International Film Festival Rotterdam
Genre: All genreInternational 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
2024 - Won - World Came Flooding In, The - IFFR Pro Awards - 4DR Studios Awards
2007 - Won - Shmetamorphosis - New Arrivals Section April/May
2006 - Won - Look Both Ways - Critics Award - KNF Award
1997 - Won - Shine - Audience Award
1996 - Won - Angel Baby - Audience Award, Best Film
1989 - Won - Prisoner of St Petersburg, The - Critics Award
Screenings
2026 - First Light
2026 - Jimpa
2026 - Pussy Pumps Up
2026 - Ripples in the Mist
2026 - Stench of Eternal Bog, The
2026 - We Aim To Please
2026 - World Came Flooding In, The
2025 - Memoir of a Snail
2025 - Surfer, The
2024 - Flathead
2023 - Because We Have Each Other
2023 - Night Creatures
2023 - Paco
2022 - Plains, The
2021 - Lone Wolf
2021 - Friends and Strangers
2020 - Babyteeth
2020 - Day in the Life
2020 - Night Time Go
2020 - Mermaids, or Aiden in Wonderland, The
2020 - When the Dogs Talked
2020 - Windjarrameru, The Stealing C*nt$
2020 - Wutharr, Saltwater Dreams
2020 - Passenger
2020 - True History of the Kelly Gang
2020 - Zero
2019 - All These Creatures
2019 - 'I Used to be Normal': A Boyband Fangirl Story
2018 - Have You Seen The Listers?
2018 - Sweet Country
2018 - Inside the Machine
2018 - Rockabul
2018 - Top Knot Detective
2017 - Welcome Home Allen
2017 - Last Train
2017 - Silent Eye, The
2017 - What the Heart Wants
2016 - Daughter, The
2016 - On the Invention of the Wheel
2016 - Tanna
2015 - Charlie's Country
2015 - Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story Of Cannon Films
2015 - Search for Weng Weng, The
2015 - Sam Klemke’s Time Machine
2014 - Canopy
2014 - Dot Matrix
2014 - Ruin
2013 - Lore
2013 - Men of the Earth
2013 - Faraways
2012 - Black & White & Sex
2012 - Hail
2012 - Hunter, The
2012 - Etienne's Hand
2011 - Animal Kingdom
2011 - Machete Maidens Unleashed!
2010 - Dogs in Space
2010 - Samson & Delilah
2010 - My Tehran For Sale
2010 - Lonely Girl
2009 - Jerrycan
2009 - Not Quite Hollywood
2008 - Men's Group
2008 - Unfinished Sky
2008 - Shmetamorphosis
2008 - Spike Up
2007 - Hunt Angels
2007 - Wondrous Film About Emma Brooks, A
2007 - Ten Canoes
2006 - Look Both Ways
2006 - Ecstasy of Gary Green, The
2006 - Mechanicals, The
2004 - Excursion
2004 - Ister, The
2004 - Car Park
2004 - Connected
2004 - Bush Mechanics On-Line
2004 - Ghost Paintings 1, The
2004 - Ghost Paintings 4, The
2004 - Escape from Woomera
2004 - NationStates
2003 - Nice Coloured Girls
2003 - Night Cries - A Rural Tragedy
2003 - Bedevil
2003 - Two Bob Mermaid
2003 - No Way to Forget
2003 - Round Up
2003 - Payback
2003 - My Bed Your Bed
2003 - Radiance
2003 - Bush Mechanics
2003 - Harry's War
2003 - Wind
2003 - Confessions of a Headhunter
2003 - Road
2003 - Rabbit-Proof Fence
2003 - Shifting Shelter 1
2003 - One Night the Moon
2003 - Beneath Clouds
2003 - Black Talk
2003 - Beginnings
2003 - Arsonist's Riddle, The
2003 - Tracker, The
2003 - Gulpilil: One Red Blood
2003 - Shit Skin
2003 - Blow
2003 - Turn Around
2003 - Long Journey, Young Lives
2003 - Cold Summer, A
2003 - Flat
2003 - Mirror Images
2002 - La Spagnola
2002 - Harvey
2002 - Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky
2001 - Chopper
2001 - Goddess of 1967, The
2001 - Walk the Talk
2001 - Not My Type I, II
2001 - Big Picture, The
2001 - Ship
2000 - Feeling Sexy
2000 - Soft Fruit
2000 - Purgatory
2000 - Holy Smoke
2000 - Cup, The
1999 - Boys, The
1999 - Fetch
1999 - Terra Nova
1999 - Fresh Air
1999 - Flash
1999 - Sleep
1999 - Rapt
1999 - Mind's Eye
1999 - Data Panic
1999 - Magic Hat, The
1998 - Malpractice
1998 - Five Hundred Acres
1998 - At Sea
1998 - Thump
1998 - Sapphire Room
1998 - Kiss or Kill
1998 - Four Minute Festival
1997 - Shine
1997 - Fistful of Flies
1997 - Love and Other Catastrophes
1997 - Love Serenade
1997 - Floating Life
1997 - Children of the Revolution
1997 - To Have and to Hold
1997 - Plane Torque
1996 - Barefoot Student Army
1996 - Maidenhead
1996 - Angel Baby
1996 - Beat Manifesto, The
1996 - Hell, Texas and Home
1996 - Existentialist Cowboy's Last Stand, The
1996 - After Image
1995 - Total Recession
1995 - Muriel's Wedding
1995 - What's Going On, Frank?
1995 - Seething Night
1994 - Memories and Dreams
1994 - Excursion To The Bridge Of Friendship
1994 - Bad Boy Bubby
1994 - Seething Night
1993 - Romper Stomper
1992 - Dusty Hearts
1992 - Deadly
1992 - Proof
1992 - Resonance
1992 - Plus ça Change
1992 - Romper Stomper
1990 - Sweetie
1989 - Prisoner of St Petersburg, The
1988 - Friends And Enemies
1987 - Passionless Moments
1987 - Peel
1987 - Two Friends
1987 - Girl's Own Story, A
- Website:
- www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Start:
- 29/01/2026
- End:
- 8/02/2026