International Film Festival Rotterdam

Netherlands
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International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has become a key European film event thanks largely to its industry driven activities. The IFFR actively supports new filmmaking talent through its co-production market CineMart, its Hubert Bals Fund, Rotterdam Lab and Industry Office activities. In 2023 it recorded 283,506 visits with more than 2,500 attending film professionals. It programs more than 400 titles from over 90 countries.


It programs fiction and documentary features, shorts and media art and feature length films from first, second or third time directors are eligible for the Tiger Competition if it is a world premiere screening. Shorts are eligible for the Ammodo Tiger Short Competition if IFFR is its world, international or European premiere.

The Hubert Bals Fund is for filmmakers from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and parts of Eastern Europe and provides grants to enable completion of their films.

CineMart is a four day market for new feature films, each year inviting about 35 new projects to be pitched by the directors and producers to the invited co-producers, sales agents, distributors and financiers. Rotterdam Lab is for newer feature film producers and takes place at CineMart to educate them in working in the international market place. Attendance is only via participating countries.

RECENT ATTENDEE COMMENTS

“This is definitely a valuable market for me. I’m interested in going to IFFR... as it really was the best place to meet agents and executives who find it difficult to meet... at the bigger markets.”

“An excellent festival to attend for up and coming filmmakers as the purpose of the IFFR is to identify and promote new talent.”

“It was quite easy to make the most of this environment; I connected with everyone I could, not just producers from regions with which Australia has a co-production treaty – producer, financiers, sales agents, commissioning editors etc. etc.”

“IFFR likes to see the continuing works of filmmakers they’ve screened before.”

“IFFR has some if the best organisation, visual presence and helpful resources and staff I’ve ever come across.”

“The festival organised several functions for guests to network…There was also a ‘pigeon hole’ at the guest desk for every festival guest where items or notes could be passed to other guests…The festival provided each guest with an Industry Manual… very useful.”

“Overall I would recommend this festival for its great audience and industry attendance and profile.”

Awards

2024 - Won - Flathead - Special Jury Award

2007 - Won - Shmetamorphosis - New Arrivals Section April/May

2006 - Won - Look Both Ways - Critics Award - KNF Award - Sturm und Dang

Screenings

2025 - Limelight - Memoir of a Snail

2025 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Surfer, The

2024 - Tiger Competition - Flathead

2023 - International Premiere - Because We Have Each Other

2023 - International Premiere: Art Directions: Immersive Media - Night Creatures

2023 - World Premiere - Paco

2022 - Tiger Competition - Plains, The

2021 - Big Screen Competition - Lone Wolf

2021 - Tiger Competition - Friends and Strangers

2020 - Voices - Babyteeth

2020 - Deep Focus / Perspectives - Night Time Go

2020 - Deep Focus / Perspectives - Mermaids, or Aiden in Wonderland, The

2020 - Deep Focus / Perspectives - When the Dogs Talked

2020 - Deep Focus / Perspectives - Windjarrameru, The Stealing C*nt$

2020 - Deep Focus / Perspectives - Wutharr, Saltwater Dreams

2020 - Voices - Passenger

2020 - Voices - True History of the Kelly Gang

2019 - Voices Short - All These Creatures

2019 - Scopitone - 'I Used to be Normal': A Boyband Fangirl Story

2018 - International Premiere - Have You Seen The Listers?

2018 - Tiger Teaser: Limelight - Sweet Country

2018 - Bright Future: Short Films - Inside the Machine

2018 - Voices - Rockabul

2018 - Voices - Top Knot Detective

2017 - Voices - Welcome Home Allen

2017 - Bright Future - Last Train

2016 - Bright Future: Main Category - Daughter, The

2016 - Voices: Limelight2016 - Tanna

2015 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Charlie's Country

2015 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story Of Cannon Films

2015 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Search for Weng Weng, The

2015 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Sam Klemke’s Time Machine

2014 - Signals: How To Survive... - Canopy

2014 - Bright Future - Ruin

2013 - Spectrum - Lore

2013 - Spectrum Shorts - Men of the Earth

2013 - Spectrum Shorts - Faraways

2012 - Bright Future - Black & White & Sex

2012 - Bright Future - Hail

2012 - Spectrum - Hunter, The

2012 - Shorts - Etienne's Hand

2011 - Bright Future - Animal Kingdom

2011 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Machete Maidens Unleashed!

2010 - Signals: Regained - Dogs in Space

2010 - Bright Future - Samson & Delilah

2010 - Bright Future - My Tehran For Sale

2010 - Spectrum - Shorts - Lonely Girl

2009 - Spectrum - Jerrycan

2009 - Signals - Not Quite Hollywood

2008 - Time and Tide - Men's Group

2008 - Time and Tide - Unfinished Sky

2008 - Shorts: As Long As It Takes - Shmetamorphosis

2008 - Shorts: As Long As It Takes - Spike Up

2007 - Cinema Regained - Hunt Angels

2007 - Shorts - As Long As it Takes - Wondrous Film About Emma Brooks, A

2007 - Time & Tide - Ten Canoes

2006 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Mechanicals, The

2006 - Sturm und Dang - Look Both Ways

2006 - Short Film Competition - Ecstasy of Gary Green, The

2004 - Short Films - Excursion

2004 - Main Program - Ister, The

2004 - Short FIlms - Car Park

2004 - Short Films - Connected

2004 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Ghost Paintings 1, The

2004 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Ghost Paintings 4, The

2003 - Tracking Time - One Night the Moon

2003 - Tracking Time - Shifting Shelter 1

2003 - Tracking Time - Rabbit-Proof Fence

2003 - Tracking Time - Radiance

2003 - Tracking Time - Bush Mechanics

2003 - Tracking Time - Two Bob Mermaid

2003 - Tracking Time - Confessions of a Headhunter

2003 - Tracking Time - Harry's War

2003 - Tracking Time - Wind

2003 - Tracking Time - Road

2003 - Tracking Time - My Bed Your Bed

2003 - Tracking Time - Night Cries - A Rural Tragedy

2003 - Tracking Time - Bedevil

2003 - Tracking Time - Payback

2003 - Tracking Time - No Way to Forget

2003 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Round Up

2003 - Main Shorts - Arsonist's Riddle, The

2003 - Tracking Time - Tracker, The

2003 - Tracking Time - Gulpilil: One Red Blood

2003 - Main Shorts - Blow

2003 - Tracking Time - Shit Skin

2003 - Tracking Time - Turn Around

2003 - True Stories - Long Journey, Young Lives

2003 - Main Features - Cold Summer, A

2003 - Tracking Time - Flat

2003 - Tracking Time - Mirror Images

2003 - Tracking Time - Black Talk

2003 - Main Shorts - Beginnings

2003 - Tracking Time - Beneath Clouds

2002 - Main Programme Features - Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky

2002 - Main Programme Shorts - Harvey

2002 - Main Programme Features - La Spagnola

2001 - Animation Programme - Not My Type I, II

2001 - Main Programme Features - Walk the Talk

2001 - On the Waterfront - Ship

2001 - Main Programme Features - Goddess of 1967, The

2001 - Main Programme Features - Chopper

2000 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Holy Smoke

2000 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Feeling Sexy

2000 - Main Programme - Soft Fruit

2000 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Purgatory

1999 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Terra Nova

1999 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Fresh Air

1999 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Sleep

1999 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Flash

1999 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Boys, The

1999 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Mind's Eye

1999 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Fetch

1999 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Magic Hat, The

1998 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Sapphire Room

1998 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Kiss or Kill

1998 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Four Minute Festival

1998 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Five Hundred Acres

1998 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - At Sea

1998 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Thump

1998 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Malpractice

1997 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Shine

1997 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Plane Torque

1997 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Love Serenade

1997 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Floating Life

1997 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Children of the Revolution

1997 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - To Have and to Hold

1997 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Love and Other Catastrophes

1997 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Fistful of Flies

1996 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - After Image

1996 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Beat Manifesto, The

1996 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Angel Baby

1996 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Maidenhead

1996 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Hell, Texas and Home

1995 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Total Recession

1995 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Muriel's Wedding

1995 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - What's Going On, Frank?

1995 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Seething Night

1994 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Bad Boy Bubby

1994 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Memories and Dreams

1994 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Excursion To The Bridge Of Friendship

1994 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Seething Night

1993 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Romper Stomper

1992 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Dusty Hearts

1992 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Deadly

1992 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Resonance

1992 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Proof

1992 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Plus ça Change

1992 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Romper Stomper

1990 - Non-comp - Sweetie

1989 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Prisoner of St Petersburg, The

1988 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Friends And Enemies

1987 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Two Friends