luminalia launches with Rotterdam and Toronto titles (exclusive)
Tommaso Priante previously worked at companies including Coproduction Office and Decker Distribution.