With the screening of Marielle Heller’s A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood on 1 February 2020, the 49th International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR: 22 January – 2 February 2020) closed off its 49th edition welcoming 2,691 film professionals from 89 different countries, including 346 filmmakers. The festival’s 574 films, including 145 world premieres, were curated within four sections: Bright Future, Voices, Deep Focus and Perspectives. The Art Directi...
From left to right: Yuhao Su, Cuishan Liang, Wang Zijian, Liu Xinzhu, Jinjing en Zheng Lu Xinyuan
Special Jury Award goes to Beasts Clawing at Straws by Kim Yonghoon
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has announced the award winners of its 49th edition. Chinese filmmaker Zheng Lu Xinyuan won the Tiger Award for her film The Cloud in Her Room. South Korean filmmaker Kim Yonghoon won the Special Jury Award for Beasts Clawing at Straws. South Kore...
Bong Joon Ho flew over the oceans to return from LA where he is busy campaining for the Oscar to attend the Rotterdam Festival, Here is the video capture of the masterclass he gave to a fascinated audience.
With films like Mother, The Host, Snowpiercer and Parasite (Golden Palm winner and tipped for an Oscar), Bong Joon Ho combines sensational commercial success with glowing reviews and major awards. How does he do it? In this masterclass, he will reveal his secrets. He's also bringing a...
From left to right: Dorian Jespers, Maïder Fortuné, Ismaïl Bahri
On Sunday 26 January 2020, the jury announced the winners of this year’s Ammodo Tiger Short Competition at International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). The winning films are Apparition by Ismaïl Bahri, Communicating Vessels by Maïder Fortuné and Annie MacDonell, and Sun Dog by Dorian Jespers. They won three equal Ammodo Tiger Short Awards.
The jury consisted of recently appointed di...
49th International Film Festival Rotterdam
22 January – 2 February 2020
Rotterdam, 29 January 2020
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On 22 January at de Doelen the festival began with our opening ceremony and the opening film: Mosquito by João Nuno Pinto. Rewatch Bero Beyer’s opening speech, the introduction with our new festival director Vanja Kaludjercic, and some words on the film.
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49th International Film Festival Rotterdam
22 January – 2 February 2020
Watch the livestream of our IFFR press conference on Sunday 26 January from 12:30 to 13:30 hours CET.
This is will be the first of two press conferences giving extra depth to the Tiger Competition.
Festival director Bero Beyer and IFFR programmer Müge Demir will talk to filmmakers Vincent B...
Clockwise: Bong Joon Ho, Terence Nance, Marion Hänsel, Jenn Nkiru, Pedro Costa, Beth B
49th International Film Festival Rotterdam
22 January – 2 February 2020
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Press Conference - 18 December 2019
Watch the live press conference about the programme for IFFR 2020 here.
On Wednesday 18 December, festival director Bero Beyer will unveil the films selected for our main competitions and introduce the full line-up for the 49th edition of IFFR.
The livestream starts at 12:15 hours. Stay tuned!
Until then, take a look at our announced films for IFFR 202049th International Film Festival Rotterdam
22 January – 2 February 2020
With nearly 330,0...
49th International Film Festival Rotterdam
22 January – 2 February 2020
Tiger Competition, Bright Future Competition and Big Screen Competition announced
In today’s press conference, International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) revealed the full film lineup of 2020, including the 10 films selected for the Tiger Competition. Also revealed: the selections of the Big Screen Competition and the revamped Bright Future Competition, the 2020 opening a...
49th International Film Festival Rotterdam
22 January – 2 February 2020
Rotterdam, 4 December 2019
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Vanja Kaludjercic has been appointed the new IFFR festival director. Beginning in her new role in February 2020, she will lead the organisation into the future and act as the artistic voice of the festival.
Kaludjeric brings a wealth of industry experience, both international and within the Dutch film landscape – currently the director of acquisitions at MUBI, and with previous roles at Les Arcs European Film Festival, Sarajevo Film Festival, Netherlands Film Festival (NFF) and e...
49th International Film Festival Rotterdam 22 January – 2 February 2020 #IFFR2020
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First titles of IFFR 2020 and new Robby Müller Award Also announced: Tiger Competition jury, new Reality Check conference and Young Curators programme
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), the Netherlands Society of Cinematographers (NSC) and Andrea Müller-Schirmer, the late cinematographer Robby Müller’s wife, have launched the Robby Müller Award. The award honours an ‘image maker’ (cinematographer, filmmake...
On 1 March 2020, after five years at the helm, Bero Beyer will leave IFFR to take up the position of director at the Netherlands Film Fund. IFFR will announce the details of the application process for a new festival director in the coming weeks.
Beyer: "Working for IFFR has been and still is a continuous thrill. It gave me the opportunity to express my love for film in its many forms in the festiva...
48th edition of IFFR puts new talents front and centre
This past weekend, the screening of Kim Nguyen’s The Hummingbird Project brought the 48th edition of International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) to a close. The festival screened 539 films, of which 146 (festival) world premieres, presented within the four sections Bright Future, Voices, Deep Focus and Perspectives. Reaffirming its commitment to the visual arts in the extensive Art Directions programme and...
48th International Film Festival Rotterdam wraps tonight with ethe screening of The Hummingbird Project and a Party.
You just blink and – suddenly it’s all over. Round off 48th IFFR with us at the exclusive screening of The Hummbingbird Project by Kim Nguyen. Afterwards, we’ll see out the festival in spectacular style with the Closing Party.
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From left to right: Susanna Nicchiarelli (president Tiger Jury), Zhu Shengze (filmmaker), and Zhengfang Yang (producer)
Present.Perfect. by Zhu Shengze wins Tiger Award IFFR 2019
Special Jury Award goes to Take Me Somewhere Nice by Ena Sendijarević
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has announced the award winners of its 48th edition. Zhu Shengze won the Tiger Award for her film Present.Perfect., a USA/Hong Kong co-production. Dutch filmmaker Ena Sendijarević w...
This wednesday the Festival offered the Tiger premiere of Carlos Marqués-Marcet's Els dies que vindran (A nine-month emotional roller-coaster about two lovers expecting their first child, while they hardly even know one another yet) and other festival treats.
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IFFR's art installations, performances, and exhibitions include works by Sergei Parajanov, Mika Taanlia, Cauleen Smith, David OReilly and Philippe Pareno.
Art Directions 2019
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) continuously explores, questions and pushes the boundaries demarcating the audio-visual landscape. This attitude culminates in Art Directions, IFFR’s extensive programme of art installations, ...
IFFR Pro Award winners announced as 36th CineMart comes to a close
48th International Film Festival Rotterdam
23 January – 3 February 2019
Wednesday 30 January 2019 marked the end of the IFFR Pro Days as well as the 36th edition of CineMart, the co-production market of International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). During the awards ceremony, eight film projects were awarded IFFR Pro Awards: four CineMart awards, the first BoostNL Audience Award, the HeYou Media VR Award and the newly...
This wednesday the Festival offered the Tiger premiere of Johannes Nyholm's Koko-di Koko-da (two lovers who have grown apart because of sorrow find themselves in an endless nightmare during a camping trip) and other festival treats.
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This tuesday day the Festival offered the Tiger premiere of Camila José Donoso's Nona. If They Soak Me, I’ll Burn Them (A hybrid fiction featuring the director’s intriguing grandmother as an anarchist warrior in a Chilean town ravaged by forest fires) and other festival treats.
After a torrid act of vengeance on the home of her ex-lover, 66-year-old Nona flees to her summer house in Pichilemu, a Chilean coastal town. There she potters about in appar...
This monday the Festival offered the Tiger premiere of Grigory Dobrygin's Sheena667 and other festival treats
A quiet life of a young Russian man turns upside down after he meets a girl from a faraway world that he barely knows.
Russian couple Olya and Vadim have big plans: they want to travel to Germany to buy a second-hand tow truck. For nights on end, Vadim searches the internet for a vehicle best suited to their garage. His only income at present is from the wrecked Ladas w...
