Rotterdam Film Festival
‘Green Border’ Wins Rotterdam Audience Award
Green Border, Agnieszka Holland’s harrowing tale of refugees caught in the wooded boundary between Belarus and Poland, won the Audience Award at this year’s Rotterdam Film Festival, which wrapped up Sunday. Japanese director Tanaka Toshihiko won Rotterdam’s coveted Tiger Award for best competition film for his debut Rei, a drama exploring human relationships made almost […]
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‘Natatorium’ Review: Icelandic Drama Peers Into Family Dysfunction Through an Artful, Horror-Tinged Prism
Munchausen syndrome by proxy is at the center of Helena Stefánsdóttir’s debut feature, which premiered in Rotterdam.
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Punk Goes Down Under in Kiwi Comedy ‘Head South’ (Exclusive Trailer)
Punk arrives in New Zealand, a little bit late, in Head South, the new dramedy from New Zealand director Jonathan Ogilvie (Lone Wolf, The Tender Hook) which opens this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) on Thursday, January 25. Ogilvie took inspiration from his own life in sleepy Christchurch in the late 70s for the […]
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Rotterdam Film Festival Appoints New Managing Director
Clare Stewart, former director of BFI London Film Festival and recently CEO at Sheffield DocFest, is going Dutch, taking over the job of managing director at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). Stewart will take over from Marjan van der Haar, who is exiting the post, and start on June 21 ahead of the 54th […]
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‘Lonely Castle in the Mirror’ Anime Pic Nabbed by GKIDS
GKIDS has picked up the North American distribution rights to the Lonely Castle in the Mirror anime pic from Japanese director Keiichi Hara. The film, adapted from the novel of the same name by Mizuki Tsujimura, is set for a summer release theatrically in its original Japanese language and a new English-dubbed version. Lonely Castle […]
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‘Le Spectre de Boko Haram’ Wins Rotterdam Festival
Political dramas and documentaries were the big winners at this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), as socially relevant features from Africa, Sri Lanka and the Middle East came away with the top honors. Cyrielle Raingou’s Le Spectre De Boko Haram, a documentary that follows a group of children living in the far north region […]
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Rotterdam Film Festival Unveils Competition Lineup
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) on Monday unveiled the full lineup for its 2023 event. After two all-virtual festivals, the IFFR is finally returning in-person fest, running Jan. 25-Feb. 5 in the Dutch port city. Rotterdam is one of the last major festivals to return post-pandemic, its 2022 event having been forced to go […]
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Rotterdam Film Festival Moves Dates for 2023, Announces Staff Cuts
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has announced the dates for its 52nd edition next year and unveiled restructuring plans after two years of online-only events have hit its bottom line. The 2023 Rotterdam Festival, which organizers say will be “circumstances permitting” the IFFR’s first fully in-person event since 2020, is set to run January […]
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‘Harry Potter’ Actor Harry Melling on Starring Role in Gender- and Genre-Bending ‘Please Baby Please’: “It’s ‘West Side Story’ Meets David Lynch”
Harry Melling could have been trapped being Dudley Dursley all his life. The British actor was 10 when he was cast to play Harry Potter’s portly, bullying muggle cousin in the fantasy film franchise. Short cameos in five Potter films could have condemned Melling to a lifetime of C-list celebrity “Where Are They Now?” features. […]
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Rotterdam Film Festival Kicks Off Second Virtual Event, Market
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), arguably the largest cinema event devoted to alternative international cinema, kicks off its 51st edition Wednesday with the world premiere of Amanda Kramer’s Please Baby Please. Rotterdam was forced to go online-only again this year after the Netherlands went into lockdown in December amid an omicron-driven surge in COVID-19 […]
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‘Please Baby Please’ With Andrea Riseborough, Demi Moore to Open Rotterdam Film Fest
The International Film Festival Rotterdam has unveiled its official lineup for 2022, which, due to the surge of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus in the Netherlands, will be an online-only event. The Omicron wave has also impacted this year’s lineup, including the opening night film, with Amanda Kramer’s U.S. drama Please Baby Please replacing […]
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Omicron: Rotterdam Film Festival Goes Virtual Amid COVID Lockdown
The International Film Festival Rotterdam has canceled its in-person event in response to the coronavirus pandemic, announcing Thursday that the 2022 festival in January will be online-only. The move was expected after the Dutch government put the entire country on lockdown, citing concerns over rising COVID-19 infection rates driven by the Omicron variant. The lockdown, […]
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