All Rotterdam articles – Page 2
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News
Polish animation ‘Cherub’ triumphs at Rotterdam’s CineMart project market
Seven prizes were handed out in total, spanning feature films and immersive projects
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Reviews
‘Greice’: Rotterdam Review
A Brazilian student in Lisbon spins a web of white lies in this mild-mannered comedy
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‘Swimming Home’: Rotterdam Review
An unexpected house guest upsets a family dynamic in this UK adaptation of the Man Booker Prize-nominated novel
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‘The Worst Man In London’: Rotterdam Review
Real-life art dealer Charles Augustus Howell is the eponymous cad of this 19th-century period piece
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‘13 Bombs’: Rotterdam Review
Jakarta authorities race to find explosives hidden across the city in this fast-paced ’24’-style thriller
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‘Flathead’: Rotterdam Review
Docu-fiction follows a raddled septuagenarian returning to his blue-collar childhood home in Australia
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‘Eternal’: Rotterdam Review
Eco-disaster sci-fi from Denmark starring pop singer Oh Land is also an off-beat love story
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’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
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‘Hammarskjold - Fight For Peace’: Rotterdam Review
Stately biopic explores the final weeks of former UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold
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‘Milk Teeth’: Rotterdam Review
A child threatens the security of an isolated village in this atmospheric feature debut from Swiss director Sophia Bosch
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News
IFFR Pro gears up for fine-tuned 2024 CineMart co-pro market and Rotterdam Lab
Festival’s industry strand has 16 projects being pitched at CineMart and 71 producers attending talent initiative Rotterdam Lab
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Rotterdam opens with call to embrace complexity and discussion amid Middle East, Ukraine wars
”IFFR is an attempt to embrace life in all its multitudinous form,” said Vanja Kaludjercic.
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Reviews
‘Veni Vidi Vici’: Rotterdam Review
Sharp Austrian satire takes careful aim at the lifestyles of the super-rich
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‘Head South’: Rotterdam Review
A teenage boy embraces New Zealand’s late Seventies post-punk scene in Jonathan Oglivie’s Rotterdam opener
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Features
Tamara Tatishvili on her plans for the Hubert Bals Fund
Former Georgian National Film Center director took over running Rotterdam’s global film fund earlier this month.
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Features
From ‘Full Metal Jacket’ to ‘Head South’: IFFR opening director Jonathan Ogilvie charts his eclectic career
The New Zealand-born, Australia director of ‘Head South’ describes receating 1970s Christchurch for his autobiographical coming of age story.
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Features
How IFFR’s Focus marries a lively mix of 1970s Chilean films, Italy’s Manetti brothers and Hong Kong provocateur Scud
The aim is to bring the films of such gleefully iconoclastic filmmakers to a wider interenational audience.
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Rotterdam’s Vanja Kaludjercic, Clare Stewart talk highlights, innovations and being a safe harbour for filmmakers
The festival is meeting budget challenges by reducing by a day and working differently with venues.
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News
‘Praia Formosa’: first trailer for Julia de Simone’s Rotterdam Tiger title (exclusive)
Julia de Simone’s Portuguese-language film explores the multi-ethnic ethos of Rio de Janeiro.
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Blondie singer Debbie Harry and filmmaker Amanda Kramer team up for Rotterdam’s talks strand
‘So Unreal’ is directed by Kramer and narrated by Harry, and will have its European premiere at the festival.