Still time to catch this epic history of
@Atletico
Mineiro from two passionate Brazilian filmmakers and
#Galo
supporters. A parable for the beauty, pain and joy of football, and life itself.
14:00 today – 19:15 tomorrow 6 June. Also on demand.
Tickets:
Watch Tiger Award winner Pebbles
A poverty-stricken father and son wander a southern Indian landscape where anger and frustration burn hotter than the sun.
#IFFR2021
's Tiger Award winner by
#VinothrajPS
is available to watch until tomorrow.
Watch now:
Pebbles by Vinothraj P.S. wins the 2021 Tiger Award
The
#TigerAward
goes to Pebbles directed by Indian filmmaker Vinothraj P.S. The jury described the film as “a lesson in pure cinema”.
More on the film and all award winners:
IFFR 2021 Opening Night
Tonight's online premiere of Riders of Justice by
#AndersThomasJensen
at 21:00 is now sold out! We're looking forward to a 'full house' screening. If you didn't get a ticket, you can still enjoy the film on demand.
Buy tickets:
Big Talk: Mads Mikkelsen
Our
#BigTalk
with Danish cinema star
#MadsMikkelsen
(Riders of Justice) is now available on demand. Free and worldwide until 10 February.
Watch now:
Our 50th-anniversary edition will take place in an extended format in 2021. We're celebrating the festival in two parts – 1 to 7 February and 2 to 6 June – connected by a series of special events in between.
Read more:
IFFR's new festival director: Vanja Kaludjercic!
We're very happy to announce our new director. Beginning in her role in February 2020, Kaludjercic will lead IFFR into the future and act as the artistic voice of the festival.
Read more:
IFFR 2021: Appreciations
For each of the feature films in competition for
#IFFR2021
, we asked a critic, writer, academic or programmer to write a short reflection in a personal capacity.
#TigerCompetition
Read them all here:
Focus: Yuasa Masaaki.
We're dedicating a Focus programme at
#IFFR2023
to the Japanese animator
@masaakiyuasa
, screening a selection of his characteristic wild free-form work including his latest feature, 𝗜𝗡𝗨-𝗢𝗛 – an anime rock opera.
Read more:
IFFR 2021: Special Jury Award
Looking for Venera by
#NorikaSefa
is one of two Special Jury Awards, for exceptional artistic achievement in the Tiger Competition.
#IFFR2021
#SpecialJuryAward
The FIPRESCI Award goes to.. Balekempa by Ere Gowda! Congratulations! The Award is given to the filmmaker of the best film of all the world premieres in Bright Future, out of the Hivos Tiger Competition, by the jury of the Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique.
IFFR 2021: VPRO Big Screen Award
The winner of the VPRO Big Screen Award is El perro que no calla by
#AnaKatz
. As part of the prize, the film gets a guaranteed theatrical release in the Netherlands.
#IFFR2021
#VPROBigScreenAward
IFFR 2020 Masterclass Pedro Costa
The Portuguese director of Vitalina Varela talks to the audience about cinema, life and his unique filmmaking style.
Watch in full:
The Tiger Award 2023 goes to Le spectre de Boko Haram by Cyrielle Raingou 🏆🇨🇲
“A story that centres on its filmmakers’ patient and honest gaze on the hovering presence of violence, seen through the eyes of innocents.”
IFFR 2021: First Cow – sold out!
We're looking forward to another 'full-house' screening with
#KellyReichardt
's film, tonight at 17:00 hrs. The filmmaker, and recipient of the
#RobbyM
üllerAward, is also joining us tomorrow for a
#BigTalk
!
Read more:
IFFR 2021: February film lineup
Last week, we announced our film selection for the first part of
#IFFR2021
, taking place 1 to 7 February, including competitions and our Limelight lineup of Avant-premieres.
See all films:
IFFR 2021: BankGiro Loterij Audience Award
The winner of the BankGiro Loterij Audience Award, determined by audience ratings, goes to Quo vadis, Aida? by
#Jasmila
Žbanić.
#IFFR2021
#BankGiroLoterijAudienceAward
IFFR 2021 merchandise
We've just added a special at-home item to our
#IFFR2021
shop! Grab your robe and get ready for the festival in just a few weeks time.
Shop now:
IFFR 2021 films in theatres: Riders of Justice
In theatres across the Netherlands from today is
#AndersThomasJensen
's latest film, which opened
#IFFR2021
last February. A bittersweet, absurdist tragicomedy featuring
#MadsMikkelsen
💥
Read more:
IFFR 2022: Young Film Critics
Are you an international film critic (aged 18 to 30)? Apply now for our
#YoungFilmCritics
programme, where you'll sharpen your journalistic practice and explore the wide landscape of cinema on offer at
#IFFR2022
.
Read more:
IFFR 2021: FIPRESCI Prize
The FIPRESCI prize, awarded by international film journalists, goes to Tiger Competition film The Edge of Daybreak by
#TaikiSakpisit
.
#IFFR2021
#FIPRESCIPrize
We Are One programme announced
#WeAreOne
, an online film festival celebrating storytellers from around the world. Tune in May 29–June 7 to check our lineup of free films streaming exclusively on
@YouTube
.
See IFFR's selection:
PROGRAMME NOW ONLINE!
Are you ready to feel IFFR? In 1, 2, 3 we’re going live with the complete
#IFFR2019
programme! Get yourselves over to our programme page and start discovering what this festival edition has in store.
Take me there:
IFFR 2021 Opening Film: Riders of Justice
We’re opening our 50th-anniversary edition on 1 February with
#RidersofJustice
: a tragicomedy by Danish filmmaker
#AndersThomasJensen
.
Read more:
Big Screen Competition 2021 selection
Our
#BigScreenCompetition
selection is revealed. The winner, determined by an audience jury, will receive the VPRO Big Screen Award and will be presented during
#IFFR2021
in February.
See the films:
Congratulations to the winner of the IFFR Youth Jury Award
Lazzaro felice by
#AliceRohrwacher
"We believe that Lazzaro will inspire a future audience to be more humane and reflect on their daily experiences and interactions.”
IFFR 2021 Opening Night: Riders of Justice
We're officially kicking off
#IFFR2021
on Monday 1 February. Make sure you're online at 21:00 for the live introduction by our directors and special guests. Limited capacity also applies online!
Buy tickets now:
Rotterdam Late Night IFFR Special
Tonight our festival director
#VanjaKaludjercic
was part of
#RotterdamLateNight
hosted by
@ernestvdkwast
. The show was a special one-on-one edition and an hour-long ode to the festival.
Watch in full on YouTube:
IFFR 2019 MASTERCLASS: CLAIRE DENIS
Join us live on Facebook at 16.40 hrs! Filmmaker
#ClaireDenis
will talk to producer/former IFFR-director Simon Field about her striking film career, her characteristic style, and latest feature High Life.
Live stream:
We Are One | Freedom Lecture by Rojava Film Commune
Lecture by the Kurdish
#RojavaFilmCommune
. A film collective that emerged in the 'stateless democracy' of the Rojava region in Northern Syria. Premiering on
@YouTube
2 June 2020, 16:30 hours.
Read more:
Hello! We're now on
@letterboxd
. Follow us as we compile film lists from past festival editions and
#IFFRUnleashed
. Start showing us your festival favourites and 'watched' lists.
Congratulations to the winner of the Hubert Bals Fund Audience Award
La Flor (Parte 2) by
#MarianoLlin
ás
Driven by Llinás' all-knowing, all-questioning voice-over, the tale is immense, hypnotic, seriously funny, but also deeply moving.
Collective portraits: Rojava Film Commune
The Kurdish film collective joins us at
#IFFR2020
with first feature: The End Will Be Spectacular. Today they also lead a
#FreedomLecture
, 19:00 hrs at the Hilton.
#RojavaFilmCommune
Read more:
Clare Stewart appointed new Managing Director
An innovative and inspirational creative and business leader, she has held positions such as Director of
@BFI
London Film Festival and Interim CEO of
@sheffdocfest
. Welcome
@clarelovesfilm
!
Read more:
La Palisiada by Philip Sotnychenko wins the
@FIPRESCI
Award 2023 🏆🇺🇦
"Cinema as an instrument of intent."
The jury was made of journalists from the Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique selected to award their standout Tiger Competition title.
IFFR 2020 Masterclass: Bong Joon Ho
Maestro
#BongJoonHo
brings a black-and-white
#Parasite
to IFFR. Today, he was asked about inspiration, working methods and other secrets to success in a masterclass, which will be available to watch online tomorrow!
#IFFR2020
#Masterclass
LAST NIGHT AT IFFR2019:
#JONASMEKAS
TRIBUTES
“Today I think of the two Mekas brothers, leaving Europe to New York, with nothing but a Bolex Camera. I remember very well that I’ve met him here in Rotterdam, this great city for filmmakers and film-lovers” –
#ClaireDenis
.
9 DAYS TO GO!!!!!! A shiny tiger on Rotterdam’s Stationsplein tells us that twelve days of craziness and cinema are on their way! Just over a week to countdown and we can’t wait to welcome you.
Join us 23 January – 3 February to
#feelIFFR
Call for Young Film Critics
#IFFR2021
We're now welcoming critics from all over the world to submit their application for our annual
#YoungFilmCritics
programme. This coming edition we're going fully online!
Read more:
IFFR 2019 Masterclass
#ClaireDenis
discusses with producer and former IFFR director
#SimonField
her striking film career – in which she keeps finding new paths – her characteristic style and her latest feature High Life.
Watch in full:
We Are One: A Global Film Festival
IFFR and over 20 other major film festivals are jointly organising
#WeAreOne
: A Global Film Festival, from 29 May to 7 June. The entire programme (announced soon!) will be available on YouTube for free.
Read more:
“I wanted to be far away from the solar system, in a rusty old spaceship.”
#ClaireDenis
tells us about her new science-fiction film High Life. Screened at
#IFFR2019
and is in Dutch theatres from today!
Read here:
Congratulations to the winner of the
@_KNF
Award
Tarde para morir joven by
#DomingaSotomayor
“A film that is modest but at the same time incredibly broad in its recognisability: a story that is set almost twenty years ago, but is just as pungent today.”
Nervous Translation by
@shireenseno
wins the NETPAC Award, for its singularly original representation of childhood that beautifully captures a unique view of the world. Congratulations Shireen!
IFFR 2022 update: online film programme
IFFR will host an adapted festival programme online in response to growing concerns about the spread of Omicron across Europe, and a nationwide lockdown in the Netherlands.
Read more:
#IFFR2022
#festivalupdate
Not surprisingly,
#ClaireDenis
' science fiction film High Life is unlike any other. In space, we don’t see planets or high-tech machinery, but we see nature: a garden. “A small paradise on the spaceship. Like the biblical Eden”, she tells us.
Read more:
IFFR 2021: February film lineup
We're looking forward to sharing the full film lineup for the first part of our 50th edition, taking place from 1 to 7 February. All titles, including competition selections, will be revealed tomorrow. Are you ready? 👀
#IFFR2021
#filmprogramme
IFFR 2022: First films announced!
#IFFR2022
will take place from 26 January to 6 February, and is planned as a physical event reuniting audiences, filmmakers and industry in Rotterdam.
See the first of our programme:
It’s a wrap! With 340,000 visits, 573 films (including 145 world premieres), art installations, performances and many in-depth Talks & Masterclasses,
#IFFR2020
celebrated infinite forms of cinematic experience – with many unforgettable highlights.
Programme updates for the 50th IFFR
As our 50th festival edition draws closer, our newly-appointed festival director
#VanjaKaludjercic
announces changes to the programme, with expanded competitions and new section Harbour.
Read more:
IFFR 2021 Awards Ceremony
Tune in today at 17:00 hrs to be first to hear the
#IFFR2021
award winners. We're presenting the Tiger Award, VPRO Big Screen Award, Ammodo Tiger Short Awards, BankGiro Loterij Audience Award and more.
Watch here:
We are extremely proud to present to you a unique happening combining the film
#PhantomThread
accompanied by a Rotterdams Philharmonic Orchestra live performance! Read all about the film and the fantastic collaboration on our blog:
IFFR embraces brilliant, radical, experimental and beautiful films – and the filmmakers who create them. The Talks & Masterclasses programme kicks off with icon and an iconoclast Charlotte Rampling.
REGAINED: PARAJANOV SHORT FILMS
Also featuring as part of
#Regained
will be the restored short films by Georgian-Armenian filmmaker
#SergeiParajanov
: Arabeskebi Pirosmanis temaze (1985), Hakob Hovantanyan (1967), and Kiev Frescoes (1966).
Read more:
The extended lockdown in the Netherlands means that the first part of
#IFFR2021
will take place (almost) completely online. Fortunately, we are prepared. See all films and Big Talks,
#MadsMikkelsen
and more, online from 1 to 7 February. Full lineup now on !
IFFR 2023: Tiger Competition
The Tiger Competition is our designated centre, the selection in which the future of cinema is discussed – a future which refuses to be of one particular aesthetic.
Announcing the 2023 lineup:
#IFFR52
#TigerCompetition
A journey made of sleepless nights, on which we dreamt together of bringing life and blood to our film 'KOOZHANGAL' a.k.a 'PEBBLES'. Very happy to hold the prestigious
@IFFR
TIGER AWARD with my Director
@PsVinothraj
🙌🏽❤️.
Tiger Short Competition winners:
🪷 Crazy Lotus (Thailand) by Naween Noppakun
💵Few Can See (Ireland) by Frank Sweeney
🔥 Workers’ Wings (Kosovo) by Ilir Hasanaj
We Are One | Stories of Destroyed Cities: Şhengal
Our first premiere!
#RojavaFilmCommune
captures destroyed Şhengal, a city recaptured from Islamic State by Kurdish fighters. Few surviving Yezidis struggle to revive their everyday lives.
Watch now:
Urgent call for the freedom of Mohammad Rasoulof
IFFR,
@EuroFilmAwards
, and
@IDFA
are protesting the imminent incarceration of Iranian filmmaker
#MohammadRasoulof
. We urge you to do the same and share this message in support.
Read more:
Our 52nd edition has officially come to a close.
Following two online editions, IFFR 2023 reunited audiences and filmmakers from far and wide for a full edition for the first time in three years.
Read highlights and numbers:
IFFR 2022 programme
Our programme is live! Check out this exciting selection of festival films, available to watch online from 26 January to 6 February –
#IFFR2022
#filmprogramme
#watchonline
Our friends
@idfa
are kicking off their festival tonight! It's their first hybrid festival, just like our 50th edition will be in 2021. Enjoy and support documentary cinema online (and in cinemas when they reopen) from now until 6 December!