International Film Festival Rotterdam

Fiume O Morte!

Igor Bezinović’s ‘Fiume O Morte!’ wins Rotterdam 2025 Tiger award

Jon Blåhed’s ’Raptures’ was this year’s Big Screen winner.

Bloques Erraticos

From cannibal horror to AI dystopias: industry execs on IFFR Pro’s standout 2025 projects

Screen talks to sales execs and producers about the project hightlights at this year’s CineMart and Darkoom.

Mouly Surya

Indonesian director Mouly Surya on ‘This City Is A Battlefield’: “I was trying to push the boundaries”

Filmmaker’s latest closes International Film Festival Rotterdam this weekend.

Tear Gas

Georgian drama ‘Tear Gas’ leads Rotterdam’s IFFR Pro winners

Nine projects win prizes from IFFR Pro’s Cinemart and Darkroom programme.

About Women

Incredible Film adds Dutch romantic comedy ‘About Women’ to EFM slate (exclusive)

Film is produced by Millstreet Films, the makers of hit Dutch series Máxima, and forms part of Incredible’s EFM slate.

Sandra den Hamer

Netherlands Film Fund’s Sandra den Hamer on the revival of the Dutch industry: “We are on the way up”

With several titles at Rotterdam and a growing market share for local films, den Hamer says industry is moving forward after several difficult years.

All We Imagine As Light

Hubert Bals’ funding pot grows as demand for development financing rises

International Film Festival Rotterdam’s Hubert Bals Fund (HBF) has backed festival hits such as Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light

Leontine Petit, Erik Glijnis

The rise of the Netherlands as a co-production player: “What you see is what you get with the Dutch”

Leading Dutch producers on why they are increasingly working internationally with co-production partners.

Videotheek Marco

Video culture comes into focus at Rotterdam: “We all grew up in the VHS period”

Programmer and curator Olaf Möller on the festival’s retrospective of VHS culture and rental stores, ’Hold Video In Your Hands.

Fiume O Morte!

’Fiume O Morte!’: Rotterdam Review

Rotterdam’s Tiger winner inventively re-enacts the 1919 occupation of Fiume by Italian poet Gabriele D’Annunzio

Raptures

‘Raptures’: Rotterdam Review

Intense religious fervour brings fear to a 1930s Swedish village in Rotterdam’s Big Screen winner

Wind, Talk To Me

‘Wind, Talk To Me’: Rotterdam Review

Hybrid Serbian drama is an affecting creative meditation on grief

Vitrival - The Most Beautiful Village In The World

‘Vitrival - The Most Beautiful Village In The World’: Rotterdam Review

Droll, dry Belgian comedy-drama tackles rising tensions in a small francophone village

Perla

‘Perla’: Rotterdam Review

A Slovak woman’s new life in 1980s Vienna is threatened by secrets from her past