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- 18 December 2019
IFFR 2020 competitions and full film line up

Tiger Competition, Bright Future Competition and Big Screen Competition announced
- 13 December 2019
IFFR announces full selection for 37th CineMart

17 film projects selected to present at CineMart 2020, alongside 9 BoostNL and 4 VR projects.
- 10 December 2019
Vanja Kaludjercic appointed new festival director of IFFR

The supervisory board of International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) appoints Vanja Kaludjercic as the new festival director. In this role she will act as the artistic voice of IFFR starting from ...
- 4 December 2019
Festival campaign IFFR 2020 launched

For the 49th edition, the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) campaign plays with the most basic elements that make up film. A set of primary colours, a flicker of light meeting darkness, ...
- 4 December 2019
Ammodo Tiger Short Competition and Deep Focus Short Profiles announced

International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) announces the 21 short films selected for the Ammodo Tiger Short Competition: 15 (festival) world premieres, 5 international premieres and a European pr...

- 27 November 2019
Collectives, Asian queer, octogenarians and a waiting room

The (red) Perspectives section is where you’ll find the theme programmes of International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). Here we approach the medium of film from specific angles. IFFR announces fo...
- 21 November 2019
HBF Fall Selection 2019

This fall, the Hubert Bals Fund (HBF) of International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has selected eleven film projects from the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia for its ...
- 13 November 2019
The art of film at IFFR 2020

Art and artists’ films consistently have a prominent place at International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). The 49th edition of the festival is no exception. This year’s Art Directions features ins...

- 30 October 2019
First titles of IFFR 2020 and new Robby Müller Award

Also announced: Tiger Competition jury, new Reality Check conference and Young Curators programme

- 12 July 2019
IFFR’s Hubert Bals Fund reveals HBF+Europe selection

Six film projects receive €50,000 each via their European co-producer.
- 1 July 2019
New festival director IFFR 2021

Bero Beyer leaves after 49th edition in 2020 to become director of the Netherlands Film Fund. On 1 March 2020, after five years at the helm, Bero Beyer will leave IFFR to take up the position of di...

- 25 June 2019
IFFR releases La Flor in cinemas in the Netherlands and Belgium

La Flor is a monumental ode to cinema. Llinás casts the same four actresses in six different stories told in widely divergent styles: from zombie movie to spy drama.

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