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From Rotterdam to Cannes: L'Atelier 2012

Six out of the fifteen projects selected for L’Atelier 2012 of the Festival de Cannes were either supported by Rotterdam’s Hubert Bals Fund or presented at the IFFR’s CineMart.
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Jury’s award films from the IFFR 2012 programme

During the IFFR 2012 Awards Ceremony on Friday, February 3, 2012 in festival venue de Doelen, the winning films of the 41st International Film Festival Rotterdam were announced.
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Lone tiger

Daniel Nettheim’s IFFR closer The Hunter is a character study of an outsider rather than a film about hunting, says its star Willem Dafoe.
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Awards for Best CineMart Projects handed out

CineMart concluded on Wednesday with the announcement of the event's two production awards.
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Bringing the revolution home

IFFR's Power Cut Middle East strand gave a chance to filmmakers and others from the Arab world to air their views on the changes taking place in the Middle East.
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Geezers need excitement

Icelandic director Óskar Thór Axelsson’s Tiger contender Black’s Game is a white-knuckle ride based on a real situation.
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House rules

Fear of arrest meant Ai Weiwei couldn't come to Rotterdam, but the artist did send a couple of new films in his place.
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Drive, he said

Babis Makridis’ L is a haunting road-movie about a man facing an economic dead-end.
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Burning desire

Wichanon Somumjarn’s autobiographical debut concerns a young man who passionately wants to make films.
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No feelings

Russian Tiger contender Vasily Sigarev prefers movies to the theatre.
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Short films awarded

On Monday evening Makino Takashi’s Generator, Mati Diop’s Big in Vietnam and Jeroen Eijsinga’s Springtime were awarded the three equal Tiger Awards for Short Films 2012. The jury gave a Special Jury Mention to Charlotte Lim Lay Kuen for her short film I'm Lisa.
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Remembering Raúl

The Daily Tiger speaks to Rotterdam attendees about their memories of Raúl Ruiz (1941-2011).
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Heavy hope

Petr Lom’s documentary on the aftermath of the recent Egyptian revolution praises the resilience of the young protesters.
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Blind faith

Garin Nugroho’s powerful The Blindfold was shot in double-quick time owing to the threat of terrorist attack.
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EYE on the future

As the EYE Film Institute Netherlands moves into its magnificent new home by the river, the economic forecast is choppy.
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Transcendent, my ass!

The latest iteration of James Franco's ongoing project to turn Hollywood celebrity inside out premieres at Rotterdam.
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A perfect trajectory

This year’s CineMart is a mix of the old and new.
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Breaking the silence

There’s a moving personal story behind Huang Ji’s remarkable feature debut, up for a Tiger.
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Scenes from a marriage

A family road trip is the subject of Chilean Tiger competitor Thursday Till Sunday.
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Counting pretty

Prolific Japanese director Miike Takashi's new film Ace Attorney has its world premiere at the IFFR.
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Medicine man

Writer-director-curator-historian Peter von Bagh, whose career is celebrated in a special Signals sidebar, was 13 years old when cinephilia took hold...
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Teenage clips

Maja Miloš's bold debut feature, Clip, gets its world premiere as a Tiger competitor.
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Home truths

Lucas Belvaux on his unsettling crime story 38 témoins, opening IFFR 2012 as a world premiere.
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Programme online

The full programme, day by day schedule, film descriptions, information about sections, etc. etc...
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IFFR presents 196 short films in Spectrum Shorts

The IFFR has selected 196 short films from more than 3,500 submissions for its main programme Spectrum Shorts, which can be seen from Thursday 26 through Monday 30 January in LantarenVenster. This year, Spectrum Shorts encompasses no less than 42 world premières.
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Tiger Awards Competition unveiled

Fifteen films have been selected for IFFR's Tiger Awards Competition 2012. The complete lineup, comprising first or second feature films concurring for three equal Hivos Tiger Awards of each 15,000 euro, includes eight world premieres. Five competing films have received support from Rotterdam’s Hubert Bals Fund.
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Full Bright Future selection

The Bright Future 2012 program section in which the festival presents debut or second feature films, will include thirteen world premières as well as fourteen international premières from all corners of the world.
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IFFR honours film maker Peter von Bagh

The festival will pay tribute to Peter von Bagh by presenting a selection of his films, as well as showing three rare classics from Finnish cinema history that have been essential in his oeuvre. The tribute program, with Peter von Bagh in attendance, will be part of IFFR’s main Signals section.
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Signals: Regained

Regained, a regular section of the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s Signals programme, returns in a renewed form. This programme section, dedicated to the memory of film, focuses attention on experiment and now also includes special events and exhibitions.
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Signals: For Real

During this edition of the festival, the boundaries between the professional filmmaker and the film lover, the film studio and the exhibition space, the script and spontaneous improvisation will blur further and further. Reality as a whole becomes a projection screen for new art forms.
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YouTube Shorts: Funny Games

Various flavours of playing: by youths and an artist, including one epic love story. You can now watch the shorts Threesome (Johannes Dullin), Mijn inbreker en ik (Kaweh Modiri), Varfix (Tanaka Kotaro) en The Voyagers (Penny Lane) on our YouTube channel in this month's Shorts Programme: Funny Games.
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Signals: The Mouth of Garbage

In Signals: The Mouth of Garbage, the IFFR will present a vast panorama of features and shorts from São Paulo’s so-called ‘Boca do Lixo’, the nickname for the working class neighborhood in the center of the Brazilian metropolis. These quick and dirty productions frequently highlighted the sleazy underbelly of Brazilian society using established genres such as noir, horror, the western, and pornography.
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New on YouTube: Paraísos artificiales

During her stay near Veracruz, the heroin addicted Luisa meets the old, mysterious, heavy-duty cannabis user Salomon, in whom she thinks she recognises a fellow soul. This feature called Paraísos artificiales was directed by Yulene Olaizola and is now available on our YouTube channel.
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CineMart 2012 presents 36 film projects

CineMart, the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s co-production market has selected 36 film projects (from 465 entries) which will be presented to approximately 850 potential co-financiers. Reputed filmmakers such as Kelly Reichardt, Ruben Östlund, Quintin Dupieux, Athina Rachel Tsangari and Úrszula Antoniak will launch their new projects.
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Tiger Awards Competition

The IFFR announces the first five films selected for its Tiger Awards Competition 2012: It Looks Pretty From a Distance by Anka and Wilhelm Ankal, Midi Z’s Return to Burma, Eduardo Nunes’ Southwest, A Fish by Park Hong-min and Huang Ji’s Egg and Stone.
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Gondry’s Home Movie Factory to Rotterdam

The IFFR is bringing the successful interactive installation “Home Movie Factory” by French filmmaker Michel Gondry to the Netherlands. Following the example of Jack Black and Mos Def in Gondry’s film Be Kind, Rewind the installation gives participants the opportunity and resources to make a short film in under three hours. Gondry will open the installation in Rotterdam on 26 January 2012.
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New on YouTube: The Old Donkey

In order to build a chemical factory, the poor farmers in the village of Gaotai are driven off their land. Director Li Ruijun brings you along to his home village in the feature The Old Donkey, now available for you to watch on our YouTube channel.
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First Curaçao IFFR opens 29 March

Kevin Macdonald's docu Marley about the reggae legend opens the first edition of the four-day Curaçao IFFR in The Cinemas multiplex in Willemstad. Initiated by Curaçao-based Fundashon Bon Intenshon, the festival is co-organised by the IFFR.
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ART:FILM Panel

The ART:FILM Panel at the past festival edition focused on the blurring boundaries between art and film and explores several questions. A report of the discussion can now be watched online.
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Monsieur Lazhar wins UPC Audience Award

The UPC Audience Award of the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2012 goes to Philippe Falardeau’s Monsieur Lazhar (Canada, 2011). Goodbye by Mohammad Rasoulof wins the Dioraphte Award.
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Open plan

As the IFFR draws to a close, director Rutger Wolfson reflects on this year’s edition.
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Walker

For his film Patience (After Sebald), screening in Spectrum, Grant Gee followed in the footsteps of venerated writer W.G. Sebald.
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Out of the box

The IFFR’s For Real programme explores a fundamental question prompted by technological advances: what is cinematic?
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On the road

Matt McCormick’s film The Great Northwester is an affectionate record of a bygone America.
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Art of noise

Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Tiger entrant Neighbouring Sounds explores Brazilians’ fear of violence.
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The numbers game

After four days of intense activity, CineMart delegates will be taking away a good feeling, says CineMart’s Senior Coordinator Jacobine van der Vloed.
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Escape through cinema

Midi Z’s semi-autobiographical Tiger competitor Return to Burma was shot unscripted and without official approval.
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Essential viewing

Peter Kubelka's mesmerising work celebrates the unique qualities of film.
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Films, drink and rock 'n' roll

Paris-based Backup Films celebrated its 10th anniversary in Rotterdam this week.
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Satellite vision

Playing in IFFR’s ‘For Real’ strand, Simon Pummell's The Sputnik Effect installation is a fresh angle on 3D.
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Mum's the word

Ohran Eskiköy and Zeynel Dogan’s Tiger contender was born of a previous documentary project.
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Life in a day

Eduardo Nunes’ Tiger entrant is a haunting enigma wrapped up in sumptuous visuals.
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Back of the net

The Binger’s Gamila Ylstra speaks about the Boost! Programme, launched at CineMart 2012 .
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Spewing forth pearls

IFFR's Mouth of Garbage programme challenges and stimulates audiences with a radical mix of themes and genres from a forgotten era of street-level Brazilian moviemaking.
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Wonderland

Romance Joe is a captivatingly complex debut feature from Tiger competitor Lee Kwang-Kuk.
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Up close and personal

Wilhelm and Anka Sasnal's Tiger contender exposes the underbelly of life in a small Polish village.
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Seal of approval

Despite a decreased budget, the Hubert Bals Fund still plays a vital role supporting cinema from the developing world.
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The show must go on

Japanese Tiger contender Tokyo Playboy Club was nearly derailed by the disaster in Fukushima.
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Sink or swim

Tiger contender Park Hong-Min took inspiration for his debut feature, A Fish, from South Korean shaman rituals.
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Curious about Curaçao

IFFR's Janneke Staarink talks about Rotterdam heading to the Caribbean for Curaçao IFFR.
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Sharper focus

IFFR director Rutger Wolfson looks forward to a lean, strong year.
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Growing pains

Despite strong recent performance, the Dutch industry faces uncertainty.
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A Programmer's Picture Diary

Zuilhof travelled extensively in Asia and Africa for the festival and met old friends and made new ones. He wrote one blog-diary for the whole year and he even dares to present it as a picture diary.
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Signals: Power Cut Middle East

The programme section Signals: Power Cut Middle East focusses on the less known images of the revolutions in the Middle East by turning them inside out. What are we really looking at?
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Welcome to Rotterdam

The festival welcomes some 2,500 professional guests this year. Filmmakers expected to attend include Michel Gondry, Wang Xiaoshuai, Lucas Belvaux, Miike Takashi, Mohammad Rasoulof, Tsukamoto Shinya, Aki Kaurismäki, Andrea Arnold, Steve McQueen, Julió Bressane, Kobayashi Masahiro, Eric Khoo, Bouli Lanners, Ruben Östlund and Garin Nugroho as well as some 250 other filmmakers.
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Rotterdam Lab welcomes 78 young film producers

The IFFR welcomes 78 young film producers taking part in the 12th edition of the Rotterdam Lab. The participants of CineMart’s successful event for emerging producers have been nominated by the twenty-eight Rotterdam Lab partner organisations.
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Transmedia Europe

In the framework of CineMart, MEDIA Desk Netherlands and MEDIA Desk Belgium - Flemish Community invite you to the session TRANSMEDIA EUROPE and the launch of two transmedia inititatives: mediaZoo.eu (NL) & iDROPS (BE).
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Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films

Twenty-two films have been selected for the Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films 2012. Nine short films in this competition will see their world premieres in Rotterdam.
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Spectrum: complete line-up

In its main section Spectrum, the International Film Festival Rotterdam screens films by experienced directors and maestros of artistic and experimental cinema. In total, Spectrum is made up of seventy-two features and documentaries from thirty-two countries, among which eight films supported by IFFR’s Hubert Bals Fund.
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IFFR opens with 38 Témoins and closes with The Hunter

Wednesday January 25, the world premiere of Lucas Belvaux’s 38 Témoins opens the 41st edition; the festival closes on February 4 with the screening of Daniel Nettheim’s The Hunter – a former CineMart project - starring Willem Dafoe, Frances O’Connor and Sam Neill.
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New on YouTube: Virgin Goat

Carnivalesque parable about a man’s love for his goat turns into an obsessive drama of fate. Virgin Goat (Murali Nair) is now available on our YouTube channel: youtube.com/iffrotterdam.
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Signals: Power Cut Middle East

Power Cut Middle East, a themed program within the IFFR’s main Signals section, presents recent films and visual art works from the region with a focus on Syria and Egypt. The program, a collaboration with Hivos Culture Fund, consists of short films, documentaries, feature films and visual art installations guided by discussions, lectures and artist talks.
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Signals: Hidden Histories

Recent films by Chinese documentary makers and films by versatile artist Ai Weiwei will be screened in the themed programme Signals: Hidden Histories. The films highlight hidden aspects of Chinese society in an intimate and surprising way.
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YouTube Shorts: Sliding Past

The use and abuse of the past is a bottomless well of information and inspiration; but the past also lies, misleads, shifts and remains impossible to pin down. New on our YouTube channel: the Shorts Programme Sliding Past.
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IFFR appoints programmers de Leeuw and Gusyatinskiy

The International Film Festival Rotterdam has appointed two new festival programmers. Inge de Leeuw (the Netherlands) will select films from the English-speaking world and Evgeny Gusyatinskiy (Russia) from Russia, Central and Eastern Europe.
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Interview: Ludmila Cvikova

Having worked as a programmer for the IFFR for fifteen years, Ludmila Cvikova is heading off to Qatar, to take up the position of Head of International Programming at the Doha Film Institute – a relatively new organisation at the heart of one of the regions in which Ludmila specialises: the Middle East.
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Boost!

CineMart has announced the first five projects of its 2012 Selection. All five were selected in the Boost! coaching trajectory organized by Hubert Bals Fund, CineMart and Binger Filmlab. The full line up of the CineMart 2012 Selection will be announced by mid-December.
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Hubert Bals Fund Plus

The HBF Plus program of The Netherlands Film Fund and IFFR’s Hubert Bals Fund has selected two projects by Dutch production companies: Volya Films will co-produce Liew Seng Tat’s upcoming film In What City Does It Live? and Family Affair Films will co-produce Turkish film The Blue Wave by Merve Kayan & Zaynep Dadak.
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Film Entry IFFR 2013
No entry form available yet. Deadline: 1 June 2012

Project Entry CineMart 2013
No entry form available yet. Deadline: to be announced

Project Entry Hubert Bals Fund
Entry form available! Next deadline: 1 March 2012

Project Entry Hubert Bals Fund Plus (for Dutch producers only)
No entry form available yet. Next deadline: 1 April 2012

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