IFFR and Spotify present the music that inspired the films

44th International Film Festival Rotterdam
January 21 – February 1, 2015

PRESS RELEASE December 24, 2014

International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) and Spotify present the music that inspired the films

IFFR and streaming music service Spotify have entered into a media partnership for the upcoming edition of the festival and will treat the audience to the musical sources of inspiration of (inter)national filmmakers. IFFR audiences and Spotify users will have access, both online and offline, to the music behind the films.

For the past months, IFFR has asked filmmakers from all over the world for music that inspired them for their new film, pulled them out of a writer's block, or proved important to them for whatever reason. Enthusiastically, both established and young filmmakers like Martín Rejtman (DOS DISPAROS), Pedro Costa (CAVALO DINHEIRO) and Ramón Gieling (ERBARME DICH – MATTHÄUS PASSION STORIES) have submitted their musical choices. Ranging from Kate Bush to Chinese panpipe music, Richard Wagner to Miley Cyrus, Bowie to Beyoncé: over fourty unique and inspiring playlists are being made available through Spotify, ready to be discovered – and this number keeps growing.

IFFR on the Spotify platform
Especially designed for the festival, Spotify has created an IFFR account on their platform that will be available as of today: http://spoti.fi/IFFR. Via this service, Spotify users can discover IFFR and the filmmakers attached to the festival. Both the IFFR website and the organisations' social media will shine a light on the musical playlists.

The playlists will also be on display during IFFR at De Doelen, the festival's epicentre. During several editions of this year's IFFR Late Night talkshow (Friday January 23 through Thursday January 29, at 10pm at De Doelen), filmmakers will discuss their musical choices with talkshow host Tom Barman. In addition, they will further explore their playlists with IFFR's resident DJ Okkie Vijfwinkel and host Dore van Duivenbode.


About Spotify
Spotify is an award-winning digital music service, granting on demand access to over 30 million songs.* Spotify makes it easier than ever to discover, manage and share music with friends, and also makes sure artists receive a proper reward for their work. Spotify is currently available in 58 countries with more than 40 million active users and over 10 million subscribers. Ever since its launch in Sweden back in 2008, Spotify has paid the rightful music owners more than a billion US dollars. Spotify is Europe's second largest source of revenue in digital music for music labels (IFPI, 2011), and the largest and most successful streaming music service worldwide. For more information, please check www.spotify.com.
* The amount of songs is based on the global license. Size of catalogue may vary based on country.

About IFFR
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), one of the largest cultural events in the Netherlands and one of the largest audience film festivals in the world, offers a programme of carefully curated feature films, documentaries, short films, and media art. Festival sections Hivos Tiger Awards Competition, Bright Future, Spectrum and Limelight consist of the latest work by filmmakers from all over the world. In the Signals section, IFFR presents thematic programmes and retrospectives. IFFR actively supports new and adventurous talent through, among other things, co-production market CineMart, Rotterdam Lab, and the Hubert Bals Fund.