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Rotterdam unveils 2025 Tiger and Big Screen competition line-ups
IFFR 2025 runs January 30 – February 9.
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Rotterdam 2025 unveils opening and closing films
Dutch filmmaker Michiel ten Horn’s ‘Fabula’ will open IFFR.
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UK and Netherlands pledge closer film and TV production links
British Film Commission (BFC) and the Netherlands Film Commission (NFC) sign a memorandum of understanding.
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Red Sea, Cannes Directors’ Fortnight title ‘East Of Noon’ marks first sales (exclusive)
Hana Elkoussy’s film follows a musician rebelling against his elders.
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Rotterdam unveils line-up for 2025 CineMart project market
Projects by directors including Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk, Cheryl Dunyeare and Ashim Ahuwalia are among the 2025 line-up
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Martin Koolhoven’s ‘Emerald Butterfly’ sets Indonesia shoot (exclusive)
The Dutch director of 2016 Venice title ‘Brimstone’ will shoot his film noir in 2025.
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IDFA’s Orwa Nyrabia reflects on polarisation of the doc sector and the dangers of self-censorship
Festival admissions climbed back to pre-Covid levels.
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Archive-based ‘Trains’ wins best film at IDFA 2024
The jury acclaimed the “bold and inventive” use of archive.
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‘The Propagandist’: IDFA Review
Chilling portrait of Dutch filmmaker and Nazi propagandist Jan Teunissen
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Koen Van Bockstal to step down as CEO of Flanders Audiovisual Fund
Van Bockstal cites health reasons for his departure.
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How IDFA’s DocLab is pushing the boundaries of documentary and reality
DocLab’s Caspar Sonnen on why this year’s theme is ‘This Is Not A Simulation’
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“Documentary film has always been annoying to authorities,” says IDFA’s Orwa Nyrabia
The artistic director is embracing issues from AI to global politics in his final edition that opens today.
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‘Alpha.’: Seville Review
Frosty drama sees an estranged father and son battle for dominance in the unforgiving Swiss Alps
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Incredible launches horror sequel ‘Amsterdamned II’, reveals first look
Source: Incredible Film ‘Amsterdamned 2’ Dutch sales agent Incredible Film has revealed a first look at Amsterdamned II, Dick Maas’ sequel to his 1988 horror, Amsterdamned, which is in production in Amsterdam. Splendid Film has pre-bought the film for the Benelux, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Maas ...
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Orwa Nyrabia to leave International Documentary Festival Amsterdam in 2025
The Syrian filmmaker will oversee his seventh and final edition as IDFA artistic director later this month.
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Rotterdam selects 13 world premieres in first wave of Bright Future, Harbour films
Titles include Lilly Hu’s ‘One Girl Infinite’, executive-produced by Eric Roth.
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Afghan women documentary ‘Writing Hawa’ boarded for sales ahead of IDFA premiere (exclusive)
The film plays in IDFA’s International Competition.
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‘About A Hero’, hybrid doc about an AI-generated Werner Herzog film, to open IDFA 2024
‘About A Hero’ is directed by Polish artist and filmmaker Piotr Winiewicz.
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‘Mr K’: Busan Review
Crispin Glover finds himself trapped in the hotel from hell in this Kafka-esque surrealist comedy
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Rotterdam names Marten Rabarts as head of IFFR Pro
Veteran exec previously worked at New Zealand Film Festival and Binger Filmlab.